1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

Like, thematically, Nolan is using the Odyssey to almost speak *as* 'western civilization' and then what he says is, "you men (very much *men*), with your violent inhospitality, your greed and appetites are what has destroyed civilization by breaking the bonds between people."

I really hate the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality because we actually owe each other and this planet a lot. You don’t have to be selfless all the time or burn yourself out but you should be kind and helpful and compassionate to the best of your ability. We need to care about each other more

Trying to imagine a c.5000 CE fictional recreation of our current moment, based on a retelling composed in c.2500 CE, which puts into the mouth of a character knowledge that an era based on some bizarre form of periodization we’ve never heard of is ending.

14 years between baby beluga and bananaphone tells you the mentality you need to stay in the game creatively. 🫡

It is the exact *opposite* of a disability aid. It *induces* executive dysfunction by turning tasks into tasks where every smallest detail must be checked, edited, analyze for "is this just fucking nonsense?" Etc.

I legitimately find that AI is destroying every coping mechanism I had. Every time one of the tools that let me remember things or offload invisible labor blows up because they decided to shove bloated AI in it that doesn't even enhance the product? I fucking weep.

1. Fire all employees on week 1 of a Democratic administration. Everyone. No exceptions. 2. Start now to pull together state-based ICE People's Assemblies. Collect testimonies about impacts on your communities. Release reports by December 2028. 3. REPARATIONS for all ICE victims - $$ & citizenship

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Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

I think steroid abuse has had a significant negative impact on the behaviors of elite men, and it is alarming that our secretary of defense is fairly clearly a a steroid abuser and is trying to get the rest of the military to abuse steroids with him

So I'm thinking that identifying AI slop is a lot like egg sexing, where I get caught sometimes, my mom gets caught a lot, but everyone in my niece's generation is like "No, that's slop" without even needing to take a hard look. I would be fascinated to read actual research on this.

The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c

Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”

If anything, a politics of vengeance on the oligarchy and traitor class could be pretty significantly revenue-positive

I am literally begging for repercussions. im on my hands and knees begging for repercussions

i am begging venues & bands to rediscover clipart

As distinguished soil scientist Dr Francis Hole used to say here at the university, we are all Temporarily Not Soil.

Gotta stay humble

Kids need/deserve traumatic films. Films that show death or lasting consequences that aren't resolved almost instantly. Fear, anger, grief and frustration should be part of kids movies. Kids arent stupid, they feel big emotions just like adults, they deserve to see those experiences reflected back.

I hate that I'm defending Christopher Nolan who I can't stand for other reasons but too many people are being wrong about this: the ancient Greeks did not think of their gods as being essentially Greek and having a true appearance that looked like Greek humans.

Actually want to amplify this further--95% haven't been digitized and even beyond that, archival CATALOGUING is its own patchy horrorshow of varying strategies, standards, and funding levels. To DIGITIZE something you have to FIND IT first!

"Unfortunately for Farage it is just not possible to make out that it’s your opponent who’s the mainstream politician when you’re wearing a suit and he’s wearing a bin."

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

My random Sam Neil story. An actor friend of mine was cast in a small role on Peaky Blinders. Never receives his script pages. Discovers his role has been pushed to non speaking background, which is less fun/less money. Sam Neil spots him looking dejected on set and finds out.

golden sepia-tinted memories

I am in Dublin and my taxi driver was the first person to tell me about Lindsey Graham's death, because I had been on a plane and didn't know.

If Mitch McConnell appears in public now, we know that the GOP just sacrificed Lindsey Graham in some bizarre ritual transferring life forces

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

I checked the Somber Reflections stack and Lindsey has his own box! Can’t remember exactly what he did to earn it but it must have pissed me off but good. Milkshake time!

This alone is reason enough to ban data centers permanently. And it doesn’t even account for increased energy costs, water usage, air pollution, water pollution, noise, property values, etc. We could be building solar farms over every parking lot in the country. Instead, the billionaires get these.

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”

all right fam it's time for "Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread," in which your favorite internet lesbian breaks down what's new and hot in the world of Schism Watch 2026 please hydrate, stretch, and get a snack, we have a LOT to go over today

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I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!

Yesterday, I visited the Pompejanum in Aschaffenburg. As some of you may recall, in 2022, a Roman portrait, unknowingly acquired by a woman at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, for $34.99, was identified as an artefact stolen during World War II from the Pompejanum. It was returned in 2023.

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

For the better part of a year, I've been looking into the night LaGuardia Airport was bombed. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a read. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Well now I want a bench in my name somewhere in my will

"His dream is dead" pretty much confirms my belief he didnt run for some civic minded goodness or because he really believed in progressive causes, he just wanted a senate seat. And as such it is absolutely fair to assume that man meant jack shit of what he said his policies were.

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It took several years of lead up, a few months of active planning, and six or seven women willing to put their names on their accounts, plus over a dozen allies (in games that were 24-36 people!), to get a guy who was a relatively known missing stair booted from the local LARP scene.

If the United States has multiple political parties that actually controlled who could serve as their nominee, we would all be less dependent on the whims and weaknesses of individual leaders. Our political system is incredibly individualizing—we have extremely weak parties and tons of veto points.

i can all but guarantee you there are other women out there who have been sick to their stomachs for 24 straight hours praying that this will be enough. hoping like hell they won't have to rustle up their own traumas for an angry, hateful audience

He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent