Then when the GE mercury vapor lamp factory opened, it became known as Fluor City

TIL Rochester, New York had successive nicknames of "Flour City" and "Flower City".

Reading this first-person mystery about a woman with dementia because I have no sense of emotional self-preservation.

Currently reading "Coercive Control", really interesting, possibly influencing my disgust with aspects of "Money Heist".

But hey, he generously decided not to murder her mother upon realizing she has Alzheimer's and therefore will not be able to implicate him.

The basic problem with the show is that the protagonist by conventional narrative criteria is Raquel, and her arc is being able to solve the heist and outsmart the mastermind Professor but then choosing to defect to his side because of his perfect masculine sex appeal.

still can't believe the fumbled the ludicrous cool name "House of Paper" in translation.

The show was filmed as a single thing and recut into two seasons for the US release.

Pausing "Money Heist" to catch up on "Bridgerton" but all I can think is like, "crossover of the century".

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Actually, it's a glove on the player character.

When the NFL goes to 18 games and the game becomes synonymous with President's Day weekend, we'll see this fully born out. People will just refer to it as Super Bowl weekend

It’s a holiday. a genuine actual US holiday with built In traditions and experiences unrelated to the quality or makeup of the game itself

my guess is unironically ads even though they almost all suck now, even talking about how bad they are is still talking about them and it feels like the last bit of remaining monoculture

Essay question, why is the Super Bowl alone (?) in being immune to rating decay.

Hey we only did that once! 😂

Reminds me of video game systems where the trains are actually giant hats on NPCs.

@xenocryptsite.bsky.social If this is right and there are ~660k elected then in one sense that's a lot, but also still probably less elected municipal officials than in France with 4x the pop? You're always curious about descriptive work on how many elected officials there are.

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Also features a lot of gay guys so that’s cool

I'd guess you can fine French stuff that's earlier? Death in Venice? Nonfiction, but in Goodbye to All That, Graves talks about dalliances with male friends at school, iirc?

Read "Tour De Force", pretty good mystery by Christianna Brand, and moreover, possibly the earliest book I've ever read (1955!) where there is an explicitly gay character treated totally casually.

Trying to rush through "Born In Flames" because Libby is a cruel mistress when a book is popular.

The legendary sophistication of the British royal family.

Absolute banger.

It’s intuitive to me that stories about achieving status and recognition within a system while also having misgivings or desiring to change or destroy that system are currently popular.

Moses being adopted into the pharaoh's family

This is oddly enough much more positive on the Empire at least; it just be refreshed by its core principles (elites taking responsibility) rather than demolished

Tbf that series does a tremendous job of combining that trope with the “very special boy gets discovered and goes to special school” trope. Though in that book the prodigy from the hinterlands was [redacted redacted] but it still counts.

Cahokia Jazz kind of subverts this dynamic.

A Memory Called Empire gestures at this.

The Strength of the Few came out last week!

I feel like in the past few years I've read about a million different fantasy books about, specifically, "a prodigy from the hinterlands who is absorbed into some kind of colonial imperial bureaucracy that they ultimately decide must be burned down". But it's probably only 3-5 different books.

Not conventional mysteries per se, but De Palma plays all kinds of games with “invisible” dissonance between the dialogue and the visuals in Dressed to Kill, Raising Cain, and heck even Mission: Impossible

I remember Wetherby (1985) doing a bit of this, with flashbacks showing how a particular detail was explained by something going on in a previous flashback. Not primarily exactly a mystery though (and I saw it forty years ago). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetherb...

more obvious to him bc he was trying to follow the plot based on nonverbal cues and reading the emotional vibes

my dad was living in belgium when this came out, didn't really speak french and accidentally went to see a dubbed version of this rather than subtitled and decided to stick around. he said he figured out that bruce willis was dead very early on bc it was obvious nobody else was interacting w/him

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Midsomer Murders (the good seasons, 1-8) did this from time to time. I won't give any spoilers.

This is a second category of TV trick I like where the writers play off common TV show conventions to set up twists or mysteries like when Dawn showed up on Buffy or everyone lists their memories on TNG and it wasn't automatically self evident that the new guy was an alien because new crew 1/2

Apple’s Afterparty was good at this www.reddit.com/r/TheAfterPa...

I think you’re hitting on why this doesn’t happen; in the moment, “plot point you can dismiss as a continuity error” just looks like a continuity error and takes you out of it. even worse in a series, where fans can assume you’re retconning an actual continuity error

It was extremely well received by fans (and used as proof of the showrunner’s brilliance etc) in part because it *was* a plot point based on a purely visual cue (and one you could easily assume was just an error) which as you say, you really don’t see that many of

Brokenwood (tv). Midsummer Murders (tv). Lynley (tv). Maigret (2025). Rivers of London books. The original Bosch books. Ludwig (2025 tv). Elementary (except the last season).

Not exactly what you’re saying but I’m thinking here of the Doctor Who plot where the Doctor loses his jacket and then suddenly has it back for one scene later in the episode and it’s later revealed as a deliberate plot point (involving time travel, obviously).

I think by definition I don't want books here (for once!).

Wondering if anyone on here can beat the other site.