From odd football-term origin to brutal genocide in 2 easy steps 😬

“Nutmeg is native to the Banda Islands, a small archipelago in eastern Indonesia. The Dutch wanted to control the spice, and decided it would be easier to get rid of the Bandanese to achieve their goal. The general ordered the murder and destruction of the civilization”

Ouch! (From that Atlantic article)

"You Have Kept the Goal, But at What Cost?"

Books by one of the Fox announcers, Dr. Joe Machnik. Waiting for the next sequel, “So You Became a Goalkeeper, But Now You Regret It”

What the hell is this? They should have lost by 30.

Well played Red Devils

Maybe Trump can put a call in

Cape Verde has a population of 530,000, about 1/2 that of of Indianapolis or Jacksonville 😮

Journalism & arts writing is becoming 50% listicle-curation

This administration expanding its death count

Lily feels a touch of uncharacteristic optimism

observational Soviet Montage ftw!

This is absolutely deranged. He is promising genocide in Lebanon to ‘avenge’ the death of an illegally-invading soldier.

@rusty.todayintabs.com: "Even if I wanted to, I can’t imagine how I would go about trying to critique a @tricialockwood.bsky.social essay. Her logic is the logic of dreams and her structure is observational Soviet Montage. Lockwood generates poetry the way the Hoover Dam generates power"-checks out!

Love this from an Iowa newspaper, 1868: “The lascivious lollygagging lumps of licentiousness who disgrace the common decencies of life by their love-sick fawnings at our public dances”

"...and the Knicks’ first such parade since the formation of the earth", lol

Yes that’s awesome. Has a Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall, “You know nothing of my work,” flavor

I have a galaxy-brain 🧠, cornplating take on Disclosure Day: Emily Blunt’s alien language allegorizes her childhood stuttering (she is a prominent advocate for the American Institute for Stuttering)

John Ruskin in 1860: “Once I could speak joyfully about beautiful things, thinking to be understood;- now I cannot any more; for it seems to me that no one regards them. [M]en, wherever they can reach, destroy all beauty….Every perfect and lovely spot which they can touch, they defile”

Ha, would not have predicted a James Beard Award for Jon Bon Jovi! 😲

A truly nightmarish read and a great piece of investigative journalism

I disapprove of the meaningless corporate branding “WiFi.” Please join me in my quest to bring back the simple and more literal “IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence”

I’d almost forgotten Anunoby’s Hoosier roots!

Omg lol

NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Interesting article about many deservedly forgotten pieces of literature. I read a number for my MA history dissertation, and they were pretty much uniformly dreadful. William Le Queux in particular - overwrought, sensationalist, chauvinistic dreck.

Happy to have this new little essay on JSTOR Daily, "The Evolution of Britain’s Invasion Fiction." Please check it out and share it or pass it on if you find it interesting! Let's make Lieutenant-Colonel George Chesney’s "The Battle of Dorking," a viral sensation of 1871, trend again...

“If I cannot have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan,” T.J Clark, Farewell to an Idea

“The effort to destroy Black political power in the South is among the greatest betrayals of Black Americans, and those who have voted alongside them, by the federal government in living memory”

Some timely *Obsession*-themed humor from the Onion: PETA Billboard Falsely Assumes Man Wouldn’t Eat His Cat

🤮 Meta: “Winning schools is the way to win with teens,” 2018; Google, 2020: “investing in schools helps onboard kids into Google’s ecosystem;” In 2015, YouTube noted that watch time went up on weekends & that “increasing usage in schools M-F could decrease this gap!”

Thank you Ted Chiang!! “Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document, you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one, you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time”

they've discovered another brontë - the first new brontë since the discovery of branwell in 1936. but this is particularly exciting since literary critics were pretty sure that additional brontës were impossible - all the rooms had been mapped in haworth parsonage, there was simply no space

Our latest issue, 68.1, is hot off the press and live on Project MUSE! We are joined by a feathery friend today as we read Clara Dawson's article on birds in poetry in the nineteenth century and Alex Woloch's discussion of Dorothy Van Ghent's "The Dickens World." Project MUSE linked below.

Solid choice from M.I.A. on @pitchfork.com Perfect 10 series Always good to see some love for a classic @blondieband.bsky.social album, & I would agree that that is the best one

I enjoyed the needle drop of the Dils’s 1978 anthem “Class War” in the Lowdown. “I wanna war, between the rich and the poor/ I wanna fight and know what I'm fighting for/ In a class war, class war, class war, class war/ This war, that war, class war, last war”

As one does!

White house: at least there's one true, faithful loyalist Vanilla Ice: I will play literally anywhere, for anyone, if you meet my minimum. Get me my $6K and I will play for Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. I will open for Satan & Charles Manson at Pedophile Island.

That A.I. is trained on copyrighted material is not a subject of serious debate…. Unless you think Anthropic paid a 1.5 billion settlement to authors & publishers out of sheer generosity

The owner of Netflix buying and privatizing a formerly public ski resort and installing crystal chandeliers on the slopes for the ultrawealthy skiers really sums up art in our moment ⛷️ @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

Is anything ever ballyhooed just a little bit?

telling folks he's two faced before he opens his mouth is nice. immaculate get away from me vibes.

Amazing to have willingly chosen that facial hair pattern and to have it be only your 2nd-worst judgment call

I also want to send my kids to those damn monks

@pablo.show needs to look into this. Tampering with a higher power!

I’m loving the Spurs Nuns

Omg the AI-assisted Steven Soderbergh John Lennon movie sounds completely horrible!

Huge if true

Ok I have an extremely niche critique of the final episode. We know that the David Harbour character has been taking a hip-hop dance class, so why is his dancing so dorky??? Feel like it should have been a final poignant bust-out triumph