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I love my life as a garum producer in ancient rome. living by the docks. pretty nice. dip my feet in the water as the senators shout in the street, why not. nobody minds if a rat gets in the jug every now and again. it’s all the same in the end. nothing to do mostly but wait

The scare quotes here are jokes denialism.

Hell yeah new Sabbat theme song just dropped.

This is not a perfect analogy but a lot of Democrats who are unfamiliar with, and trying to adapt to, a political landscape where being anti-Israel is a political asset are kind of trying to find the Israel-Palestine equivalent of "universal access to healthcare"

Didn't think I'd be so pro-Nolan but The Odyssey is one of my favorite films of the past few years. Certainly my favorite big budgeted fantasy movie I've seen in ages. Anne Hathaway remains perfect

This is less about being anti data analysis and more about the way that the flippant attitudes of the people who deliver their analyses can be broadly alienating to people with qualitative experiences that don't match their findings. Their desire is to scold and feel superior, not to educate.

I had to block a few of you because I saw somebody going "Hasan Piker respects Mao and I need to tell you how many people he killed" Sorry I don't respect you getting either mad or afraid of that

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People with this attitude, who so often (and in my opinion extremely unjustifiably) praise Eggers for supposedly doing this (emphatically false imo) basically relate to the classics not as literature expressing something transhistorically true, but as a literary zoo or circus

Sad scenes right now in downtown Buenos Aires

LOL fuck yeah

A lot of responses to this also keep going "Okay but the way we do teach children how to read in school is not helping" and like fair enough But also I don't know how to tell you that also as an adult you should probably still try to read even when it's not very fun.

I saw a video of Doja Cat doing this and I was like oh okay

As an aside every frame of Gaston is absolutely hilarious. The animators were frying his shit. They hated him! Shame this is the only type of guy it's okay to be now.

my favourite part of the Odyssey was when Odysseus looked directly at the camera and explained exactly what type of mystery cult he belonged to

As I pretty consistently maintain the issue with talking about Rowling and Harry Potter is that it also starts spiraling down into shit like fan culture and literary taste/consumption and LOL nobody really feels comfortable getting down to that nitty-gritty.

there is another world where you are a notorious judge on a hit show called "the worlds most delicious dip". you are the one who always says the dip or salsa needs to be spicier and they have shirts with you on it saying that

One of the things I actually just realized I struggle with in regards to a lot of people online is that I grew up extremely unsheltered around a lot of basic R-rated stuff and it basically gave me a shell of hardness that a lot of people just don't have.

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Spending so much time on Twitter is giving me a distorted image of America as horribly racist. It would be better for me to look to reality. Where ICE is killing people with impunity.

This entire series (six issues) is done and funded out of pocket. I'm releasing them as issues because that's what I love to read. Investment in myself and this team. We're just trying to print enough copies to have as inventory. Hope you'll scope it out.

I actually love hearing praise online for the Malazan series because I don't see it enough, and also I feel it gets mixed in as just another one of the "doorstoppers" And WOAH BOY is it so much better than any of them by like a vast gulf. Maybe one of the great fantasy series ever written?

LOL I actually find a lack of guns to be kinnnnnnnnnda vaguely reactionary.

A world without nationalism, and you dont even have to go back that far for that. This is especially a reverse Dorito because nationalism and nationalists insists upon how ancient it is.

I always say this but I'm WAY more sick of this type of writing than any alleged "Urgghh a little too super-serious? Remember when comics happened to be "FUN" storytelling.

I actually think it’s important for society that we start telling people to their faces that they are illiterate

I genuinely don't know why this campaign is stalled under $2k. A great lineup of writers and artists, the book is gorgeous, it's almost complete, and it supports up-and-coming creatives as well as a small indie press! These are the kind of projects we NEED to fund. 10 days left, let's go!!

There's nothing wrong with being gay, but being a gay monster desperately yet barely closeted to maintain power actively making the world bad as part of an often explicitly homophobic political party is eminently mockable. Why did we decide that isn't? It's hilarious.

McConnell spokesperson Torgo says in a statement that the Kentucky senator is “not dead the way you know it”

Twice in one week I get to observe that “we must prevent women from consuming the Bad Media that gives them Bad Thoughts” is not a left-wing flex!

My honest stance is I don't even particularly give a shit about that and I think like a lot of shoddy stuff that doesn't particularly work as "films" have that mindset. What I NEED is for a movie to actually *engage* with me some way.

Devastating NYT review of the many massive failures of the Platner campaign. And it makes clear once again that the Schumer intervention on behalf of Mills is what made it possible—in a robust multicandidate race, he would have been toast.

Look I know this is mean but like a lot of people really just want to use Platner as an excuse to fucking cry and make this about themselves and LOL I've got absolutely no more empathy for you than I do for Platner supporters. Like I just don't respect liberals or their political opinions.

Graham Platner Clarifies He Covered Penis With Tattoo After Learning About Its Troubling History

Today the Atlantic reviewed my new novel and also announced the death of literacy in what is widely agreed to be a coincidence.

LOL holy fuck yes

meticulously labelling every bad thing the United States has ever done 'un-American' then bolting the gates of my Mind Palace with a gentle smile, secure in the knowledge that I live in the Good Country

The one quality impression I can do is Viggo Mortensen in Carlito's Way and like you basically have to be me to get away with it.

All time favorite cosmic horror novel adapted by the director of one of my top 5 fantasy films?? This is my hole, it was made for me

BOY DO I LOVE ABSOLUTE FUCKING DUMDUMS

Petty American bashing is so funny! Legit can't believe what a bunch of fucking babies some of us are! "Oh no all the good will has been stripped away" Buddy I've been living abroad for so many years that I just make friends quickly by going "Hahahah yeah we suck shit!"

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The right wants to exterminate/control your human body. They want to be in a ruling class that owns the product of your labor. The left wants our combined effort to be aimed towards achieving better and healthier communities. Centrists and liberals are torn between these two visions.

"but where many members of either faction refused to notice their comrades in the other." Let's not toss around the C-word like that buddy.

Gentle socialist friends please understand I support and love you and we're all in this together. But I am absolutely a bitter fucking communist with a streak of misanthropy wider than you can imagine so please don't cry to me about what Trump's normalizing with FIFA.

LEGIT something I'm always impressed by too

Hey all! I am officially hanging out my shingle for book layout and design work outside of my immediate if-you-know-you-know circle. I can't start work outside my current client portfolio until sometime in mid-August so I am canvassing for work that would start in MID-AUGUST OR LATER for now. ¹/