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Filmmakers: what is currently the WORST streamer for writer/directors? Which one would be most likely to say “nahhh…nm” and then shelve your project after it was done to write it off? Like, THAT bad. Not asking for me—for a character in a story.

An institution has never been so deserving of destruction as the WHCA

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

It's always a joy to see seals on the beach. Humans need to be responsible so that our dogs, toys and fishing nets do not cause them harm.

By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Meanwhile normal life continues

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

Useless.

This courtesy is never extended to countries or people who are the enemy of the US.

Soul work is not easy. The feelings you haven’t felt yet: Acceptance of self. Remaining calm in the storm. Walking bravely through the fire. Be patient. The evolution of the soul takes time. #musings

If everything around you seems dark, look again, you might be the light.

I’m afraid that quote has nothing to do with Thucydides, though often misattributed to him on the Internet; it is in fact a simplified version of a line by nineteenth-century soldier and author Sir William F. Butler.

ScottishPower refuses to believe that my father has died

Reform UK in the past 48hrs.

Amid the discussions about how to get kids reading, I am remembering how many comics and other periodicals I read as a kid - The Funday Times, Oink, The Puffin Post, Private Eye (I was a precocious little shit), The Beano, 2000AD etc etc. Reading in tiny little bits can be v appealing.

It is a niche theory, but I reckon the long death of English-language newspapers began not with the rise of the internet but the culling of strip cartoons, which were a gateway drug to news media for generations of kids.

Are joke books still a thing? They used to be everywhere but I can’t remember the last time I saw a new one in the wild. They’re a great way to read without capital-r Reading.

Leftist Puddings&Desserts: Western rice pudding, Gujarati doodhpak, apple pie, peaches (from a tin) & cream, Curly Wurly. Centrist Puddings&Desserts: baklava, kulfi, trifle, fruit salad, Stollen, gulab jamun, Twix. Conservative Puddings&Desserts: Eton Mess, Tiramisu, Îles flottantes, kheer, Wispa.

This is a yoga breathing exercise.

How it started How it’s going @NikkiHaley edition

Tree swallows taking a moment to rest during a cold day at the marsh. As we followed the boardwalk, they continuously took flight and landed in our path. For the #birdoftheday themes of #fourormore and #blue #birds #treeswallow #swallows #protectnature #wildlife #EastCoastKin

Migrant workers in the Gulf states live in extremely precarious situations and will not have and will even be refused the resources to protect themselves and be able to leave.

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” Howard Zinn

The entire Middle East is popping off. Not to mention Pakistan. A major clusterfuck.

somebody: hey what do you call quiet carpets me: *shhrugs*

She’s learnt her lesson about wanting hotels full of foreigners and immigrants being burnt down. See. Prison does work

YET.

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now. Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

And ANOTHER thing.. Pullman INVARIABLY has to let us know the body shape/size of EVERY SINGLE incidental character that we come across..!! He's PARTICULARLY fond of "stocky", but in the past 5 mins of listening, I've also heard "slender" and "heavy". I reiterate, I LOVE his writing, but STILL..

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

“Not everything has to be transactional,” I explain to my golden retriever

Grammarly has a "humanizer" function. Think about it. You, a human, employ this tool to help you write, then you have to "humanize" the output. With a machine.

The cool thing about Wyoming is how quickly you can disappear into the wilderness when you need to.

Perhaps it’s the time of the morning, but Radio 4 Today seems quite obscenely cheerful and upbeat about the war - they’re having a whale of a time, especially the presenter who’s gone to Tel Aviv for a bit of a thrill. Utterly unserious.

Once, the truth below was common knowledge among adults

I swear these people don't have object permanence

Hell. Hell is where you go.

Sketch while waiting in line.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

Day one of the bombings it was important to target the girls' school. Over 51 children dead. A useful heuristic to figure out if something is evil or not is: does it start with us killing children. As this HAS started in us killing children. This is old news. Us killing children.

39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild. "Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon www.fws.gov/media/2025-c...

#MurdochGutterMedia has ruined the world for generations to come.

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

A reminder that fascist Mussolini invaded Abyssinia partly to divert from domestic economic troubles at home.