My sophomore year theology teacher was LIVID over this movie's very existence, well done all, no notes.

When Trump was shot in PA, I was a guest on CBC’s live coverage. The anchor asked about possible motives. I said we didn’t know yet but they would likely be idiosyncratic, & started giving examples, which I knew mainly from Assassins. Which is how I talked about Guiteau and Czolgosz on Canadian TV.

Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically. If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

What strikes me is that this is one of the best statements on the issue of GenAI that I've ever read.

Congress can move Flag Day to another day.

Two of these are on a shelf in the next room. If I ran DC, there’d be full-size reprints of these books.

Pete Hegseth is having one of the worst weeks a Cabinet secretary has had in recent American history. It’s very richly deserved. He’s a bombastic idiot. He’s a liar. And he’s a weasel. But everyone knew back in January that he would be. That’s where the real problem lies. trib.al/GW2y7Dx

I once spoke during the open comment portion of a school board meeting and within a day three people had asked me to run in the next election.

This thread is delightful, and I say that as someone who is not a Muppets person.

What I’m wearing to the BlueSky Christmas party

this is incredible. with alt text.

Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten

Amazing thread, particularly for anyone who’s ever done student theater.

I dearly wish DC and Marvel would hurry up and put out collections of all the weird one-off stories Keith Giffen did for them over the years.

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Peter Drucker, a lecturer at Frankfurt University when the Nazis took over, recalled a faculty meeting where the new Nazi boss said Jews were banned and anyone complaining would be sent to a concentration camp. A professor then asked a question: “Will there be more money for research in physiology?”

It’s the 10th anniversary of “Heaven Sent,” not just DOCTOR WHO’s best episode but one of the best TV episodes ever! In another world where Capaldi’s era was not underrated, it’d be on all the “Best TV Episodes” lists www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Why would I force them to make a movie when I could force them to make ten 26-episode seasons of STRANGE NEW WORLDS?

Strengthening "strategic cooperation among the world’s democracies" was not hard to do in 2009. It has become nearly impossible now that the world’s most powerful democracy has turned into a rogue nation led by a president who is more sympathetic to dictators than democrats. wapo.st/4oZH3wz

Crucially, by upholding their constitution and the rule of law, Brazil discovered that support for Bolsonaro evaporated save for a dwindling minority of die-hards and dead-enders. Because Brazilians see Bolsonaro as a criminal and a loser, they've largely moved on from him. Could've been us...

“If your opinion has gone negative of Trump...folks, you are likely not watching Newsmax any more."

It was in safer hands with Khan.

Every University needs to reform its board of trustees. In what universe should the wealthy govern learning?

Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then With a winning smile, the boy With naivety succeeds At the final moment, I cried I always cry at endings I always cry at endings

Trump approval (among adults) below 40% again: fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

"We enter a period more dangerous than the last months of Nixon. The Trump presidency won’t end well. The question is whether harm to the nation can be contained. All honor to Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Goodlander, Houlahan, and Deluzio for trying to limit the damage." www.thebulwark.com/p/brace-your...

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

This strikes me as a high risk/high reward move. If the D wins or vastly overperforms, Harris will look prescient. If not, well.

Me, to a doctor who said that: "Would you find an ebola outbreak interesting?"

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw Jens Lekman (last week!) Camera Obscura Belle and Sebastian Daði Freyr Alvvays

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

#NHPolitics #NH2

Presidential “determinations” from the guy who thinks stealth fighters are invisible, windmills cause cancer, the Continental Army took over the airports, political asylum is for the mentally insane, and who doesn’t know to whom he’s issuing pardons.

"Your outie has met the Pope!"

Watched INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS last night for the first time in ages, and, uh, it lands a little different these days.

NH isn't even part of the discussion any more! #NHPolitics

If you see this, post a bird

This was a fun opportunity to get granular about #NHPolitics!

In class, I liken it to paying somebody else to go to the gym for you.