follow-up to a previous post: obvously Tom Hanks is at his most evil in You've Got Mail...and yet. the farther away we get from the age of Borders and Barnes & Noble, the less evil it feels? at least they were more or less a community space, you know? with armchairs and coffee and kids' events.

ten minutes into The American President and i can already feel Sorkin's slobber all over it. would rather be watching 114 minutes of @skipintroyt.bsky.social doing a special prequel episode of The Worst Wing. 🦅

“My seeds will not grow,” said Toad. “You are shouting too much,” said Frog, “These poor seeds are afraid to grow.”

Toad got to Frog’s house. He looked in the window. “Good,” said Toad. “Frog is not home. He will never guess who raked his leaves.”

you ever wanna take three different flavors of psychic damage at the same time, just watch You've Got Mail. 📬

"We're not against fascism, per se, of course; that would be too extreme. What we need is a more modern, user-friendly version."

Another argument against premature capitulation

just read a headcanon, tell me if you've heard this one before, that Ferris Beuller was stuck in a time loop trying to protect Cameron from suicide and the movie we watch is the successful last day of the loop. i kinda love this? but then, i was always a sucker for time loops.

Serious Academic Question: is Cameron Diaz in Charlie's Angels playing a himbo?

“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need will power.” “What is will power?” asked Toad.

"In a typical U.S. history textbook, the struggle for voting rights ends in 1965." -- Wolfe-Rocca of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social Defend right of teachers to teach people's history, outside the textbook, with lessons like ⬇️on ongoing fight for voting rights. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/te...

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

incidentally, this is an important post about education.

LEVERAGE meeting 2008: “The trick is, slide the social critique in behind the fun. I don’t want to push.” ME IN EDITING IN 2024: “Do we have a take of the white techbro chasing our heroine with an ax screaming ‘THIS IS EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!!’ where he looks directly into the camera? No? Damn.”

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

AI makes effective science communication more difficult and more important than ever. More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves. And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.

Sex and the City is such an absurd cultural artifact. image: four hwight girls hwalking into a movie theatre, a soundtrack of Aretha playing Respect in the background, as Carrie Bradshaw explains in sagely voiceover how married and single folk are just like the Northern Irish, not a *real* war. 😐

it is one of the fundamental ironies of our society, that Tim Burton simply does not understand The Addams Family.

I don't know who originally wrote it or remember who I first heard it from but "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now." is the truest thing ever said and it just keeps on getting truer

gonna be watching this one in the Human Restoration Project discord on monday evening (EST) for all my teacher friends out there... brace yourself; it's a lot.

Aaron Sorkin really thought a series about a pseudo-heroic Republican journalist during the Obama years was a stroke of political genius, didn't he? i suppose it *is* the ideal spiritual successor to the neoliberal circlejerk president show. looking forward to a great Skip Intro essay at least.

“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”

I do a lot of yearning these days. I don't know what that's about, but maybe something or someone will satiate my yearns.

"The two months immediately before the general election is too close for you to criticize us, do it when it's not as destructive." "Okay, how about 40+ months before the next general election?" "Fuck you, why do you want Trump to win?"

i wish JK Rowling to be relieved of her gross fortunes, deplatformed and unable to continue doing as much harm as she has. i wish her a legacy of disdain, that her works become footnotes in history akin to beanie babies or tickle-me-elmo. some weird capitalist hiccup we all agree was a mistake.

We once spoke with a well-regarded dev psych who told us that of course they know & work with actual cognitive scientists and they would be the first to tell you a classroom shouldn't look like a cognitive science lab.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Researching ‘What Works’ in Education Isn’t Working - A 2018 Bush-Obama ed reform post-mortem: "Learning isn’t something that educators do to children, and it’s not something they can make happen or make children do." www.edweek.org/education/op...

why is this the most accurate representation of jubilee content i've ever seen? youtu.be/vjG5WJkwX00?...

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

just overheard someone complaining that Terry Pratchett 'spoils the mystery' by giving readers too much inside information up front instead of keeping us guessing. and it occurred to me how hard this cultural shift has been into media that wants to *surprise* its audience... (🧵1/4)

hm i don't post here very often, wonder if anyone is watching... The last episode of The Good Place is the worst episode of The Good Place. the whole series benefits from ending at episode 51.

Comrade card for 7/16/2025.

all this week on the @humanrestorationproject.org discord server we're going to be streaming a little series i've affectionately named EdTube - a loosely curated collection of documentaries and video essays we feel are relevant to the conversation of contemporary progressive pegagogy!

I miss getting excited when the lyrics to all the songs were included with cassette tapes

I'm doing some casual ✨narratology✨ (the study of storytelling) reading while thinking about D&D, and Y'ALL I know I hammer on about this but TTRPGs are absolutely buckwild narratively. Let me explain: 🧵

Why are we always more fearful of kids “falling behind” the latest tech than being its guinea pigs? Why do we listen to tech companies when designing our schools? Why don’t we pay teachers more? All these questions are connected

since we're talking about "violent protests" again... youtu.be/6BB0Q1qHpAw?...