Cheers everyone. Time to close out Resurrection Day and start another week.

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💪 Half-century

Finally finished "Frankenstein," which I had not read before. Such a profound work, profounder for being so different than the Hollywood images and tropes I have in my head. Now, ready to finally watch Del Toro's version on film.

He digs up your grave. Not a red flag. It used to be, if you liked someone, you would call them up, ask them out, and then head over to their final resting place to unearth them yourself. These days, most dates don’t even bring their own shovel.

Just do yourself a favor and press play.

Ambivalent as I am about AI, it's such a rare thing for someone to take a principled and costly stand against the Trump administration that one can't help but be pleasantly surprised (similar to Mark Carney). www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

What else was I supposed to use? I left my switchblade in my other pair of jorts.

Sam Altman is not a good guy

Update - I went outside in my sandals.

It was sunny today and nice outside.

This is the "state of our union." Horrible, horrible, inhumane behavior.

ICE's tactic is to move quickly in taking people, then gum up anything that would enable communication and due process. Here is a story about a lawyer in Connecticut who used a network of churches to pursue her client. It's heartbreaking, but well worth reading.

The lasting consequences of Brexit - even when programmes like Erasmus are reactivated, the infrastructure has gone. The people who opened their homes, the folk with knowledge about the system - they’ve moved on. Rebuilding these contacts will take a long time.

Thinking of my Iranian friends today, not forgetting the US. "How long, O Lord, until your justice reigns?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cei...

"Epic Disaster" is the headline of this Süddeutsche Zeitung article about Long Covid and the rigidity of the German medical system. The lack of knowledge dissemination among primary care physicians and the need for an in-person diagnosis for those who can't leave the house are two major challenges.

Beast. 💪

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Germans with sleds are unschlagbar! 💪 🇩🇪 www.kicker.de/gold-im-vier...

Maybe next Olympics could have a "your figure skating routine, but in an oversized panda costume" round of competition.

Show me your Uber driver

it’s very difficult for me to reread old pieces of mine, but I am sharing this for the Olympics, for nostalgia, for Asian American women of a certain age, for little Asian girls everywhere gift link:

A reminder that this should not be normal.

Good poem (if anybody reads these days)

If you haven't, read Brian Phillips' remembrance of Robert Duvall. "...he excelled at portraying a nuanced, complicated maturity, a quality poised between old and young. His characters were often strong, but with a strength chastened by experience; ..." (whole article is good).

Was für ein unglaubliches Skicross-Finale - Daniela Meier gewinnt Gold! 💪🇩🇪

put it in the Louvre

Good sports day. US Women's hockey 💪. Liu 💪. VfB Stuttgart 💪.

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💪 Amazing Alysa Liu. So happy for her. And 💪 for Amber Glenn's comeback performance. (Sakamoto & Nakai were so amazing. I hate that only one can come in first)

Megan. Keller. 💪 🇺🇸 (and man, phew, Canada was better for 90% of the game)

Friends, my parents are in town and they got me a present.

Share an iconic album cover

Watch @vfb.de, y'all. "For some odd reason, Stuttgart is rarely mentioned as one of the bucket list places to watch a football match, but it really should be. Just under 60,000 fans pack into the MHP Arena at every home game through good times and bad, and it's akin to a rite of passage."

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A lovely Ash Wednesday song. "From the depth of nature's blindness, From the hardening power of sin, From all malice and unkindness, From the pride that lurks within, By thy mercy, deliver us, good Lord" youtu.be/mj5GXSJ6ktw?...

Fastenzeit.... go! theonion.com/tips-for-obs...

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Miura/Kihara took my breath away this evening. Perfection + redemption. Congratulations to them and to Japan - well deserved.

A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.

What a wonderful essay by Amy Julia Becker about her daughter, who has down syndrome, and what it means to have a good life. "Penny also introduced us to other people with intellectual disabilities— ..." thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much

US speed skater uniforms are incredible.

I know Wendell from my DC days, and he wrote a wonderful song about the month of February. "Maybe you like the snowfall, getting buried under ice. Getting locked up in your home, making monsters out of roommates who were nice.... Springtime come back soon!" wendellk.bandcamp.com/track/the-lo...

They want to make you have a passport so you can vote, but are shutting down places to get passports.

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"I sing The bebop apocalypse Lean into you God's hands on my hips Grip the midnight microphone Steel every cell of my flesh and bone I wrestle my angel In smoky stage lights Climb Jacob's ladder Two thousand more flights Tell St. Valentine, Hey gimme five...!" youtu.be/ftBiOv4svyg?...

Stolz auf Stolz II 💪