Storming the beach at Normandy and just thrilled to meet your buds.

The time and energy it’s going to require to reverse this nonsense🙄🤦

I’m a pretty self-assured teacher but having a 6’5 IUP marketing guy with a steady cam standing 2 feet away from me required some steeling of nerves!

The Legend of Snotty

Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

I've been a unionized employee of higher ed for 35 years. I have walked in three strikes. In each of those, our victory was ensured by solidarity with students, parents, and staff. The distrust is felt most passionately by those who have not experienced college or uni. sites.uw.edu/magastudy/de...

Jessica Hammer's chapter on Online Freeform from the RPG Handbook (here I've included the 2018 version, which was circulated open-access online 7 years ago) serves as a useful overview of this particular RPG form, distinct from others by its use of platforms. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sgp7c...

Going to use #InternationalMensDay to say that if you’re feeling low & it’s deepening, please talk to your loved ones, doctor or a mental health specialist for help. I should have but I was one of those foolish men who thought he should silently push on through anxiety & depression. Big mistake.

While everyone's paying attention to the Epstein files, a big story just broke about another alleged human trafficker with ties to Trump — Andrew Tate:

The ouroboros of this profoundly immoral, corrupt, and vicious moment in US history.

“President Trump’s response to the murder of exiled Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the culpability of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman sends a chilling message to authoritarian governments that paves the way to more human rights violations, PEN America said today. Read the full statement

Rebecca Heineman has passed away from cancer, at 62. A games industry legend - first ever game tournament champion in 1980, Interplay co-founder, Bard's Tale 3 designer, worked on the PSP, PS4, Xbox360, many ports... Prime pick for a Lifetime Achievement Award, @geoffkeighley.bsky.social

This thread kind of rules.

It's hard to overstate what a catastrophe it would be for moviemaking and moviegoers if the Ellisons are allowed to acquire Warner Brothers and merge it with Paramount. I know that rooting for Comcast and/or Netflix sticks in a lot of throats here but those would be far better alternatives... >

"Things happen"

By this logic any of us can go to his home, arrest him and decide his fate without a judge.

Methodology

One final bump for my TCM program tonight. I hope you'll be able to check it out. Love y'all.

What is it like playing #TTRPG with you as a GM, Mike?

50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻

If we’re kicking the guy with the Nazi tattoos out of the tent (and good riddance!) then why would we ever invite someone with a long record of hateful statements and brutal policy positions in?

If you’re in Pittsburgh, I cannot recommend more enthusiastically Morcilla in Lawrenceville. Thoughtful, unfussy, flavorful food. There short rib is incomparable. morcillapittsburgh.com

The festive season is here! What better time to take your adventurers into the scrumpdillyicious delights of the bestselling 'Curse of the Sugarplum Fairy'? A trifle of Wonka, Adventure Time, and Cronenberg, it comes with the Complete User's Guide to Sucromancy! www.dmsguild.com/en/product/3...

Let's just say it's good to have a job where you're leading a three-hour discussion on the films of Jordan Peele with a group of students who have been deep into Horror Cinema, Affect Theory, and Monster Studies for three months.

Finished watching One Battle After Another last night, first time at-home watch, and I can't count how many times I skipped back a few seconds to rewatch a shot, a line delivery, a bit of shot-music synchronicity. A beautifully crafted film.

I had an exchange (in my terrible Spanish) with Andry José Hernández Romero, the gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent, without due process, to an El Salvadoran prison by the US. I told him that I posted a photo of him on here each day he was in captivity & he responded. He said I could share. ❤️

Reading Laura Marks' The Skin of the Film and finding her idea of "haptic visuality" deeply relevant to Horror Cinema. In contrast to memory, the textural techniques of horror (the scream, the squelch, the surface of the skin) evoke an embodied experience of the uncanny and the abject. Hello, essay!

Love how the guy makes clear that the child "was not my student" like it's perfectly cool that he was horning on the children in the hall.

Critical gender studies but guys justifying pedophilia.

Coming up Tuesday Nov 18 at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Reparations and the Human: A Conversation with David L. Eng. Respondents: Sonali Thakkar and Jack Halberstam !! This should be great. @dukepress.bsky.social english.columbia.edu/events/repar...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

Groovy.

Energy Vampire, this Hassett guy.

The press contact for FACE THE NATION is [email protected] if anyone wants to explain to them why people might care about a massive pedophile sex trafficking ring that apparently implicates the president and several other powerful men.

One of the singular pleasures of my parenting life is watching my brother trashtalk one of my sons, watching my son give it back as good as they got it, and the whole tussle operating at the highest level of wicked wit.

I've spent decades--literally, decades--fighting against the stereotype of the incel guy living in his mother's basement and this f-er just dumps it all into the Styx.

The festive season is here! What better time to take your adventurers into the scrumpdillyicious delights of the bestselling 'Curse of the Sugarplum Fairy'? A trifle of Wonka, Adventure Time, and Cronenberg, it comes with the Complete User's Guide to Sucromancy! www.dmsguild.com/en/product/3...

A reminder that 90% POS is still POS

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. They’re breaking the law & violating the Constitution. These things are not “traditions” or norms.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

I’d like to please juxtapose Jill Lepore’s complaints about how whiny #MeToo students made Harvard a miserable place with the former President of Harvard’s texts to Epstein seeking advice on trying to date a student.

If you’re in Pittsburgh, I cannot recommend more enthusiastically Morcilla in Lawrenceville. Thoughtful, unfussy, flavorful food. There short rib is incomparable. morcillapittsburgh.com

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

I really cannot overstate how much you should read this book, might be the best bit of non fiction I've read this year

Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

One of my go-to criticism sites. Consistently engaged, thoughtful, heartfelt writing. Good podcast, too!

Shame Nancy Reagan isn’t alive to compare notes with Donnie.