Okay it *is* a cool duck, though.

Two 200 mpg+ commutes today.

It's funny how Hickman is one of the few X-authors to really engage with the ugly overtones of teenage anomie metaphor and "people without a country" metaphor slamming into each other at high speeds but not in what you might call a constructive way.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top House Dem appropriator, says DHS is actively choosing not to pay TSA workers while paying employees at ICE, CPB, Coast Guard and Secret Service. And that the TSA administrator confirmed this herself on Weds. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

When Intelligence Fails: A Legal Targeting Analysis of the Minab School Strike at www.justsecurity.org/134350/legal...

If you have ever had to take notes quickly, it becomes very obvious that these assumptions are bullshit.

well at least he hasn’t been talking about it for two weeks, might be a problem if they knew it was coming, but thankfully, our big wet idiot president understands the value of secrecy and strategy

Being arch, serious, and silly at the same time is important.

If lowest-common-denominator cultural critics could read they'd be going "um, actually..." so hard at this, assuming they ever saw it.

the amount of time between the release of "Return of the Jedi" and "The Phantom Menace" is about the same as the distance between "Deathly Hallows Pt. II" and the new HBO series, but imagine if in 1999 they were just like "yeah same story again but longer lol"

Had thoughts once again about a board wargame using conflict between steppe pastoralists and an agrarian empire in a fantasy context and wrote up perspectives from each "side" to give a sense of "why is this conflict happening?" This is the pastoralist perspective...

Worker placement games represent the simulation of a command economy, with the central planner (player) directing resources in an attempt to meet the requirements of the latest 5 year plan (victory conditions) In this essay I will...

scorsese is famous for films like goodfellas, the last temptation of christ, the departed, and for prolonging the age of fire by linking the first flame

I feel some Weltschmerz coming on.

There goes my plan for class!

Greta Thunberg steepling her hands like Gendo Ikari as another round of negotiations fails, just according to keikaku.

One of the cold facts about Harry Potter as a cultural presence is that people treat its readers as basically subhuman savages trapped in a cave rather than essentially similar to the average adult, who barely ever reads for pleasure and does not read challenging things.

"Thousands of years of human artistry" is a pretty wildly condescending way to put it when the quantity of music which is available for listening is so heavily weighted to within the last 400 years, and in practice, strongly towards the last 50 when it comes to actual recs.

They don't want to avant the garde, they want to endlessly critique the masscult.

Jirel of Joiry

Hmmm. I don't think this is autoinduced synaesthesia, for many reasons, but it is interesting to go down a leathery-winged hole deep enough to start classifying people's communicated fantasies in terms of taste.

If you can't say to your child "the man in black fled across the desert" and get a "and the gunslinger followed " in response You 🫵🏿 have forgotten the face of your father.

Wooo! The Lower Peninsula of Michigan is officially no longer part of the "West", thanks to the Detroit Lions giving us a tradition of being forced into little societal castes! How are *you* celebrating being forcibly Orientalismized over Harry Potter, Michiganders?

Putting his fucking name on everything and nobody daring to say boo unless they're openly partisan towards the Democratic Party. Where is the fucking sense of dignity?

Wow.

I really don't like how the rhetoric around "don't pay for Harry Potter stuff, Rowling is actively hateful and exterminationist" frames matters in terms of "buying a Harry Potter product means murdering trans people". I don't think the reasoning there is good to foster.

My wife put on an episode of the Bastard!! OVA and this scene caught me completely off guard.

What did you think class conflict meant? Vibes? Essays? Cutting remarks followed by a flick of a Gauloise butt?

You should read YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES. It has Moctezuma Xocoyotzin dancing to T. Rex unintentionally.

What if you were grinding his... posts up to make some fresh zest?

TOP SECRET//NOFORN (U) Subject: Pee (TS//NF) Summary: Pee is stored in the balls TOP SECRET//NOFORN

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Kind of a sweet build actually

No left-liberal popular front has emerged in America because the American political/radical left has been for decades a subset of academics, college students, and crustpunks without a firm base of social support.

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It is wild to see someone argue that "living wage" means "the minimum necessary to sustain life".

Kingdom Hearts was never my game but shame to see Sora go out like that

"The C² system generates generates orders, which are informed by meta-orders from the meta-C² system of the next layer of command, which are themselves informed by meta²-orders from the meta²-C² system of the level of command beyond that... so that's why I can't process your request for M&Ms."

Was it a sexy lady leg lamp

陸軍少尉 Hegseth tries to motivate the boys of the Imperial American Army.

"As viciously as possible" Going "graaaaaarrgggh!" as I stick the fuel hose into the helicopter as viciously as possible

Wedge has read them, he had a lot of time on his parents space gas station, Corran has not, but he has read space Lee Child. Face has not read them but had a minor role in a movie, Gara has not read them but Kierney has

"Brilliant military tactician" is, devoid of the context of insisting on Confederate dignity and superiority over the Union, extremely funny. Should we be putting up statues of Bonaparte? Charles XII? Scipio Africanus? Epaminondas? Zhuge Liang? Toyotomi Hideyoshi?

"Democrats are out of touch here is a bunch of substacks that maybe 10,000 people read explaining what is really popular" is so fucking funny

Star Wars can learn from Gundam in many ways, such as by putting Dorothy Catalonia in.

I'm suddenly into getting a motorcycle now.

It is morbidly funny how this has to be relegated to novelizations because of how enamored Disney and the Abrams-Johnson writing team were with remixing the original trilogy.

Can confirm