RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA

we started watching The Prisoner this week (thomas is a longtime fan; I’ve never seen it), I asked who the lead actor is, and maybe there was more answer after “he was on a show called Danger Man, but then Danger Man was cancelled” but I wouldn’t know bc I still haven’t recovered from that sentence

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

Yeah screens are a problem and hs curricula and whatever else, but that Atlantic article cites a study that said, of "236,000 American adults, only 2 percent read to a child on a given day." You have it in your power to socialize your children as readers, even if that alone is not enough.

this is gonna end with Zohran sitting us all down and making us all watch Gangs of New York together and frankly it’s what we deserve

"Deliteracy is not symptom of algorithmic tech, the tech is being developed to assist deliteracy."

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

I think it's just soooo funny to be like "I am being persecuted now and only now" when baby you should have been persecuted for being a willing war criminal for years and years

there’s a really fascinating category of movies and tv shows that I’ve started to vaguely group together under the heading “a period piece about the present moment”

my true tinfoil-hat-but-I’m-right take is that this is a huge part of why skeletal bodies and flagrant pro-ana culture and rhetoric are so aggressively back in style

this is a side point, but Zohran took 4 separate opportunities during today's presser on bus improvements to pause and talk about how Egypt got screwed

sometimes when one of the cats up on something high they can’t get down from or deliberately knocks over a water glass and then is furious to have gotten splashed with water or other doofus stuff like that, we ask “and what did we learn from that?” and then we do a little voice and say “NOTHING!”

martin luther, 1517: I am going to destroy brazilian football

what a moment in history for me to have recently seen the 1976 film Network for the first time ever

the way this looks like a mid-2000s prom photo (two of them are now married to each other, one of them is only going to prom as an excuse to sneak out and go see her dirtbag older boyfriend, I don’t know what Zendaya’s prom backstory is) taken on a long-suffering parent’s lawn

needed to refer to this foundational text in something I’m writing and what I was able to come up with before going and looking for a screenshot was “that tweet about is the credit card in love with me” anyway as ever this remains one of the four noble truths of posts

guy who wears a lot of button down shirts: listen snowflake that's just how tough guys talk! sorry you're such an HRcel! actual tough guy: this is my shih tzu Princess Fluffy she has a different sweater for every day of the week and if you look at her wrong i will beat you to death with your own leg

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

reintroducing: Cabo Verde

mcconnell returning after weeks with a gigantic BBL

I also think it’s well beyond time to start considering these men are not, in any true or meaningful way, on the left

if you're interested in taking up a heterodox position, write an essay entitled "valerie solanas was right," boys. let's see how contrarian you really are

like just call your dad bro this is getting embarrassing

“If we want rugged, square jawed, muscled… I mean uhhh blue collar people in office we have to put up with their coarse proletarian sensibilities” - man who has never even gardened

for those enjoying the Colombia game today please consider donating to a local Venezuelan family that is trying to raise funds quickly in order to transfer them over to in-laws in Colombia who are then going to transport it in-person to survivors in Caracas. Link in replies of original thread.

instead of forming a coherent and principled political ideology a lot of people prefer to fall in love with some guy

my soccer groupchat just changed the chat’s name to VENGEANCE, so that’s how things are going

Egypt has never been so robbed since the British Museum left the country

"fuck you i'll just do it again" the most powerful motivator in history

it’s time to do this to the VAR room

I profoundly believe people can change, it’s maybe the thing I believe in more than just about anything else. and this is pretty much what it looks like when that happens

if tonight’s game was a rough watch, maybe you’d like to be comforted by a documentary film about a time when the US and Belgium weren’t at odds but joined together in a shared project boxd.it/K5gk

every American has been sentenced to one viewing of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

we’ve now reached the part of the tournament where I’m just gonna pick who to root for based on whose movies I like best. viva españa

Only one man can save the US team at this point: Jalen Brunson.

what I’m really and truly excited for are those four or five days two weeks from now when we’ll have maximum World Cup discourse overlapping with maximum Nolan Odyssey discourse. the totality for people who are annoying

my favorite part of soccer is when a player scores a goal and then looks directly into the camera and says “I’m the same kind of communist as you are”

vintage Spain goal, vintage Merino goal, vintage GO HOME CRISTIANO YOU FUCKING LOSER moment

I read this book last week (as a new/casual soccer fan wanting to learn more about the sport and its history) and I truly cannot recommend it enough, a very beautiful and incandescently angry history of the 20th century by way of a history of soccer

Ravenous is about two months old! What a great time to get yourself a paid subscription to some great worker-owned food and culture writing.

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I know this is the website where people post like Eric Garland but there is way too much Eric Garland posting about Folarin Balogun and the USMNT right now

lol okay so: Huey Lewis was my neighbor growing up (I grew up on the campus of a prep school where my parents worked, his kid went to the school), he had a story about how he once (89ish) took his kid to a local street fair, determined to have a normal time, & was immediately swarmed by fans (1/2)

while attending law school. It would change her life if she could finish law school and I know it would change the lives of others because she would be an activist lawyer. Please help her get her car repaired so she can finish school www.gofundme.com/f/help-emily...

Hi all. As many of you know my little brother is in law school. He made a friend named Emily who is in the area to help take care of her 1 year old niece because no one else can. She is a great girl, in DSA in her very limited free time, and has been dealing with extreme family turmoil

he sounds like mrs doubtfire

no no it’s true, I can count the things I know about Belgium with one hand