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pretty much just gonna use this to share articles I find interesting (mostly politics, science, history, and culture)
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · Jun 1
Gonna start a thread of the classic SNL sketches here and add to it as I see them

#1 Land Shark (Nov 8, 1975)
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Landshark - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
thomaszimmer.bsky.social Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h
If trump is allowed, as he already has been, to just ignore scotus and if scotus during next dem presidency continues its transparent trend of it is only illegal if a Dem president does it, then I don’t see much a reasonable argument for the next dem president to not also ignore the court; doing so…
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 6h
You know you’re reading really good fiction writing when it includes at least one really long list
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The Revelator @therevelator.org · 1d
What environmental issues give nightmares to horror writers? Bestsellers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stephen Graham Jones, and Elizabeth Hand shared their fears. https://therevelator.org/horror-writers-environmental-scare/
The Ask: What Environmental Issues Give Nightmares to Horror Writers? • The Revelator
Who needs zombies and serial killers when you have global warming, the extinction crisis and other environmental horrors?
therevelator.org
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h
This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 10h
“In Ulysses, the network of cryptic allusions and the experiments with syntax are part of a bigger plan to capture something true about the intricate crosscurrents of life.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Yes I Will Read ‘Ulysses’ Yes
How Richard Ellmann made James Joyce a hero to generations of readers and scholars
www.theatlantic.com
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“The cohort that took over mass culture more than half a century ago has now built a sprawling culture for itself, by itself. In 2025, the most potent media produced about teenagers will likely emerge on teens’ phones, and most grown-ups will never get wind of what’s on display.“
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“Teens are now consuming content produced by other teens—stories and TikToks and straight-to-camera diatribes more real to them than any film written by adults and shot through their anxious, or nostalgic, lens.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“In the TikTok-teen era, teens, once Hollywood’s lucrative market, no longer flock to theaters. And the place where their adventures are playing out isn’t as readily accessible as it once was, even to hyper-hovering adults.“
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“But since the arrival of the 21st century, teen films have taken a turn. Adults have become afraid for teens, and newly distressed about their own role (or lack thereof) in the troubles facing them.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“More recently, the flavor of the moral panic has changed. Adults were once afraid of teens: they were threats to the order of things, both too grown-up to control and not grown-up enough to properly wield control themselves.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“Teen culture rapidly became a lucrative feedback loop: Teenagers repeat the behaviors they see on-screen, Hollywood in turn tailors scripts to shifting concerns about kids, and the results both lure teens to theaters and encourage further antics—rattling adults even more in the process.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“From the start, the on-screen adventures in teen movies have been targeted to a double audience of rebellious teens and anxious adults. The films repeatedly glamorize adolescent acting-out in charged and timely ways.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“Teenagers coalesced as a demographic group and a niche market in the 1940s and soon became box-office-boosting conveyors of cool. By the time the first batches of Baby Boomers were graduating from high school in the mid-1960s, teens had arrived as the prime movers of American popular culture.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 11h
“Relaxing the strictures on kids in the throes of puberty and letting them call the shots has been the modus operandi of the teen filmscape for decades.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Fast Times and Mean Girls
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
www.theatlantic.com
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11h
Yes, solutions for nature are also solutions for health!

This new analysis finds urban greening is "associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including improved physical and mental health, increased physical activity, improved childhood development, and reduced exposure to harms."
Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Rachel Larris @rachellarris.bsky.social · 12h
Lite secret about legacy newspapers & subscriptions: the Washington Post & the New York Times for decades didn’t care about consumer subscriptions cancellations because they were almost entirely profitable because of CORPORATE subscriptions. That was the stable money in subscriptions
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 12h
“Meanwhile, the warmth and muscular grace of his Polynesian paintings made them perennially popular. For a time, this combination of wayward emotional expression and cultural openness, this embrace of other forms of beauty, seemed to embody a new, modern ideal.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 12h
“Posthumous exhibitions cemented Gauguin’s status as the most transformative of the post-Impressionist painters. His willingness to reimagine the visible world pointed the way to symbolism, expressionism, and abstraction.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 12h
“Where impressionist work had dissolved in light, Gauguin’s grew solid. The brushwork flickered, but the edges were hard. The strange mix of naturalism and frozen poses, the lasso-like outlines, the marriage of the familiar and the otherworldly became his brand.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How to Look at Paul Gauguin
He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really?
www.theatlantic.com
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 13h
“The lyrical fragment likely comes from juré, the call-and-response music of Louisiana that predates zydeco. It’s a metaphorical way of saying “Times are tough.” When money ran short, people couldn’t afford the salt meat that was traditionally cooked with snap beans to season them.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 13h
“The word zydeco is widely believed to have originated in the French phrase les haricots sont pas salés, which translates to “The snap beans aren’t salty.” Zydeco, according to this theory, is a Creole French pronunciation of les haricots.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 13h
“Although sometimes taking the form of slower French waltzes, zydeco is more up-tempo—it’s party music—and features the accordion and the rubboard, a washboard hooked over the shoulders and hung across the body like a vest.”
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post reader @aireland92.bsky.social · 13h
“Zydeco is the Creole dance music of Southwest Louisiana, which blends traditional French music, Caribbean rhythms, and American R&B.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Rolling Stones Play Zydeco
How the legendary rock band discovered the music of Clifton Chenier
www.theatlantic.com
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h
"What I said was that I hate seeing minorities on TV but what I meant is that I hate seeing minorities on TV"
hesgen.com Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 14h
Sorry, Sarah, but you are now, officially and on the record, a moral degenerate. And you know it.

#racism #SarahPochin #ReformUK
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