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No one’s rich like Gaston
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
No one’s rich like Gaston
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
Well, at least they acted quickly on something 🙃
in case anyone was wondering wtf happened to @thelouvreof.bsky.social/Louvre of Bluesky: the creator got doxxed, bsky did nothing, and they decided to go out in a blaze of glory
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Well, at least they acted quickly on something 🙃
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He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
I wish that I could imitate my betters
And fortify my rhetoric with guns.
Some day we women will lose our fetters
And teach our daughter to be lesbians.
(I wonder if the bastard kept my letters?)
Here follow untranslatable French puns.
- end of "Sonnet Ending With a Film Subtitle" by Marilyn Hacker
And fortify my rhetoric with guns.
Some day we women will lose our fetters
And teach our daughter to be lesbians.
(I wonder if the bastard kept my letters?)
Here follow untranslatable French puns.
- end of "Sonnet Ending With a Film Subtitle" by Marilyn Hacker
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I wish that I could imitate my betters
And fortify my rhetoric with guns.
Some day we women will lose our fetters
And teach our daughter to be lesbians.
(I wonder if the bastard kept my letters?)
Here follow untranslatable French puns.
- end of "Sonnet Ending With a Film Subtitle" by Marilyn Hacker
And fortify my rhetoric with guns.
Some day we women will lose our fetters
And teach our daughter to be lesbians.
(I wonder if the bastard kept my letters?)
Here follow untranslatable French puns.
- end of "Sonnet Ending With a Film Subtitle" by Marilyn Hacker
Hey @legaleagle.tv / @lizdye.bsky.social , just a heads up: it seems like there are maybe some weird editing errors after the 15 minute mark in the new Halligan video on Nebula.
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hey @legaleagle.tv / @lizdye.bsky.social , just a heads up: it seems like there are maybe some weird editing errors after the 15 minute mark in the new Halligan video on Nebula.
What do you think the odds are that if they win, they'll pass the savings back to consumers to whom they passed on the price increases?
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
What do you think the odds are that if they win, they'll pass the savings back to consumers to whom they passed on the price increases?
I was unprepared.
my favourite part of WICKED 2 was when they got to the song about Fucking and she pulled on the most enormous and thick sweater blanket you've ever seen
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I was unprepared.
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my favourite part of WICKED 2 was when they got to the song about Fucking and she pulled on the most enormous and thick sweater blanket you've ever seen
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
my favourite part of WICKED 2 was when they got to the song about Fucking and she pulled on the most enormous and thick sweater blanket you've ever seen
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Not the main problem, but increasingly thinking we need a moratorium on the term "Artificial Intelligence" (both in full and as "AI") because it's clear it means at least three seriously different things and equivocation between those helps to enable this nonsense.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not the main problem, but increasingly thinking we need a moratorium on the term "Artificial Intelligence" (both in full and as "AI") because it's clear it means at least three seriously different things and equivocation between those helps to enable this nonsense.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
He was the kind of brilliant mind that you were amazed that you still shared a planet with, and I'm glad I did for so long.
RIP, thank you.
RIP, thank you.
Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
He was the kind of brilliant mind that you were amazed that you still shared a planet with, and I'm glad I did for so long.
RIP, thank you.
RIP, thank you.
Why publish this to support the claim that she was persecuted? This is objectively bad writing: no structure, no supporting evidence, arguing against claims not in the text (or at least not cited from the text).
This writing is bad for a high school freshmen. For a college junior, it's inexcusable.
This writing is bad for a high school freshmen. For a college junior, it's inexcusable.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Why publish this to support the claim that she was persecuted? This is objectively bad writing: no structure, no supporting evidence, arguing against claims not in the text (or at least not cited from the text).
This writing is bad for a high school freshmen. For a college junior, it's inexcusable.
This writing is bad for a high school freshmen. For a college junior, it's inexcusable.
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one time my 50 year old father and my 18 year old cousin got into a screaming agrument at the thanksgiving table on whether cheesecake is a cake or a pie. The highlight of which was my cousin shouting "WELL WHAT ABOUT CRAB CAKES THEN" and my dad shouting "IT'S NEITHER. IT'S A FUCKING APPETIZER"
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
one time my 50 year old father and my 18 year old cousin got into a screaming agrument at the thanksgiving table on whether cheesecake is a cake or a pie. The highlight of which was my cousin shouting "WELL WHAT ABOUT CRAB CAKES THEN" and my dad shouting "IT'S NEITHER. IT'S A FUCKING APPETIZER"
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The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
ALT: a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
You ever tell your children to watch something educational, only to have them cheerfully inform you 45 minutes later that you outweigh a baby elephant?
Knowledge is power, I guess...
Knowledge is power, I guess...
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You ever tell your children to watch something educational, only to have them cheerfully inform you 45 minutes later that you outweigh a baby elephant?
Knowledge is power, I guess...
Knowledge is power, I guess...
I love that he's scare-quoting his middle name the way he used to with Obama, but dude's first name is Zohran, buddy.
Trump says he and New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani will meet in the Oval Office on Friday.
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I love that he's scare-quoting his middle name the way he used to with Obama, but dude's first name is Zohran, buddy.
Wanted tan walls, but paint came out more ecru? Problematic beige gap.
Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
Prisoners keep escaping because you put the bars too far apart? Problematic cage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Wanted tan walls, but paint came out more ecru? Problematic beige gap.
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE: HASSAN AND SHAHEEN ARE BOTH ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DEFECTING
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.
! A key group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting for a deal to end the shutdown, provided final details can be worked out like worker protections (Gift link)
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE: HASSAN AND SHAHEEN ARE BOTH ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DEFECTING
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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I don't use AI for the same reason I don't eat tapeworms... I don't like parasites.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I don't use AI for the same reason I don't eat tapeworms... I don't like parasites.
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I will never forget the Toronto Blue Jays relief pitchers sharpie-ing Vesia’s number on their caps during games 6 and 7 of the World Series for as long as I live.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.
Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia and his wife Kayla announced that their newborn daughter, Sterling Sol, died on October 26th.
Please continue to keep this family in your thoughts. 💔
Please continue to keep this family in your thoughts. 💔
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I will never forget the Toronto Blue Jays relief pitchers sharpie-ing Vesia’s number on their caps during games 6 and 7 of the World Series for as long as I live.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.
Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.