Good Minute Cryptic today.

The great mid-20th century fantasy trilogy is Gormenghast, not LOTR.

We should bring back pocket paperbacks. Pocket-sized is the correct size for a paperback.

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

If you titled those videos something like "Hitler Youth member REACTS to Creedence Clearwater Revival" the thumbnail would fit the conventions of YouTube just as well.

And nobody wants to sell you a massive hammer every time you want to buy a product unrelated to hammers.

And the hedgehog can never be buggered

English teacher here. My job is to teach critical thinking, clear expression, and the ability to appraise a text for meaning, subtext, bias and agenda. These things are actively damaging to the far right because it makes it harder for them to persuade people to vote against their own interests.

Antidotes look like poison to poisoners.

Given he'd try to implement the economic policies of Truss and Milei, it's safe to say that the education sector will be the least of his problems.

Teachers will strike alright...because our pension funds will collapse.

the best answer i got for this:

Stretch. Your lower back will thank you.

I've said before that the ideal level of fame is to be Gene Hackman's character in THE CONVERSATION - anonymous nobody on the street but treated with awed reverence at your industry's trade show bsky.app/profile/shai...

This is what put me off Mandy, an otherwise clever and well made film that should have regarded that kind of plot device as beneath it.

I am an authority on Classic Doctor Who, to the extent of being able to recite every episode broadcast between 1963 and 1989 in order from memory, and yet I have never seen a single episode of Blake's Seven.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

I tried to think of something that would encapsulate the whole of Led Zeppelin in a single line and all I could think of was "squeeze my hobbit"

Don’t know who originally coined the observation that all Led Zep songs are about shagging or goblins, or both. This felt like a wise nod to that.

well, there's that one song about how visiting Iceland makes you feel like a Viking, but generally feels spot on

Every working, professional poet in the world today would give their right arm for one of their poems to have had the exposure and impact that this six year-old's has had over the years.

Honestly flawless scansion.

Don,t forget to occasionally refill your apostrophes with helium or they,ll sink

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!