🐈Rex Parker🐈⬛ ✏️ 🧐
@rexparker.bsky.social
Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper) / https://letterboxd.com/realrexparker
So here’s the thing—I don’t really give a damn that they don’t “get the book right”; it’s an adaptation, fine, go nuts. But after a very entertaining first half, this thing just goes flat & becomes improbably conventional & frankly boring. At one point I was like “it’s giving THE NOTEBOOK” ☹️
February 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
So here’s the thing—I don’t really give a damn that they don’t “get the book right”; it’s an adaptation, fine, go nuts. But after a very entertaining first half, this thing just goes flat & becomes improbably conventional & frankly boring. At one point I was like “it’s giving THE NOTEBOOK” ☹️
Ok … so … hmm … well, I laughed a lot, so there’s that
February 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Ok … so … hmm … well, I laughed a lot, so there’s that
Sometimes the only adequate response is…
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Sometimes the only adequate response is…
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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Ok then wish me luck 🍀
February 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Ok then wish me luck 🍀
Sup? Good morning ☀️
February 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Sup? Good morning ☀️
Dems please run on “we will bring back scientific and medical leadership again.” It’ll work! Also, it’s an emergency!
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Dems please run on “we will bring back scientific and medical leadership again.” It’ll work! Also, it’s an emergency!
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
All other headlines can sit this year out, we have a winner
ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
dlvr.it
February 13, 2026 at 1:57 PM
All other headlines can sit this year out, we have a winner
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I married well ❤️
February 12, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I married well ❤️
I married well ❤️
February 12, 2026 at 11:27 PM
I married well ❤️
Left to my own devices / I probably would (make a Diamondback) 🐍 🥃 🍒
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Left to my own devices / I probably would (make a Diamondback) 🐍 🥃 🍒
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We’re sorry, The Great Space Disco is closed for renovations. Extensive renovations. It’s the 1,000-YEAR PLAN (1955), newest Pop Sensation paperback
#pulp #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers #bookcoverart
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#pulp #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers #bookcoverart
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February 12, 2026 at 9:11 PM
We’re sorry, The Great Space Disco is closed for renovations. Extensive renovations. It’s the 1,000-YEAR PLAN (1955), newest Pop Sensation paperback
#pulp #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers #bookcoverart
salmongutter.blogspot.com/2026/02/pape...
#pulp #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers #bookcoverart
salmongutter.blogspot.com/2026/02/pape...
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It’s a thing to have a government that just openly lies. Lies, gets caught, keeps telling the same lie without flinching. We’re joining some very special historical company.
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
It’s a thing to have a government that just openly lies. Lies, gets caught, keeps telling the same lie without flinching. We’re joining some very special historical company.
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I simply think that people this soft should not be allowed to carry a gun
The GOP bill sponsor says that filming a police officer within 25 feet could now be a crime under his bill, constituting harassing an officer with the intent of causing “substantial emotional distress.”
February 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I simply think that people this soft should not be allowed to carry a gun
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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
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I was invited to the upcoming taping of the CBS/Free Press/Bari Weiss debate on faith between Ross Douthat and Steven Pinker.
I responded appropriately.
I responded appropriately.
February 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I was invited to the upcoming taping of the CBS/Free Press/Bari Weiss debate on faith between Ross Douthat and Steven Pinker.
I responded appropriately.
I responded appropriately.
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The dangling modifier is distracting me from the joy of the story. I apologize for being this way.
From @theathletic.com: Minutes after getting up from a nasty crash in the super-G at the Winter Olympics, Breezy Johnson’s boyfriend proposed to her. The engagement came four days after Johnson notched the biggest win of her career. nyti.ms/4cnTQFE
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The dangling modifier is distracting me from the joy of the story. I apologize for being this way.
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Bud Cort (1948-2026) 🤍
February 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Bud Cort (1948-2026) 🤍
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The art of politics is not to do what people think. If it was, there literally wouldn’t be any politics. The art of politics is to convert public opinion in the direction of your policies. Not so subordinate your policies to opinion.
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The art of politics is not to do what people think. If it was, there literally wouldn’t be any politics. The art of politics is to convert public opinion in the direction of your policies. Not so subordinate your policies to opinion.
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04 Feb 2026
February 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM
04 Feb 2026
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Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
February 12, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
Honestly needed a trigger warning on this one 😖
February 12, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Honestly needed a trigger warning on this one 😖