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Erin Vanderhoof

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trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 27d

after reading media theory about this for MONTHS, i present my Grand Unified Theory of why video essays are so good these days! With many thanks to @lindsayellis.bsky.social, who provided her thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Where the “Woke” Debate Burns Hottest: In Incredibly Long YouTube Essays on the Likes of RFK Jr. and Ms. Rachel

Why are audiences flocking to feature-length examinations of Joe Rogan with academic-quality citations? Creator Lindsay Ellis has some theories.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 4h

lol i generally like Ari Shapiro but insane for him not to realize that writing a radio script on extremely tight turnaround is NOTHING like a writers room for a prestige HBO drama

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 23h

yeah, i think i had always thought that there was a certain aesthetic poshness that went along with aristocratic fascism—for example, the "Rivers of Blood" speech is obviously the product of a classicist—but i was kinda shocked how that has totally fallen apart now

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

my favorite subplot that got cut from this—and there were MANY—was the time her dad, well known as an aristo bank robber in the 1930s, became the temporary face of thatcher tax reform after making a stink when he decided to move to monte carlo over death duties

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

it offers a pretty stern warning for centrists everywhere, i think! fascism with kitschy anglo characteristics has long been able to unite the top and bottom tiers of society! technocrats can't compete with it using their normal toolbox

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

ultimately, i realized the path was almost overdetermined!! aristocrats are the losers of modernity, and that means they are the perfect vessels for contradictory nostalgia

Her ladyship title came with a warning about how she should act. "It was explained that I would have to behave in a certain way, and people would be looking up to me," she says. "I had to be an example for people. My upbringing was pretty strict." At around age eight, she went off to boarding school. In the Victorian era, England's hereditary elite had a near monopoly on land and politics, and thus exclusive possession of wealth, status, and power. By the 1980s, 500 years of the old regime was rapidly coming to an end. When Hervey came of age in the 1990s, whatever strictures might have restrained her as a child fell away on the dance floors of London. The benefits of elite status were diluted, the old estates were crumbling, and British patricians were competing in globalized markets with oligarchs from around the world.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

i spent the last few months reporting on a wild question: what makes a british aristocrat decide to become a big MAGA booster??? read my lengthy answer here: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...

Lady Victoria Hervey, British ’90s It Girl Turned Mar-a-Lago Habitué, Wants to Make England Great Again

A pandemic-era political awakening turned this aristocrat into a MAGA-hat-collecting Trump booster—and now she’s telling Vanity Fair why she backs Nigel Farage.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sorry but touting 1.5 million readers and 170k subscribers is so funny. That is not that many!!!!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 5d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 5d

somebody needed to just reach out to me through my benadryl haze and say "iconic synth bass" and i would have been able to do it

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 5d

lmao update, i'm listening, it's great, fuckin taylor swift has done it again

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

i am generally a big swiftie, but i haven't yet listened to life of a showgirl, partially because i was sick yesterday and also partially because the advance lyrics of "actually romantic" i saw made me realize this is the taylor mode i don't like (vindictive, complaining about being rich)

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 6d

Big gap between “you need to be exposed to views you disagree with” and “the loathsome liberals in my audience need a steady stream of bad faith reactionary slop”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7d

Nicole Kidman Retires Drag King Persona ‘Keith Urban’

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

But like literally, good country music comes from people who have listened to Jason Molina and Eric Church, mid country music comes from those who have only heard Church

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

Tbh all modern country music is people who have never heard Farewell Transmission trying to recreate it from first principles! And I love that for them! And yet

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

Again tonight!!!! Listen!!!!

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve literally already written an essay about how I constantly rediscover that Farewell Transmission is the best song of all time, and yet! I keep on discovering that it’s the best song ever all over again!!!

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

yeah, I think that is great and I would imagine that if I stay in NYC, i might send my kids to a school that has a mandarin program because it's a heritage/extremely used language for the people I'm around. But that's different than the normative "teaching mandarin for the future" idea

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

What do you mean? I'm just saying that the fact that I got to go on incredibly cool field trips and my classmates who learned to read later did not was ridiculous, not talking about accomodation/differentiation

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, yeah, I definitely don't think kids necessarily need to learn a language in elementary school for us to consider them well-educated

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

I 100 percent agree with you here. Latin is AMAZING and Greek especially for Bible nerds, I just think it's a nice to have, especially in an era where there are very few latin teachers on offer

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, exactly! I will be saving this post to refer to in the future because I think people just don't understand how counterproductive so much of the conventional wisdom about education is!

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

lol yes, language teachers are hella expensive. Especially at the k–12 level

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 7d

In places where the resources exist, totally. I just don't think it's true to say that kids who don't have that option are necessarily getting a worse education. I have seen kids with many language options getting a shitty education and also the obverse