i love how they made his death "for our sins" some kind of unknowable mystery that catholics solemnly contemplate, when it's just that he was martyred by the powerful for speaking truth to power, every day in america is a chance to do just that but let's contemplate with some incense instead

The floor, is stronk.

word, it took me years after my "mounting bolshevism" phase started to figure out who had any interest in what i was reading

most of my reading is a free text reader app reading me a free pdf while i do chores, people just want things to be harder than they are

i figured out the ways i was bad at reading by talking to people about the things i read, whether txting friends or an actual book club. do people not talk to others about what they read?

My favorite thing is when the person lies and the news guy is like “but is that true?” and the person goes yep and the news guy goes “alright thanks for joining us”

Does Northwestern not have like, a history department?

or the AI bet is bleeding money so they need to downsize and also make ppl work more to cover shortfall to keep paying for their failed darling

i love it for its ability to suck me into a bottomless pit of despair, its fictional confirmation that everything operators do is morally bankrupt, and because every soundtrack by Johann Johannsson (RIP) is a masterpiece

the movie is brutally effective at what it does as a work of art, which is to depict a bottomless pit of savagery, the "wolves" hiding beneath the thin veneer of civilization. this is a consistent and relentless message from the opening onwards, when emily blunt discovers a gruesome