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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 5h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Jared Johnson is taking it one day at a time @jaredparker.bsky.social · 2h

I said it then and I’ll say it now, the wrong racist caricature won in 2016

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe if the Cubs go all the way, another passage will open in the wormhole we fell into back in 2016.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2h

Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow, Cubs win!

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ALT: a close up of a blue letter w on a white surface .

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m Just a File (Classified Edition)”
Schoolhouse Rock parody by channelpoor

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 8h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 14h

What is the point of lying about this?

LETTER FROM BIDEN'S WASHINGTON

JOE BIDEN'S THIS-IS-NOT-NORMAL SPEECH ON THE RISING DANGER OF MAGA TRUMPISTS

The President calls out Trump and his Republicans, and they see red.

By Susan B. Glasser

September 02, 2022

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NBC NEWS

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2024 ELECTION

Kamala Harris calls Trump a 'fascist' as she argues he's 'dangerous' and unfit for office

At a town hall with undecided voters, the vice president said she agrees with Donald Trump's former chief of staff's claim that Trump is a fascist.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h

my little brother challenged my perspective this morning with some heterodox thinking. why AM i hitting myself. why AM i hitting myself

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h

if your perspective is being challenged by the rantings and ravings of bari weiss then you might just be fucking stupid i’m sorry you had to find out this way

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 12h

There are too many rich white people who've had no challenges in life working in media...is a thought I had when one of them was saying recently they appreciate how Bari Weiss challenges their perspective. Babe, most folks don't need that, it doesn't make you open-minded and intellectually curious.

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Tuesday Badell @americanoonline.com · May 15

it's all "AI this" and "AI that"

but never "Ey I got you a pizza"

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22h

smol airplane in front of moon!

goodnight.

no words of encouragement, im spent and have a long day tomorrow.

love your allies, be vengeful towards your enemies ❤️

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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Jared Johnson is taking it one day at a time @jaredparker.bsky.social · 1d

ah shoot

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

as I tried to explain to corey robin, the Nazis were incompetent boobs.

not that that's much comfort to all the people they murdered.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also important to flood social media with this jury nullification toolkit so that potential jurors (You?) read it before they become actual jurors.

beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d

as a child I was led to believe I'd hear a lot more about Rice-a-Roni after moving to the San Francisco area

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 1d

METAL FROM THE '00s: I am in a cage, a cage of girl feelings

METAL FROM THE '80s: a pharaoh has cursed you, your shit is fucked now

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah what’s remarkable about Trump’s tariffs is that he’s both implementing them by executive fiat and then spending them by executive fiat, both of which are profoundly, extremely, couldn’t-be-more unconstitutional

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 1d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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Ryan D Anderson @itsryandanderson.bsky.social · Nov 19

You working out there?

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 1d

The John Henry hypercard stack is back. Enjoy. jonuleis.com/jh/ (big big h/t to our hero Jon Uleis)

TMBG John Henry HyperCard Sampler

They Might Be Giants has just completed a new album, John Henry, which will be in the stores this August, but you don't have to wait until then to experience the twenty new songs (interpretive snippet...

jonuleis.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about Weiss' hypocrisy when it came to @elivalley.bsky.social back in 2019. I think it really says a lot about how little integrity she has. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Not all cases of campus censorship are created equal, apparently.
With so much going on right now in the world, you would think that there'd be less focus on a handful of college students at one campus or another protesting a speaker.
At very least, you might expect that instances of conservatives shutting down progressive speakers would be discussed with the same regularity as those about liberals.
Instead, readers are treated to a full-on case of free speech hypocrisy.
One example of this involves progressive Jewish political cartoonist Eli Valley's recent trip to Stanford University.
Days before his scheduled appearance, the Stanford College Republicans posted flyers around campus containing some of Valley's work alongside clippings from Der Stürmer, a Nazi-era German newspaper known for publishing vicious anti-Semitic propaganda. The group acknowledged that it did this in retaliation because posters for one of their events were covered up by posters of the group sponsoring Valley's appearance.
The groups bringing Valley to campus, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, took some of the blame for the backlash. In an op-ed for The Stanford Daily, the groups apologized for including Valley's work, which is meant to be a grotesque and provocative political criticism, without the proper context. In response, The Stanford Daily published an opposing op-ed comparing Valley's work to the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels, writing, "To apologize for the flyers but insist on continuing with the event is equal parts absurd and appalling."

This seemed like precisely the kind of campus controversy that would grab the attention of Weiss, Stephens, and the rest of conservative media: Here was a student group trying to intimidate a speaker out of appearing on campus as scheduled. On the principles of free speech and academic freedom, taking a stand for Valley seemed to be the obvious call. Instead, Weiss praised the article calling for Valley's cancellation on Twitter, thanking its author.
"Bari Weiss's attempt to get me de-platformed at Stanford, and her smear that my celebration of non-Zionist Jewish culture, politics, and art is tantamount to Nazism, should put an end to the myth that she is interested in a free exchange of ideas," Valley said in a Twitter direct message.
"She is interested [in] silencing the Left and in mainstreaming far-right ideology."
Valley's view of Weiss is in line with her own history of activism and protest against pro-Palestinian Columbia University professors during her time at the school. Far from a proponent of across-the-board freedom of expression, she and the Times' other columnists have been extremely selective about which stories get heard.
The idea that no-platforming and other efforts to control campus speech are tactics carried out primarily by students on the left is almost undoubtedly the result of outlets like the Times' opinion section giving such incidents excessive amounts of coverage -- while essentially ignoring the many examples of conservatives trying to shut out speech they don't like. You're unlikely to read Bret Stephens' take on the efforts of conservative students to use the court system to cancel a panel discussion about Palestinian rights at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. David Brooks isn't likely to weigh

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