The most significant unwritten law in America is that calling someone racist is worse than any racism.

I think of that when BOAN defenders slither into my mentions.

(Yes, they are on Bluesky. Some of BOAN’s biggest defenders are big city liberals ”without a racist bone, black, white, purple, etc”)

It brought on violence, gave the Klan mainstream cachet and has stolen laurels from dozens of earlier pioneers (who, coincidentally, were also not pushing white nationalist talking points).

It's been a festering pustule for so long that people are afraid to excise it. I'm not afraid.

I don't expect moral perfection from either films or filmmakers. But BIRTH OF A NATION is a singularly evil film that has hidden behind claims of artistic innovation-- which Thomas Dixon (the novel's author) admitted were constructed to get the film before white Northern audiences. It's a trap!

But, again, they are trying to muddy the waters by putting A KKK RECRUITMENT FILM in the same category as, say, a silent movie with an offensive joke.

This all-or-nothing approach is essentially taking all of cinema hostage to protect, say it with me, A KKK RECRUITMENT FILM!

DUCK SOUP was thought lost for decades and historians surmised that Ollie had a small role, given his parts in films released immediately after. So, it was quite a surprise when it turned out that DUCK SOUP was a true Laurel & Hardy picture.

I used to literally livetweet Apple announcements. At this point, there’s nothing that makes me say “oooh” anymore and I love gadgets. I absolutely love them.

The main thing I want is a gadget that does what I want it to do for 15 years.

I guess I had over a thousand different people all telling me the same thing and only one telling me different.

So I gathered all of the responses together and ran some statistical analysis and discovered that the most likely answer was "the car is broken, replace it".

4/

But then a different man on the street, who also knows nothing about cars, said "you don't have any chance to fix it, get a new car".

I figured I should broaden my search so I asked a Facebook group for "people who aren't mechanics" and they all said, in different words, how broken the car is.

3/

I figured I should get another option and asked the neighbour on the other side who said "it's fucked, mate, ditch it and get a new car".

I then asked the guy opposite and he said, as a mechanic, it's a quick, 5 minute fix, and he'd do it for free.

2/

I'm also really done with being accused of not writing my own words because I use en dashes. En dashes and em dashes have been around since looooooong before LLMs and some of us like to punctuate properly! They're not some 'gotcha' that we didn't type the words, I did!

I very much hesitate to cook a recipe posted after 2020-2022 unless I am familiar with the creator, which stinks for new cooks.

We don’t need AI, we have Chef John. He can teach you everything