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Dogs, philosophy, books, house music, opera, musicals, theater, gym, (there's a conclusion to be drawn), horror, a few other things ND, OSU, now teach at a liberal arts school Hoosier living in southernmost California Etiam si omnes ego non

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is the one and only good thing that George W Bush did as president. It has saved millions of lives at very little cost. Why pause it—for a period long enough to cause major damage and death? Because you want (those) people to die.

Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide

Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

www.nytimes.com

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 3h

Granted, Mr Gibson’s catechesis may have been different, but I think we’re only allowed the one Jesus.

Page Six @pagesix.com · 4h

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 4h

I’ll be there cheering on your excellence with the rest of the fans.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t teach Tuesdays, so that’s perfect for me!

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 4h

Tell me where and when and I’m there with pompoms.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 5h

I would say that grabbing people off the streets and transporting them into slavery, corruption on an unimaginable scale, and destroying the rights of speech and assembly are more evil.

But forbidding Congress to appropriate funds and letting the president raise unlimited taxes is more fundamental.

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 7h

What does any of that have to do with language acquisition, Professor Pinker?

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 7h

Old billionaires can’t resist her charms.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 7h

People think the stroke Phineas–Gaged Fetterman.
There’s no actual evidence Gage’s personality changed, at all.
There’s even less, somehow, that Fetterman’s did.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 8h

Not even on The Thick Of It

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 8h

I think we started 2, but we abandoned the mess.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 9h

“wandered” but they also wondered some things

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 9h

Well, hello, Mr Damon.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 9h

Reminds me of the people behind us at Angels In America (Pt I) who just wondered in unaware of the play.

Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 9h

Frankly, I think Beckett would find this hilarious.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 12h

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

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 9h

Frankly, I think Beckett would find this hilarious.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 12h

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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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 11h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 11h

I like a cocktail wiener.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 11h

There’s something morbidly fascinating in Ngo‘s all-consuming hunger for approval from people who hate every aspect of his identity and him as an individual.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h

Real quandary for Rubio: how do you pull your boss out of a meeting with Andy Ngo and other esteemed pro-fascist personages?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio whispers in the ear of President Donald Trump after handing him a note about a Middle East deal saying "Very close. We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first"

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 12h

For purely historical reasons—not a KPD fan—I wish people wouldn’t have landed on “antifa.”

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 15h

Right, but what if there's a nosy Belgian aboard?

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 15h

Does that work if it's not a redeye?

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 15h

I like Mike Johnson's idea that 82–year–old Lee Greenwood would be a good pick for the Super Bowl Halftime show, but I think he's really missing out: Frankie Valli is still touring at a spry 91.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18h

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 18h

His son's internet use.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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