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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 12h

Cure (1997)

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 23h

This is in fact the plot of One Battle After Another

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Fun bit of trivia this morning

*LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS
*LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 1d

exhibit A, the major act to have come round my block in recent years, like, global-size level of recognition, doesn't have a bio that read like she's Paul Marshall's kid

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 2d

*men in skulls & bones adorned hats kidnap people off the streets to ship them off to unknown extraterritorial jurisdictions*

me, a savant: wow, be careful folks, this is a slow drip of measures to test the judiciary's willingness to give unlimited deference to the executive

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 2d

It's grimly funny to read these 'subtle slow drip maneuvering' theories, when the defeated candidate had his supporters march on the seat of government, the richest man in the world made nazi salutes at investiture, and they summoned the higher officers of the Department of War for a dressing down

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2d

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 2d

that's what tree-planting carbon offset scam companies intermediaries are for amirite

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

bottom right capitalising the R is most revealing here

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

very valid

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

Only fellow Minnie Riperton obsessives will appreciate this, but PTA sure does leave featuring the shadow of his mother in law. First, the arresting appearance of Maya in Licorice Pizza and now OBAA has a few Leo lines that make you go "you've had a couple of beers with Mr Rudolph about this, huh?"

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

I wanted to go there but my count gave me Tusk

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

that's actually a fair point

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

yes, I'm on a "people who say we need to have unfettered competition in all things don't seem to enjoy it when they're not winning the full pot" sort of line, which is admittedly a bit trite but also imo worth saying outloud now and then given how their normative claims are repeated at face value

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

yea I'm not a moron, I can see descriptively that this is what's happening. It's still fine to say they are full of shit when they make normative cases about lowering of standards or access costs (perhaps the hiring practices of people like Marc Rowan are why the good is exorbitantly priced tbw)

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

whether the institutions in question should have strategically protected that is not for me to say, I am just saying that when the countermove is presented as a principled one, I don't buy it one second

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

sure. The quoted example is Penn though, where I think the dynamics in the OP apply. I honestly don't think all the campus culture schmulture stuff would register if the right segments still had complete full right of way on access

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

or maybe even more likely do with it what it did with media, flex financial muscle to fund a 180° competing silo

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

agreed there

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

the 'the solution is to lower the temperature on how much a particular degree is worth in the job market' is all fine and good, but that rule was kind of established by the people complaining

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

my point is more that there were a lot of inequities in there before that the constituencies in question didn't care much about because they were always on the winning side of them

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

yes, as discussed multiple times, despite all the strong talk, none of these folks are signing up their own little Kendall to go to University of Austin

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

It's also true I think that the broad popularity of the 'universities bad' theme is down to it being the one salient issue where the insane billionaires are in tune with the 2-10% upper burghers (who decide editorial trends) who also hate that their own failsons are not shoo-ins any more

Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 4d

the right hates universities not when they behave badly, but when they behave well (permit protest, recruit diversely, reject clownish failson applicants)

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 5d

our two world class exporters: OF and online betting

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 5d

it *is* very funny that the Conservatives' were presented with the type of choice which their most illustrious leader has a world historical famous quote warning people against, and then dove headfirst regardless

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 5d

"avocado toast discourse by other means" in some aspects, innit?

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