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Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding… more

Tom Stoppard
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The NFL once again bringing over some real Southampton vs. Wolverhampton-quality football to the UK
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Today’s post brought to you by “what should have been a 20 minute drive turned into an hour because at one intersection drivers kept blocking the box.”

by Tom Stoppard

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With all the standard qualifiers that cars are terrible and cities shouldn’t be built around them: yes, Atlanta traffic is bad because of population and development, but it’s not helped by the fact that this city produces seemingly some of the stupidest drivers out there.
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by Tom Stoppard

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If this is the future of literacy, my decision to study modern dramatic literature for my PhD will render me an expert in a truly arcane art form. People will be like “but why don’t things end up happily ever after for Mary Tyrone?”
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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3d
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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by Tom Stoppard

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Music critic Twitter, which helped me learn extensively about my craft (or perhaps lack thereof), was huge for me as a young writer. Then, through music critic Twitter, I met my wife!
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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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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Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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by Tom Stoppard

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Seeing so many "Great Books" professors either be silent or tacitly approving of the Trump admin really adds another prophecy point to Bolano's column. The passage where Father Urrutia immerses himself in the classics while the Pinochet coup happens in the background is our present.

by Tom Stoppard

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😂😂😂😂

by Tom Stoppard

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tbf, “Wi$h Li$t” and “Cancelled” do sound like soft lib-triggers
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by Tom Stoppard

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I get that the Bills are obviously a better team than the Pats, but teams in the Pats' situation do this all the time in the NFL against better teams, when they play well and hold their ground, only to in the 4th be like, "Ok that was fun, now you can win!"

by Tom Stoppard

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It was hilarious when the score went 20-17 to see the Pats as having a 69 percent win probability. The bailout fest that followed belied that line.
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UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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by Tom Stoppard

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I do reject, though, that TLOAS is some kind of MAGA pivot. Taylor doesn’t strike me as a chud, but rather someone who’s soft left on some social issues but is “fiscally conservative” in all other respects. Which, to be clear, is still conservative. But I thought we already knew this.
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by Tom Stoppard

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THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL post facto disproves the already hilarious idea that someone on Twitter one suggested; that Taylor is our contemporary Joni Mitchell
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by Tom Stoppard

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The new Taylor album’s best song, from what I’ve heard so far, sounds like something Bruno Mars would have written in 2016, and one song straight up cops the chord progression to “Say It Ain’t So.” Is this your queen, etc
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by Tom Stoppard

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(It did take a month to read because it is a Whole Damn Book, but, still...)

by Tom Stoppard

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It's a lot of things about modern living, which will stop even someone who loves reading, like myself, from reading as much as they could. Minimizing distraction helps. I got rid of my gaming console this summer and then immediately read Bolano's 2666.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 10d
Why aren't students reading whole books?
a) phones
b) covid
c) common core
d) other
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by Tom Stoppard

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I am excited to see the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's TRAIN DREAMS but, not gonna lie, having a hard time imagining how the film will adapt the final paragraph, my favorite in all of fiction.
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by Tom Stoppard

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THE MORNING SHOW went from being a more normie version of THE NEWSROOM to something fully unhinged and nonsensical, still here for it I fear

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Why aren't students reading whole books?
a) phones
b) covid
c) common core
d) other
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by Tom Stoppard

briceezell.bsky.social
It is funny how some people will say things like “no one deserved to win that game” but then also get mad ties exist

by Tom Stoppard

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And, of course, two of these guys were linked with Spurs. What we wouldn’t give to have Paz in the mix right now.
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The Transfer Flow @thetransferflow.bsky.social · 11d
It's some guys you'd expect (Paz, Olise), and others you wouldn't (a former Arsenal flop?)

www.thetransferflow.com/p/5-very-fun...
5 very fun attackers off to hot starts this season
Including a couple we can't believe didn't get sold during the transfer window.
www.thetransferflow.com
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by Tom Stoppard

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Reported. You are a submental piece of trash if you exploit the dead like this.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11d
Please report this fucking AI slop. Goddamnit. www.amazon.com/KALEB-HORTON...
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Please report this fucking AI slop. Goddamnit. www.amazon.com/KALEB-HORTON...
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Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”
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It's some guys you'd expect (Paz, Olise), and others you wouldn't (a former Arsenal flop?)

www.thetransferflow.com/p/5-very-fun...
5 very fun attackers off to hot starts this season
Including a couple we can't believe didn't get sold during the transfer window.
www.thetransferflow.com
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by Tom Stoppard

briceezell.bsky.social
Watching the Democrats once again talk about needing to sell out core social values, I’m reminded of this amazing moment from the E1 Joe Biden saga. “you’ve performed liminal spaces in bodies, jack”

by Tom Stoppard

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all to say: I too would reject an allegiance to “analytic philosophy” as a category of devotion, but tbh I’m not sure much any more how widely that’s held except as a matter of style

by Tom Stoppard

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coincidentally, this piece published in Jacobin speaks to how blanketed critiques of analytic philosophy’s (putative) politics (or lack thereof) gloss over a much more complex political reality jacobin.com/2025/09/anal...
Is Analytic Philosophy a Class Ideology?
Christoph Schuringa insists that analytic philosophy serves as an ideological fig leaf for liberal capitalism. But his polemic distorts the discipline’s history and fails to draw persuasive links betw...
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