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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 38m

god bless mad magazine. a three-hour historical stanley kubrick epic? you better believe we're going to parody it in our magazine for children

WMDave @wmdave.bsky.social · 45m

my 1st exposure to this movie was in Sept 1976

from Mad Magazine issue #185, "Borey Lyndon (Kubrick-a-Brack Dept);" a Barry Lyndon (Mort Drucker?) parody with one character holding another in a headlock with the following text balloons:
A: I really detest you, Borey Lyndon!
B: Why...?
A: Because I'm supposed to be 18, and you 45! And you look YOUNGER than I do!
C: How gauche! Stop that fighting this minute! You want to wake up the audience?!?

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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 8d

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
The shadows lengthen

In Carcosa.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 38m

Was so happy to see this piece in my paper.

Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI, I wrote this about why we need humanities majors now, more than ever, and how they succeed.

Maybe even pass it on to students whose One Relative at the Thanksgiving table condescendingly asks "what are you going to do with THAT degree?" Here are some talking points—and data!—to refute them.

Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 3d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 2h

Happy raid on Harper's ferry day!!!

I think a good way to deal with current politics is to simply ask oneself, what would John brown do?

Resurrect John brown and give him a battlemech

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 2h

Yes. Education is not just knowledge.

Also, college is way too expensive, largely because Reagan.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 2h

As an enby who named myself Rabbit (in both English and Hebrew)…

Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 3h

Every trans woman names herself after some extremely intellectual philosophical, literary, or theological reference

Every trans man names himself after a fandom character or a random object around the house

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 2h

me naming myself fairy king but in a girly lesbian way: yeah this checks out

Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 3h

Every trans woman names herself after some extremely intellectual philosophical, literary, or theological reference

Every trans man names himself after a fandom character or a random object around the house

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4h

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 4h

I'm just saying it's weird that the only common character between the MCU and the DCU is hitler

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, in his story she mentions she has a wife before he asks if she’s gay, but also ya basically, I guess.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 4h

Trans rights are nice weather.

WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 1d

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 1d

/ THIS STICKER IS NOW AVAILABLE merch.weatherishappening.com
/ SELLING IT BELOW THE ACTUAL COST OF THE STICKER/SHIPPING
/ BUT THERE IS A RULE:
/ THE RULE IS, IF U HAVE XTRA $$$, U *MUST DONATE* 2 1 OF THE TRANS ORGANIZATIONS LINKED 2 IN THE LISTING
/ IF U DONT HAV XTRA $$$ PLS DONT WORRY ABOUT THAT

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, this guy sucks.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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damned316 🎃 @dxmnkd316.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder that Trump & Musk have committed an atrocity, the effect of which won’t be seen for months.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

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tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · 1d

it's so tidy that every single problem in american society up to and including car dependence is directly traceable to racism. monocausal-ass dystopia.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4h

Imma say it again. Putting lawmakers — GOP or Dem — in front of a mic right now to talk about the shutdown is actively making your listeners dumber.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 4h

I’m so tired of this dance.

MANY Republicans: *do a Nazi thing*

Normal people: So you’re Nazis, we can all clearly see that now, right?

MR: But ARE we? What if Hitler stands for Handsome Intelligent Talented Loving Ethical Rascals, ever think of THAT, lib? Tee hee!

Media: Why are Dems the worst?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4h

‘Avigdor Arikha became the archivist of the everyday: not, it seems, because he sought out the ordinary but because each day invited his urgent attention. He spoke about “lying in ambush” until a subject asserted itself.’

Gaby Wood on the Romanian-born artist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Gaby Wood · At the Fine Art Society: Avigdor Arikha’s Prints

Avigdor Arikha became the archivist of the everyday: not, it seems, because he sought out the ordinary but because each...

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 4h

I love how he plays on their mascot the Lion here:

“Are we cowardly Lions who cower in front of a false prophet or in the face of a blustering, empty wizard in Washington who is trying to destroy our autonomous universities?“

Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 14h

Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong:

www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Columbia must now show courage and empathy

Dear Columbia leaders,

www.columbiaspectator.com

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 13h

this is the work people. this is why we do what we do

JLoHayLo @jlohaylo.bsky.social · 13h

To be fair you did convince me (straight early 40s dad) that it was ok to show thigh with my workout shorts

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 6h

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...