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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 13h

Don't discount the effect of changes in prose pacing. 19th Century novels typically use much longer and more complicated sentences.

"Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility" went down easy, but starting Emma was like driving into a wall.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 13h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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jin @ghangaji.bsky.social · 16d

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

tweet that reads:
Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 13h

Nerve gas, yes.

Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 2d

As a statistician: the premise of this particular critique is absolutely wrong, the NYT's sampling method is not inherently biased.

Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 2d

The best solution I ever saw to the problem of the ending of Shrew was from director Arin Arbus. In an early scene, Katherine stomped on Petruchio's hand, hard, and he went through the rest of the play in a bloody bandage. Then her offer at the end read as admission, not submission.

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 3d

I was there too!

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 3d

New York Shakespeare Festival

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 3d

Lucy & Ethel #NYCC

Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 3d

Thor & Loki, brothers in arms #NYCC

Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 3d

The world may be on fire, but this is the golden age of cosplay #NYCC

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 3d

The world may be on fire, but this is the golden age of cosplay #NYCC

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 3d

I understand how that might motivate individuals, but that doesn't explain why someone thought that it would bring *military* or *political* advantage.

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 4d

Biometric programmer here: this article is ridiculous. Biometric data is not the same thing as PII, even if the whole database were stolen it has no value. It's less worrisome than an ordinary photo ID.

Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 4d

☝🏻 No posts, & this is their one reply to anything? Obvious troll.

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 4d

I have not seen a single good answer to "Why take hostages at all, and without asking a ransom?"

It looks like Hamas wagered the lives of the Gazans that Hezbollah, the West Bank, and Iran would all attack Israel in solidarity. How was the taking of Hostages supposed to advance that goal?

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 4d

Are "reading series" only a thing outside of NYC? The ones I know (Red Bull and CSC) seem to be extras/fundraisers between full productions.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 5d

That's how they're meant to be used. They're not intended to commit direct bodily harm.

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 5d

Both problems are important.

Against a trained opponent you are more likely to lose the battle; against an untrained opponent you are more likely to lose your life.

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 5d

I've been saying for years that 2nd Amendment absolutists really do believe that the sacrifice of innocents is necessary to keep the world from collapsing; this was also the view of the ancient Aztecs and Carthaginians, both of whom practiced ritual human sacrifice.

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5d

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 6d

[citation needed]

Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 6d

There are no atheists at Dolly Parton's bedside

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 7d

Winner-take-all elections *always* decay into a two party system, where one is rewarded by being either indistinguishable or extreme. And, of course, gerrymandering.

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