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Whether a book makes sense or not has almost nothing to do with its merit as a work of literature. I mean "makes sense" here to refer to both the plot and individual sentences.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 1d

In related news, Into the Woods is an excellent musical. Truly one of my favorites

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 1d

Getting older seems to involve crying at every piece of media that involves parenthood. I don't even have children and yet here we are

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 1d

Getting older seems to involve crying at every piece of media that involves parenthood. I don't even have children and yet here we are

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Rousshoe 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rousshoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 1d

Watched Portrait of a Lady on Fire again today. That really is a perfect movie

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 2d

"O Menander and Life! Which of you took the other as your model?"

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 2d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 2d

The type of criticism you are talking about may be annoying, but I fail to see how the average Democrat voter taking this warning more seriously would have impacted anything. Unless you are suggesting they should have been assassinating Trump appointees once Biden took power.

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 2d

What exactly should the average person have done when warned about the dangers of a GOP controlled court other than vote differently in 2016? I say other than that because I expect everyone in this thread who could at the time voted Democrat anyway.

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

Annoying to see so many psych studies on political extremism use a political scale that runs from "very conservative to very liberal". Those at the ends of the actual political spectrum are neither conservative nor liberal. The leftward extreme of politics hasn't been liberal since the 1840s.

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 3d

It felt a bit too based on nostalgia for the militancy of the 60s and 70s to fully meet the present moment, but I liked it a lot. PTA still knows how to film a beautiful piece of scenery.

Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 4d

I love the Nobel peace prize. It's a great way to draw attention to the various war criminals, right wing ideologues, and ice chewing psychos of the world. Sure they occasionally make a mistake and give it to someone promoting peace, but nobody is perfect.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 4d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly! The man in black who played his guitar like it was a rifle, he was insanely cool

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 4d

scene from Back to the Future II with Biff knocked out on the ground, Marty saying "it's okay. I know CPR.", and a bystander asking "what's CPR?"

edited image from Back to the Future II of Marty holding the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 5d

Sure I haven't published a novel yet, but I think they should give me the Nobel prize for literature anyway.

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · May 18

Boycotting anything that could give JK Rowling money is the right thing to do on principle, but we should probably deal with the fact that materially it does nothing. If she never made another dollar she could still donate well over a million a year the rest of her life and die wealthier than God.

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to say as of this moment. She was a billionaire before giving 200 million away to various causes a few years ago. She might be back over that threshold again by now or might not be. Either way she has enough money to find this kind of thing indefinitely.

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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · 6d

I'm lucky to come from a family of heretics. My mother is a trouble maker in her Bible study group. I was raised deeply religious, but still told to be skeptical of anything someone told me about religion that didn't make sense, including anything said by my own family members.