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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2h

_memento amoris_ (or _memento amorem_) would be fine if one person is being addressed; if it's more than one person, then it'd be _mementote amoris_.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 9h

academics being asked to attend inane seminars to train students in ai "literacy" whilst chat gpt is introducing sexting

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 4h

But not if you have something more important to do, like organize your sock drawer or clip your toenails.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 4h

but not enough to make the movie work. We’re clearly meant to find lesbians & the disabled as Scary & Evil. The Latin in the magic spell is about as doggy as you’d expect in movie where cats are demonized.
Lighting & sound were strangely subprofessional. Weird enough to watch once, maybe.

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Poster for THE SENTINEL, which gives away the plot of the movie, such as it is.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 4h

Shocktober 14: THE SENTINEL (1977). The greatest horror in this film is the misuse of a numerous cast of great actors from several generations whose efforts are wholly wasted here. There were some genuinely creepy moments, as in the infernal birthday party of Mortimer the cat

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Evil but charming Mortimer, cat from Hell, wearing a party hate and staring daggers at the director who is responsible for his discomfort and ours.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 9h

It is! Thanks. I'm interested as a scholar of language (and need more data to satisfy that interest) and as a guy writing something set in the mid-1980s (for whom "before 1989" is probably good enough).

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 1d

"Give a moron authority and after a while he forgets he's a moron."
—Donald Westlake/"Richard Stark"

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 1d

Shocktober 13: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956). It’s not quite the masterpiece that the 1978 remake is but I like to rewatch the original for McCarthy’s performance, and Winters’. Plus if you’re going to make a movie about mindless conformism, the ideal setting is America in the 1950s. Or now.

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David 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dskiwalker5750.bsky.social · 2d

"Mainstream news outlets appear uncomfortable wrestling with the degree to which pro-Trump media figures practice propaganda undertaken in bad faith toward expressly instrumental ends. We need them to get past that."

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.substack.com

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 2d

imagine if you could somehow sneak someone into the White House dressed up as the Devil to scare the shit out of our boy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Artist Dean Ellis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ellis_... died on this day, so here's some of his 1973/1974 cover art.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

Shocktober 12: HEART EYES (2025). Looked like it was going to be a light-hearted slasher parody of romcoms; instead it turned out to be a light-hearted romcom parody of slasher films.

It might've been a better movie if the central couple didn't fall in love with each other, but it is what it is.

James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

Nutty!

James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

It keeps slippin' into the future, that's all I know.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

Me, too: I'm fairly sure I never heard the term until the 21st Century. But I wasn't into comics in the 80s/90s, so I'm not the best witness for this.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

We used to go there when my kids were kids so that they could go on rides at the amusement park. But as a vast temple of Mammon, it's a weird and disconcerting place.

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Melinda M. Snodgrass @melindas.bsky.social · 2d

I have new info for my talk on AI at the ABA conference in San Jose. Bad weather in Phoenix had everything delayed, but I had a 4 hour layover so this was no big deal, but airline AI kept trying to rebook me on multiple flights that would have had me arriving in San Jose at midnight,

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

ETA: The earliest attestation for _retcon_ in the tyrant OED is 1989, which is probably close enough. But I'd be happier if I could find something earlier.

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

If you know the word _retcon_, how long have you known it? Was it already in circulation in the 1980s? (I'm writing a historical fantasy set in that now-distant period and I want to get the details right.)

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

11b it should be, I guess. My kingdom for an edit button.

James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 2d

Synchronicity can happen at any time: more wig terror (from Cris Shapan on Reddit). (I guess this is Shocktober 10b.)

A fake ad from the Deluxe-Fuxley Corporation for Glam Star Wigs from Fuxley Faux Tresses: "Guaranteed to Frighten Any Record Company Executive". The images feature various glam rockers with Photoshopped wigs.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 2d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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