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henry david thoreau's strongest soldier // adaptive difficulty pod
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
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UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
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February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
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Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.
February 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.
On this ep: how badly the Narnia movie wanted to be Harry Potter, how the movie disconnects from the war reality Lewis was writing in, how the movie gives Lewis' portrayal of women's roles short shrift, and whether the GameCube game is a secret classic (probs not!)
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January 27, 2026 at 6:36 PM
On this ep: how badly the Narnia movie wanted to be Harry Potter, how the movie disconnects from the war reality Lewis was writing in, how the movie gives Lewis' portrayal of women's roles short shrift, and whether the GameCube game is a secret classic (probs not!)
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Back for the November No Kings protest, I took an Abolish ICE sign and didn't think twice that what I was bringing was particularly radical or extreme. They do the bad things we're opposing! It just didn't cross my mind.
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Back for the November No Kings protest, I took an Abolish ICE sign and didn't think twice that what I was bringing was particularly radical or extreme. They do the bad things we're opposing! It just didn't cross my mind.
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What ICE needs is more training. (extremely close to mic voice) potty training
January 13, 2026 at 5:35 AM
What ICE needs is more training. (extremely close to mic voice) potty training
The new ep of Adaptive Difficulty finally tackles that infamous white whale of both literature and film:
Tom & Jerry and the Wizard of Oz
A movie which, per its blank Rotten Tomatoes score, we now have the first published review of.
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Tom & Jerry and the Wizard of Oz
A movie which, per its blank Rotten Tomatoes score, we now have the first published review of.
open.spotify.com/episode/4O8l...
Spotify – Web Player
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January 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The new ep of Adaptive Difficulty finally tackles that infamous white whale of both literature and film:
Tom & Jerry and the Wizard of Oz
A movie which, per its blank Rotten Tomatoes score, we now have the first published review of.
open.spotify.com/episode/4O8l...
Tom & Jerry and the Wizard of Oz
A movie which, per its blank Rotten Tomatoes score, we now have the first published review of.
open.spotify.com/episode/4O8l...
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For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
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"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
January 7, 2026 at 10:24 PM
"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
Been thinking recently how people are so proud/quick to discuss how they realize a protagonist is a bad person and not a good example or w/e, but this obfuscates the fact that these "bad protagonists" are generally rooted in something the creator finds cool, admirable, or alluring.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Been thinking recently how people are so proud/quick to discuss how they realize a protagonist is a bad person and not a good example or w/e, but this obfuscates the fact that these "bad protagonists" are generally rooted in something the creator finds cool, admirable, or alluring.
New pod episode!
As we do every new year (2 for 2!) we soldier on to the next Star Wars novelization, The Empire Strikes Back!
Is there any point to making this book at all? Do probe droids have feelings? And remember: Blue Yoda isn't real, he can't hurt you.
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As we do every new year (2 for 2!) we soldier on to the next Star Wars novelization, The Empire Strikes Back!
Is there any point to making this book at all? Do probe droids have feelings? And remember: Blue Yoda isn't real, he can't hurt you.
open.spotify.com/episode/1S74...
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
New pod episode!
As we do every new year (2 for 2!) we soldier on to the next Star Wars novelization, The Empire Strikes Back!
Is there any point to making this book at all? Do probe droids have feelings? And remember: Blue Yoda isn't real, he can't hurt you.
open.spotify.com/episode/1S74...
As we do every new year (2 for 2!) we soldier on to the next Star Wars novelization, The Empire Strikes Back!
Is there any point to making this book at all? Do probe droids have feelings? And remember: Blue Yoda isn't real, he can't hurt you.
open.spotify.com/episode/1S74...
It doesn't bother me when people just don't like them but it's astounding that people still think it's interesting to mention Dances With Wolves / no cultural impact. They are doing it in droves under this post that's obviously bored with it as if they are going to suddenly convince someone!
i don’t think everyone needs to like every film but the way people refuse to even take the avatar series seriously in any capacity feels so performative in a way no other series has ever been treated, very odd to me
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It doesn't bother me when people just don't like them but it's astounding that people still think it's interesting to mention Dances With Wolves / no cultural impact. They are doing it in droves under this post that's obviously bored with it as if they are going to suddenly convince someone!
New episode covering Pride and Prejudice, the novel and the 2005 film adaptation celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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Pride and Prejudice (2005)
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November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New episode covering Pride and Prejudice, the novel and the 2005 film adaptation celebrating its 20th anniversary.
open.spotify.com/episode/463x...
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To eat up some holiday travel, may I recommend my podcast: Adaptive Difficulty
With eps on Little Women, Clue, The Green Knight, and soon Pride and Prejudice, we have a shocking amount of autumnal and hibernal content across our 16 episodes!
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With eps on Little Women, Clue, The Green Knight, and soon Pride and Prejudice, we have a shocking amount of autumnal and hibernal content across our 16 episodes!
open.spotify.com/show/35vy6Jk...
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
To eat up some holiday travel, may I recommend my podcast: Adaptive Difficulty
With eps on Little Women, Clue, The Green Knight, and soon Pride and Prejudice, we have a shocking amount of autumnal and hibernal content across our 16 episodes!
open.spotify.com/show/35vy6Jk...
With eps on Little Women, Clue, The Green Knight, and soon Pride and Prejudice, we have a shocking amount of autumnal and hibernal content across our 16 episodes!
open.spotify.com/show/35vy6Jk...
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"they didn't release the good emails from the sex criminal the president was friends with"
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt accused the Democrats of having “selectively leaked emails” to “create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.” https://to.pbs.org/3LC1dxY
WATCH LIVE: White House holds briefing as newly released Epstein emails reference Trump
Epstein wrote in a 2011 email Trump had "spent hours" at Epstein's house with a victim of sex trafficking and said in a separate message years later Trump "knew about the girls."
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November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"they didn't release the good emails from the sex criminal the president was friends with"
New episode of Adaptive Difficulty podcast, about 2023's Mario movie! We discuss our Nintendo nostalgia, the perils of having a plot without a story, and apologies we may owe A Minecraft Movie.
spotify.link/jCg3RYieJXb
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New episode of Adaptive Difficulty podcast, about 2023's Mario movie! We discuss our Nintendo nostalgia, the perils of having a plot without a story, and apologies we may owe A Minecraft Movie.
spotify.link/jCg3RYieJXb
spotify.link/jCg3RYieJXb
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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
New episode of Adaptive Difficulty - No Country for Old Men!
We talk the book, the movie, and the 80s screenplay (what we know of it)
Plus we determine who Chigurh would have voted for*
*between Adams and Jefferson
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We talk the book, the movie, and the 80s screenplay (what we know of it)
Plus we determine who Chigurh would have voted for*
*between Adams and Jefferson
open.spotify.com/episode/4GMD...
No Country for Old Men
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September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New episode of Adaptive Difficulty - No Country for Old Men!
We talk the book, the movie, and the 80s screenplay (what we know of it)
Plus we determine who Chigurh would have voted for*
*between Adams and Jefferson
open.spotify.com/episode/4GMD...
We talk the book, the movie, and the 80s screenplay (what we know of it)
Plus we determine who Chigurh would have voted for*
*between Adams and Jefferson
open.spotify.com/episode/4GMD...
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Canceling a streaming service?
How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!
How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.
I have the links
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ALT: an animated image with the words did you say free stuff
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September 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Canceling a streaming service?
How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!
How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!
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When the Olive Garden asks me if I’m done with my never ending pasta bowl
September 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
When the Olive Garden asks me if I’m done with my never ending pasta bowl
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
Pundits are missing that past shutdown fights there's been a general consensus that the basic functions of the govt operating are better than not, regardless of the ruling party.
Don't a lot (most?) liberals want the government shut down on the merits of ceasing it from functioning fully right now?
Don't a lot (most?) liberals want the government shut down on the merits of ceasing it from functioning fully right now?
September 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pundits are missing that past shutdown fights there's been a general consensus that the basic functions of the govt operating are better than not, regardless of the ruling party.
Don't a lot (most?) liberals want the government shut down on the merits of ceasing it from functioning fully right now?
Don't a lot (most?) liberals want the government shut down on the merits of ceasing it from functioning fully right now?
My podcast has a new episode about the book/movie HOLES, a very fun, surprisingly complicated story that's maybe also the Coen Bros. for kids?
Holes (2003)
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August 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My podcast has a new episode about the book/movie HOLES, a very fun, surprisingly complicated story that's maybe also the Coen Bros. for kids?
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the only king I'll acknowledge
February 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
the only king I'll acknowledge