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Update: book critics and editors have read Battle Royale (the book)

www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/m...
Collins’s fiction inevitably echoes other dystopian literature in which states subject their citizens to novel forms of oppression, like George Orwell’s “1984” or Margaret Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale.” Even more pronounced are the similarities between “The Hunger Games” and “Battle Royale,” a Japanese novel published in 1999. Each book involves young people selected at random and pitted against one another in a game of survival staged by tyrannical authorities. The parallels are striking enough that Collins’s work has been savaged on the blogosphere as a baldfaced ripoff. The authors share an interest in the mechanisms of state control, but their agendas clearly diverge. “Battle Royale” is a more deliberate study of adolescence, its coming-of-age savageries and posturings. “You’ve become quite a stud,” a dying girl tells the classmate who cradles her in his arms. When it was published, “Battle Royale” played into Japan’s fears about a rise in youth violence; Collins’s heroes are, if anything, models of responsibility. When I asked Collins if she had drawn from “Battle Royale,” she was unperturbed. “I had never heard of that book or that author until my book was turned in. At that point, it was mentioned to me, and I asked my editor if I should read it. He said: ‘No, I don’t want that world in your head. Just continue with what you’re doing.’ ” She has yet to read the book or to see the movie.
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Yes, it is the title and the country of origin that are the most alienating things about Battle Royale and not anything else
He wasn’t the only Five Nights at Freddy’s actor insulted by Tarantino. During the same podcast, the director said The Hunger Games series “ripped off” the Japanese novel Battle Royale. “I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every fucking thing she owns,” Tarantino stated. “They just ripped off the fucking book! Stupid book critics are not going to go watch a Japanese movie called Battle Royale, so the stupid book critics never called her out on it.” Josh Hutcherson, who starred as Peeta in THG, told Variety, “There are similar themes, for sure. But, you know, everyone borrows from everyone.” Hot tip for Quentin: do not go into any haunted pizzerias for the time being, especially if they have animatronics. Those robots have a tendency to seek revenge.
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Tarantino can have whatever opinions on actors he wants I guess but the collection of words "on an episode of the Bret Easton Ellis podcast, Tarantino said" is going to give me nightmares forever

www.vulture.com/article/matt...
And then he came for cult classic actors. In addition to insulting Paul Dano this week on a podcast, Quentin Tarantino also shared his distaste for beloved horror actor Matthew Lillard. On an episode of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino said he didn’t “care for” Lillard and Owen Wilson as actors, seemingly throwing in the Five Nights at Freddy’s star’s name in for no reason. Lillard
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Your organization should probably consider changing its name, Ryan!

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
After receiving a zero grade, out of a possible score of 25, on her essay, Ms. Fulnecky contacted Ryan Walters, a conservative educator and chief executive of the *Teacher Freedom Alliance*, according to a spokeswoman for the alliance, a group that works to limit the influence of teachers’ unions. “Samantha Fulnecky is an American hero,” Mr. Walters, who recently stepped down as the Oklahoma state superintendent of schools, said in a statement. He argued that any university employees who were involved in her bad grade should be fired.
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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This is a marked improvement over last year, when kid would routinely scream ROUND ROUND until I put on the Wheels on the Bus playlist. (We also spent kind of a lot of time adapting Wheels on the Bus into a lullaby as they sleepily did the hand motion for hours while also refusing to sleep.)
A screenshot of Apple Music Replay '24 Top Songs 1. Wheels on the Bus by Little Baby Bum Nursery Rhymes 2. Wheels on the Bus by Doggyland 3. Wheels on the Bus by Raffi 4. Wheels on the Bus by Dora the Explorer 5. Wheels on the Bus by Bebefinn & Pinkfong
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I was in the car by myself for 112 minutes this year
A screenshot from Apple Music Replay showing the top artists of the year (out of 298 total artists): 1. Caspar Babypants, 2,063 minutes 2. The Laurie Berkner Band, 1,233 minutes 3. Blue's Clues, 727 minutes 4. Sago Mini Friends, 467 minutes A continuation of the top artists list from the previous image. 5. Elmo, 316 minutes 6. Fraggle Rock, 265 minutes 7. Big Bird, 204 minutes 8. Snuffleupagus, 132 minutes A continuation of the top artists list from the previous image 9. Jules!, 115 minutes 10. Deerhunter, 112 minutes 11. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, 100 minutes 12. Bluey, 91 minutes
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
sarahannelloyd.com
Every time I reread my great-grandmother's memoir I can't help but wonder: Was Hilda her girlfriend?
On December 9, 1975, Bill left us. We would have celebrated our 56th anniversary on December 31st. A day without Bill seemed impossible - how to go on. Surrounded by loved ones and family helped. It was their loss too. Their concern and love gave me courage to face each day. It would take time. It is said that a door never shuts, but another one opens. Across the hall from me in the Plaza lives Hilda Howell, a resident from Downington, Pennsylvania. She didn't say anything, for she knew. She had lost her Ted. Her friendship since Bill's death has been a sustaining one. I needed her understanding and warmth. We have laughed and cried together, taken study courses, played bridge, and have taken many trips.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Someone needs to be censured over that acronym
As part of the "Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online," members of the House subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade will also consider the Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act (H.R. 1623), which would create a federal age verification for adult websites, and the App Store Accountability Act (H.R. 3149), which would require app stores to verify the ages of everyone who uses them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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lololol
hasanabi @hasanthehun what makes this funnier is that her outlet cbs news is currently trying to set up a debate with me ?! Quote Drop Site @DropSiteNews · Nov 24 Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate Show more
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Looks like they gave it up all together in the early 2000s-early 2010s but it's *back* and it's *silly*
Books Remember the Lusitania Two new books reexamine the disaster. By John Updike June 24, 2002 Amy Davidson Sorkin Remember Montana: The Supreme Court Won’t Reexamine Citizens United By Amy Davidson Sorkin June 25, 2012
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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This is so fucking goofy. The context of being used in an extremely pilloriable article about Louis C.K. makes it goofier, but I get the sense after poking around a bit that writers for the New Yorker deliberately avoid using words that could summon the umlaut.
Keen-eyed grammar fans may notice some changes in our pages—and in this newsletter. Last fall, David Remnick, the editor, suggested convening a group to talk about the magazine’s house style, to see if any rules might bear reëxamination. The group—comprising copy editors, current and former, and editors—met this past January and came up with a list of styles that might qualify for changes, and in a subsequent meeting the following month the director of copy and production and I came up with a limited list of proposals. It was decided that, while no one wanted to change some of the long-standing “quirky” styles (teen-ager, per cent, etc.), some of newer vintage could go. Along with a few other changes, “in-box” is now “inbox,” “Web site” is now “website,” “Internet” is now “internet,” and “cell phone” is now “cellphone” (though everyone acknowledges that the word “cell” in this context will soon disappear altogether). "reëxamination" is highlighted A screenshot of a 1950s headline in the New Yorker. Under an illuminated heading that says "The Theatre," the headline reads, "Reënter Mr. Dickens" Annals of Education What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. By Hua Hsu June 30, 2025 Annals of Science Do Proteins Hold the Key to the Past? New methods are allowing a group of scientists to reëxamine the world’s libraries and archives, in search of the hidden lives of authors. By Sam Knight November 19, 2018
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I'd actually love to see some deeper dives into rural coastal community responses to the Trump administration's priorities. Anecdotally, I go to the Long Beach, WA area a few times a year and the shift from abundant Trump signs to "we stand with immigrants" signs was ABRUPT
“They clearly are saying to themselves, ‘If we go to small, rural communities in Oregon and elsewhere, we have better prospects for our skulduggery,’” Wyden said of the Department of Homeland Security in an interview after the town hall. “You can see this community will not stand for that.” [image: a small crowd of people clapping around a seated teenager with long black hair, brown skin, and a white top]
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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No amount of hard work and dedication can make the helicopter go faster. The helicopter's speed is finite.

www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
“The evidence is becoming increasingly clear,” said state Rep. David Gomberg, a Democrat whose district includes Newport. “Somebody is considering basing a large detainment facility at the airport where the Coast Guard used to be.” The Trump administration has not confirmed plans for ICE in Newport or any other federal agency. In a statement, a Homeland Security spokesperson called the suggestion that potential Coast Guard rescue operations have been slowed by the helicopter’s move “an insult to the hard, heroic work the men and women of the Coast Guard put in every day.”
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
sarahannelloyd.com
But it's STATE OF THE ART! </s>
This work makes several key contributions to the field of ASD diagnosis and parental support: Novel integration of TabPFNMix and SHAP for ASD diagnosis The proposed framework combines the strengths of TabPFNMix, a powerful ML model for tabular data, with SHAP, a state-of-the-art XAI technique. This integration improves diagnostic accuracy while ensuring transparency and interpretability.
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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If you're not using the @oracle.posters.rip labeler you are missing out on a lot of random delight
A screenshot of @nytimes.com's Bluesky profile with the label "Shot (from a cannon)" A list of Bluesky labels: Time Machine Accident (Dinosaur) A manner of death, perhaps Time Machine Accident (Future) A manner of death, perhaps Time Machine Accident (Crushed) A manner of death, perhaps Time Machine Accident (Paradox) A manner of death, perhaps Time Machine Accident (First person killed by train) A manner of death, perhaps Time Machine Accident (Forgot where you parked it) A manner of death, perhaps Labels on your account You may appeal these labels if you feel they were placed in error. Joined Jul ’23 This profile was created in July of 2023. Source: ‪@joined-labeler.shatteredsky.net‬ Alchemy (Turned to gold) A manner of death, perhaps Source: ‪@oracle.posters.rip‬ A mostly redacted screenshot of a Bluesky post with the label "Cruise Accident (Kraken)"
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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God-tier bluff calling
Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291/amp Quote Ben Smith @semaforben Nov 24 Replying to @semaforben and @IChotiner I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now ...
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This is the fucking problem. His North Star is getting the Senate majority in 2026—as opposed to getting the Senate majority being a step *toward* a greater North Star. I don't think the statement disputes the notion at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
The “Fight Club” senators generally lean left of their Democratic peers in Congress, but their differences are less over ideology and more about attitude and political combativeness. They worry that leadership is using a dated playbook and risks dampening the party’s energy and desire for new kinds of candidates. Alex Nguyen, a spokesman for Mr. Schumer, disputed that notion. “Our North Star is winning the Senate majority in 2026 and any decision is made to achieve that goal,” he said in a statement.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Just a friendly reminder that even if this CDC update didn't go against the overwhelming evidence about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, avoiding serious preventable diseases should actually be a much higher priority than avoiding autism.
Autism and Vaccines Questions and Concerns | Page 2 of 9 | All pages For Everyone Nov. 19, 2025 Key points The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Does he truly not understand the difference between the Moral Majority and simply advocating for having morals
In perhaps the most striking reversal of this era, progressives are now the ones who tend to speak like moralists. America is long past the days of the Christian right’s Moral Majority and the “good versus evil” wars of George W. Bush’s administration. An emerging form of progressive rhetoric is taking their place. Consider the left’s appropriation of the term moral clarity. In April, during her first major speech since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Kamala Harris praised Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats for “speaking with moral clarity about this moment.” As AOC herself said in 2018, “There is nothing radical about moral clarity”—a phrase that still endures on T-shirts. In The Message, a 2024 essay collection by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the progressive writer recalls encouraging his students at Howard University to employ overtly moral language. “There has to be something in you,” he told them, “something that hungers for clarity.”
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
sarahannelloyd.com
Also... this keprtv.com/news/local/r...
While KEPR News has yet to receive comment from Pasco city leaders as of Monday, Oct. 20, the Benton Franklin Health District issued the following statement: "While it is possible that members of the group may have contacted our office anonymously, we have no record of any direct communication from the organization. Any suggestion that the Benton-Franklin Health District (BFHD) has taken an official position or failed to respond to this group is unconfirmed. BFHD takes all complaints related to food safety and unpermitted food vendors seriously. Each complaint is documented and evaluated through a risk-based prioritization process to ensure that public health threats are addressed appropriately and efficiently. When a complaint is received, we work in close coordination with our local law enforcement partners to address reports of unpermitted vendors operating and to ensure the safety of our staff. Our efforts include both food safety enforcement and education, with the goal of helping vendors understand the requirements to operate safely."
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
sarahannelloyd.com
This 1675 proclamation from King Charles II feels like a Trump EO

"very evil, very dangerous"

"False, Malitious and Scandalous Reports"
WHereas it is most apparent, that the Multitude of Coffee-houses of late years set up and kept within this Kingdom, the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the great resort of Idle and disaffected persons to them, have produced very evil and dange∣rous effects; as well for that many Tradesmen and others, do therein mis-spend much of their time, which might and probably would other∣wise be imployed in and about their Lawful Callings and Affairs; but also, for that in such Houses, and by occasion of the meetings of such persons therein, divers False, Malitious and Scandalous Reports are devised and spread abroad, to the Defamation of His Majesties Government, and to the Disturbance of the Peace and Quiet of the Realm; His Majesty hath thought it fit and necessary, That the said Coffee-Houses be (for the future) Put down and Suppressed, and doth (with the Advice of His Privy Council) by this His Royal Proclamation, Strictly Charge and
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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I don’t think Bruce Harrell has ever listened to himself talk.

www.sgn.org/story/159515...
“So when you say, ‘He's a centrist,’ I'm about as radical as you could get! If you go to the Black community and say, ‘Who's the most radical politician that's been in Seattle's history?’ they'll say, ‘Bruce Harrell.’ So when they say this ‘centrist’ stuff, without even being general, I'll say, ‘Who says that?’ I know who says that.”
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
sarahannelloyd.com
very apt @oracle.posters.rip label here
A screenshot of the post above but there's a Bluesky label under the username that says "Hole (Pushed in)"
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
sarahannelloyd.com
Toddler pointed out both happy and sad mouths on this wild thing and now I can’t unsee it
A four image grid. The top two images are each of a monster from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with long hair, two yellow eyes, a bulbous nose, and a toothy smile. Under each photo is a zoomed in version that crops out the toothy mouth so an arc shaped crease below his nose looks like a frowny face.
October 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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lol (from a @wired.com piece about cybertruck drivers)

www.wired.com/story/owning...
What do you like about the truck? What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing. The shape of it, the body of it, the manufacturing technique with the body panels and everything. I just love that it's completely outside of the box. And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.
October 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM