Samantha Powell
@sdpowell1.bsky.social
Writing about fashion. Writing about other things. Zoë not Zelda. She/her.
His baby sister spent most of the flight being annoyed that she was being held captive on a lap. Then she promptly fell asleep the moment we started our descent.
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
His baby sister spent most of the flight being annoyed that she was being held captive on a lap. Then she promptly fell asleep the moment we started our descent.
I agree with these children.
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I agree with these children.
I'll probably do the first two-thirds but with the last two episodes of Burns' The American Revolution being what I watch.
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'll probably do the first two-thirds but with the last two episodes of Burns' The American Revolution being what I watch.
"La Marseillaise fucking slaps!" - Me every single time I watch this movie
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"La Marseillaise fucking slaps!" - Me every single time I watch this movie
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Bodies — and what we’re supposed to think about their dimensions — have always been a source of fascination. The bodies we probably most obsess about — other than our own — are those we see on screen and there’s a tension of look but don’t-look-too-closely that the celebrity ecosystem asks of us
The state of Hollywood bodies
Celebrities are human beings. But they are also selling us something. Right now, that's thinness.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Bodies — and what we’re supposed to think about their dimensions — have always been a source of fascination. The bodies we probably most obsess about — other than our own — are those we see on screen and there’s a tension of look but don’t-look-too-closely that the celebrity ecosystem asks of us
There's always at least one.
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
There's always at least one.
The future sure did!
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The future sure did!
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
(This book was first published in the 1970s.)
Just discovered that there are a bunch of maps in this book.
I fucking LOVE a book map.
I fucking LOVE a book map.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just discovered that there are a bunch of maps in this book.
I fucking LOVE a book map.
I fucking LOVE a book map.
I've never really thought about the American Civil War being the pivot point when it came to US economic dominance in the Americas, but that makes sense.
!["What made this period of history [the 1860s] relatively so bloody? In the first place, it was the very process of global capitalist expansion which multiple tensions within the overseas world, the ambitions of the industrial world, and direct and indirect conflicts arising out of it. Thus the American Civil War, whatever its political origins, was the triumph of the industrialized North over the agrarian South, almost, one might even say, the transfer of the South from the informal empire of Britain (to whose cotton industry it was the economic pendant) into the new major industrial economy of the United States. It might be regarded as an early if giant step on the road which was in the twentieth century to turn all the Americas from a British to an American economic dependency."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hoev7w7tsdbp2okzdjhypy7/bafkreid34y6h7g7arbctagoltlgymhegi5jp7rmhn3zppkrbkh7v4eikxq@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I've never really thought about the American Civil War being the pivot point when it came to US economic dominance in the Americas, but that makes sense.
Welcome to Remember That Book!
Anyway, that was monkey not money in the previous post.
Anyway, that was monkey not money in the previous post.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Welcome to Remember That Book!
Anyway, that was monkey not money in the previous post.
Anyway, that was monkey not money in the previous post.
I would suggest looking up the 1978 World Cup, which took place in Argentina during the military junta.
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I would suggest looking up the 1978 World Cup, which took place in Argentina during the military junta.
One of FIFA's regulations is that a country's football federation cannot be controlled by the government of said country.
But FIFA itself certainly *loves* to be all up the ass of the fucking worst political leaders.
But FIFA itself certainly *loves* to be all up the ass of the fucking worst political leaders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
One of FIFA's regulations is that a country's football federation cannot be controlled by the government of said country.
But FIFA itself certainly *loves* to be all up the ass of the fucking worst political leaders.
But FIFA itself certainly *loves* to be all up the ass of the fucking worst political leaders.