If Trump accidentally does something you agree with, I can promise you that you will get no benefit out of cheering for it. It's just voluntarily becoming his useful idiot, running cover for his atrocities.

One cool thing about having the Criterion app is that you can often identify other people who have it by what they're watching this month. Watching Paper Moon in June? Welcome, film comrade!

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has passed away at the age of 82. Here is a thread in his honor 🙏🏻 1. This was one of Brian's last performances

I was taking out my garbage recently when my sanitation worker spoke to me. He's collected trash at every major tech company and was told by a man holding a trash bag in front of Google that within 6 weeks AI was going to replace every engineer in the 48 contiguous states.

This just doesn't strike me as correct at all. My experience is that evangelicalism actually reinforces an idea that people are fundamentally bad and in need of constant re-absolution. It's actually this attitude that is weaponized

The way in which some people are desperate for an American immigrant to reorganize their sense of themselves into our limited categories is actually very illuminating

Lmfao

Y'all didn't deserve this one. I'm sorry you didn't get a Classical Education

Christopher a Classical Conversations kid confirmed.

It's really fun to drop into the comments of every right wing talking head who got the call to tell their listeners to further about Epstein. They're getting shredded.

Damn they caught Achilles and Patroclus on the Coldplay jumbotron

I love how steps 2-4 could all be the finished product in different styles.

One thing people like the guy in the screenshot don't understand is that the time it takes to read Wealth of Nations how you learn it. Even if you have bullet points of everything, you simply won't internalize something that takes an hour like you will something that takes 50.

I need a good fiction book set in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Michigan. No Louise Erdrich or Jim Harrison. What are my options

I'm a teacher and my wife is a social worker. We both work for this city and this "law" would almost certainly block us from renting over a million apartments.

I have captured a Moomin in a Havahart trap

I was today years old when I realized SNL = Saturday Night Live. I thought you guys were talking about some show about a sci-fi snail