It's the way you explain them, Steve.🙏

There's nothing like a good crossover.

Am also looking forward to the remakes of The Doctor's Dilemma and Man and Superman.

If the US had honest negotiators . . .

If you need proof cats are nature's ultimate predator terrors to whatever new things you throw at them

Ukrainian cats have had time to observe and train in battlefield conditions and they're catching drones

That's some next level survivalist hunter behavioral adaptation in an active warzone

Same here.
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media literacy studies today should be akin to rhetoric classes in the past: an education in the tropes and structures that shape communication and so society

Breaking: Japan decisively resolves the Strait of Hormuz situation

Is this about warfighters or MAHA?

Reform Snipe is how you serve a bird killed by buckshot at close range.

This is about Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson, but applies equally to pretty much any leadership position.

Except that the GOP looked at you-know-who in 2020 and 2024 and said "we like his style, let's have four more years."

Oooh so close to my dream job!

The Machine Is Friendly. That's Why It Wins. How Australia kept its third places alive, what it hid inside them, why Britain’s fix made the problem worse, and what happened when I tried to beat the machine.

Very interesting post about the roles of gambling machines and online gambling in Australia and the UK.

Scientists Found Literal Ink From Ballpoint Pens in Martian Meteorites This doesn't devalue scientific research thus far, but we might need a more unified approach for cleaning important samples, the study says.

Scientists Found Literal Ink From Ballpoint Pens in Martian Meteorites gizmodo.com/scientists-f...

A beta version of this was recently installed in POTUS.

Must be hoping his children don't hear about The Bank of Mum and Dad.

Or indeed about grandparents.

ETTE-SCLUSIVE: Data exposes The Australian’s campaign against Dr Randa Abdel- Fattah A sweeping data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by News Corp's The Australian targeting Palestinian-Egyptian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah...

A data analysis by @ettemedia.bsky.social shows just how insane the Australian campaign against Randa Abdel-Fattah has been.

www.ettemedia.com/exclusive-me...

This is so good. Thank you. I'd only seen it once, long before streaming, and never got round to searching for it.

You trying for @secondmentions.bsky.social?

Teaching Case Studies In 2025, the LLIRN ran its first internship program, with the goal of developing a set of peer-informed resources to support those wishing to incorporate a law and language focus into their teachin…

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳

These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

I have come from the future. This is the state of the blockades by the end of next month. Posted in r/NonCredibleDefense by u/McFestus • 4,627 points and 186 comments

Image was created by @mcfestus02.bsky.social, and originally uploaded to /r/NonCredibleDefense at old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibl...

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, The Pied Piper The art and legacy of David Munrow.

Essential, essential listening. Great insight and reflection on someone who did so much for early music - and who possibly influenced a generation in a joyful yet serious approach to what music does. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thus, today's election is not really the end of an authoritarian regime. Rather, it is the first step in a much longer unwinding process.

It is massive and absolutely necessary first step — one that anyone who believes in democracy should celebrate. But it's more a beginning than an end.

Excellent nutshell.

It somehow made me think of James Agate—a very different character—finding his military métier as a purchaser of fodder for the BEF in the south of France.

People sneer at Trump and Vance, but look how quickly they have moved to negotiating with Iran the conditions for Iran's unconditional surrender.

This is your reminder to look out for the Weinstein Effect.

Which is when the extreme horrors committed by men become the new bar for immorality. Anything “less than a Weinstein” is now tolerated, even if everyone agrees a man was violent or exploitative.

Don’t let abuses of power become the norm.

Understanding MAGA This piece orginally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and is reproduced with their permission.

New post out:

"Understanding MAGA"

I look at the four different strands that make up MAGA philosophy (such as it is), the contradictions between them, and whether it can survive as a movement post Trump.

(Free to read)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/u...

So exhausting. Public so-called intellectuals who correctly critiqued liberal technocracy as at times paralysed by the complexity of problems or obsessed with creating even more complex solutions...

... and then convinced themselves the solution was amoral blowhards who reject complexity entirely.

I'm waiting for someone to tell him that the Grande Arche in Paris is *much* bigger.

All White House announcements should now comes headlined, 'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'