Alexis De Wokeville @MrAlexisPereira Teaching my first English course this semester has been rewarding but I don't know what to do with this student ENG 10 Prof. Alexis Pereira 2/10/20 (note:This was supposed to be about Tom from The Great! Gatsby, the book we are reading) What Exactly Does Tom Want with Jerry? D In the Looney Tunes cinematic universe, many of the cartoon nemeses have a very clear goal. Wild Coyote wants to eat the ROADRUNNER. Pepe Le Pue wants to impregnate Penelope. Elmer Fudd wants to shoot Bugs (and who doesn't?). But it is unclear what if anything Tom (? not the Midnight Soclety) wants to do with Jerry. Submitted for the approval of English 101, I propose that Tom actually has no interest in doing anything with Jerry, but instead fulfilling his class role as "house cat." so? they Ahl are! Heatheliff, Top Cat, Garfield, Sylvester - these are all famous cats, most of them cartoon. Trey Smith @SlimiHendrix i need to very badly read this entire essay

I think this first time English teacher is ignoring the writer's cardinal rule: "write what you know"
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I still have the original Star lord comics that featured Rogue Trooper. Even if I'm looking at it with nostalgia tinted glasses animation is always a hard sell for me.

That's looking about as good as I expected. My expectations were low to begin with.

UK weighs break clause in Palantir NHS deal : £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform

I'm betting the government bottles it and renews the contract, having learned absolutely nothing from the Post Office scandal.
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Doubly weird is those same corporations will probably be using backend mainframe apps that have a fudge to get working in Windows rather than the dumb terminals they wer designed for.

There's a weird inertia in Corporations that makes them believe they have to buy Windows because their user base doesn't understand anything else.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious

A woven tapestry featuring a brown bear standing on its hind legs, holding a large silver broadsword with both paws against a textured dark teal background.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Murder Bear Blanket. Yes, women would still choose the Murder Bear. No, I don't blame them.
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Oh my god indeed

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Black Doe novel surrounded by the very edges of other books.

Casting spells on my baby. Points for spotting the magical volumes around her. #ARC #historicalfiction

What's your favourite bible verse (wrong answers only)

"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue!"

Punk in Bossa (Punk Classics Revisited in Bossa Nova)

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Anarchy in the Uk

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I'm waiting on someone in the administration lecturing people that the bible can say anything you want it to say....

Ever Fallen in Love

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Grand old time at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social tonight celebrating new books by @cameronjohnston.bsky.social and Rafael Torrubia. Brilliant questioning by Cailean Steed, and generally a lovely night all in all.

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

My TV streaming service keeps trying to show me things in German 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Ta!

Not my normal music choice but The Prodigy turned out to be a great gig.

Considerate of the Prodigy to give Glasgow's marching drummers a gig in the off season....

Carl Cox prelude to the main event. Bit of a departure from my normal gig.

I ditched Copilot for Claude in Microsoft Word — and I’m never going back It takes less than five minutes to set up, but the difference in output quality makes Copilot feel like a relic of the past

You know if you learn to write you don't need either

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Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

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Clannad - Robin The Hooded Man (Official Audio) YouTube video by ClannadOfficial

Posting because R.I.P. Moya Brennan and also because it's one of the greatest T.V. themes ever recorded. youtu.be/_B95i-BQ6n0?...

First Mage On The Moon by Cameron Johnston. Against a twilight blue background, a rusty magical rocketship readies for launch, with engineering diagrams off to the side.

Happy Launch Day to me!

First Mage On The Moon is out today.

Although Mr Brown played my Ernest Borgnine would have rocked.