Rewatch! Maybe the actual world is so blunt that it now seems passé.

We're re-watching The Night Manager, season one. Such babies, all these actors, 10 years ago! It seems very blunt and overwritten as well, at this point, but that's because we live in Le Carré's world.

Btw if you want to read Ocean's 8, but queer, Hawaiian *AND* IN SPACE, Makana Yamamoto's Hammajang Luck is RIIIIIIIIGHT there for you.

tumblr screenshot posted by monroeknoxwrites on dec 26th, 2025 sometimes I imagine the block button as me placing you in a cup and transporting you outside. this is not the environment for you other times I am reaching for the slipper

here it is

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Caveat that I have not seen a certain upcoming musical biopic, but a lot of the displeasure with negative reviews sure sounds a lot like "How dare you remind me about the horrendous and indefensible allegations against this person whose music I like?"

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The entire modern world is built on the creations of Native American scientists (corn and potatoes)

I appreciate this explanation particularly as sharing it with my teens was helpful way to communicate how understanding this sort of math can have wide applications in their lives when they feel frustrated & disconnected from learning it in the moment.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

IS ONE OG THESE APPROVED? WHO knows?

Yesterday, doc sent inhaler scripf so I could stop coughing (my lungs's fun reaction) & get some sleep.

This morning, insurance needs prior x approval.

okay!
called the "care manager" at insurance & she was like I'll call doc's ofc immediately with these 12 other approved options.

that’s like a weeks worth of potato for free!

oh god

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

@washingtonpost.com lives up to its motto ("democracy dies in darkness") with this expose about CDC killing a scientifically reviewed report already approved for publication. The findings? The COVID vaccine is a good thing that works. By @lenasun.bsky.social Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/41JhAhb

Rickea Jackson picks up Kelsey Plum and hauls her out of a scuffle

Me handling my wife after the vet called our cat “geriatric.”

Every now and then I am reminded that the Communist Control Act of 1954 is still on the books.

Funny how Congress never passed a law against being a Nazi or KKK member.

cover of Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Apropos of me finally picking up this book again, and discovering the most mind-bending story in it is 3/4 of the way through, this is a Ted Chiang appreciation post.

This short story collection is astonishing, a monumental work of brilliance.

I think an issue we can all get together on is that designers who ruin historic houses with grey floors and beige and white everything should be in jail.

The Novelist Reimagining the Japanese American Internment In “Questions 27 & 28,” Karen Tei Yamashita opens an inquiry into how the story of the past gets made.

What a lovely piece. Karen is a national treasure. Besides her extraordinary backlist, check out her new book from @graywolfpress.bsky.social - QUESTIONS 27 & 28!!!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Keep it up, young LDSers. keep. it. up.

This is ... very fair.

& Dee Rees!!!! WHERE IS DEE REES!!! Give her all the money! (No "Sinners" w/o "Mudbound" IMO!)

if I don't get more Nia DaCosta i stg 🤬

We are extremely hard on Black directors.. so what a movie flopped..
They still making the same shitty white films for decades..

Excellent point on the redistricting drama. Republicans gerrymander, Democrats punch back, and the media talks about how Dems are *so mean* for sticking up for themselves.

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

Corrie ten Boom, the Xtian Netherlands's greatest export. We need a Sorrow and Pity for the Netherlands.