I don't think a biopic is any movie that depicts or is inspired by any episode from the life of a real person. I don't think, for instance, that Dog Day Afternoon is a biopic

really asking a lot of questions about what a "biopic" is here

Wrong. Negotiators were not "bedeviled" by such things from 2015 to 2018 - because a deal was in place to address them. Trump left it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

What did they do before AI image generation??

*does* it follow that *lives* have meaning because *people* are interpretive?

need to tighten this whole thing up and redo the beginning still

I cannot see "Sally Rooney" without thinking of a kind of baby talk way to indicate that a renewed effort will commence in short order

Like the ad says

It’s crucial to understand that this framing is why we are where we are. There is no acceptable person that Trump could choose to fill any position because his government is illegitimate and has been since at least the insurrection if not before.

yes yes I understand

:O !

"let's clear some things up" [cavalcade of horseshit follows]

Arthur Danto's The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

The impediment to a fair and real democracy in this country is the Republican Party. Democrats tried to create fair districting nationally and they rejected it. My god.

—hey what’s an abbreviation for apartment? it’s an unwieldy term

:oh, it’s apt

—it’s an abbreviation so i would hope that it’s apt

:no, the abbreviation is apt

—correct, apt. the abbreviation is suitable, appropriate, or fitting a situation where i don’t want to say “apartment”

:it’s “apt”

Real connoisseurs use horse fat, I've heard

I wonder if this person would accept from their students such vague and unsubstantiated assertions

Recruitment spots hitting the wireless as press releases announce "GILBERT AD AIRS"

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Trace l'inégal palindrome. Neige. Bagatelle, dira Hercule. Le brut repentir, cet écrit né Perec. L'arc lu
pèse trop, lis à vice-versa.
Perte. Cerise d'une vérité …

I think you're supposed to rinse the kidneys out before cooking them. Did they do that part?

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.

"I was driving" is right there

I just want to wear a variety of little outfits when abroad (and return with more than I arrived with) and if you say "gender" to that, well so be it

We are so open, in fact, to viewpoint diversity & campus speech & mirror-gazing that we are again, tomorrow, hosting our worst lying authoritarian critics on campus to lie more about all that we do wrong & paying them handsomely to do so. No other societal institutions do this on a regular basis.

it's over 3000 pages and unfinished. the chapters about her bottom surgery are called Die Frau ohne eigen Shaft-en

This is a horror.

Maybe I’m missing something, but this is formally identical to the pro-choice abortion reasoning he rejects.

“The Universal Church can’t judge the morality of a specific instance in a category of things” is insane levels of moral relativism lmfao. Right wingers are glorified nihilists, total victory.