The only other state that does this jungle primary thing is Louisiana.

Absolutely no one should ever look at Louisiana and say "yeah, we oughta do it like them!"

Christ preserve us.

That said, things might go well and Belichek ends up with a knife or six in his back!

World historical levels of “DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT” energy

It also seems worth pointing out here that in Hamlet, the undiscovered country is death. Star Trek VI renders it as something more hopeful; yes, the old world and the people in it are dying, but something new and beautiful can and will replace it

Yeah, every colonial effort has been characterized by both exploitative elements and utopian ones (we can create a True and Correct and Better Society in the terra nullius).

One of the places where the Star Trek metaphor about colonialism breaks down is that space REALLY IS that terra nullius

It’s very much the comic book equivalent of “a good first album can make a band, but a GREAT album can kill it”

See also the Dark Phoenix Saga wrt the X-Men

Fantom is a great store! DKR is a great Batman story. It’s so great in fact that it killed Batman (and Superman!) for a long time after.

It casts such a long shadow

I’d also include Superman For All Seasons and Superman: Up in the Sky as other great Superman stories that don’t require any deep continuity knowledge

Thranduil sucks so much

Yes hahaha yes bevel it

since i started writing for liberal currents, one of the most consistent themes of my work--maybe the most consistent--has been power. how to get it, how to exercise it, how our enemies' power works.

but equally i think that, to use that hoary old phrase, with power comes responsibility.

It is a good thing, then, that he tops out at "C-list The Riddler cosplayer" in our timeline

The Mennonite characters are one of my favorite bits in Letterkenny

Plus Alberta has a bunch of American-style megachurches

In fairness, you probably haven’t been to the Toronto Blessing church like I have. My youth group went up as tourists when I was a teenager.

Toronto Blessing - Wikipedia

This is probably true broadly, but isn’t always true. See, eg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto...

Folks who enjoyed this might want to take a gander at In The Raptor's Claws, an in-universe history of the Earth-Romulan War that follows on from Enterprise!

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This seems to be what's happening at Harvard bsky.app/profile/mowo...

But those are red (or reddish)-state state schools

Harvard is a little different, actually, since its admin *hasn't* knuckled under to pressure the way that Columbia's has.

The underrated version is what's happened at the state schools in collaboration with the state governments, like New College, UF, and UNC

The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall."

He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked.

It was his own great empire that fell.

They were just waiting for Cadeau.

I'm in this! If you're looking for quiet dignity and [checks note] Lwaxana Troi, mine is the story for you!

The others are also really good!

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Italy has a far-right PM right now. National Front stands a good chance of winning the French presidential election next year. AfD has massively expanded its presence in the German Parliament. SK had a coup!

you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.

And the rest of the developed world, too! Do not think for one second that Western Europe was immune.

Happy First Contact Day! Now’s a good chance to read more about where things went after that in our first chapter, The T’Plana-Hath Commission for the Reconstruction of Earth: intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/c...

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These are all accurate statements, btw!

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA