funniest part of the Ellmann Joyce bio is how he dedicates at least two pages to Joyce's hatred of baths and like a single paragraph to the German/Austrian/Jewish writers he helped get outta nazi lands by hooking them up with British passports. like so true king

Stephen Dedalus

sort of unfortunate that William is in every way the more homosexually fuckable James brother

East Asian tourists coming to see Pittsburgh: welcome friends to our great city, which I am sure will seem a kind of miniature Pengshui Miao to your esteemed eyes...

NFL Draft tourists coming to Pittsburgh: may I suggest a deep cut jump from the Westinghouse Bridge?

sent a text to my tax guy wherein I assumed he had a set shift and thus would be finished for the day and he replied he was still on it. i simply do not understand the concept of a salaried professional. maybe this is why labor power/wage is a clearer concept to me than my mother

horrible. AI has stolen the last remaining jobs in poland

"Moreover, in that morning-worm, which by its gnawing tooth made the gourd wither away, Christ Himself is again prefigured"

- St Augustine, on What Is To Be Done with the perfidious boer

firing Elon and several yeast cultures out of a cannon directly onto the Martian surface and checking back in a century later

can a photogenic mufo with a tiktok following please try to get the Heated Rivalry girlies to read this bad boy? every thing ive learned about the gay hockey romance has me thinking there's someone more deserving of those plaudits

Master and Margherita is the only novel ive ever read where i feel like it should be adapted into an anime and that adapting it to any other form would miss everything essential about it

o that whips

o lol yeah, i thought i knew an Aimee but i didn't wanna assume you were that Aimee from (formerly) twitter

Great to meet you as well, wish the buses ran later so I coulda caught the closing act as well

kinda bums me out that whichever Photoshop freak made these was probably the first guy put out of a job by generative ai, like would David Dees even bother if he was a zoomer?

marvelous stuff, haven't been to see live music in a decade id guess but had a great time. was there to see Harrison but Bird Friend was likewise great

August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, which i am sure most Yinzers have read

don't know what time my job will let out but if it's early enough, i will make an effort to show up

August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, which i am sure most Yinzers have read

i was walking to the bus stop and some lady in a pink overcoat holding her phone and giving that fluoride stare asked me if i saw a stabbing that apparently took place near the stop, i think she intends to make right wing incitement content about my neighborhood

r/childfree gf, r/dogfree bf

Pieta. apparently reviews were mixed but im not a movie guy and i enjoyed the thing thoroughly. would be happy to hear ur thoughts if you've seen it

more into the Berber and familial stuff, as it seems to otherwise exist in a sort of nowhere time/diachronous present and id want a more thorough grounding in place. felt a bit like the end of Mulholland Drive but the shots of mourning over the bodies of the dying were giving

saw this with my sister and was quite devastated by it. we were talking with the only other person who came to see it and im not sure what to make of it, hospital scenes were very AIDS crisis, very COVID dark days, personally picked at my HIV positive ass. wish we coulda gotten

when my mother worked as a pediatric dialysis nurse there in the nineties, between the two Intifadas, her coworkers constantly belittled their Palestinian patients and couldn't understand her practice of cooking meals for them during Ramadan on the night shift or trying to learn their Arabic

sorta sappy namby pamby humanist point but the coloniality of the israeli relationship to the Palestinians seemed to distort the souls of these people in every facet of life, my sister was once violently beaten by a gang of israeli youths she told to leave us alone, just total social inhumanity

israeli occupied Quds, the Old City was nice and i was treated incredibly kindly by a Palestinian shawarma shop owner and everyone i met there but the everyday cruelty of the israelis, especially in their dealings with the stray cats of the city, was egregious even to my uninformed young mind

OSINT is just a cool sounding way to say "unemployed info warrior"