Liked to acknowledge, not for approval of what happened.

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It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

It matters to remember the Confederates as unambiguous bad guys in American history because any nation's identity is in large part defined by the narrative of the villains we've defeated: monarchism in the Revolution, the Nazis in WWII, and alongside those, the white supremacist slave power.

3 stars is good actually

What Are Your Obligations When Your Country Is the Villain? Under Trump, the US is unequivocally a force for evil in the world. It can seem morally intolerable to embrace happiness as our government massacres children.

This is the question I wake up with and go to bed with every day and the rest of my real life is just a deserpate and failing attempt to avoid the question, since I have no answer for it.

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Not a joke: @gailsimone.bsky.social my day job is defending class actions. I will defend you pro bono.

Once I know an author’s views, good or bad, I have trouble not connecting them to the story. But I have this same problem with an author’s storytelling habits.

I think it’s a question of what people think is the story. The final episode/book for many is part of a bigger story. So they bail because the story turned out to be bad. (A bad final 15 minutes of a film still does this to me.) Many don’t know an author’s views, or connect them to the story.

“We negotiate with bombs.”

I am absolutely fine with Marvel and DC protagonists killing, even killing casually, if that leads to interesting stories. (Either about the killing or something else killing-adjacent.)

But I don’t think those characters are heroes.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Good news! We found the fuschia M&Ms.

lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Q: What is Sinners about? A: America’s inability to discuss its complex racial history without bringing the Irish into things.

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

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William Gibson sighs, rips up draft of novel …

What a Maroon!

To someone still in the trenches this reads like:
6 - you’re not a fool for trying.
7 - Dig in, level up.
8 - (to others) We got one!

My daughter loves Florence, but feels only rage against The Machine.

I like Everything, but the Girl?

I will always like a YOJIMBO reference.

The passage reads: One of the people I interviewed for the story was Rev. Robert Seymour, who had been Smith's pastor at the Binkley Baptist Church since 1958, when he first arrived in Chapel Hill. Seymour told me a story about how upset Smith was to learn that Chapel Hill's restaurants were still segregated. He and Seymour came up with an idea: Smith would walk into a restaurant with a black member of the church. "You have to remember," Reverend Seymour said. "Back then, he wasn't Dean Smith. He was an assistant coach. Nothing more." Smith agreed and went to a restaurant where management knew him. He and his companion sat down and were served. That was the beginning of desegregation in Chapel Hill.

The passage reads: When I circled back to Smith and asked him to tell me more about that night, he shot me an angry look. "Who told you about that?" he asked. "Reverend Seymour," I said. "I wish he hadn't done that." "Why? You should be proud of doing something like that." He leaned forward in his chair and in a very quiet voice said something I've never forgotten: "You should never be proud of doing what's right. You should just do what's right."

“You should never be proud of doing what’s right. You should just do what’s right.”

When Dean Smith comes up, this story is always the first thing I think of.

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Important these words are repeated again and again.

All serious historical novels are works of speculative fiction, even ones set in the ‘60s and ‘70s. These three are absolutely brilliant.

Lived in Europe for a few years. This 💯

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

<sidles up to England>
Hey, so...you like the rule of law too? 👀

Nia DaCosta’s adaptation of an Ibsen play, HEDDA (2025) is great drama. Over the course of a nighttime party, it charts the self-destruction of a number of clever people doing awful things for petty reasons. Tessa Thompson is fantastic in the lead. It’s a modern RULES OF THE GAME, and it hits hard.