Monty Python - Holy Handgrenade YouTube video by Weidmoo

Pete Hegseth's next prayer will be from the Book of Armaments, chapter 2, verses 9-21.

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It took me a while to get back to this! But despite your literature degree, you are mistaken-- well-meaningly mistaken, I hope. The antecedent of "this" is a post about how people generate social media outrage by taking social media posts out of context.

In "It's Not Free Speech" I called Twitter a "decontextualization apparatus." For some unfathomable reason the phrase didn't catch on! But yeah, it enables nonsense like this, on that site and this one.

Also: it's not you, it's me

I would sit down with my granddaughter for six hours and teach her how to use the can opener

This is judiciously phrased

OK but the Venn diagram of "photos of Hegseth" and "unflattering photos of Hegseth" is a circle

Rug-on-Face-Man trying to compete with Dinesh D'Souza's famous line, "The American slave *was* treated like property, which is to say, pretty well." It's a high bar to clear.

Watching "The Secret Agent" and remembering watching "I'm Still Here" and wondering whether we will have to wait 40 years for movies to be made about what ICE and DHS are doing right now

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I was about to say the exact same thing in the exact same words, so ... <same>

Good to know we cancelled all those wasteful NEH grants and USAID so that the money could go to 5% of a missile aimed at a girls' school

I salute your superhuman perseverance!

Yeah, Kamala Harris has a lot to answer for, sending our troops on all those stupid wars

Pretty sure that Timothée Chamalet made that remark about opera and ballet simply to distract us from the fact that he did a Willy Wonka movie that can be watched for twenty minutes max

His name will live forever :)

Well, thank you kindly, sir, and more to the point, thanks for writing your invaluable book!

Many thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social for publishing this piece, in which Urmila Seshagiri and I discuss (a) del Toro's idiosyncratic (to put it kindly) adaptation of "Frankenstein," (b) adaptations of "Frankenstein" in general, and even (c) adaptations in general. All in under 3000 words!

Kansas Makes Trans People’s Driver’s Licenses Invalid Overnight Kansas is informing trans people that their driver’s licenses will soon be invalid.

Finally a law that will protect girls from having to compete with trans women driving cars tiny.cc/9wiz001

To be fair, he's ecstatic that he solved the Nancy Guthrie case

Not the worst thing about this video but just gotta say that OF COURSE it's Matthew Tkachuk putting that medal on Patel

Lots of fun right through all six seasons (and one of the very few SF franchises that takes gravity seriously)

Ha, well, your timing was impeccable. (And it's not even vodka they're complaining about!)

Opinion | The No. 1 item food stamps buy is a travesty. Now states can say no. States are empowered to block taxpayer funds from being used on junk food.

I thought you were kidding about the food stamps and soda-- and then this morning I see this in the Bezos Post: tiny.cc/g0dz001. I mean, did you know yesterday that this article was in the hopper for publication today?

Going to go punch a hole in a wall now

Hive mind question: does anyone have contact info for Kathryn Allan, the writer on disability and science fiction, who used to tweet as @BleedingChrome?

I remember when he took everyone's bullets

Just as Donald Trump tempts us to be nostalgic for the wisdom and eloquence of Dan Quayle, and Pam Bondi tempts us to be nostalgic for the sagacity of Alberto Gonzales or the rectitude of John Mitchell, the culture vacuum on the American right is almost enough to make us nostalgic for Allan Bloom.

It's almost as if Bari Weiss's "free speech" thing was a grift from start to finish

Seems odd that the dudes who want to smash the administrative state are also the dudes who want to build concentration camps throughout the US

Steven Miller is going to appear under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished"