Of the many things I worry about, a big one is that Gen Z and Alpha are growing up in a world in which the overwhelming public message is that cheating and lying and being indifferent to consequences is wildly successful and in fact the only way to succeed, while all virtue is performative nonsense
Good morning. My 8 year old demanded I inform them about the deadliest mushrooms before going to school
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Index of Poems I Shall Never Write (Don’t Tell Me About) Your Brand New Podcast p. 42 At the Alphabetti Spaghetti World Championship Final p. 32 Bad Hare Day p. 40 Easy Peelers are Not the Only Fruit p. 52 I’m in Love with the Woman in the Green Cardigan in the BBC Question Time Audience p. 58 Kim Kardiganashian p. 45 Life Hacked p. 60 Linked In, Dropped Out p. 27 Mister Krankie Meets the Clambake King p. 14 Nocturnal Blossoms: Petals of the Moon p. 18 On Sleeping in a Dudley Travelodge p. 68 On Waking in a Dudley Travelodge p. 3 Poem for Silt Awareness Day p. 6 She Never Did Care for Hollyhocks p. 23 Shit! It’s Jeremy Clarkson! p. 1 Sixty-Four Failed Attempts to Guess a Wi-Fi Password p. 64 Taking Cocaine with Wendy Cope p. 9 Ten Unexpected Items to Find in a Bagging Area p. 50 The Last But One Will and Testament of Brian Horatio Bilston p. 55 Third Wordle War p. 47 Untitled p. 21 What We Currently Know and Don’t Know about Gnomes p. 31 Whither the linnet? p. 10 Yes, I Know It’s Called ‘Petrichor’ p. 34 Your Spatula p. 37 Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘Index of Poems I Shall Never Write’.
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
How does this fall on your spreadsheet?
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The Princess Bride is a fascinating landscape of all the different ethnicities that Jews can get cast as (Spanish, Italian, old shtetl Jews, assimilated American Jews who aren’t explicitly Jewish)
only one way to find out!
"but Leeman most of those pictured are greedy oafs who'll be dead by their stubbornness and pride."
"Ugh Geoff this is why you don't get invited to things"
Rankin Bass Hobbit unexpected party scene
Me and my crew after we've been left behind by AI
hold up.
the penne opticon
Your perennial reminder that there's never a bad day to try to kill Hitler
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"is not capable of it"
it doesn't surprise me that someone with a libertarian background lands on an elitist essentialist explanation, but there's a simpler and I think more powerful one:
"critical thinking" becomes confounded with an individual's social identity to become neither.
i forget who said “why should i bother to read what you didn’t bother to write?” and i think about it constantly
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
Better funded universities and cultural institutions?
If the people wish it
It has to be given freely by the people! Self-sashing leads down a dangerous road to top hattery and monorails
Chancellor Palpatine in a big floofy outfit.
My next village council meeting falls on May the 4th and it's taking all my Jesus not to express order this.
this doesn't read like arrogant self-confidence to me.
it reads like a bunch of propellor beanie-wearing dorks at the bad light bulb factory demanding that the government make everyone buy really big light bulbs and also assign them girlfriends.
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
Usually when there’s this much disagreement about whether a strait is open or closed, they’re about six months from getting divorced.
She wanted to show us the life of the mind, jackson.
We might have talked about it but we didn't read it. I feel like ms coble just liked this movie and handwaved "ehh mythic elements of fathers versus sons"
I think it was supposed to somehow demonstrate the hero's cycle?
We watched that in ms coble's classical lit!
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.
The U.S. House Thursday passed an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti for three years, in a rare rebuke by the GOP-led Congress to President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Ohio GOP Reps. Mike Turner and Mike Carey voted for the extension ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/r...
