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Not Prince Hamlet@anattendantlord.bsky.social |
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Ambivalent academic. Occasionally swelling a progress, starting a train or two. Not keen on peaches these days.
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Ian Boudreau
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I guess one reason you don't see breakdowns of Trump's speeches is that they're not really speeches, it's not like he's out there to make the case for something, to make an argument. It's more like going to see a bear ride a bicycle
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MarcusSparchs
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To me, The Boys doesn't work when removed from the context of the Bush war on Terror. The show feels weird to me because the entire concept feels so tied to the 2000s era and the way the military industrial complex behaved in that time. Vought felt so closely tied to Halliburton and Blackwater.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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This is almost literally one of Kate Beaton's cartoons IIRC
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Dr Maha
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Tonight the left bloc have heroically seen off the far right. That's in part because some centrist candidates agreed to withdraw, as their Prime Minister asked them to, and in defiance of what Macron was telling them to do behind the scenes. www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...
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Not Prince Hamlet
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So was Max Zorin.
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Pavel
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Well this is grim
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The Notorious R.B.F.
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Technology has been designed to "just work", so people who grow up using it these days don't have the same awareness of what, exactly, the medium is that they're using. They use the search on their phone or computer, and it's just "using the phone/Internet/computer".
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Daniel Drezner
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Loving these quotes from Iranians explaining their vote. CC: Americans who think there’s little difference between Biden and Trump.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Or Aristophanes? (he says, having last been quasi-cultured some time in the early 2000s)
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Not Prince Hamlet
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My tiredness makes it easier for me to misparse the last four words for comic effect
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Not Prince Hamlet
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IKWYM but I think in comics this leads to false positives (Simone and Gillen come to mind)
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Not Prince Hamlet
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As I wait for the flight that will take me to a one-week conference that I am speaking at but have very limited enthusiasm for, I find myself thinking of the lines in Capaldi's DW-regeneration speech: " Well, I suppose one more lifetime won't kill anyone. Except me."
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Not Prince Hamlet
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I have been tempted for many years to print that picture out and tape it to my door. Or, indeed, my forehead
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Having never watched the show: what next? Mark Strong as John Smith?
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Sadly I can't think of woodpeckers any more without thinking of this picture
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Not Prince Hamlet
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I have the impression forom various peoples' stories that house+apartment prices across Canada have gone crazy during the last 3 years - is that right?
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@nosemonkey.bsky.social
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FUCK YOU MOGG, YOU SHIT-SUITED TWATPARODY
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ChinnyVision
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Re-record not fade away. Re-record not fade away.
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John Williams
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Farage said recently that he didn’t want to spend every Friday in Clacton. He won’t. He’s like Johnson and won’t put the hours in.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Lindy Pepperbean standing as a Reform candidate?
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John Williams
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I live near Blyth and have often driven by that leisure centre and I can tell you now that Naga is injecting an IMPOSSIBLE amount of glamour into the area.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Peano space-filling curve?
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Martin Nutbeem
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Absolute. Fucking. Ghouls.
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Anne Billson
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RIP Robert Towne. THE TWO JAKES: no masterpiece like CHINATOWN & Nicholson's directing is fine but not on Polanski level. But the main problem: its sensibility was 1970s New Hollywood, not 1990. You should watch it at least once, if only for scorchio Madeleine Stowe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUyM...
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Paul Duane
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Dipped briefly back into twitter & saw one of the few accounts I miss from there, John Frankensteiner, posting about how Towne hated the movie Greystoke so much he credited his script to his dog, who then went on to win an Oscar.
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J.M. Berger
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Let's check in on the candidate of cognitive superiority www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Not Prince Hamlet
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I genuinely feel gaslit by that genre of tweet (DB), as it makes me wonder if I simply hallucinated that travel ban executive order in January 2017, and the way it initially could have retroactively invalidated the immigration status of people who already had visas/green cards
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Ian Boudreau
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I just had the intrusive thought that "champagne supernova" and "meatball melanoma" have the same number of syllables so it's probably time to go to bed
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James Cooray Smith
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It is honestly really weird that in Britain we are expected to take National Enquirer level showbiz scandal rags like the Mail, The Sun and the Express seriously when they offer opinions on things like government or finance. It’s been the case for so long that we don’t notice it. But it is.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Or if you want to get two judges to compare two couples' bedroom performances :-0
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Ian Boudreau
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It's not just a failure to understand Gatsby (or insert whatever work you want here), it's a failure to understand that there's anything to understand. This level of philistinism is what underpins the entire generative AI phenomenon and these people should not be allowed to write the future.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Now want to read Watchmen chapter 6 in the Scots vernacular
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Not Prince Hamlet
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The ghost in the machine
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Genuinely a bit sad that I have lost my notes from A-level Early Modern European History, and even if I bought the sources no longer have the energy/enthusiasm to relearn. All these will be gone, like tears in rain.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Thinking of Brazil now (the film, not the country)
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Warren Terra
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On the one hand talking to a candidate's supporters who showed up to their rally is an obviously terrible way to learn anything about the electorate. On the other hand, our side is owed a gazillion such articles just out of fairness.
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Kieron Gillen
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In Alan Moore's essays on writing comics, he drops a line in the conclusion: "It's more important to be a good human being than a good writer." Try to remember that.
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James Cooray Smith
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“So there’s this *other* Megatron, and the first Megatron, the one we’ve been following for years realises the truth. That’s he’s not Megatron possessed by Straxus, but Straxus possessed by Megatron. But Ravage can’t believe the Megatron he fought alongside during the Time Wars is a *copy*, so…”
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Cricket fans go "pfft", e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qM_...
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Maybe it's like this half-spin business: do it twice to get back where one started
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Derek Lowe
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I’m so old I remember using Telnet to go over to CERN and look at this hypertext-based “web” thing I’d heard about.
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Not Prince Hamlet
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<taps sign>
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Tom Reagan’s Hat
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I like the way the Robocop gang look like an anarcho-syndicalist electronic post-punk band who later sold out & became CEOs
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Not Prince Hamlet
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMUm...
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Just realised I'd forgotten the capital of Zaire, and felt sufficiently shamed to look it up
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Anne Billson
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I wrote an obituary of Donald Sutherland for Sight & Sound magazine. www.bfi.org.uk/news/donald-...
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Not Prince Hamlet
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Oh, and since I see people doing their lists: Bubble Yards Babies Boom Rogue Church Legend/Empire Chord (I probably need to give Rogue another chance, I remember trying to get work done while watching the episode and seeing the ending coming a mile off, hence waiting for it rather than savouring)
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Not Prince Hamlet
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have been restlessly grazing on YouTube instead of going to bed, but having alighted on www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIXh... feel finally sated
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Not Prince Hamlet
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I'm sure this is another sign of a broken brain, but in the middle of getting depressed about www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli... was suddenly pleased that when I try to print from the browser the stylesheets are set up to allow a reasonable result
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