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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #395 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Lauren Olamina@olamina.bsky.social |
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Reading, listening, parenting, watching, eating, cooking, baking, hiking, yoga. Bull City. she/her
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #395 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #394 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟦 🟩🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟩🟦🟪 🟦🟩🟩🟦
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Lauren Olamina
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Ok, so Troy is pretty compelling in the scene where he tells Lainey he loves her, but at least half of that is good lighting. You know that dude would smell bad in real life. All unwashed and cigarettey.
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Lauren Olamina
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Now to do dishes while watching Reality Bites. I’ve watched it enough as an adult to have gotten over how I disagree with my middle-school self’s perception that Troy was dreamy and Michael was gross. The first time I rewatched it, I was shocked.
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Lauren Olamina
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Oh, and I have zero proof of this but have been convinced for ages that the third movie helped popularize steampunk aesthetic in a big way.
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Lauren Olamina
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The second film is solid; not perfect, but genuinely good. The third is better if you treat it as camp—at the very least, it’s clear to me that everyone involved knew it was ridiculous and was having a good time.
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Lauren Olamina
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A lot of folks were probably reminded that Michael J. Fox has great comedic timing and was really good at physical comedy by his recent documentary, and all that is on display in the Back to the Future movies.
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Lauren Olamina
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A hill I will die on is that the first movie is legitimately well made. That long opening shot? Perfection.
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Lauren Olamina
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Random, the Back to the Future trilogy is now in Netflix and is absolutely worth checking out if you’ve never seen it or haven’t seen it in years. Naturally, I own the 25th Anniversary box set on blue ray, but stream it if you don’t own it and have Netflix.
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Lauren Olamina
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Called out. www.instagram.com/reel/C8K89il...
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #393 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Phil Lewis
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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #392 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Lauren Olamina
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That part.
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #391 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Lauren Olamina
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When my kids napped, mentioning it didn’t set them off; we were lucky, I guess. The daycare was the best at getting kids to sleep—if you walked in during nap time, all the kids were asleep, precisely on schedule.
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Ursula
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Still banning Black history, I see. “The latest version of the college prep course piloted at three Harford high schools was rejected by the school board last week in 5-4 vote, with some members calling it divisive, with a progressive agenda and too much focus on racism.”
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Lauren Olamina
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Gift link in first comment.
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Lauren Olamina
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Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/u...
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Fatima Ayub
@thecynicist.bsky.social
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“Almost the entire population”
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Lauren Olamina
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Yikes. I haven’t read the books, but the section of the show where the plot was engaging with the history of slavery in the US South got reeeeeal messy.
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Lauren Olamina
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I’m far from an expert on this, but it seems like there’s a significant racism problem in art museums both in terms of what art they deem worth collecting, and especially in hiring and retaining curators of color, particularly Black curators.
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Lauren Olamina
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There was an article about it; it sounds like the curator was really thorough:
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/a...
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Lauren Olamina
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That looks good. I definitely don’t know enough about visual art of that period. I’m never in New York, but there’s an exhibit at the Met right now that looks good: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
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Lauren Olamina
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What a find! The older I get, the more I appreciate hearing poetry read aloud.
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Lauren Olamina
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Chilling.
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Saeed Jones
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I’m going to share an opinion: It kind of irks me that fairly often when I share an article drawing attention to a clear and present danger, there’s a tendency on here to focus on how the article was written rather than the danger itself. I get it, so many norms in journalism reify power. BUT—
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Lauren Olamina
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I have done little traveling, but the essays in which James Baldwin writes about Paris, simultaneously recognizing that his experiences of freedom—relative to the US,of course—aren’t the same as those of Africans there have always stayed with me. Encounter on the Seine, I think?
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Lauren Olamina
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Thank you for sharing.
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Lauren Olamina
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It’s worth taking your time on for sure.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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Lauren Olamina
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This is pretty great.
No subscription required for this article; gift link.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #389 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Lauren Olamina
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Judd Hirsh and Jeff Goldblum as father and son was perfect.
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Lauren Olamina
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I’m rewatching Independence Day, which I saw in the theater when it was released. I forgot what a stacked cast it has. Ridiculous plot, quick pacing, special effects, decent script. Template for a blockbuster, really.
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #388 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Lauren Olamina
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When hens start laying eggs, they are smaller than the ones they will eventually lay. In this photo, the smaller egg was laid by a 6-month old, and the larger a 3-year old.
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Linda Holmes
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Well, I also think people really like that idea of meritocracy when it means history suggests people like them have more merit than everybody else. Overrepresentation in elite spaces becomes evidence of superiority. It’s hard to convince them to give that up.
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Lauren Olamina
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Flabbergasted, even though I’ve observed multiple settings where the small population of Black talent are much, much more impressive than their white colleagues.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Lauren Olamina
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Impressive!
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #387 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Lauren Olamina
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He strikes me as a brilliant, sincere person. I’m conflicted because I believe that the evidence that football causes brain damage is such that it shouldn’t be played professionally or in any schools, but I hate that racism prevents him from doing something he loves and worked so hard at.
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Mekka Okereke
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Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #386 🟪🟦🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Um. Something weird going on this morning
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Lauren Olamina
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Connections Puzzle #385 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟨🟦🟦 🟨🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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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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Lauren Olamina
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Lauren Olamina
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Whew. I went to college thinking I’d become an academic ascetic, devoted to my research because romantic relationships weren’t meant for me.
Via Franchesca Ramsey, who is here, chescaleigh.bsky.social, but not posting here.
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