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screenshot of matthewstoller's "Nice use of passive voice though!" reply, including the dieworkwear tweet being replied to, which reads: "don't know why it's surprising to hear that a massive amount of paperwork will ensue if you get rid of the de minimis exemption, resulting in chaos, confusion, and some packages being destroyed"
tweet screenshot @metalgearobama: Reading Mein Kampf and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with it 8:04PM 12/29/20
diagram of the earth's orbit around the sun, showing the lines of solstice and equinox, as well as the line of apsides. the lines of solstice and equinox are perpendicular to each other, and related to the earths axial tilt. the line of apsides is shown to have no relation to the solstice/equinox lines
Oh! Won't someone please think of the banks!
A passage from Parable of The Talents (1998), the sequel to Parable of The Sower, in which President Jarret is quoted saying "Help us to make America great again."
a 3 star review of Anora: welp, certainly written and directed by a man.
like Florida Project, a numbingly paternalistic view of sex workers and poor people: a vaguely sympathetic, no-judgment portrayal of someone whose personhood, for the filmmaker, cannot amount to anything beyond a total abstraction. 
otherwise a very well-paced movie, fun, and pretty comedic. a real Safdie Brothers inspired middle section contains most of the life of the film -- before it pivots into making Igor the soft protagonist, a "heroic" stand-in for the director, who—get this—views the sex worker as a human being. (please clap).
a thankfully brief dialogue on rape between Igor and Anora threatens to expose Baker's questionable POV of his subjects, but then settles on simply calling Igor a faggot and moving on; cut, and scene.
somehow Baker both whitewashes and glamorizes sex work, keeping the glitzy male fantasy intact while stripping out every last fiber of politics of a fraught, dangerous, complicated, intensely politically charged profession. but he does it with plenty of stylish flair to keep the "omg, cinematography💋" level of movie goers satiated; yknow, the type of style that draws the word "cinema" from the lips of vapid, my-taste-is-my-personality types. 
Baker is an impressive filmmaker, but his fixation on making films about sex work, while having absolutely nothing to say about it, leaves one with questions.
Once we know the limits of the justice system's conception of crime, we can be clear about what the police are: They are a tool of power. The task of police is to suppress and warehouse the disorder resulting from acute inequality and exploitative power relations. In the US, their task takes on an explicitly racist function, predictably, since the system of racism is the cornerstone of American exploitation and inequality. They cannot be fixed. As long as that system of planned and controlled inequality borne of mass exploitation persists, any response to the disturbances it causes will necessarily be a form of clean up in the service of that order; a form of making the oppression tenable by containing the fires it ignites.
A page of a book, with text that reads: "WITH a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident. The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of the divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that now reviews the vision. No dust has settled on that robe; no time has elapsed since that divinity was revealed."
nancy from throating
Screenshot of article header. Title reads "Those typing monkeys will never produce Shakespeare's works, mathematicians say". There is an image of a monkey at a typewriter beneath. Text under the image reads, "Researchers from Australia has rejected the Infinite Monkey Theorem as 'misleading'"