On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
Finally finished this. Just an unbelievably great book, with an all-timer of an ending. I’m just stunned by it.
Alex de CampiCurrently reading: Orlando King, by Isabel Colegate. Saw this at Daunt when I was in the UK, but was already buying an absurd number of books. It stayed in my mind, finally found a (secondhand!) copy in the US via Thriftbooks. Absolutely loving it. Her style is WILD and compelling
There’s no image I can find online and this is beyond recherché, but: Sam Fuller playing himself in Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️Name your fav film cameo by someone portraying themselves.
Managing a factory in Massachusetts or or booking all the travel for the Chicago Daily News. On the distaff side, legal secretary or homemaker.
RevanEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
At my day job people occasionally give me papers to edit that have been written with copilot. Not only can I tell immediately because of the damn Linkedin Manual of Style syntax and repetitive flow, it takes me 5x as long to edit as when the poor writing is of 100% human origin
post malone ergo propter malonecannot overstate how much of people being put off of AI is specifically copilot’s fault
putting up the @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social signal because this whole decision is a delight
Courtney MilanI am still reeling from the judge saying "notwithstanding Freeman's status as an attorney herself, she would do her utmost to avoid or evade compliance with any court order that she did not like." What a thing to have said about you in the court record.
Thread. Sonita is amazing and deserved so much better
Written by Uju ✍🏽Sonita earned that moment. Years of discipline, sacrifice, and hard work led to that 334.5 kg world record attempt. She deserved a fair opportunity to make history, not to have that moment stolen by hate. #Fitness #Powerlifting #BlackWomen
Also this is $4.99 for the eBook right now (via Kobo/Rakuten) so uh now I own it!
Premee MohamedP.S. I would still like for people to read THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and then look at themselves and be like "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need to be the protagonist of a fairytale horror story in a magical forest" us.macmillan.com/books/978125...