Yo, this my corner I ain’t running nowhere
I was legitimately angry when that _Imitation Game_ movie implied that Alan Turing would have contemplated concealing John Cairncross’a treason for even one minute (had he actually known about it)
Sanjay SrivastavaWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
This is a good reminder that the worst Democrat (and I don’t think Spanberger is that) is better than the best Republican (and Youngkin wasn’t that)
TanielBIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.
“Almost entirely publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes” (laudatory)
The Emotion EngineThinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
But *why* is FIFA so corrupt? (an honest question and I want a long answer)
David, Host of The Cold WarUEFA, the least dirty of the bunch, throwing a glove down against FIFA.
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the Mountain GoatsOh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.