I work at your local community college. He/him
that is in fact literally in the bible. it's Matthew 6:5.
Right Wing WatchRep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."
“Fandom replacing appreciation and criticism is one of the worst plagues affecting art.” LOUDER
Marty Ludd 🇭🇷Absolutely. I loved the review, even though I'd seen the movie and genuinely enjoyed it. I thought it was a great movie, I thought she wrote a great review panning it! Fandom replacing appreciation and criticism is one of the worst plagues affecting art.
WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...
An Odyssey Through Testimonial InjusticeOn reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properlynews.chanda.scienceChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌Don’t make me write a newsletter about how Emily Wilson is allowed to be an expert, you guys
The poet herself. To me, the crucial line of this review: "Sadly, Damon’s Odysseus isn’t complicated or wily or artful." Someone, perhaps Professor Wilson, hypothesized that Nolan actually wanted to make the Aeneid. That would explain a lot.
EMILY WILSONI wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It's insane how many people don't know anything about Myst. Myst is the reason we started used discs for computer games, and the game that made mainstream culture start considering video games to be art. It is like more significant to video game history than any film was to film history.
headfallsoffi think one of the biggest underlinings in just how bad the western industry has been about its own legacy is like. myst isnt just an old game. it was final fantasy vii before final fantasy vii. it was that fucking huge.
With the exception of Lt. Columbo, I don't want fictional crimes being solved by fictional cops
John RogersAn antagonistic relationship with power in general, despite the occasional frenemy cop for contacts/story advancement, is pretty key, but American mainstream TV can't help but lay in that the PI as an adjunct to legitimate power.
Texas created an outcomes-based funding model for community colleges. Students and colleges outperformed expectations, so now the state wants to change the rules so they don't have to pay what they promised. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/22/t...
Texas may limit community college's incentive fundingA formula designed to reward colleges for student success generated larger payouts than budgeted. Now, Texas’ higher education agency may limit how schools receive such funding.www.texastribune.org
Thinking of starting an accout specifically to repost the John Rogers Greatest Hits: Loose Nuke Wainscoting 27% ...am I missing any?
John RogersA billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same urgency and ruthlessness to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.
It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.
I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump JudgesFour months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.ballsandstrikes.substack.com