The Rules-Based International Isaac Butler

Santos better watch out with this situationship

Yes (because surgeons really are egomaniacs!)

Larry Sanders Show = only show I’ve watched all the way through three times

Dr Garcia is the lowkey villain of the Pitt in this essay I will—

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

The only thing I can do about 'this is not a regime change war, we just insist on selecting the new government after launching a military campaign to topple the old government' is make stupid puns

The inevitable Supreme Court case where they rule that because you checked a EULA box you can’t sue openAI for your son’s death is gonna be rough.

It’s so fucking good!!!

Of the three actresses discussed in the piece, Jessie Buckley went to RADA, Emma Stone had private acting instruction beginning in high school, and Tayana Taylor, had a long music career beginning when she was 15. Reality tv has nothing really to do with their technical skills or talent.

Did You Know These Oscar-Nominated Actresses Started in Reality TV?

So this is a fun piece and no shade on Kyle, but man did the framing “is reality tv the new Juilliard” put a bee in my bonnet. Juilliard is a school, it exists to provide training. Reality tv might be a springboard to a career, but it does not provide real training.

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Looking Back at a Half-Forgotten Pioneer of Method Acting Marlon Brando was often credited as the first Method movie star, but that honor rightly belongs to John Garfield.

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I have used
the missiles
that were in
the arsenal

and which
you were probably
saving
for Russia

Forgive me
they were powerful
so shiny
and so deadly

You won’t find a better or safer environment for effeminate gay boys to freely be themselves than a community where trans kids are affirmed.

It's by no means the most important piece of the whole Paramount mishegoss but I feel like we don't talk enough about how Larry Ellison looks like 2010s Mickey Rourke got stung in the face by like 200 bees

This makes sense I just also think we have figured out how to solve it, and this is a massive problem for democracy!

(My specific acting mfa advice is that there are only a couple of programs that have a good track record of grads working steadily and if you don’t get into those you should consider a different strategy)

As for the MFA folks, maybe 1-2 people a year wound up being professional writers. My year there were three. But it’s not a waste of time to be paid to study writing and literature and to teach for three years! You’ll learn a lot.

my MFA program was adjoined to an English PHD program. I don’t think a single PhD candidate I knew is teaching in college? One owns a bar, several teach high school, some do copywriting, one works for a press. I don’t think they’re failures! Their work and self are informed by their grad experience

I loved my program and met people who changed my life… there was also at least one day where I pounded my hand against my steering wheel and screamed I DON’T DESERVE THIS! For five minutes.

You should go for a humanities PHD or MFA if you are willing to count years of growing and changing and learning in community as good *for their own sake* because the odds in the job market are terrible. And also because grad school is emotionally taxing!

… My further advice is if you’re going for an MFA, you should go only if you get funding or can graduate with minimal debt. The odds that you will make that money back with your creative work otherwise are small.

When people ask me about grad school— which to be clear was extremely helpful for my career— I tell them that I was lucky and they should not expect anything career wise to come out of it….

Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran Refusal to allow use of bases in Rota and Morón follows Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of US-Israeli action

Spain is one of the few European countries with an actual moral spine these days. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I don’t know what you mean by “you.” I voted against him!

Having one of those days where it’s like “I really still can’t believe we elected the worst person in the entire country to be President. TWICE.”

Hard to celebrate Purim when your President is Haman.

Lmao I had the exact same thought

MUSKISM by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff THE PERFECT MOMENT by Isaac Butler

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lol, come on, man.

1. Iraq and Iran are different countries?
2. Dude died because his tank fell into a river!