Liam Lanigan

So? She's a neocon warmonger exactly like her father. Making her the centerpiece of their whole campaign to try and win an imaginary constituency of disaffected Republicans was a ridiculous idea and it failed miserably.

Bluesky really is where humour goes to die

Hahaha followed

That response was a Simpsons reference though. You're supposed to say oh I get it, I get jokes

It's a joke

Weird how there's always JUST enough Democrats to get these things over the line.

I knew a sequel to My Dinner With Andre was a bad idea

Not great that my university is actively pushing this goddamn thing on our students and pretending it's just a "tool" to fix grammar.

Lecture: Aran Ward Sell, "Streams of Damaged Consciousness in Contemporary Irish Fiction" Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute and the English Department for a lecture by Yeats Fellow in Literature, Dr. Aran Ward Sell. Ward Sell's lectur...

I'm the respondent for this talk in Notre Dame on Thursday, if you happen to be in the neighborhood. Aran is a brilliant guy and he has a hell of a book coming out on this subject. irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2026/...

Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’s Capital and the Global City Abstract. This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-syste...

Oh awesome, yeah for sure. This is a link, but if the paywall is an issue I can do a PDF when I'm at a computer.

read.dukeupress.edu/modern-langu...

I'm really glad someone has been teaching that novel, I wrote a thing about it a few years ago (that I was very proud of but I don't think anybody read) and became very sentimental about it.

Oh The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray is interesting, about Dublin as a financialized space and the crash.

*more, *lanchester

Non-speculative fiction, but George Gissings The Whirlpool. Moore contemporary but John Lamchesters Capital: A Novel is a remarkable work of finance realism. Someone mentioned Peter Mountford young man's guide, also a sequel called the dismal science, both set in IMF/vulture fund Bolivia post 2001

Noir by KW Jeter is, I think, badly underrated as a savage critique of debt-fuelled capitalism (people are kept artificially alive to continue paying their debts after they've died...really resonates). The Dispossessed by Le Guin jumps to mind...

And we don't have to set aside hundreds of years of pedagogical expertise to make way for the new "tool" in writing that makes everybody sound the same and say the same boring shit.

The assumption built in to the way tech people talk about this stuff is the idea that all of this simply has to happen, that it is inevitable. So that nobody in power anywhere feels emboldened to say, we actually don't have to do this, we don't have to set the earth on fire to make ai celebrity porn

Hey Boeing, stick to building pl- oh actually no don't do that either. Stick to stock buybacks.

You sound worried.

This is just the "yet you participate in society" meme from the left

Was she just following orders when she put on all her stupid costumes and gurned at the camera?

Democrats really are just Charlie Brown taking yet another run at the football. No thanks to the Democratic leadership themselves, you have these feral animals by the balls, you don't call a timeout now to give them the chance to regroup, you keep going. I mean, Tom Homan, Jesus Christ.

Amazing let's hope he doesn't

It would be far from the strangest result this year. Here's hoping.

If we win against the niners this week, the niners will rest everyone against the Seahawks next week as they've nothing to play for. In other words, we are probably not getting the number one seed.

I grew up watching this over and over and realized this morning I've probably watched it more times than any other except maybe star wars. Having grown up with it it was strange to gradually realize I was now, in my thirties and forties, identifying with Richard Dreyfus rather than Wil Wheaton.

Olivia Nuzzi I think. But it could be anything

Arnie Pye with "Arnie the Sky" instead of "Pye in the sky" is one of my favourite underrated Simpsons lines @criminalsimpsons.com

So you're saying there's a chance

Oh, so you can write a headline in plain English, when it suits you?

I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness. But I am not a government official.