That Old Broadbean

@thatoldbear.bsky.social

it just occurred to me that with the passing of petrol engines, phrases like "full throttle" or "high octane" will pass into the realms of anachronism within a generation

わはは

@mrbowers.bsky.social

It's one thing to be leery of a movie you haven't seen because of other peoples' reactions, but making sweeping definitive statements about it based on those reactions is uh.

General Boles

@generalboles.bsky.social

Want to read a piece in which the author repeatedly makes a tortuous connection between Andy Burnham, Morecambe & Wise and The Smiths?

YOU DO!!!

It's your lucky day -

UCL Discovery

@ucldiscovery.bsky.social

Open Access UCL Research: Governments must reconcile dissonant climate assessment approaches https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10232404/

G1 - Globo

@g1-globo.bsky.social

Resumão diário do JN: Campanhas de Lula e Flávio Bolsonaro entregam documentos ao TSE, mas não abrem os sigilos; temporal provoca estragos no Paraná

George Reiter

@gwreiter.bsky.social

reminded
"Even children have an innate sense of morality, knowing right from wrong",
as evidence in his story of children playing game of marbles, a game of simple rules
"The Righteous Mind" Jonathan Haidt

aniline-mauve

@aniline-mauve.bsky.social

I'm listening to DSR's Words Matter | Down to the Wire in a Battle for America’s Soul on Podbean, check it out! https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hryuu-31cdcec6

I love these guys. They're 2 scholars and DC insiders who converse for our edification weekly on the podcast Words Matter. It's ~ 2 wks old? Start at 7:14.

Tiglath-Pileser III enjoyer

@sapoorondo.bsky.social

Sealioning is of course a bad faith and fallacious tactic to derrail arguments. But the original Sea Lion was lowkey right those two things can coexist.

Evgeny

@earchibald.bsky.social

Every once in a while I pick this up off my workbench and stare at it, agog every time at the absolute ham-fisted cold-war-ness of it all.

So many bangers, both in the 2022 context and in the 2026 context:

"No war with Russia to distract from domestic problems"

🎃 Ballooween 🎃

@whyballoo.bsky.social

Detail in Inglorious Basterds I never noticed until now: Shoshana is taking down the marquee for the Piz Palu documentary Fassbender references in the bar standoff to explain his accent. Probably why that excuse for his accent didn't assuage suspicion when folks had just seen the movie.