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Dr. Vaughn Joy
The violent race riots in Belfast are exactly what Trump, JD Vance, and Fox News were trying to make happen to Haitians in Ohio during the campaign and what they wanted to happen to Somalis in Minneapolis as well
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
Please Use AI
As I have learned this week, some like it hot, so you guys can't be mad at me for talking about how fucked up Some Like it Hot (1959) is.
But it's a fascinating film that can profess a moral philosophy while also utterly refusing to live up to it, in this case, that good people aren't bad men.
As I have learned this week, some like it hot, so you guys can't be mad at me for talking about how fucked up Some Like it Hot (1959) is.
But it's a fascinating film that can profess a moral philosophy while also utterly refusing to live up to it, in this case, that good people aren't bad men.
Our Biscuits is burning (but she has a fan pointed at her tum)
Trump “employed a crew of 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked in 12-hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats or masks …
The workers were paid as little as $4 an hour for their dangerous labor, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all.” www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/n...
This review of Some Like it Hot was really inspired by this post from Marisa Kabas that has been rattling around in my head for days:
Get the boomers in your life away from genAI - entirely.
Incidentally no one should be using energy-hogging tech unless they are solving climate catastrophe, pandemic modelling or similar. The roots of human suffering today aren't a lack of "AI" or bullshit devices.
Planning ahead for public scholarship? Some upcoming anniversaries & observances:
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
60th of Medicare’s operation – Jul 1
200th of Adams and Jefferson deaths – Jul 4
80th of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock – Jul 14
Pitching, creating, and publishing public scholarship can all happen rapidly or take months, so it's always a good idea to plan ahead where possible! Obviously things come up on the daily now that lau...
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
Dr. Vaughn Joy
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
the vision for positive masculinity is feminism.
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
