Greg Beam
@gregbeam.bsky.social
My job is teaching people how to act out things other people have written, write things for other people to act out, or tell people how to act out things that other people have written. (Also, how to talk and write about movies.)
I guess Columbia University can go back to being called King's College.
July 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I guess Columbia University can go back to being called King's College.
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"What is causality but blame?"
-Madeline ffitch, "Seeing through Maps"
-Madeline ffitch, "Seeing through Maps"
April 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"What is causality but blame?"
-Madeline ffitch, "Seeing through Maps"
-Madeline ffitch, "Seeing through Maps"
Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein IS the monster. Insight is knowing that YOU'RE the monster.
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein IS the monster. Insight is knowing that YOU'RE the monster.
I'm surprised more people haven't noticed that "Anora" is the film that "Pretty Woman" was originally supposed to be. (And the comparisons run even deeper when you tie in the final scene of "The Florida Project.") #anora
March 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I'm surprised more people haven't noticed that "Anora" is the film that "Pretty Woman" was originally supposed to be. (And the comparisons run even deeper when you tie in the final scene of "The Florida Project.") #anora
You know what would be great? If, on Sunday night, every Oscar recipient, instead of making a speech, simply said, "I stand with Ukraine."
March 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
You know what would be great? If, on Sunday night, every Oscar recipient, instead of making a speech, simply said, "I stand with Ukraine."
"Woke just means you give a damn about other people."
- Jane Fonda
- Jane Fonda
February 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"Woke just means you give a damn about other people."
- Jane Fonda
- Jane Fonda
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
After claiming remote workers are actually golfing, Trump again hits the links in Florida | CNN Politics
As President Donald Trump orders federal workers to return to the office, he spent the fourth straight day at home here at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
www.cnn.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...
This is an article I wrote a few years ago, the implications of which grow increasingly frightening. While it doesn't attempt to explain the entirety of our current political insanity, it speaks to an important part of it that might be worth examining more closely.
medium.com/@glandrybeam...
medium.com/@glandrybeam...
Christian Consequentialism: A Zero-Sum Game
How the U.S. Supreme Court may have adopted the moral logic of the Spanish Inquisition
medium.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is an article I wrote a few years ago, the implications of which grow increasingly frightening. While it doesn't attempt to explain the entirety of our current political insanity, it speaks to an important part of it that might be worth examining more closely.
medium.com/@glandrybeam...
medium.com/@glandrybeam...
Credit where credit is due: I agree with Trump's call to eliminate the penny. It's a mind-bogglingly stupid and wasteful relic of an earlier economic age. Just as a broken clock is right two times a day, even a babbling, narcissistic fascist will occasionally make a good call.
February 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Credit where credit is due: I agree with Trump's call to eliminate the penny. It's a mind-bogglingly stupid and wasteful relic of an earlier economic age. Just as a broken clock is right two times a day, even a babbling, narcissistic fascist will occasionally make a good call.
Breaking: Senate Republicans use procedural vote to block Avengers' efforts to oppose Thanos.
February 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Breaking: Senate Republicans use procedural vote to block Avengers' efforts to oppose Thanos.
DEI didn't kill 67 people -- DOGE did.
January 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
DEI didn't kill 67 people -- DOGE did.
‘A Betrayal, a Mockery’: Police Express Outrage Over Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
Police Express Outrage Over Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons
More than 150 officers from the Capitol Police and the D.C. police were injured when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol four years ago.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
‘A Betrayal, a Mockery’: Police Express Outrage Over Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
Neo-Nazis and the Anti-Defamation League (an organization founded to combat antisemitism) have found common ground in support of Elon Musk... WTF is going on?
January 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Neo-Nazis and the Anti-Defamation League (an organization founded to combat antisemitism) have found common ground in support of Elon Musk... WTF is going on?
Let's be clear: Trump pardoned a bunch of cop killers. TRUMP PARDONED A BUNCH OF COP KILLERS.
January 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Let's be clear: Trump pardoned a bunch of cop killers. TRUMP PARDONED A BUNCH OF COP KILLERS.
I'm almost convinced that the only point of the proposed tariffs on Mexico is to stick it to woke, liberal city dwellers by making avocado toast more expensive.
January 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm almost convinced that the only point of the proposed tariffs on Mexico is to stick it to woke, liberal city dwellers by making avocado toast more expensive.
I first watched #Interstellar when Milo (our eldest) was a baby. I watched it again last night. It's still abundantly flawed (I can't help rolling my eyes when Anne Hathaway talks about love being a power from another dimension)... but boy, that movie hits different after 10 years of parenting.
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I first watched #Interstellar when Milo (our eldest) was a baby. I watched it again last night. It's still abundantly flawed (I can't help rolling my eyes when Anne Hathaway talks about love being a power from another dimension)... but boy, that movie hits different after 10 years of parenting.
"Reading is quieting the mind and making room for another voice. [...] Reading is even, I'll say, the cure for loneliness, meanness, narcissism."
- Lauren Groff
- Lauren Groff
January 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Reading is quieting the mind and making room for another voice. [...] Reading is even, I'll say, the cure for loneliness, meanness, narcissism."
- Lauren Groff
- Lauren Groff
"Art is a lifelong companion that one creates oneself. Art is a slowly accumulated, rarefied atmosphere in which one can breathe freely. Art is a way to sing back into eternity." - Lauren Groff
January 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"Art is a lifelong companion that one creates oneself. Art is a slowly accumulated, rarefied atmosphere in which one can breathe freely. Art is a way to sing back into eternity." - Lauren Groff
In 1979, Jimmy Carter (RIP) had solar panels installed at the White House.
After his inauguration in 1981, Ronald Reagan had the panels permanently removed.
I feel like this says so much about our nation's trajectory over the last several decades.
After his inauguration in 1981, Ronald Reagan had the panels permanently removed.
I feel like this says so much about our nation's trajectory over the last several decades.
December 31, 2024 at 5:01 PM
In 1979, Jimmy Carter (RIP) had solar panels installed at the White House.
After his inauguration in 1981, Ronald Reagan had the panels permanently removed.
I feel like this says so much about our nation's trajectory over the last several decades.
After his inauguration in 1981, Ronald Reagan had the panels permanently removed.
I feel like this says so much about our nation's trajectory over the last several decades.
Rewatched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for the first time in 25 years... and I can't get over the parallels with Fight Club.
December 25, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Rewatched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for the first time in 25 years... and I can't get over the parallels with Fight Club.
I want everyone who INSISTS that "cacti" is the only acceptable plural of "cactus" to start referring to "camerae" rather than cameras. If you're going to be pedantic, be so consistently.
December 22, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I want everyone who INSISTS that "cacti" is the only acceptable plural of "cactus" to start referring to "camerae" rather than cameras. If you're going to be pedantic, be so consistently.
Reposted by Greg Beam
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library
Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
Reposted by Greg Beam
When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
December 8, 2024 at 1:47 AM
When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
"Physically objective matter is not an observable fact but a conceptual explanatory device abstracted from the patterns and regularities of observable facts."
- Bernardo Kastrup
- Bernardo Kastrup
December 9, 2024 at 3:06 AM
"Physically objective matter is not an observable fact but a conceptual explanatory device abstracted from the patterns and regularities of observable facts."
- Bernardo Kastrup
- Bernardo Kastrup