Legaltreble
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“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.”
This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.”
She’s the only person I can remember when people ask “Have you ever met a celebrity?” Hearing her speak was delightful.
There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢
Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
apnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
She’s the only person I can remember when people ask “Have you ever met a celebrity?” Hearing her speak was delightful.
If you think about it, John Hammond is just Willy Wonka with dinosaurs.
August 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If you think about it, John Hammond is just Willy Wonka with dinosaurs.
I ordered medium tonight, but they must have known and gave me mild.
me ordering spice level at the Indian place: whatever get it fast
my white friends ordering spice level at the Indian place:
my white friends ordering spice level at the Indian place:
a man with a beard is looking at a computer screen with mathematical equations coming out of it .
Alt: a man with a beard is looking at a computer screen with mathematical equations coming out of it . many calculations are being done.
media.tenor.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I ordered medium tonight, but they must have known and gave me mild.
Reposted by Legaltreble
me ordering spice level at the Indian place: whatever get it fast
my white friends ordering spice level at the Indian place:
my white friends ordering spice level at the Indian place:
a man with a beard is looking at a computer screen with mathematical equations coming out of it .
Alt: a man with a beard is looking at a computer screen with mathematical equations coming out of it . many calculations are being done.
media.tenor.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
me ordering spice level at the Indian place: whatever get it fast
my white friends ordering spice level at the Indian place:
my white friends ordering spice level at the Indian place:
Reposted by Legaltreble
Smoke and Stack are back in town, this time with a Black American Sign Language version on streaming!
#Sinners
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#Sinners
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Sinners Heads to Streaming, Including Black American Sign Language Version - Reactor
The movie makes its way to HBO Max on the Fourth of July.
reactormag.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Smoke and Stack are back in town, this time with a Black American Sign Language version on streaming!
#Sinners
reactormag.com/sinners-head...
#Sinners
reactormag.com/sinners-head...
Body talk is not a bonding activity
June 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Body talk is not a bonding activity
The second-most in demand language for interpretation is ASL.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Sometimes things don't function for totally inscrutable reasons, and you just have to be okay with that.
Sometimes things don't function for totally inscrutable reasons, and you just have to be okay with that.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.
Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.
June 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The second-most in demand language for interpretation is ASL.
Distracting myself from The Horrors by ranking Disney live action remakes. Cinderella is an uncontested #1.
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Distracting myself from The Horrors by ranking Disney live action remakes. Cinderella is an uncontested #1.
Goodnight and Good Luck was ok, and then the last two minutes were everything good theatre should be.
June 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Goodnight and Good Luck was ok, and then the last two minutes were everything good theatre should be.
Waiting for a garage door because of tariffs reminds me of waiting for a refrigerator because of COVID/boat stuck.
May 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Waiting for a garage door because of tariffs reminds me of waiting for a refrigerator because of COVID/boat stuck.
Seeing Parade in Atlanta feels super surreal after Corey Bookers remarks in the Senate today.
“I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.”
“I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.”
April 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Seeing Parade in Atlanta feels super surreal after Corey Bookers remarks in the Senate today.
“I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.”
“I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.”
Tell me why so many movie subtitles just say “speaking foreign language” but in Fievel Goes West we get “speaking mousehican dialect.”
March 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tell me why so many movie subtitles just say “speaking foreign language” but in Fievel Goes West we get “speaking mousehican dialect.”
Funnily enough, we have this exact set of wind chimes, and they survived Katrina on a friend’s house in New Orleans.
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
theonion.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Funnily enough, we have this exact set of wind chimes, and they survived Katrina on a friend’s house in New Orleans.
That songbook had all the words Disney is about to put back in.
February 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
That songbook had all the words Disney is about to put back in.
Decided to escape The Horrors with a new game of Pokémon Snap.
February 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Decided to escape The Horrors with a new game of Pokémon Snap.
Just cried laughing at my husband’s Spotify Wrapped. He’s a top 0.5% listener to Nine an inch Nails. All of the facts were about Nine Inch Nails. But in a distant second place, the Rick and Morty soundtrack.
December 9, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Just cried laughing at my husband’s Spotify Wrapped. He’s a top 0.5% listener to Nine an inch Nails. All of the facts were about Nine Inch Nails. But in a distant second place, the Rick and Morty soundtrack.
“In the Air Tonight” immediately came to mind.
I'd like to think, that on their home planet, when the aliens from ALIEN use that mini-mouth that's inside their mouth, it's for singing harmonies.
December 7, 2024 at 5:40 AM
“In the Air Tonight” immediately came to mind.
In about 1995 we wanted to call our soccer team the Red Dogs and we weren’t allowed.
December 2, 2024 at 2:19 AM
In about 1995 we wanted to call our soccer team the Red Dogs and we weren’t allowed.
Anyone else ruin Thanksgiving yet, or just me? My therapist will never come back from Paris at this rate.
November 28, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Anyone else ruin Thanksgiving yet, or just me? My therapist will never come back from Paris at this rate.
Watching boxing for the first time and really starting to understand that bread and circuses thing.
November 16, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Watching boxing for the first time and really starting to understand that bread and circuses thing.
Every starter pack I follow feels like opening Pokemon cards. Some dupes, some new frens!
November 11, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Every starter pack I follow feels like opening Pokemon cards. Some dupes, some new frens!
Halfway through a rewatch of Bones, realizing I may not be able to tolerate anything else for the next four years. I have become frozen in the sideways Bones universe where government institutions are good, actually.
November 9, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Halfway through a rewatch of Bones, realizing I may not be able to tolerate anything else for the next four years. I have become frozen in the sideways Bones universe where government institutions are good, actually.
We’ve got Houston County (HOW-stin) and Senoia (sen-OY).
November 8, 2024 at 11:15 PM
We’ve got Houston County (HOW-stin) and Senoia (sen-OY).