That might be intentional, contrasting his small conspiratorial mode of resistance with the larger rebellion, though the show doesn't do much to really explore that contrast (which is IMO one of the big failings of the second half of season 2)

"Poor Things" (the book) is filled with specific details of 19th century industrialisation, politics and ideology; moving the setting to from Glasgow to London is emblematic of the way the film replaces all that with a boring, generic steampunk vibe

It gets worse - mixer taps were common in the UK in the 70s, but at some point people intentionally went back to the two separate ones

I'm old enough to remember when the cultural consensus on Sinatra was that he was a mediocre hack whose success came from embodying a regressive form of masculinity, and I would like it if we could return to those days

It's a real testament to Frank Sinatra's charisma that he managed to have a successful career despite all his songs being absolute dogshit

A sad sign of the decline of the internet that @adamkotsko.bsky.social is posting here, and not on a single-user mastodon instance called The Microblog

You call it an experimental decentralised social network from the creator of Twitter, I call it Adam Kotsko's new web site

To be clear, I am still ideologically opposed to all non-Mastodon Twitter replacements