To them, the sum total of good leadership is “no one yelled at me today”.

Everyone on this website already knows this. If you are blind to the evils of Amazon then you wouldn’t have made the effort to migrate to this specific social media platform.

I mean, I get that to some degree, but he’s an American journalist posting about a biscuit he made in which the majority of the comments all agree with his usage of the word…context clues? I don’t expect everyone to know everything about our culture, but this is just context.

The performing of ignorance with this is just so obnoxious. If just about every American knows that the Brits use the word biscuit differently, then the inverse is almost certainly true. Especially people on Bluesky.

I'll reply here since you sought out my profile to respond to me but I can't reply to you there (lol). I liked the response because I thought it was funny, my guy. As for Lolita itself? I'll admit the hand-wringing about that book does annoy me, so I'm primed to respond accordingly.

True. I wasn’t disagreeing. Just also mortified by the story’s framing.

Don’t give him too much credit.

How do you uncritically write a statement like “enabling teachers to spend their time motivating rather than teaching students”? How does this not give the reporter pause?

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

This is absolutely grotesque.