But did you know that when Aragorn kicks an uruk hai helmet, Viggo Mortensen actually broke his toe and that’s what you’re seeing on screen?

Dude, what??? I’m with Chris, watch it now or turn in your nerd card. Extended edition, then all the DVD extras. Get back to us in a week.

J’imagine même qu’une labellisation par une autorité meme semi-étatique serait un baiser de la mort pour la confiance du public. Je n’en voudrai pas pour mon site.

@nickywoolf.bsky.social is that you?

The headline and top of the piece are extremely jarring framing. The rest is fine, reporting on the tiny insider world of NY power brokers that enabled Epstein. Idk why the NYT keeps making things hard for itself with these headlines. They’re not a clickbait business.

I try to be consistent

I deactivated alerts for unsubscribes years ago because it made me feel shitty (esp when a known reader) and it just doesn’t matter that much. Much better looking at aggregate trends.

Haha no if they were, this would be a story about a local non-event 300 miles out of their patch.

I really tried… tbf it’s an archive piece from 2004 that’s probably not playing well with their newer layout but that in itself is a problem.

😂😂😂

It covers an insane amount of ground (probably too much, the topic should be a PhD) so the writing is extremely economical. Which will probably cost me bc academics really love it when you belabour a point. 154 footnotes/citations so far, 6 pages of bibliography, 16 of appendices.

Lol this is a 16,000 word dissertation, we’re long past tight.

Harsh.