… a book that couldn't be published when written, issued in redacted format several decades later, in a country that no longer exists; and oh yeah an elderly brother & sister whose grandmother was Bulgakov's 3rd wife and insist that makes them his legitimate heirs
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the competing copyright claims surrounding Michael Lockshin's Master and Margarita adaptation are f'cking wild. It's kept it from having a U.S. distributor (recently were able to start showing it in some places in Europe) for a few years, and it's definitely not only about the politics.

Putin has already put in place constantly escalating, increasingly dire consequences for any Russian scholar or scientist who works with any Western colleague or institution so why not reciprocate?
(Although I doubt these idiots are even thinking of Russia here.)

if you give a dog a pancake
he'll probably want a waffle to go with it

NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"

(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)

Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!

Greek gods definitely taking notes and adding it to their list of eternal punishments alongside Sisyphus, Tantalus, and Prometheus

… while their friends & family members might seem to be the fortunate ones, they're haunted by the sense they are only there as background, as if they are extras in their own lives.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is their bible.

Munchausen syndrome is *rampant.*

A great deal of tension is caused by the fact that while almost everybody has the same rhythm to their lives and weirdly similar hobbies some of them are dying of ultra-specific forms of cancer while others just have eczema, which is now in remission in any case.

Midway through my script based on the premise of a (Truman Show-esque) contained reality where the inhabitants are all people in pharmaceutical commercials interacting with people from other pharmaceutical commercials without any of them being aware that they are in a constructed reality.

… I hope you were Yuri Anbaeropov and Konstantin Cherbaenenko for, like 2½ hours each.

Wait how am I just finding out now about your rebirth, your … *restructuring*, as it were. There should have been more *openness* about this.

Gary Larson just brought the Far Side back and this guy wants to do a Nazi spinoff already.

(not really though)

As an Eschaton comment section junkie twenty years ago I remember the episode (perhaps the one/one of the ones you are referring to) with the regular who would not stop using a phrase beginning with the word “dime” …

“that alone would/should be enough*” for impeachment

(*in previous and/or alternate versions of reality)
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Average bluesky poster (me): sorry guys that I was working/spending time with my family/staring into the abyss waiting for it to finally notice me, won't happen again.

It took all that time for that cat to realize the Stasi was no longer going to stop him from having a cheeseburger.

the fact that they were *worried* that the R's would nuke the filibuster and wanted to save it might in fact be the depressing part; i.e. – they were afraid to continue their filibuster lest the GOP ban the filibuster, resulting in a situation where only Repubs use the filibuster when it matters.