Kip Manley @kiplet@social.tchncs.de
"No, no! Listen! Don't listen to me! Listen!"
Joined Apr 2017
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Ghost Busters (1977) starring Tomas Milian, Neil Innes, Sean Connery and John Fiedler (dir. Terry Jones)
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Normals:
A: It was bracus.
B: That's not a word.
A: Really? Er...*shame*
#Linguistics researchers:
A: It was bracus.
B: Definitely not a word.
A: Really? FASCINATING
"Why some single officer feels compelled to crush the lives of people who only want to live in safety and without fear is beyond me."
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prisons, politics
“—all of which have been frequently quoted and imitated.”
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The Trump Administration Weakens Standards for ICE Detention Facilities
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-trump-administration-weakens-standards-for-ice-detention-facilities/
"If it is done well, much of the labor remains off the page."
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Ghost Busters (1993) starring Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Debbie Reynolds and Victoria Rowell (dir. Hark Tsui)
"The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams," says the man. http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/2020/01/19/trip-trip-trip
"Habits formed trying to survive while homeless are hard to just turn off with an apartment."
(Here, have some greatest hits: http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/2019/12/30/decade-dance )
Oh, hey, the pier turns 18 today. http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/2020/01/17/anniversary
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Speaking of blogs. Everyone’s gone wild for newsletters lately, yeah? What if I just made a tool that let you subscribe to someone’s blog (e.g. mine) as a newsletter, in your email?
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Family Ghostbuster (1976) starring Barbara Hershey, Gena Rowlands, Paula Prentiss and Margaret Blye (dir. Hal Ashby)
(It is, in fact, a banger: http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/2020/01/16/care )
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I’m on a Graeber kick recently anyway (review still forthcoming of Bullshit Jobs, which was superb), so big thx to Kip for pointing me at this one: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/13/the-center-blows-itself-up-care-and-spite-in-the-brexit-election/
the problem with bringing back blogs is https://jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-01-02-blogs/
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“— the post-crash newer-left academic-adjacent—“
"No, no! Listen! Don't listen to me! Listen!"
Joined Apr 2017
