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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • I never watched the show, but I loved the movie. Almost every character feels competent and clever, so they do at least something that surprised me. There are a few points that hinge on details that feel a bit contrived, but I appreciated that the climax wasn’t just a physical fight between good guy and bad guy. The main characters have emotional problems that are believable and get resolved. Plus, it’s just a little campy.

    I think the “inside baseball” that you mentioned gave the world more depth. It felt “lived in”.

    I’ll give you that the movie does try to cram a lot into the time, though. It feels a little rushed.




  • Pro-tip: if you disable JavaScript, the blurring overlay doesn’t load. Neither do the comments, though.

    We might take the streets today/tonight. Be ready.

    The Supreme Court told trans people they’re not worthy to serve this country. After the silence. After the sacrifice. After the service. They were told they don’t belong. That’s not just policy. That’s cruelty.

    We haven’t made the call yet. But we’re close. Closer than we’ve ever been. This moment calls for something real. Something loud. Something spontaneous.

    DC law ALLOWS spontaneous protest when injustice hits. And this hit hard. We don’t need permits to be in pain. We don’t need permission to take the streets.

    If we move tonight, it’s because we had to. So stay close. Stay ready. We move as one.







  • Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the “verbatim”-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.

    Example:

    He said, “It’s fine”.

    “It’s fine”, he said.

    I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?

    Example:

    The spec sheet read “88 m.p.h.” on the back.

    Edit: It’s been two days, and no reply. I think they might have actually died on this hill.