Ash

Tweeting on my laptop.

[Michael Reiners @MCRReiners]

An enormously overlooked point about formality in dress being an act of respect for the role, the duties it entails, and the setting you are in – not an act of self-serving grandiosity.

You wear a dark suit to a funeral because it is a significant event, out of respect for the dead, and as a signifier of your act of mourning. A HC criminal judge wears a wig because he is fulfilling the professional duty, and part, of the tribunal of law – you wear a suit to court as an act of respect to the institution and its determinative power.

The relational aspects of formality are lost on people in the era of dressing like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg - both of whom were sociopathicly cosplaying as ordinary men.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Watching The West Wing for the first time.

It has a claustrophobic feel: liberal technocrats moving in rooms, pulling levers, passing laws, and navigating mechanics of power. But the audience does not see outside the White House; we have no idea if the levers they’re pulling are doing anything at all.

Somehow a perfect expression of liberal politics

[ꑭGDP Patriot🇩🇪🇪🇺 @GDPMaxxer]

Me attempting to rank French Presidents' aura

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

I meditate on this post like a Zen koan.

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

This is how you shut up a lying Trump supporter

[OceanStateBoy🌹⚓️ @OceanStateBoy]

The two background characters from season 2 that become extremely important in season 6

[bronwyn @terrierview]

Nice little anecdote about Rishi Sunak who is highly regarded in his local constituency. Starmer & Reeves mocked him as likely to jet off to California…

[News to Remember @allchronology]

This is *absolutely* how to handle him. Stay on script. Insist on facts. Give him hell. 👏🏾

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

I’ve always been partial to the best bad review of Star Wars of them all, Alex Guinness’s review of Star Wars, and his disdain at the idea that a person in their 30’s would be “living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities”

[Bibbledy War Room @Libertybibbledy]

@ingelramdecoucy Sorry Alec, CS Lewis takes the square

[m @H00DBYA1R_]

i’m dead bro disney really soft launching dropping the sequels from canon

[nara @naranciagaming]

it's stupid what a good three-act narrative structure World War 2 had. so many dumb things fell into just the right place so as to guarantee maximum drama and perfect pacing. not to mention the greatest cast of characters in any war ever

[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Bolesław Biegas - "Palace of tenderness" (1928)

[Crooker @Slifer__Slacker]

THE most iconic Star Wars characters from each movie

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Cormac McCarthy with my favourite interview answer of all time

[Fives 🧬 - Acervo SW @fivesacervosw]

Retorno de Jedi é um caso muito interessante de um filme de qualidade extremamente questionável mas que tem um terceiro ato e uma resolução temática tão boa que fazem a gente esquecer que ele é basicamente a raiz de todos os vícios que a franquia tem nos últimos 40 anos...

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

I am sharing this chart partially because it shows just how impressive the size of the Chinese manufacturing sector is but also because of the nice design choice.

[kramerica industries @hepimp]

gonna have to break it to the kids the trip to see Russell Brands pubes is off.

[Salt🚩🕊️ @catothesaltman]

To prevent honeypotting, we must turn to an ancient solution: sensitive information should only be handled by eunuchs