Katie Frink

napward bound

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Me: I live in a world where people think we should kill other people who annoy us
Hobbes: On no. Sounds like you live in the State of Nature. The solution to that is authoritarianism.
Me: You say that, but in my world the authoritarians ALSO support vigilante justice
Hobbes: Wut?

[Katie Frink @frike16]

Roll Lynx! Join me in making a gift to #RhodesGivingDay #RhodesGivingDay #rhodescollege https://t.co/Snq9kCDyb7

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

i just found out that tumblr went to town on this venn diagram i made

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

doing a story about why Americans don't mend clothes anymore and was talking to Linda Przybyszewski, author of The Lost Art of Dress. she brought up a really good point: ppl don't mend clothes because clothes have become simpler, which has contributed to their cheapening 🧵

[san 🇵🇸 @ndsnas]

Haven’t stopped laughing at this Letterboxd list for a hot minute.

[Travon Free @Travon]

We should talk more about these numbers. They make so many things about this ridiculous country make sense.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Memorable #SuperBowl halftime shows as art, a 🧵, starting with last year, LVI. The Bathers, by Pablo Picasso, 1956

[Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt]

Thread:

Hey, everyone: This is pretty big.

The Daily Caller (ugh) has memos from the Florida DOE suggesting they were influencing @CollegeBoard on the AP African-American Studies curriculum as early as January 2022, and at the very minimum, July 2022.

[Chase Woodruff @dcwoodruff]

Happy two-year anniversary to the video that best captures the feeling of being alive in the 21st century

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Let’s Get Back to Teaching the Basics

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[Allie Mounce @alliemounce]

I got so many texts from people outside Memphis this week telling me to stay safe, stay home, watch out, warning me about rioters and looting and mayhem etc etc and I just want to say, who is scaring you? Why do you think they want you scared?

[Refusing to Forget @Refusing2Forget]

#OTD on January 15, 1919, State Representative José Tomás Canales, representing the Rio Grande Valley, along the border with Mexico, filed House Bill 5, calling a reform of the Texas Rangers. This action inaugurated the greatest crisis in the history of the Ranger Force . . . /1

[River Page @river_is_nice]

This 1980 gay travel book accurately predicting the future of the US economy as an aside👌

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol who did this

[Threatening Music Notation @ThreatNotation]

Legend has it the only way to get a vocalist to shut up is to put some sheet music in front of them

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

One of the most beloved free-to-use photos in the Library's collection is of Brünnhilde, for obvious reasons. We're happy to report that 2023 comes with a freshly digitized photograph of Brünnhilde from another angle. 😻

More of our free-to-use photos: https://t.co/WxIawrfU9k

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

No such thing as unskilled labor in 2023. You're crushing it, Jason.

[Elmo @elmo]

Elmo is sleepy. . . Elmo will try again next year. Have a happy and safe New Year's Eve everybody! Elmo loves you. ❤️