And this is why I said, last year around the strikes in West Virginia and Oklahoma, that this should be the new labor movement. I think teachers should organize it nationwide, and other industries’ workers need to join with them. Fuck the consequences, especially if we can get massive buy-in. With enough people…

Because in many places the GOP has gone to great lengths, including making striking illegal, to break teachers unions and largely hurt their ability to take such actions.

I’m sure there’s a point at which Spotify could ruin its user interface that would make me cancel my monthly subscription, but I can’t imagine what it would be. I’m old enough to remember spending hundreds of dollars a month on CDs. The value of Spotify Premium is simply too absurdly good to abandon it over something…

Fascinating story last night on Rachel Maddow about how someone, probably the Russians again, is trying a new social media campaign interference plan for 2020. This one is more subtle, but even more extensive, and it consists of using Kremlinology-type analysis to find the potential fault lines between democratic…

You also still can’t block users from following you. I’m thrilled they’ve put so much effort into making “sharing” easier but still can’t help me block my psycho stalker ex from seeing my name and fueling his obsession every time he opens his spotify.

I use it quite a bit. I tend to have music just going in the background while working or whatever, and I’ll actually consciously tune in to a song about halfway through and think, “I love this song!” and hit repeat so I can hear it all the way through while I’m paying attention.

I hate that this show is relying too heavily on one of the most overused tired tropes. Not letting your couples just be together. First it was Jason and Janet. Then it was Jason and Tahani. Now it’s Eleanor and Chidi. And you just KNOW by the end of the first episode of Season 4, Eleanor is going to have to look on…

Also, I too think the experiment is flawed but for a different reason. It’s not just that the sample number is low - in people (8 in total) and repeats (the new r are basically just second repeat). My bigger issue is that the conditions are not the same. And not just that there are no demons there this time. Or that…

Remember when Community, Parks and Rec, The Office, and 30 Rock used to air back to back? Good times.

I love this show. This episode was a reminder of how great Bell is at switching between funny and sincerely emotional in the same scene. But I’m having some problems with the Chidi/Eleanor plot being this great romance/love story we’re supposed to be swept up in. We know that they frequently found each other in the…

I really feel like a lot of people are really misunderstanding these last couple of episodes. For one, just because there was a last person to get into the Good Place, that doesn’t mean there was a cliff, some big over night change. I’m sure it was a gradual trailing off as the complexities of society gradually…

I assume her case came to the attention of the accountants because she did a new act, something that had never been done in quite that way before. People had created charities before, but not intended to create such a huge one, withdrawn all their life savings in order to do it, and gotten hit by a train on the way.

Counterpoint, mediocre is the wrong word. It’s a flawed masterpiece. It’s doing things in terms of structure, plotting and philosophy that no sitcom has effectively pulled off. It's a sit con with no sit. And the price you pay for that is a lot of exposition. I get that's not everyone's bag, but mediocre it is not. 

I think we’re saying similar things here.

Fifty-two percent of white women voted for Donald Trump.

I’ll just bookmark this for later...

Solid blurb, thank you!

Sigh, I’ll be the one to take the bait (I always do)...