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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 4h

you're on thin ice but you're okay as long as alice's restaurant is the name of the restaurant

James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 5h

both American and UK popular music suggest negative favorability ratings for ghosts, with US charts expressing support for "busting" them and UK charts suggesting a preference for "hav[ing] a piece of toast and watch[ing] the evening news"

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 9h

(to be fair so can bankruptcy court; sometimes you really are trying to do something or stop someone from doing something on a couple hours' notice and no idea what your or anyone else's witness will say)

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 17h

I remembered this quote being earlier than it actually is so I started from the beginning looking for it, and then I figured why not finish the chapter, and I think that means I'm just rereading the books now. I know it's the most obvious thing in the world to say but they're still really good?

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 17h

Lawyers like to remark that our work isn't like Perry Mason, that there aren't sudden shocking reveals in court. And they're right, but it's always felt ridiculous to me to use a show from the '50s as the example when modern culture has gifted us an even more on-point fictional attorney.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 23h

(the post-canon Star Wars kids' novels with Ken, the Jedi Prince from the Lost City Of The Jedi, going on adventures and learning extremely heavy-handed morals were childhood favorites but they're also very bad)

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 23h

I read a *lot* of MTG books back in the day and I can't speak to anything from the last couple decades but Lynn Abbey's PLANESWALKER (a sort-of-adaptation of the Urza's Saga expansion) stood head and shoulders above the rest of its era and continues to hold its own pretty well.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Tobermory" also holds up very well for me, at least.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thinking again about how much I enjoyed Malka Older's Mossa and Pleiti books, which don't lack for sci-fi worldbuilding but mostly ask the question "what possibilities do I unlock for the mystery genre by setting it among academics on post-catastrophe Jupiter?"

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For no particular reason I'm thinking again about THE INTRUDER (1962) and how even while William Shatner delivers one of the best villain performances I've ever seen, the movie never gives any ground on the people he corrupted into violent bigotry also being evil.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The way straight men talk about being distracted by women being sexy is incredible. Basically every gay man I know has managed urgent and serious conversations while literal fucking goes on a few feet away at a bar or club, but these guys can't pick things up because there's tight clothing nearby.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sorkin/Fincher don't take enough blame for dooming us to a generation of trailers with slow, dark covers of random popular songs

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Obviously our tastes can mature but The Highwayman will probably always be my favorite ghost song because it was so narrowly tailored to the three things teenage James wanted most: - True love from a fancily dressed bad boy - Predicament bondage - A legitimate reason to kill myself

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They RE-enabled them after the first time I turned them off this year!

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One thing (which the bill seems to get right) is that AI isn't at the heart of this issue. Even in 2022 when I was looking for my current place in DC I viewed a couple apartments where the online listings had fully replaced the floors and appliances in the photos or even added windows.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's not certain he was shot down; it's entirely plausible that the cause of the crash was Sleep Powder applying a status effect to the crew and passengers. Or consider that he could have survived the crash and been killed by a Razor Leaf while leaving the wreckage.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

[found in my drafts so I think it's from about a month ago now] Okay I know we all stopped posting wordle years ago but you gotta admit this one is kind of funny. ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(now you may be thinking "heh James used the words 'bottom' and 'crack' in close proximity to each other and now I am imagining butts," to which I would respond "cool, me too")

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(not on the topic of the thread but you may be thinking "James how is that only one of the 10 worst movies you've bought a ticket to" and the answer there is I have seen a lot of movies and in all honesty I'm not even totally sure it would crack my bottom 10)

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've mentioned this to you before but one of the 10 worst movies I ever saw in theaters was the cult-produced THE CHERRY BUSHIDO (2022) about how a young conservative has to do battle in the spirit realm to teach the public that in WWII Japan was actually doing a decolonization.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You sat right near my warning sign on Saturday, my pro-long term storage safety views cannot come as a shock to you

Metal warning sign but instead of a normal warning it has the full text of the intended long-term nuclear waste storage message

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I would argue that not irradiating fish is a strong value even if you are not planning to eat those fish

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lawsome you can't store nuclear waste in Florida because that's basically feeding it to fish

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm as pro-train and anti-car as they come but MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) beats the shit out of SNOWPIERCER (2013) and it's not even a contest. And you may say "what about TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016)" but that's mid-apocalypse, not post-apocalypse, it's a different category.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I enjoy Doctor Who well enough but the amount of space this particular recording takes up in my head is greater than that occupied by almost any work of art I've experienced in any medium.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I associate "fish fingers" almost exclusively with the audio of Orson Welles getting angry about filming commercials. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14P...

youtube.com

Orson Welles - Frozen Peas

YouTube video by Ralph Anderson

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I realize now that this means "alternate time line" but I spent a while trying to figure out what kind of impact this would have had on Atlanta.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This article that I came across 15 years ago lives permanently in my head, mostly because it only THINKS it's an argument against gay marriage while in fact it's something much stranger. marriagepolicy.org/2011/11/why-...

Forget the adjectives “same sex” and “gay” as prepends to marriage. These are victim-based marketing ploys invented by NOW to send us off into a heated debate about homosexuality and equal rights – distracting us from seeing their real goal of establishing “feminist marriage.”

Feminists made feminist marriage their top long-term goal twenty-five years ago and invested tremendous resources in it, because they intend to convert marriage into a feminist-controlled government enterprise and subordinate the rest of America to fund it.

1. Feminist marriage is structurally designed to destroy equality. It establishes three classes of marriage, each with vastly different reproductive, social, and economic rights and protections under Constitutional law.

Feminist marriage is a three-way contract between two women and government. Most women will have children, and few women can afford or will go to the extreme of using artificial insemination to achieve pregnancy. Government is the automatic third party collecting “child support” entitlements for children born in these marriages.
Children will be born of extramarital affairs backed by welfare guarantees and child support entitlements. Feminist marriages are automatically entitled with many tax-free, governmental income sources for having children.

The longitudinal impact of feminist marriage on reproductive and marital choices of unmarried individuals will be profound. Women who are presently welfare beneficiaries will be propelled to marry each other, leaving unmarried men already sidelined by the welfare state machinery doubly disenfranchised. Women who are not married can enter the welfare state by having a child out of wedlock, and then double their entitlements by marrying another woman on welfare.

I argue that the structure of feminist marriage, after a full review of its inseparable interlocking interaction with existing federal and state welfare law, is unconstitutional on its face.

The vast majority of women in feminist marriages will bear children out of wedlock, making government the automatic, statutory third party in such marriages with naturally conceived children.

Feminist marriage directly violates 14th Amendment protection against sex discrimination, and the 5th Amendment is violated at the Federal level.

Under the Constitution, the law cannot accept a structure of three-party marriage establishing an arrangement of government-sponsored economic polygamy as a protected, superior class of marriage under any rational-basis test. Secondly, the law cannot accept any marital arrangement that establishes three classes of marriage, where the classes are crisply defined and either rewarded or discriminated against based on the natural reproductive capacity of one sex.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we should also give them back the Expos

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

look I saw three of these in the theaters I'm doing my part

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

tbf sufficient money and connections can get you 5 (five!) starring roles in the most delightfully juiceless romance series ever made (I don't even think he's bad but the story is pure nothing and the characters had a level of negative chemistry I wouldn't have believed was possible, I adore these)

The poster for the movie After (2019) with the tagline "Based on the best-selling worldwide phenomenon"

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know, Michigan and Wisconsin are undoubtedly midwestern but they share in the weird unsalted twists on misty seafaring mythos that surround the Great Lakes. (Ohio has no part of that culture; I think Lake Erie is just less spooky than Huron or Michigan.)

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This comparison is an affront to national heroes like W.E. Coyote and D. Duck.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah but (for better and worse by turns) disposition of property is frequently viewed as a fundamentally different question and can often be treated as valid *even if* unauthorized by the org docs.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sympathetic to the James-ist cause for obvious reasons but this country still hasn't recovered from the disastrous James-ism of 1861–65

Google maps screenshot of Richmond, VA with the name of the James River running through it circled for emphasis

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't think those are really the analogy here (a lot of those cases rely on background rules and third-party reliance/apparent authority); this is more just "action to enforce written bylaws" where the bylaws happen to be those of a political party organization.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

probably healthier than my experience at that age tbh

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

actually we created gyms because 11 year-olds with teams of monsters needed themed groups of trainers with monsters of their own to test their strength against

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You wish a lot of people would read "Good Country People" because of some interesting things it says about worldviews and how they interact with each other. I wish a lot of people would read "Good Country People" for the least subtle name in the history of fiction. We are not the same.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been doing my part! bsky.app/profile/neve...

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun fact: it actually wouldn't! because none of these people have read Fukuyama either.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(And if you're giving Fukuyama credit for the latter you need to overcome the fact that he winds up siding mostly with Hegel in his description of the comparison.)

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I need people to stop giving Fukuyama credit for the two ideas that his book doesn't even claim belong to him. If you're talking about The End Of History you can credit Hegel and if you're talking about The Last Man you can credit Nietzsche.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They really trick you into putting up with that by putting "The End," where the sections work together and are good, on their first album, so you'll listen to "LA Woman" in hopes that it'll get good and instead it just keeps getting more bad.

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James Without End @neverendingjim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it's not an inherently bad premise for a Star Trek movie either but the execution left something to be desired

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