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“In a new interview with the New Yorker ahead of his 70th birthday on Monday, the comedian explained his theory about why there’s no “funny stuff” to watch on TV anymore. “Nothing really affects comedy,” he said, “People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it.” Instead of getting sitcoms like M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and All in the Family, audiences miss out, he said, as a “result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.” […] A look back at some of his earlier comments on a similar subject adds some context, if not clarity. In 2015, Seinfeld sat down for an episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd podcast, where he explained his aversion to performing stand-up on college campuses. “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges. They’re so PC,’” he said on the show. After giving an example of his teenage daughter using the word “sexist,” he concluded that young people “just want to use these words: ‘That’s racist’; ‘That’s sexist’; ‘That’s prejudice.’ They don’t know what they’re talking about.””

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Jerry Seinfeld Draws Right-Wing Praise for Comments on ‘Extreme Left’

This is such a bummer. Tell me you’re a privileged, entitled, myopic Boomer without telling me you’re a privileged, entitled, myopic Boomer.

It’s interesting to me that he says these legendary sit-coms, none of which were cruel, punching down, or hurtful, but were actually satirizing power, celebrating women, changing societal norms through representation, and using comedy to do it all, wouldn’t exist if “the extreme left” had anything to do with it.

Umm. Who does he think created these shows? And is he really that ignorant? Has this guy never read a single interview with Norman Lear? Or literally anyone in the cast of Mary Tyler Moore? I mean. Come on, man!

Teenagers and college students don’t know what they’re talking about when they tell a privileged, entitled, multimillionaire Boomer that his “jokes” can be hurtful, and maybe he could use his tremendous talent to do comedy that is just as funny without being hurtful. Okay. Got it. Keep saying that, and see how far it gets you, buddy.

Hey, Jerry Seinfeld: when blue checks on Twitter are celebrating you being a dick, it’s not because you’re so funny and such a brilliant comic; it’s because they love how you’re validating what garbage they are. You can’t see that, or don’t care, and that’s such a huge bummer.

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This image shows three views of the Horsehead Nebula. The image on the left, released in November 2023, features the nebula as seen in visible light by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, which has contributions from NASA. The middle image shows a view of the Horsehead Nebula in near-infrared light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. The image on the right features a new view of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (near-infrared camera). 

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Back to swallows as psychopomps in maritime tradition. Archie Kennedy and a swallow, a soul ready to go home

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Please credit Hellenhighwater, who came up with this and made it.

writers and artists everywhere all the time

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‘Ghost Rivers’ Visualizes a Mile-Long Stream Buried Deep Beneath Baltimore

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Remembering Rivers Past

Our landscapes have changed dramatically over the last 200 years of urban development, but traces of the land’s past still remain. Many streams and rivers that once ran on the surface persist in underground culverts. Bruce Willen’s “Ghost Rivers” installation highlights the path of one such waterway. (Image credits: Public Mechanics and F. Hamilton, see alt text; installation: B. Willen; via Colossal) Read the full article

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I am Meret, Goddess of Spring, bringer of the last gift. Fear me because I am become death.

I am Moniquill, Goddess of the time I was going to be in the office. Fear me because I was going to be there at work and I didn't want to.

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I took so many pictures on my walk today and I’ll never get to all of them so here are a few selected favorites, from sunrise at the start to a tulip when I returned home.

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Fading summer flowers..

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Freddie with his cat Oscar

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My cartoon for this weekend’s @guardian books