Have Faith, and You'll Have Wings.

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The West Wing | 1x10 | In Excelsis Deo

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The West Wing + NYT minus context 

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@foronceiwannabethecarcrash​‘s birthday week celebration: Day 4 | Josh & Sam, The West Wing

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Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves:

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Happy 38th Birthday, Harry! 

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Your father has accomplished something extraordinary, also dangerous. He is trapped by a darkness that’s actively spreading throughout the universe, and the only one who can stop it is you. —  A Wrinkle In Time (2018) dir. Ava DuVernay

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relevant

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the only thing faster than light is the darkness

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The 90th Annual Academy Awards: Best Picture Nominees

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The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble

“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls, pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The Perfect Storm”

Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should be.

On Monday, this went down:

That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.

On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location – that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should), the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their receiving managers, but not many.

Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.

People.

We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers. This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career. Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was their sole source of income.

There was no warning.

But it gets worse.

Keep reading

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This is long, and you need to read it. Don’t let anyone tell you Barnes and Noble was forced into this by market forces etc,etc. This is a series of deliberate choices on their part. Also, I used to work in a field where we helped a lot of people after lay offs. I’ve seen companies handle them well, and badly. This is as bad as I’ve seen short of chaining the gates overnight. It’s not normal, it’s not just how it’s done, it’s another deliberate choice.

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Goodbye Christopher Robin • (2017)

“Those days, just the two of us… They were the happiest I’ve ever known.”

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i love journalism

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It Happened To Me: I’m A Self-Identified Feminist, But Thoroughly Enjoyed Some Works By Aaron Sorkin

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gina rodriguez and john mulaney went to the same high school and overlapped two years wow

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so are you inplying that she may have also attended jake mcnamara’s house party

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insp.