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SON: May I speak? MOTHER: You may not. SON: But I have just cause to do so. MOTHER: But you do not have the right. SON: I can tell you have vex coursing through your veins at this point in time, mother, but I want you to know that what I did was a lesson that needed to be taught. MOTHER: And pray tell, you forlorn fledgling, what lesson is learnt by breaking your brother’s tablet? SON: That the world is cruel, harsh, savage - MOTHER: Those adjectives are best suited for you, brood of mine. SON: Speak louder, mother, my ears are burning. MOTHER: Oh, continue your teachings, boy, I’m finding them most enthralling. SON: As I was saying before I was so abruptly heckled, the world is meant for teachings of desolation. Whether the lesson be taught by the almighty hand of fate, some supreme being, or by someone who didn’t want their essence taken by a camera. MOTHER: Ha! SON: The seminar that I indoctrinated was an important one, mother. MOTHER: Are you talking about ‘this’ picture? SON: How on earth did you get that? MOTHER: The cloud that me and your brother share knows all. It was saved onto our family Billo before you terminated the tablet… Oh, no, boy, this shall remain with this family forever as a constant reminder of your wrongdoings unto your brother. SON: I performed wrongdoings unto him?! … Inverse that statement, mother, then you have the truth in front of you! MOTHER: He wronged you? SON: HE LAUGHED AT MY DISTORTED IMAGE. MOTHER: Me and your father laughed heartily at it too, boy. SON: Father knows?! MOTHER: Father knows, yes … and he has already started the shipment of Christmas cards. SON: AHH! You’re showing the masses? MOTHER: Be grateful that I did not show them the annihilated tablet. Let that fall on the noble men and women who are trying to right the wrongs that you performed unto the tablet, your brother, and your kinsfolk. SON: If they restore it, I shall lay it to waste once again. MOTHER: Then the image shall be sent for birthdays. SON: AND AGAIN! MOTHER: THE JUBILEE! SON: AAND AGAIN!! MOTHER: AT THE RRRAPTURE! SON: There won’t be laughing amongst the assemblage, mother! MOTHER: Oh? SON: There will be charges brought amongst you for mistreating a minor! MOTHER: There shall be laughing, boy, and perhaps I should start now, don’t you agree? Ah-ha, yes, very good! SON: Discontinue! MOTHER: Yes, yes, very amusing, yes! SON: CONCLUDE THIS! MOTHER: Ha Ha! The mirth I am experiencing is considerable in size. SON: CEEEAAAASSSE!!!

SON: Stop laughing! MOTHER: Sorry, you are very bad for breaking you brother’s iPad. SON: But he made me look stupid. MOTHER: It does look a bit funny though. SON: MUUMM!

thoughtfulpaperback

Never have I ever destroyed something of my siblings but if my sister did this to me....

deadpresidents

"Today, miracles in communication are our daily routine...Billions of signals rush over the ocean floor and fly above the clouds. Radio and television fill the air with sound. Satellites hurl messages thousands of miles in a matter of seconds.

Today our problem is not making miracles -- but managing miracles...

The law that I will sign shortly [establishing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967]...announces to the world that our Nation wants more than just material wealth; our Nation wants more than a 'chicken in every pot.' We in America have an appetite for excellence, too.

While we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. That is the purpose of this act.

It will gives a wider and, I think, stronger voice to educational radio and television by providing new funds for broadcast facilities.

It will launch a major study of television's use in the Nation's classrooms and their potential use throughout the world.

Finally -- and most important -- it builds a new institution: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

This Corporation will assist stations and producers who aim for the best in broadcasting good music, in broadcasting exciting plays, and in broadcasting reports on the whole fascinating range of human activity. It will try to prove that what educates can also be exciting.

It will get part of its support from our Government. But it will be carefully guarded from Government or from party control. It will be free, and it will be independent -- and it will belong to all of our people.

Television is still a young invention. But we have learned already that it has immense -- even revolutionary -- power to change, to change our lives.

I hope that those who lead the Corporation will direct that power toward the great and not the trivial purposes.

At its best, public television would help make our Nation a replica of the old Greek marketplace, where public affairs took place in view of all the citizens.

But in weak or even in irresponsible hands, it could generate controversy without understanding; it could mislead as well as teach; it could appeal to passions rather than to reason.

If public television is to fulfill our hopes, then the Corporation must be representative, it must be responsible -- and it must be long on enlightened leadership...

'What hath man wrought?' And how will man use his miracles?

The answer just begins with public broadcasting.

In 1862, the Morrill Act set aside lands in every State -- lands which belonged to the people -- and it set them aside in order to build the land-grand colleges of the Nation. So today we rededicate a part of the airwaves -- which belong to all the people -- and we dedicate them for the enlightenment of all the people."

-- President Lyndon B. Johnson, remarks upon signing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, at the White House, November 7, 1967.

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sochilll

Seeing people say they don't like Cordelia Cupp because she's arrogant and condescending. Hm u mean like every trait that is beloved in every other Sherlock/detective story when they're given to men? Curious 🤔

simpledontmeanpeachy

More female characters who are as compelling as Cordelia Cupp and get to be the lead, please. More BIPOC characters who are as compelling as Cordelia Cupp and get to be the lead, please. More (presumably) Autistic characters who are as compelling as Cordelia Cupp and get to do things in their own time and in their own way, please. More (presumably) queer/asexual characters who are as compelling as Cordelia Cupp and get to have their lives be about something other than love and romance while being the protagonist of their own story please.

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shegiles

THE RESIDENCE (2025—) 1x06 “The Third Man”

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Yesterday I spent the ENTIRE day watching the new murder mystery series, The Residence on Netflix and let me tell you this right here, right now. It was absolutely the best, the most amazing, the stunning, incredible, stupendous, extraordinary, remarkable, astonishing murder mystery TV series I Have Ever Seen in my Whole Entire Life. Now I have seen a lot, a LOT of murder mysteries in my lifetime, but this one was on an entire new level.

This was by far the most incredible murder mystery I have ever seen and... it was downright fucking hilarious to watch from beginning to end. The detective was so incredible that I have no words. I want to say more, but I'm at a loss. I have never been more impressed than I right now as I'm typing this up. The Residence is a 11/10. It's so amazing and I urged anyone reading this to drop what you are doing and watch the series right now on Netflix.

The Residence is the best murder mystery you will EVER watch in your entire life!!!!!!

fulltimehabibti

obsessed with the universe that the residence is set in. president is gay but that's not why everyone hates him. first gentleman has anxiety and comes with a mom that's homophobic to one person and it's the president. social secretary moves like a south korean president (personal shaman and all). terror attacks in dc that somehow are just happening without being intercepted. kylie minogue respected and revered by an american audience...

shegiles

THE RESIDENCE (2025—) 1x05 “The Trouble with Harry”

wekiaamtoo

Go birding each time they say yellow oval room

veteratorianvillainy

I haven't seen it talked about (as there seems to be only a little discussion of it on here so far) but one of the things I love love love about The Residence is that she gives up on the investigation.

Cordelia Cupp, world's best detective, who solves the unsolvable, gives up... because she prioritizes the reputation and livelihood of a man she respects and who respects and supports her in turn. Chief Dokes knows that continuing to pursue the case will mean the end of his career, but he says nothing... until she asks. She asks. She knows that there are consequences to her dogged pursuit of the truth, she asks about them, and despite the fact that Chief Dokes is willing to accept those consequences, she says "I'm not."

In a genre that is often characterized by detectives who keep pursuing the case to the ends of the earth - consequences and fallout be damned - I am desperately in love with this character who is blunt and clever and justifiably arrogant and still shows such compassion to those who support her to say "I will not ask this price of you, even if you're willing to pay it, because what you built your life around is more important than finding my answer."

We have multiple anecdotes through the series about her obsessiveness and indefatigable pursuit of her goals and unwillingness to give up until they're achieved, and yet she will not throw over Chief Dokes for the sake of seeing this thing through.

nanoland

thinking about how in my other beloved detective murder mystery story Murder on the Orient Express, one of the problems in figuring out who killed Cassetti is the fact that everyone on board had a motive, because Cassetti was cruel and careless and destroyed so, so many people without even noticing most of the damage he did.

like, that's the tragedy of MOTOE, that one bad person can ruin so many lives.

and how in The Residence, one of the problems in figuring out who killed Wynter is the fact that a ton of staff members have motives...

but not because Wynter was cruel and careless, he WASN'T. he was hard-working, dedicated, loyal, meticulous, professional, honorable, and above all motivated by a deep, deep love for the place he worked. every motive everyone has for killing him is, ultimately: he's a good man who wants to do a good job.

that's the tragedy in The Residence, that being very good can get you treated exactly the same way as being very bad.

(especially when you're an elderly black man in a position of moderate authority whose commitment to excellence has made you the household rage sponge)