I just received a text message from someone claiming to be Andi Gutmans. It’s the same kind of CEO text message, where they claim to be in a meeting and need you to do something for them real quick. The thing is, I’ve never worked with Andi outside of PHP, so I think they’re targeting me based on data from LinkedIn, where it shows I “work for” PHP in my experience history.
I am pro public transportation in the form of #trains, and I am pro improving business and shipping via trains.
The cost-cutting measures that are happening in freight train corporations right now are horrifying. I had a neighbor who worked for BNSF and wow, was that a stressful job. episode 20 season 10 of #LastWeekTonight covers this.
My dream is to be able to get to and from Denver on the train. Right now I’d have to drive to Omaha from here, or drive up from Trinidad there. Not ideal.
VIDEO: ‘Last Week Tonight's’ John Oliver offers to give Clarence Thomas a $2.4 million dollar motorcoach and $1 million a year for the rest of his life to “Get The F*ck off the Supreme Court”
If you see the following video (it’s restricted to certain regions presumably where HBO Max isn’t available), then you will get to eventually see the whole show on YouTube and not just the main story like before. 🤩
Finally, #LastWeekTonight with #JohnOliver is uploading their full episodes from past seasons on YouTube and Season 1 is already up! (Not available in all regions, so you might not see this playlist.)
I wonder if Mastodonians can come up with a good enough stunt to get Last Week Tonight to make an official account here on Mastodon? #LastWeekTonight#Fediverse
John Oliver discusses the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel fo...
I’d love to see a behind-the-scenes or making-of for #LastWeekTonight. How do they put it together in such a tight, well-made package. There don’t appear to be many cuts, and John Oliver’s hand motions and everything is so well-choreographed. Is he really that good, or do they practice this over and over?
John Oliver comes for the freight rail industry, and I am THERE for it.
Particularly since he explicitly says he is "pro-train," and then lays out why the freight rail operators are putting all of us at risk—and standing in the way of high-speed passenger rail. #JohnOliver#LastWeekTonight#trains#FreightRail
@timbray it's interesting that "bill maher" called modi out and said he wasn't afraid of potential reprisals, when it is known that modi is connected to at least two international assassinations. Didn't mention that aspect at all on his show, "Real Time With Bill Maher", either.
We caught up on #SNL and #LastWeekTonight while sipping our scorpion bowl. #SNL was okay, with a few funny sketches. Best was the Latino mom and aunt (Pedro Pascal and Bad Bunny) harassing the white girlfriend, the George Washington (Nate Bargatze) Dream, and Fran Drescher at Halloween. John Oliver had an impassioned opening about the Israel / Gaza disaster, was pretty funny about the new GOP speaker, and covered the screwed-up FDA & the horrible McKinsey management firm.
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight just made a 5min-long fake episode of Thomas the Tank Engine, featuring hilarious narration by Matt Berry! (Mr Reynolds, The IT Crowd, Channel 4)
#JohnOliver did a brilliant take down of the smear campaign against the students protesting against #Genocide in #Gaza. If you’re able to you should check it out. It should be easy to see you’re on the wrong side when you’re sending out cops to knock down a 65 year old Jewish professor of Jewish studies while claiming you’re keeping Jewish students and faculty safe. #LastWeekTonight#Palestine#GazaGenocide#FreePalestine
For that matter, I had never reflected on what John Oliver’s format with #LastWeekTonight encapsulates, but this article made it quite succinct: you’re working on popping the jargon and obfuscation and presentation around the banality of (financial) evil with entertainment. Keep people’s attention up to understand what is happening.
Israel-Hamas War: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (www.youtube.com)
John Oliver discusses the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel fo...