Rivers honestly moves a lot like late-career Big Ben. Better than I expected

Wake Up Dead Man is so so good. I hope the future installments get better theatrical runs 📽️

Happy 90th birthday to Jacques Pepin! My favorite nugget about his fascinating life is that he pursued a PhD in French Literature, but his thesis proposal on the history of French food in the context of literature was rejected for being too frivolous. It’s a shame because I’d 100% read that. 📚💙 🧑‍🍳👨‍🍳

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Avatar is the best sci-fi film series of the 21st century 📽️

Non-MAGA Survivor fans are in for a rough night

It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.

Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval. War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act. All still on the books.

Belichik to Ann Arbor I’m calling it

Shadow Ticket is such a blast! 🖋️💙📚

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Supreme Court to decide if the Constitution says what the Constitution says.

I still think they blundered the World Cup format when switching to 48 teams. Gimme 8 groups of 6 teams. Each team is guaranteed 5 games. The knockout rounds don’t get watered down. ⚽️

🎵 The world’s gonna know your name, what’s your name, man? 🎵 🎶 Bodacious Ignatius My name is Bodacious Ignatius And there’s a million things I haven’t done But just you wait, just you wait 🎶

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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions. 📽️

Hosting the World Cup is great and all but not having to play in qualifiers is boring. Oh look, another friendly. ⚽️ #usmnt

They’re all just looting the treasury now

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Cue the Clase / California Penal League jokes. In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.

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Need to keep saying this: Again imagine the reaction from US corporate media and Congressional Republicans if a 79 year old Democratic President sounded like this - having no idea what is happening around him.

I empathize with Blue Jays fans. I also find this meme hilarious. (h/t to Reddit user u/exequutor)

Yamamoto’s gotta be MVP, right? Crazy we’d get there after Ohtani’s game 3.

I’ve always thought Blake Snell looks familiar and just realized it’s because he’s a thinner Danny McBride.

Watched A House of Dynamite. The first two sections were outstanding. Kathryn Bigelow is excellent as sowing tension. Acting is terrific. The music elevates. There are some uh-ohs with the plot, which have already been discussed ad nauseum on Bluesky and elsewhere. Regular thumbs up.

I wanted the 19th

I’m pleasantly surprised how many baseball skeets I’ve seen without even having to go to the MLB feed. I’m afraid that with every new inning Rob Manfred is going to invent another stupid rule to make sure the die hard fans don’t get to enjoy something like this ever again.

George Saunders has a new novel on the way! Sad to see Phoenix/Tempe isn’t on the promo tour, but excited for the book nonetheless. He claims it’s his craziest! 📚💙🖋️

On top of the now 78 year drought and the ‘97 and ‘16 game 7s, losing to the team you beat in the regular season, who only made it b/c MLB owners realized they could get more money by letting in extra wild cards, money that they don’t use upgrading the roster, is a dick punch and a half #guardsball

For the record, there already was a Major League III. It stars Scott Bakula and a young Walton Goggins, and it’s incredible. 📽️🎬🎞️🎥 #mlb #guardsball

A Rangers pitcher plunking a guy with the bases loaded to eliminate the Astros is objectively hilarious #Guardsball

Anybody else think of this?

If I was Tylenol I’d rebrand to “Raging Fever Killer,” or RFK for short, and see just how scientific yesterday’s announcement really was

Ooh the #booker shortlist came out today. Who’s winning?

So many people skeeting “I told you so” about the rapture like it’s already midnight

Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism

The line that gets me is: “I’ve been so into this issue for so many years because I couldn’t understand how a thing like this could happen.” It’s spoken by a man who leads a country with more than a million doctors capable of answering the question.

I don’t know what upsets me most: (1) the announcement itself (2) the realization that now they proclaim to know autism’s cause, they’re going to set their sights on another group of marginalized people (3) they’re going to start blaming neurodivergence on mothers

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

The baseball gods get distracted by the Browns game. The Guardians immediately poop the bed.

This is a US president *cheering on* the silencing of voices he does not like. It’s hard to think of anything more profoundly unAmerican.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us. www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

Pynchon, Atwood, McEwan, Rushdie, Zadie Smith. There are some truly legendary names with new works this fall. Whole list is worth a read! 📚💙🖋️

Is it strange to prefer these long list drops over finding out who wins the actual awards?