Best performance in One Battle After Another for me was Sean Penn, he was making me laugh just from the way he walks, while also being a psycho.

I’m a little surprised that nobody I know has seen this one (including me, I thought of driving to Monterey Park for it but instead I’m seated for OBAA).

Imagining 1.4 billion Chinese people floating in waters off atoll claimed by Philippines

It used to be that “they’re paying me enough money to look the other way” would be a quote you’d give anonymously, not directly.

You guys this movie is so bad

If we talk about his dead dad enough we can probably get Pete Davidson uninvited from that thing

Things still aren’t as bad as I expected they would be by this time in 2017, I guess I’m built different* *Not meant as a compliment

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

I think my most recent Ebay purchase was a fraudulent item, thankfully it only cost me $10.

Slasher World

Put him in a DSA meeting for 15 minutes and he’d be all “This Marx guy, very misunderstood, more and more people” etc.

If you could cut off his internet and TV access and surround him with the right people, we could have full luxury space communism within a couple weeks.

These scumbags like to whine that they’re not allowed to say anything these days but remarkably are still able to do so whereas Jamal Khashoggi was murdered & dismembered by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for criticising his regime. Fuck them.

Maybe the most grotesquely Los Angeles thing I’ve seen all year

There are so many faces that I’m so tired of seeing, this guy and his turd son are up there

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

If I only saw The Strangers (2008) but not The Strangers Chapter 1 (2024) will I be able to comprehend The Strangers Part 2 (2025)?

Any etiquette for how to respond when someone sends a post to a group chat, all of whose members already got that message from a different, larger group chat

Should have gone to see Ticket of No Return

Remember the reason for the season

If I was this guy I’d buy my own portable projector for $80 instead of losing 15 minutes out of every class.

Is there video online somewhere of a hundred Ukrainian drones attacking an oil refinery or the like

Where is it going

If you put yourself in her shoes, this is an exciting challenge to achieve a goal, the fate of Comey or the Republic are deep in the irrelevant background. It must be fun.

I like that this was written as if he was just a tourist going up and down the PCH

Honey Don’t (’25, Coen/Cooke): Am I to understand that this is normal behavior for the first 5 minutes of a Lesbian first date

its the damnedest thing, the Ephemerol, you give it to a pregnant lady it makes the baby a scanner. they can't stop scanning. but the scanners get headaches, not so nice. Darryl Revok - tremendous guy, powerful guy, blew a guy's head up if you can believe it - he's, we're gonna be taking down ConSec

Just remembered the bricklaying scene in Saturday Night and got annoyed all over again.

Nobody who believes or pretends to believe in demons should be welcome in society.

It really must be an absolute blast being this specific type of lunatic.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Every multi-host podcast needs one person who’s well-meaning but kinda stupid, and one person who’s way too nice to acknowledge this

How it started, how it's going: New York Times headline edition. Yes, these are three iterations of the same headline. Let just call it a strategic retreat.

So this is how I find out Johnson & Johnson renamed its pill division “Kenvue”.

Not only is fascism wrecking our economy, we’re going to subsidize it wrecking other countries’ economies too.

I am also willing to take $50 thousand in exchange for nothing

Yadda yadda if Obama had said this he would have been dead within 24 hours.

stephen miller’s organs wish they could donate themselves

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I guess this is a good preview of when the big one happens and they clamber over each other to be the saddest about it

It drives me a little crazy that all of these are written in such a befuddled “who could have imagined this” way.

They also want people fleeing from this purported criminal to be forced to return there.

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

Ben Carson now just assuming he’s also been shot in the neck

Why _don’t_ we have laws telling fictional people to follow certain requirements while breaking laws, though

I can’t think of the last time an assassination wasn’t the result of either a lone killer or done by a state (Russia, Israel, the US).