Trump is the ultimate president for the current state of stocks and speculation bc both are so divorced from reality that even the prior levels of bullshit look honest. Trump says four things at once so everyone can play “choose your own adventure” and make Line Go Up no matter what. Until now.

One of the most powerful aspects of the story told in THE SECRET AGENT: how many families were torn apart not directly by the dictatorship but by the powerful friends of the dictatorship who wanted to use the “period of great mischief” to settle petty vendettas they held against people

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

But if we work from home how will executives feel important? That’s why we’re back in this fucking horseshit!

dang, the final lost MST3K episode was JUST found at a garage sale, and now it's on YouTube for all to enjoy. watch and be astounded that a 38-year-old VHS recording held up so nicely: youtu.be/u_Z4hnagGLE?...

Dog there’s a carpentry mini game lmao

I have watched the first season of The Pitt straight through four times, I love it, but I think the second season will have more long term replayability once it’s all said and done. They’ve built the characters out very smartly this season, including in ways that convey the time jump w/o exposition

Everyone incl. me received the news that The Pitt had an ICE plot that was “balanced” with anxiety, but unless these guys showed up in Hugo Boss uniforms and Dr Robby said “no one is illegal on stolen ground” idk how you could have a more viscerally disgusted depiction of ICE chuds in a drama

They say movies don't cause real people to imitate them but they made a movie about leftist revolutionaries and now everyone who saw it is fighting over who understands the text and who's a dumb reactionary

I have been hoping and praying for years that the rest of Neurosis would not let such a vital band die after ousting Scott Kelly and not only are they back but they hired Aaron Turner?! neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-und...

I can’t get over that the last 15 years or so of cultural conversation has litigated “art vs artist” debates to a new level, almost always over dead people. Yet presented with cases like Rowling and WWE where your support is transparently used to fund ongoing evil out come the “I need my stories!”

The downside of globalism was its exploitation by capital to weaken labor across the world. Its upshot was an interconnected trade system (theoretically) reduced the chances of reckless war. But the ppl who profited off the former convinced the ppl they immiserated that it was bad bc of the latter

Bizarrely, this is the GYBE album I listen to the least, perhaps bc it’s the one that seems most like post-rock at its most general in the crest-ebb swell approach. And yet, it sets the bar so high that at best others only ever equal it godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/album/lift-y...

She’s the best to ever do it

I’m also a big fan of the revelation on the stand that the public is doing the Good Work

Haven’t seen this yet but once again if you’ve ever so much as seen stills of what Satyajit Ray films used to look like, the restoration work being done on these seems like borderline magic.

Me to Zac Brown at the #Survivor Sanctuary:

I’m so happy we rushed through the players to give a full fourth of the episode to Zac Brown’s “Survivor journey”

This but for the economy

I really believe there’s an emptiness that goes beyond the ethical quandaries of this sort of thing that speaks to a larger existential crisis.

Thinkin' of the YouTubers who have spent the past years loudly noticing Disney ♥s to trot out animatronics at conferences that will either never appear in-park or only appear in brief, limited capacities, cuz they've adopted a tech model where their focus is appealing to shareholders, not customers.

Stress-testing the limits to which an election can be rigged

It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April www.criterion.com/current/post...

Saw them in 2024 and Bruce has had to make some adjustments from time and his cancer, and poor Nicko clearly wasn’t going to be able to keep touring, but they still sounded amazing and had unreal energy. Bruce absolutely sounds better on every post-reunion live album than he did on Live After Death

Rand Paul was the likeliest member of congress to stand up for the right to duel but he was nearly put in the ground by his neighbor so bad luck, Markwayne

every planet has a williamsburg

“Bob Dylan’s best songs are about shit like this”

statement from Dolores Huerta: "I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences."

It seems vaguely perfect that My Bloody Valentine’s back catalog went off streaming in the US not as a protest but seemingly due to convoluted label rights shenanigans.

One funny thing that keeps happening lately is I go to my gym in the morning before work and I see cable news on the TVs and there’s always a segment anticipating what The Stonks are gonna do that day and every day now they go “futures are trending up!” and then Wall Street opens and it sinks again

yeah this is how like 30% of the electorate works

It’s a real shame that the MCU Spider-Man films have been so bad because casting an actor with a dance background to play Peter is one of the single smartest decisions in the entire franchise umbrella and then they put him in dim sludge with politics better suited to Norman Osborn

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

As soon as like eight of them said their favorite song about America was courtesy of the red white and blue I knew we weren’t winning shit

masterpiece www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJER...

literally just an openly pro pedophilia admin, it's unreal

frank herbert was like "obviously all gays are pederasts and rapists" but he was also like "put your hand in a woman's box causes unbelievable agony but if you try to take it out before they let you, they will murder you with poison" so it's impossible to s

The funniest possible outcome is that Dune 3 does well enough that whatever oblivious exec runs WB or its carcass by then calls for adaptations of books 4-6 at which point Villeneuve will pretend to not speak English and it’ll somehow drip down to Colin Trevorrow

Looking forward to Dune 3 but I’ll dock a full star if it doesn’t include a deafening needle drop of the B-52s’ Private Idaho

Dawg the way this guy lays out an entire heritage Irish-Americans ought to be proud of and rally behind when every mf I’ve ever met in a Gaelic League or who wears a flat cap stops at what they know from Gangs of New York is something else.

The MCU makes a consistent error staging homages to iconic comic moments but with clumsy motion and dishwater color timing.

Big day for me and the six other people alive this was written to appeal to

Today I am quitting my job working for Mr Trump because I just found out he's stupid. It has been the privilege of my life to work for this dipshit, who I would die for

It’s infuriating to be in a position where Israel is obviously continuing the exploit the carte blanche cover the US gives them but before you can talk about it the disillusioned Nazis of Trumpworld run to the nearest mic to scream that the tsar has been deceived by Jews

I still have a profound memory of seeing early stills from Gamecube launch titles in Nintendo Power and thinking “this is it, this is as good as graphics can POSSIBLY get”

Gas by me was $2.89 prior to bombing Iran and this morning on the way to the gym it was officially $4. Then I saw this clip on my elliptical tv and started Jokerfying

Oh fuck yes