Having been shocked by how much I enjoyed Wicked Pt 1 I held out hope I would enjoy the second movie but hoo boy what a shitshow. Simultaneously dragged out to a ludicrous degree and belligerently rushed on all the emotional beats, done like a MCU movie more than a musical. Ruinously straight.

Elon is so eternally stupid lmao, his ruined app is 70%+ bots, the near totality of which spew the right wing race panic he believes. What the fuck did he think was going to happen

every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy

“Mom can we have Flight to Varennes?” “We have Flight to Varennes at home” Flight to Varennes at home:

Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...

Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.

I still can’t get over being Cyranoed by a guy who sounds like the vacuum in Brave Little Toaster when he runs over his own power cord.

Yeah, Tidal’s not making it past the trial period.

Everything about this movie looks like it’s an adaptation of the dust jacket synopsis

The Master is maybe the best American two-hander of the 21st century but for me the defining scene of it is this moment where one of Dodd’s most faithful believes in him so much she spots a discrepancy and in earnestly seeking to reconcile it this happens youtu.be/WPa_XrE6tbU?...

GOLD! Mosfilm has now made Solaris available in 4K on YouTube for free. Specialists from Mosfilm's Telecinema and Computer Graphics branch finished the restoration of the film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wr...

Every day of his miserable life Trump is shuttled between rooms by a series of viziers who all look like a racist version of Dobby to talk to women who all got the same surgery to look like Skyrim NPCs and here comes this communist who look…he look so beautiful

<extremely Bob Dylan voice> 🎶 Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands🎶

“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”

Working artists, you'll want to turn this sh** off on paypal, and generally get more strict about protecting yourselves from their censorship. Get more dilligent about ensuring your and your clients' privacy.

God bless Daniel Lopatin oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/album/tranqu...

You ever get that rare feeling that maybe everything really will turn out alright?

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

I usually have zero desire to seek out modern pop on vinyl bc almost all of it is mixed for streaming but I’m increasingly tempted to get the Rosalía record in a physical format.

Many people have noted that the Primary / Social / Forums / Updates tabs are missing when you do this 👀. You can recreate these manually using the "Multiple Inbox" setup in settings. Basically, tell your inbox to include emails tagged "inbox" and exclude the social / forums / updates.

I’m ashamed at how enraged I became when I realized this happened when I turned off AI

Where’s your tie, slob

People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon

It was always hilarious that Grok tended somehow to be the least inherently racist AI despite Musk constantly screaming “add more slurs!” to his captive H1-B workers so now they’ve finally found a way to give the boss what he wants, a Mombot 3000 to say he’s the best and handsomest boy.

There are a lot of things I admire about Chuck Schuldiner and near the top of the list is how immaculately produced every Death album is. Usually in underground metal drums are one big noise and the bass guitar is there for emotional support but every single element is so perfectly miked and mixed.

Romeo and Juliet, that famous story we all know and love about the goodness and correctness of unquestioned social roles.

Clifford “Buzz” Grambo—a vet with a street-modded scooter he uses to harass domestic brownshirts—is, in the best and most complimentary way, an IRL Pynchon character.

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: The Babadook without the release valve of a monster, as stressful as a movie can be. Byrne is deservedly going to get a lot of hype for this for how much she cracks but imo the real genius of her performance is all the little reflexive expressions trying to look fine

I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"

Getting all my Epstein/tariff/dementia responses ready for being with the family during holidays

This has been the main use case for AI the entire time and the first thing done with it. (Not judging the poster below or the article for reiterating it tbc)

Absolute trainwreck inbound

“Toon killed his brother. Dropped a piano on his head.”

Halligan standing up in court:

In normal times when I read something about a trial or a legal case, I always try to get someone who understands these things to confirm whether or not I’m understanding it. I still do that, but now also I have to ask if what I’m seeing is really as stupid as I’m understanding it.

People died for your right to party

He was so real for this

Right issues have kept John Woo’s masterpiece out of print in America for years, but at long last it returns in a definitive release with a projection-accurate transfer and a wealth of extras. Read @jakecole.bsky.social on 1989's THE KILLER. tinyurl.com/4pjaymy3

I’ve tried to avoid stepping out of my lane but I owe so much to the Jewish friends I grew up with whose mere existence was the first thing that ultimately broke me out of being raised Baptist, and seeing the very notion of Judaism sacrificed on the altar of this backdoor evangelism horrifies me

Oh this is so cool, this album sounds amazing. If nothing else is good about being alive right now, the degree to which fascinating curios get new life and broader access than ever is a constant joy.

This might replace my erstwhile default image of Maher: when he almost had a meltdown that time Katie Porter landed a quick but soft joke at his expense and the audience went so crazy he looked like he was about to shut down the set

If they ever make another Voyager Golden Record they should encode the complete C&H on it along with an updated soundtrack if we want potential alien life to consider us worth keeping alive.

Breaking out a skin-flaying classic as cathartic therapy for being alive rn and it’s doing the job godfleshband.bandcamp.com/album/street...

They had to strategically edit the Silver Rocket video to never show Kim Gordon for more than a second bc she’s so hot here any lingering image would have caused alt boys and girls to lunge at their TVs youtu.be/viF12Mu3-5w?...

The Democrat Hoax—which actually only implicates Democrats—is a sad ploy to attack President Trump, who is not in them.

I’ve greatly enjoyed the “babysitter trying to stop her impish charge from touching a hot stove” chemistry of RPatz and Jennifer Lawrence “promoting” Die My Love but I also note that in no clip is the movie even brought up and a non-cinephile would likely assume they were in a goofball comedy

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

<Sun Kil Moon voice> I crashed out at the McDonald’s Impact Summit

Entrenched legacy media editor: I had my misgivings about Olivia’s ethics, but I let myself be blinded by her dazzling talent Average Olivia Nuzzi paragraph: The hip bone connected to the leg bone. The leg bone connected to the shin bone. My shin. The shin bone that connected to the foot bone.

Based on her ex’s account of the fallout with Olbermann (which btw was as big a bombshell for me as Sanford) and this it’s amazing that all the old men she fucks also think she’s exhausting and tedious