This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

Where's the BluRay? Fix this!

You've got to see this great title sequence for the 1958 Swedish proto-Bava thriller MANNEQUIN IN RED.

The 5lb piece of meat I bought to do Wellingtons on Christmas Day — choice, not even prime — cost me $225. That's over $300 Canadian. (This report is from British Columbia.) So the cops are putting out a release over the attempted theft of what could be a single roast.

Kicking off the year with one of the most inspirational movies I’ve ever seen. “We all are in this together as a team effort… I don’t know how to do most of this mission… [but] it won’t fail because of me.”

I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?

The only things I want to read about billionaires in 2026 are obituaries.

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that cuck thing in 2015

The new Pynchon has many lines that serve as solid guidelines for living.

Want to know something? They actually do know. Autofocus in modern cameras usually uses infrared light bursts, which your pets can see. To them it’s like a flash of light, and it startles them.

Happy celestial birthday to unrepentant karaoke snitch @scottwampler.bsky.social I miss you every day.

Someone close to Fango lost their mom on Christmas and needs help to give her a proper funeral. Anything helps. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

looks like Cozy Tron

Anyone with two brain cells knows the way to see if kids are at daycare is to sit in the parking lot for a few days at 7am and 5pm. It's probably good that these guys are morons. (And that doesn't make for the confrontational videos they want, because then they'd have to deal with parents.)

I can play maybe 5 rounds of Sektori before my face feels like it's melting off. Which is to say: hell yeah, I love it.

watching THE PROPHECY for the first time in decades, and the similarity between 1995 Christopher Walken and 2025 Nick Cave keeps making me giggle

My kid has watched HOME ALONE at least 20 times in the past week, forcing me to think entirely too much about how shamelessly Williams recycled his own main theme for the Harry Potter movies.

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Doing this creates instant heirloom value, too. My kid's bed is nothing special as a piece, but it's good wood. It was a givaway that looked like hell, but I stripped, sanded, reglued, and repaired it, then did a hand-rubbed oil finish. Now it means much more than something from Ikea.

me: what should we do about income inequality? Mario:

Was about to go to bed when my mom (83) sent this. So I went down to her place and now I’m locked in all over again.

gonna be asleep on the couch before they even figure out how to talk to Matt Damon and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

Wario64 telling me about soup = recession indicator

Warmest holiday wishes to you and yours.

Al Pacino watching the old Rudolph tv special

project: Beef Wellington, let’s go

new personality goals just dropped. tag yourself, I'm The MOUND

I'm a regular guy, I put my trousers on the same way as everyone else: falling into them through a hole in the ceiling via a contraction operated by my long suffering dog

throwing feet + cat content on main, merry Christmas

new personality goals just dropped. tag yourself, I'm The MOUND

Have this playing now and probably will for the next 48 hours.

this season i’m wishing you and yours a few small holiday cheers

Stay safe out there y'all

All I have to say about that Avengers thingy is that, six months after leaving my final movie industry job, my YouTube front page no longer surfaces Marvel stuff and 100 reactions to it. Pretty happy about that.

ghost morning

occasionally I'm reminded of this DVD cover for THE SILENT PARTNER, and I remember that I need to destroy whoever made it

pack it in everyone, this is the best one

probably needless to say, but: woof letterboxd.com/russfischer/...

Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is: archive.org/details/60mi...

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

I’ve been willing to bet that Bari Weiss wouldn’t keep that job through the end of 2026. Now I’m wondering if she’ll have it through the end of this week.

Looked at this Giger box art every time I was in the video store as a kid but never rented it. Tonight I'm finally getting around to it. (I know this is a bad idea.)

I’ve been willing to bet that Bari Weiss wouldn’t keep that job through the end of 2026. Now I’m wondering if she’ll have it through the end of this week.

Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.