THE PEOPLE WANT MORE HAPLESS LUNKS

The GOAT.

Challengers mostly didn’t work for me but what did work for me about it was Josh O’Connor giving one of the only performances to successfully achieve this thing in a mainstream(ish) movie in the 21st century. like, that is a movie-star performance from the fuck-around century (hugely complimentary)

Ryan Reynolds strikes me as more of a Joel McCrea type, in that you can’t imagine him playing an effective villain ever (whereas Stewart could!)

Reject (Hollywood) modernity, embrace tradition

And literally nobody is going to want to hear this, but Ryan Reynolds ranks pretty high on the list of Hollywood leading men still carrying this torch.

Small-scale scrap metal dealer in WWII Britain (mom’s side), progressive Idaho newspaperman (dad’s side). I think I’m set.

Newman was very very good at it, yeah.

Yep. Ford represented a very specific kind of Being Cool By Being A Dipshit that used to be right at the heart of American pop-culture depictions of masculinity. Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart both excelled at it.

Great thread. I don't use my legal first name. I am always angered by anyone (normally in some stupid government office) who forces me to. And I'm cis.

as always, the only constructive response here is Tank Girl

A very particular, and under the right circumstances extremely powerful, kind of fury.

Damn. What a good way to phrase it.

These assholes delenda est.

ok carrie bradshaw

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Incredible to watch Corbyn's face in this clip, and see him react to it in real time.

To the Movies, it ultimately doesn't matter that Alderaan is destroyed. For Leia it's a motivating moment of grief and loss, and it sets the stakes for the rest of the plot - that's it. If I could change one thing about the prequels, I'd run find and replace on the script - "Naboo" to "Alderaan."

"That's just the way the universe is." "Not within the reach of my arm, it's not."

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Anti-trans hostility to people making the simple request that they be called the name they prefer to be called is such a huge tell as to the indecency of their project.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

“a computer game for our children”

When “liquefaction” is a medical diagnosis.

Forget a presidential library. He's gonna end up as bunch of jars in his own wing at the Mütter Museum.

They gave Colson a White Head!

Tester won this district by a whisker in 2024.

Last week, I was fired in retaliation for confronting DOGE staff in 2025. Today, I launch my campaign for U.S. Congress in Maryland’s 6th district. Marylanders show enormous bravery in defense of our communities. #MD06 deserves a Rep as brave as its residents. secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi...

Alexis Goldstein is running for Congress, y'all!

The NYT has included True Color in their "books to read in March" round-up! Of course: True Color is out March 31, so you'll have to read it really, really fast to stay compliant with the NYT's demands. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

SOLD.

There’s a Muzak version of Gorillaz’s “Clint Eastwood” playing on this plane, and I’m oddly not-mad.

I looked it up. Yes, this is official merch.

A category error that too many people blame students for. It emerged in the seventies out of admin efforts to roll back student power.

“What’s the best bit of the M62?” “Leaving Yorkshire!” 🌹

A couple of years back I showed up at my aunt’s house in a rather flamboyant button-down with an aggressive rose motif. She took one look at me and said “At least they’re red.”

I said this to my mom this morning, and she gave me a look: "She's from Bolton, actually."

Starmer is rounding on the iceberg like McNulty with the pillar.

Hannah Spencer victory speech youtu.be/Tf7wVpDEvho?... "We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other. We can demand better without hating each other"

It was an absolute delight to volunteer on this campaign. It's been swinging our way for a while, but it took a lot of work. The Greens have massively levelled up in terms of organising ability. Hannah is an absolute gem

Labour’s *majority* in Gorton and Denton in 2024 – just 19 months ago – was 13,000+. Tonight it got fewer than 10,000 votes total, on an almost identical turnout. In its heartland. That’s what a collapse of your core vote looks like.

my mum lives in Gorton and Denton and funnily enough you could predict this result simply by looking at my tweets about her political feelings over the last year.

Greens take FORTY-ONE percent in a race that was polled as a three-way tie in the range of 28-28-28.

She’s so good. I hope this is a harbinger of things to come.

Congratulations to Keir Starmer for taking the bold strategy of steering directly into the iceberg

She's concluding by apologizing to her customers for having to cancel scheduled work—"because I'm going to parliament," by promising to stand for them, and by giving a shout-out to a little girl she met on the campaign trail. She's wonderful, and she's barely keeping it together. Pure joy.

"Everyone deserves a nice life" turned out to be a winning message to voters.

Yup. And the constituency is hardly the granola and sandals population that have flirted with Green candidates in the past. This is a pretty huge win for them if they pull it off…