austeritarian authoritarians: all we have is a hammer, and no, we’re not looking for any nails we’re just going to hit people* with the hammer until morale improves *billionaires are not people, so they don’t get hit

APPEALING ROMANTIC SUSPENSE thriller with a high-octane plot and great protagonists: an ecologist and an FBI arson investigator who team up to uncover the secrets behind a sabotaged wildlife study. Cozy vibe, yet intense. B PLUS 💙📚 #bookreviews #SelfPublishedSunday ktleeauthor.com/riverbend-k-...

Bluesky the organization thinks that pointing out poor content moderation decisions is “rude” even when it’s done with the utmost politeness

TV’s Frank has the mots justes

no lies detected

"Upon reflection and with the advice of colleagues I have come to the conclusion that calling for the murder of all homeless people is bad for business. So I retract my call for murder."

this is the quintessence of Fascism

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.

sometimes 2025 has absolutely delightful surprises!

Cushing is so amazing, he sells every line #HorrorWatch

MORE HOPPING! UNDEAD HOPPING MINIONS WITH FARM IMPLEMENTS! #HorrorWatch

okay, this is very Alexander Nevsky in a weird way #HorrorWatch

the rich widow is wearing basically an outfit I bought at Casual Corner in the Worcester Center Mall in 1977 #HorrorWatch

FINALLY SOME HOPPING #HorrorWatch

Cushing is really selling the avuncular connection with the lead brother, it’s sweet #HorrorWatch

MANDATORY PITH HELMET #HorrorWatch wouldn’t be an international Horror Watch without one

okay, this scene is delightful, the Chinese academics scorning the European for his superstitious and backward ways #HorrorWatch

every single time, it never fails

this man has hoes #HorrorWatch

“the characters portrayed within are fictitious” THAT’S RIGHT, THE REAL DRACULA WOULD NEVER BE SO TACKY #HorrorWatch

Dracula: sorry, my man, I don’t speak a word of Cantonese, write it out maybe, my Mandarin is better #HorrorWatch

every time I see a notable media person say something odd about the notable person who was killed this week, I remember how working at CJR taught me many white journalists find it easier to sympathize and empathize with right wing individuals than non-white journalists they actually work with

fuck civility, what people actually need to be shown is basic human respect

the ancient Romans were really on to something with the whole “damnatio memoriae” thing I for one never want to hear the name of the recent high-profile murder victim again

wrap it up, we have achieved Peak Bathos

like I’ve been saying, what is it about the white, Christian* community that breeds this kind of indiscriminate violence? we need to have a serious talk about this *and nominally Christian spoiler: it’s white Christian supremacism

well, I’m glad someone documented what everyone living with disability or difference of any kind already knew

always push back, always say no you gain nothing by saying yes

SMART, HILARIOUS HEIST caper with the sharpest cultural critique around pits three Black women, unlikely friends, against the student loan-industrial complex and the extraordinarily bizarre “debt police.” Breathtaking and unforgettable. SOLID A 💙📚 #bookreviews bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

@pressley.house.gov ?

look, we in the white Christian (and nominally Christian) community need to have a serious dialogue about the problem of violence in our community we’re shooting errbody out there I, for one, blame the country music-industrial complex (not Dolly Parton, though)

Horst Weasel

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

Wow the standards of decorum are so much stricter for queer people than they are for gun-toting bigots huh

oh, Spencer Cox, you had a moment of being almost statesmanlike despite everything else you’ve ever done or said in your political career, and then you blew it

The Middleman (2008) not even one season, the network poltroons didn’t let @okbjgm.bsky.social and co. make the last episode

they want their Horst Wessel so badly if all of the early reports of the murderer being part of the Very Online Right Wing are accurate, how tragic that any person would be murdered over this intrafactional nonsense one might have empathy if it were not currently deprecated

look, Spencer Cox is not someone with whom I am ordinarily impressed, so how low must the bar be that I am impressed that he didn’t make this a partisan thing

this is it, this is the current Overton Window

ENTERTAINING GLOBETROTTING CAPER set in the late 1980s stars a heavy metal band unwittingly fighting the Cold War in Eastern Europe at the behest of the CIA. Fun, picaresque, inspired in part by real events and the life of a touring band. B PLUS 💙📚 #bookreviews bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

offering Fascism Light as an alternative to Original Recipe Fascism is an enterprise always doomed to fail but people in every fucking country are always trying it nonetheless

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum, is now Hamas

slightly diminishing a book: The Tale of Two Towns

how come the polls are right and must be followed when it comes to bigotries, but wrong about everything else? 🤔

okay, sometimes there is good news as well

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

oh holy Christ, they buried the lede

huh, I wonder if the SCOTUS Catholics or their boss Leonard also have noticed that these chapters and verses don’t match their Bibles

paying for people to get healthcare = “waste” paying even more for death panels = “efficiency”

"Wow look at this neat liquid metal, let's put it in everything!" ... "Oh no people are going mad!" "Wow look at this soft workable metal, let's make everything out of it!" ... "Oh no people are going mad!" "Wow, what a neat algorithm, let's put it in everything!" ... "Oh no people are going mad!"