Formula for the Battlestar Galactica book is: cool behind the scenes stuff, insightful thoughts from key people, my analysis, yelling about stuff I love, some "whoops, what was THAT," & then some spicy takes that will make a subset of people kinda mad? Or happy!? PLUS 2.8% OH GOD HOLY SHIT wut WHY 💀

As some outlets are still in the “Trump says…” phase of coverage, just a reminder he’s made a lot of these (or similar) claims before and they turned out to be bullshit — this thread’s a quick refresher.

This. Also being on a list of registered voters when you aren’t eligible to vote isn’t a crime. (For example if you move you are probably registered to vote in two states. You can’t vote in two states)

If you’re following the cyclosporiasis outbreak and wondering how lettuce has become so dangerous, our 2023 piece on Food Safety explains some of the major holes in our food-safety system that brought us to this point! youtu.be/Za45bT41sXg?...

"deviation from a Caprese salad"

they don't even seem to know

I’m curious — has any other outlet nailed this down or is every piece of commentary based on this one report? (I’m not saying it couldn’t be true! But it’s a big claim riding on one “well-placed source in Georgia” and this admin has a LOT of friendly outlets it could give this to.)

Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time

It’s not that it’s not an important story but every time someone says his name my brain does a smash-cut to this.

sam neill with a fake gun stuck to his head miming being held hostage by invisible chevy chase in memoirs of an invisible man, easily high point of the film besides the matte paintings

Saddened to hear of the untimely passing of Lindsey Graham, whose quick wit, charm, and facility with banter were irreplaceab— wait shit that’s Lauren Graham. Is Lauren Graham okay? She is? Oh thank god.

Ever since reading this story I’ve been unable to shake the image of a tiny Lindsey Graham entertaining a roomful of drunks and getting called “Stinkball”.

Goodbye, Lindsey Graham, I’ll always remember how you let certain liberals get a liiiiitle too comfortable making gay jokes at your expense.

Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

Showed this to the cowboys from the Pace Salsa commercial and they’re screaming, crying, shitting themselves.

I have caught up on season 1 of Apple TV’s “Sugar” and the funny thing is that its big twist feels like a showrunner trying to address a network note of “This man seems implausibly nice.”

I'm sorry, I burst out laughing at the line "loud isn't just about volume."

This promotional PSYCHO pre-release marketing photo (designed to satisfy demand and mislead from the film’s actual plot) always makes me smile.

“THEY did this to me!” (points at party in utter disarray with no preferred candidate to swap in, that’s scrambling to figure out how to even choose one)

None of the participants are surprising but the aftermath of the Platner revelations are making this an all-time week for Dudes Telling On Themselves.

Katie Dippold please go to the Emmys dressed as the Babadook

The very polite, diplomatic line about not going to weddings or funerals is so much better if you’ve read this. www.wbur.org/onlyagame/20...

Spent 20 minutes talking to Mitch McConnell and he told me the best things in life are free?

Javi knows. This is spot on. These dynamics, plus shorter seasons/shorter overall runs... it's all bad for television, just bad for the form all around. Anyway, thread:

i fell down a deep and winding rabbit hole on the General Hospital wiki to bring you this... ... and it was all so, so worth it type-click-type.ghost.io/john-oliver-...

You have to understand, Don Draper missed a pitch meeting due to a hangover and Pete just blurted it out.

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

If ever there were a guy you’d expect to know when this isn’t It.

To me the surest sign McConnell is still alive is that — no matter what political advantage delaying the announcement would bring — I simply can’t believe there wouldn’t be a gloating Truth Social post by now about how he was “supposedly ‘GREAT’ but he wasn’t always great to Yours Truly”.

This is going to be Act I, Scene 1 of a LOT of MFA students’ terrible first plays.

Canonically, somewhere a malpractice attorney in Pittsburgh is trying to figure out why they’re taking Dr. Mel’s deposition on July 4.

There’s never really a bad day to watch “Nashville” but today might be an especially good day for it.

The thing is, the ambiguous phrasing here kind of makes it sound like Turkey read that New Yorker profile and were like “absolutely NOT.”

It is so perfect for these guys to fuck up the concept of “bread and circuses” so badly, there are now official circus casualty counts.

I’m sorry, if we’re not calling this “Reheat” then what are we even doing here.

Do whatever you want, but I promise you don’t have to engage with the latest article about this site, you can just say “ok buddy” and go back to sharing opinions like “we don’t talk enough about how great Chris Kattan is in Monkeybone”.

A thing I have inadvertently discovered is that if you start reading a biography in the middle, the depressing feeling you get at the end when its subject has declined and died is immediately offset by going back to read the first half. He’s alive! And things are going great for him!

If you're wondering what he's even talking about, the answer is illuminating about how USAID got defunded. The exchange starts around 10 minutes into this clip -- Rogan's actually citing an anti-USAID crank named Mike Benz, who's cited a (real, stupid) USAID initiative to fund rap music in Cuba 1/4

Oh, wow, if you saw that story making the rounds about how a single corporation had killed 47 small Alabama newspapers, it’s worth reading this piece about how it — and multiple similar stories — are entirely fake.

You may have seen the viral videos about the "racist pizza shop" outside Albany, NY, but I assure you, you are not prepared for the full story of this pizza shop www.timesunion.com/tablehopping...

Unable to stop thinking about “The Act of Killing” but with Minions.

It’s after 8 pm and I’ve seen zero updates about the identity of this performer and I can’t rule out the possibility there are actually zero people in attendance.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

I started thinking about how there should be a romcom about two of the cranky commenters in the NYT recipes app meeting and falling in love and had to stop before I inadvertently wrote a Nora Ephron movie called "But That's Not Technically a Paella".

There’s obviously a lot that’s wrong here but one major component here is the delusion among a surprisingly large portion of parents that their kid is gonna get an athletic scholarship and go to the Olympics, and a truly courageous public official _might_ find a way to break the bad news to them.

Nina Totenberg: “SAMUEL ALIT—shit shit sorry sorry sorry”

Watching the exodus of well-known journalists from CNN and CBS, and Disney deciding to fight the FCC, sort of makes me think there’s a “two birds with one stone” outcome here where the ABC News 24/7 streaming service suddenly gets a massive influx of talent, resources, viewers and acclaim.

Just remembering that a plot point in the movie “Blow Out” is that the bicentennial celebrations are so noisy and crowded that you can murder someone in the middle of them and no one will notice, and this time around it’s the same thing, but because it’s so empty.

This 2016 promo for Bill Simmons’s HBO show “Any Given Wednesday” is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed. youtu.be/y1dGNbtHdV8?...