Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

My most irrational movie take is that I always really like the first ten minutes of every horror movie when it’s working in overdrive to get you invested in liking all the characters before they start getting killed, and I sort of wish non-horror movies would figure out a way to replicate that.

Today’s discourse around “The Pitt” from someone who’s never seen it and is getting increasingly dismissive of anyone who tries to tell her about it is both a “you’re only making my opinions worse” moment and also reminding me of this.

Furious beyond words that it has been over 30 years and I still can't see any winter weather forecast without immediately thinking of...

All else aside, imagine winning gold for your country and being told now you’ve got to hang out with the director of the FBI for some reason.

The headline is bad here but somehow, incredibly, each paragraph of the story and quote from the professor makes it worse, as does the photo. (h/t to the @localmatters.bsky.social newsletter for flagging the story)

Hear me out: Clifford the Big Red Dog was almost certainly euthanized at a relatively young age due to hip dysplasia and honestly? Everyone in town was secretly relieved.

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

I like both “Blue Moon” and Ethan Hawke’s performance in it very much but every time I see a still frame from it I think it looks like “Dorf on… The Great American Songbook”.

A very small thing I enjoy, as a parent, is when the Wiggles bring in a backup musician who’s clearly not able to match their whole vibe.

Love the idea of screening “Birdemic” with a mid-movie break to watch all of “An Inconvenient Truth”.

A very good thread for everyone who has questions about the FCC/CBS/Colbert/Talarico story —>

Taking wagers on whether his long-delayed piece about the South Africans Trump prioritized for immigration will ever see the light of day.

Welp, better resign ourselves to a lot of discourse over a screenshot of a twitter post by a Politico writer pulling out one paragraph from a Times article that could be largely avoided by reading the actual article

The absurd hyperlocal drama I am in invested in: an LA bagel truck chain called (help) Yeastie Boys did a collaboration with the New York Post’s new California branch. Painted trucks red, handed out mock papers. You’re never gonna believe this but bagel truck patrons aren’t Murdoch fans, turns out

If we're posting rare Worfs, then we need to address the fact that the final episode of "Webster" was a clip show co-starring Worf, and because all live-action Trek is considered alpha canon, that means this whole episode is part of Starfleet history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-nY0...

Unless the very first question is "so, did you wind up taking that plane ride or no?" I don't see what the point of this is.

A service I haven’t offered in a while: If you know someone who _would benefit from_ having someone explain immigration policy to them for an hour, or be here to ask questions, or whatever, hit me up via DM. “Would benefit” = not just “change my mind” but “actually work to inform/persuade others.”

Something something free markets and personal liberties.

Quick! Get Pam Bondi back in there! We're allowed to ask questions again!

This website has the juice.

wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me type-click-type.ghost.io/tell-em-mich...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

eating lunch on pedophile island with my family but shaking my head so the children know i don't approve of the rape or lunch options

The first half is understandably the part people are focusing on here but it’s worth noting that the seven words at the end, intended as a devastating burn, are actually him co-signing the sentiment of the song performed in that halftime show by… Ricky Martin.

this is what happens in your mentions when you make a viral post

this is absolutely insane, and I cannot imagine why it is being given any oxygen. this sort of inflated nonsense will only produce panic.

oh so the jobs report is going to be BAD bad

I don’t know exactly how “Wonder Man” came to be, but it’s a really charming Hollywood story that just happens to be set in the MCU, and it may be my favorite Marvel TV show since “WandaVision”.

I still remember, as a magazine editor, being pitched on a story 25+ years ago about the massive schism between “colonize the moon” vs “colonize Mars” people over these exact issues, and suddenly flipping sides like this feels like it’ll make both groups’ heads explode.

I keep seeing screengrabs like this and I regret to inform you that if you checked in on the show as it was happening the metrics showed nearly 5 million people watching it live. (I don’t know why the figures dipped afterward —if this is just people who still had the livestream open or what.)

I saw someone point out that the Kid Rock TPUSA halftime performance was basically the opening 30 seconds of “Silicon Valley” and it’s almost unnervingly accurate. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYI...

I never noticed this either.

Five years ago I caught my dumbest ban

Just thinking about the logistics of the “All-American Halftime Show”. Will it be live? Will it have an audience? And if so, does that mean there are people out there getting ready to go spend Super Bowl Sunday waiting for hours for a 20-minute-long Kid Rock concert to own the libs?

“Ocean’s 14” should just be the gang finding a billionaire whose brain was cooked by Twitter and taking him for billions to set up a fake lab to test chemtrails for Marxism.

I’m not saying anyone *should* run an election-fraud-themed version of the Spanish Prisoner con on Bill Ackman, I’m saying that if you did, it’d almost certainly work, and if I’ve figured that out, I’m sure lots of less-scrupulous people have too.

If only there were a famous phrase about how to discern the true reason inexplicable things are happening, from a movie about “The Washington Post”.

I think many people are unaware how much some independent sources depend on the Associated Press, New York Times , Washington Post and NPR for the facts on which they base their woprk. Truly covering a wide range of news requires a lot of people, which is tough to do outside of legacy platforms.

It is very funny if he got fired for this by a guy who shut down Venice for his wedding, like, eight months ago.

Hey man. You work at a newspaper. Have some self respect and try to write at least one sentence that doesn’t feel like sandpaper on my eyeballs.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

I am enjoying the sheer number of replies to this bullshit post, pointing out that Minneapolis is not generally known for its palm trees.

Is anyone keeping track of how many times Scott Horton posts things that are complete bullshit, and then keeps them up after they get denounced because they're doing the numbers? This is the 3rd time I've seen it in the last ~month, and I've only seen Horton reposted at most twice that many times.

This post is making the rounds and the attached image doesn’t match the description at all. It doesn’t show Bondi giving instructions to redact those images, it shows agents *asking* for guidance, and it doesn’t show what the response was.

I am sure there are logistical or other complications here but—especially given the scope of the layoffs—I’m not entirely sure why these people couldn’t simply hire the Post staffers they want and produce a new, nearly-identical product.