tony soprano: [looks up from jukebox] jimmy mcnulty: [bursts into restaurant] tony, it's me, jimmy! i need your help catching a murderer. you're the only one i can trust tony soprano: in this thing of ours, we're all part of the hbo family aj: i can help you guys with my special abilities and skills

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

if we don't punish the creators of Lost for their crimes we can never begin to heal as a nation

It’s fucked up that in the Book of Job, the main character is made to suffer endlessly through no fault of his own, and his name is spelled the same as the thing you have to do for money 2,000 years later.

looking through old albums and realizing how badly i miss film photography being a part of my life

there are plenty but this one is top of mind:

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

The type of guy where even if the things he loved weren’t necessarily your bag you knew there must be something real in there that you just didn’t see yet. – Luke O'Neil on Kaleb Horton, from (www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...)

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

Today in the most depressing thing I've ever heard

If you see this, quote post with your model of positive masculinity.

Oh shit they finally came up with a socially beneficial use case

what im here is a way to effectively monetize your sooey, and a practice niche for some entrepreneurial lawyers

If this Netflix purchase of WB goes through, can they hire me to redesign the HBOmax logo? Pay me $15MM and I’ll remove the max part. Everyone gets to go home happy.

not the top-voted reply, but this is a hilarious way to troll white people

MiniDisc deserved better

Venus

HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends

Once again, telling me that I need to pay attention to the encroaching fascism—and doing it FROM YOUR SUBSTACK—is telling me you’re not willing to do the work you’re asking everyone else to do.

The Butlerian Jihad will begin with Steve Earle destroying the Nashville bosses’ “HayI” app in a mashup of Devil Went Down to Georgia and the legend of John Henry (with a little of that classic Star Trek Kirk-talking-the-evil-supercomputer-into-killing-itself bit).

Bobby LeFebre

read a little bit of the pdf and Olivia Nuzzi is the kind of writer Caroline Calloway wants to be

Mad Men 4K

“What does a person do?” is the perfect question

I'm continuing my series of comfort watch movies on Whatever, and today I'm essaying Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and 19th Century Sailing life, which I am happy to view and not to live: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/t...

Joy to the World 2 Joy 2 World Joy to the World: Tokyo Drift Joy & World Joy Five Joy & World 6 World 7 The Fate of the World J9 Joy X

#OtD 2 Dec 1859 US abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for his leadership in a plot to incite an armed rebellion against slavery stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...

The episodes on HBO Max are also mislabeled? Why

I'm sure this is rage bait but cannot express how badly I think this guy should actually build this house, because I desperately want to take a tour of it and see how fucked it is. let it stand as a monument to the actual quality of chatgpt

“In her interview with Hearon, Wachowski said that she was unsurprised conservatives have latched onto the film because ‘right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything.’”

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

A poem is a way of talking to the person you’re not supposed to talk to anymore. – Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else

enshittification's venerable ancestor is advertising

Pluribus and Chair Company are both shows about people trying to unravel the weird mystery around them without recognizing their own weirdness. In this paper I will etc etc

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

seen on fbook this morning

“wellness” tied to anti aging is both cope and accelerant for imperial violence, in this piece I outline the past, present, and grim future marked by the products and routines selling “longevity” ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empir...

update

The photograph of mine that's made me the most money (not counting gigs), been downloaded and seen the most, is by far this one. It frequently gets sold as stock as data centers, technology, etc. It's a photo I took on my phone of an elevator shaft.

Bobby LeFebre

Hello! Annoying news! I’ve been informed by work that due to an investor delay I am not going to be paid on time. I need to pay my rent and internet/phone and eat, so if you can give me a hand, I can pay you back in the next few weeks when my pay shows up. Thanks! PP: @StellaSacco CA: $sacc

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

This is a lovely article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...