musk appearing in a photo of every 21st century atrocity like he’s Pennywise the Clown

Another reason to boycott the World Cup in the US, Iran's allocation of fan tickets for the group stage of the World Cup has been revoked just days before the start of the tournament, says the country's football federation. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

it sounds like crazy leftist hysterics when you say this but a lot of the key DOGE teenyboppers literally came from fascist pedo cybercriminal groups bsky.app/profile/gard...

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We are in desperate need of a Schoolhouse Rock explanation of how the CA estimate vs. count of ballots outstanding works, which I'm *almost* certain is just that ballots are *officially* "to be counted" once the signature is verified on the unopened envelope but are algorithmically estimated prior.

If you’ve ever wondered why the hell Hollywood can’t seem to just make dependably enjoyable TV on a regular basis these days, this excellent, lucid rant/ analysis is for you. (And if you’ve never wondered, you should still read it, because this particular kind of rot is not at all limited to TV)

Rest in peace. We should have had so much more of her.

Christopher Nolan has been asked this before, about why he doesn’t have email or a cell phone, and it’s always men asking the question who never make the connection that Nolan’s wife Emma Thomas, who is also the producer on his films, likely handles most if not all of these communication issues

I just imagined trying to use these to eat an actual meal and made myself angry

Neat thread. "Realism"--in film, in narration, etc., etc.--is a magic trick. It's the opposite of unmediated--an artifice designed to produce the *appearance* of the real. And this isn't a bad thing. It's unavoidable, a fundamental part of how representation and expression work!

Ken Saro-Wiwa campaigned (and was murdered) over this in the 90s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Sar...

I will fucking die mad that we let the stupidest people in society with medieval peasant brain ruin recognizing what should have been a moon landing level triumph

Radicalize anyone in under a minute by making them watch this

Meeeeee tooooooooo (Los Feliz Public Library box, lmk if anyone out there who dropped theirs off after, say, Sunday afternoon has gotten their "your vote was counted" text yet)

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

In Sikh culture, when the racists started attacking us because they thought we were Muslims, we didn’t correct them and say we were Sikhs because the point is it shouldn’t happen to anyone. As a cis woman, I do not correct someone attacking me because they think I am trans for the same reason.

Good job Minnesota 💪🏿

They are trashing everything

important context for the one (and literally only one) example that the "trans girls in sports" panic was built off of lia was a good swimmer who, post-HRT, was not remotely exceptional by the general standards of female athletes these bans are based on flimflam and bullshit

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

the problem with the shittiest billionaires getting so directly involved in space is how much it turns off people who just want to be excited by space

It's impossible, obviously, to run the counterfactual, but if they hadn't murdered USAID, the odds of this outbreak happening go way down.

I stepped off the library dean path when it became clear that this would be the job--managing the end of academic libraries as we know them. Please know that these changes are just a result of defunding. They do not herald some bright digital future. There will just be less access to knowledge.

Also MIT: We’re closing down the libraries and firing the librarians!

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

Angelenos, let’s get Nithya across that finish line and into the general election. We can stop Pratt right now. I certainly don’t want to deal with 5 more months of him 🤢

This “calorie standard” language is sinister as fuck. Basically we’re feeding them enough to stay alive but nothing more.

I have told the FCC no. Have you?

Jeremy Creatures are ADORABLE. I have one in my office and you should, too!

Begging magazines to not fire their social media managers.

DoGE "accidentally" cancelled Ebola protection whilst raiding voter data.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.

"you're being intolerant to creatives using new tools to make their work" yeah man im intolerant as hell. i hate you and your work

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

TMZ is doing a better job holding politicians to account than anyone else right now, btw.

Every single X-er who wore black and shaved bits of their head when they were in high school was an absolute weirdo and most of their school probably hated them. Any earrings beyond the first pair? Weirdo. Like Star Trek/Star Wars? Weirdo. Comfy with tech? Weirdo. We're the ones on social media now.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

one thing that still baffles me is that orchestrated spate of right wing talking points about how the alleged shooting at the WHCD should end any debate over the ballroom it made absolutely zero fuckin sense lol it still makes zero fuckin sense lol

No ballroom costs a billion dollars That money is for the Trump family

Jay Caspian Kang went to Bowdoin and Columbia. His father went to Harvard. Is he going to have his child (he has one so far) skip college? Really?

Literally stop watch you’re doing and watch Star Wars 1977 right now. I love Empire as much as the next guy, but truly Star Wars 1977 is so ambitious and inventive that nothing else in the series can ever compare.

I know people involved in california water stuff and if you bring this particular incident up they have to go take a walk however stupid you think this whole thing was it was stupider than that

"Meanwhile, ICE has defended the standard of medical care provided to detainees. 'For many illegal aliens this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives,' a spokesperson told ABC News." Name the spokesperson. Name them all.

The AU Project Hail Mary has a very different set of concerns, sun-dimming-wise, I see

read the cornell’s sun original story which is fucking CRAZY

Adam Schiff do something that’s not an embarrassment challenge, level: impossible You didn’t entirely suck as my local/ House rep, would love to go back to the time it wasn’t an utter embarrassment to vote for you!

Last year I shadowed a Mississippi public defender for a day. Colom, who is DA in that district, joined us for lunch. I'm told he does this often. He's smart, decent, and would make an excellent senator. Unfortunately, Mississippi is probably going to elect someone who is none of those things.