Be aware that this isn't always true: many card issuers offer an automatic biller update service that provides merchants the new card info to continue your recurring charges -- you might need to tell the issuing bank explicitly to opt your new card out of the automatic biller update

Saw Apollo 13 in IMAX with the fam. That was a good decision! Excellent all the way around. Of particular interest to screenwriting students because it has the best "exposition that doesn't sound like exposition" that I've ever seen. You don't have to know anything about space travel to follow it.

There is no floor for these folks

Fried pinged out that this exact passage is appearing from many people, clearly the work of bots.

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread

This is amazing, in a horrible way

Are you doing [illegal thing]? No! That's absurd! What I'm doing is [illegal thing].

The Lancet today published an essay––"The clinical and the political: care under authoritarian threat"––I wrote in response to the widespread conflation of political and clinical care as the Trump regime seeks to inject itself between patients and doctors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Sometimes you read a quote and instantly know it’ll pop up in a court filing down the road.

A friend is in trouble & needs help:

Thread about @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social, a friend of this account who is being subjected to a frivolous defamation suit by a right-winger

This is probably my favorite thing that Steven has ever edited that we did together I think it's as good as a montage in an golden-period Oliver Stone movie

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

Oh dear

In case anybody out there still thinks that renewal decisions are based entirely on viewership, former HBO executive Chris Albrecht brought a canceled show back for one more season because his driver loved it www.nexttv.com/news/hbo-han...

And by "significant cognitive disadvantage" he means "capable of getting a date"

Everyone is cancelling their Disney+ & Hulu subscriptions like...

These are stunning

Sarah speaks the truth

All right, here we go: an appreciation of Robert Redford's acting, his undeniable beauty, and how he leveraged both to become a legendary figure in cinema. Great photos, selected by the @vulture.com art department! www.vulture.com/article/robe...

Your groceries are 25% more expensive than they were in 2020, but cocaine costs half as much

"I don't think the songs themselves are bad songs. There's something to be said for timelessness, and hey, I listen to Traffic, the Ramones, the Rolling Stones, and the Clash. I'm also 45 years old."

I went to look up the owner of the property, and it turns out the head of the famed real estate consortium that owned it just died at his home last month, so feel free to write a little novel in your head at this point.

Betcha this is arson, to clear out a nonprofit space so a hotel & mall can be built there.

No coincidence he came out of Roger Corman's New World factory. One of his first jobs was attaching hamburger containers to walls to make spaceship interiors. (And they look great on film too.)

Sat next to someone on the subway today who was blaring audio from their phone and for the first time thought to consider how much of an impact the removal of the headphone jack had on the proliferation of this (very annoying) behavior

All the love and power to the protestors doing the Lord’s work here

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

Word

"I didn’t realize I needed Jimmy Kimmel to prosper this badly, and I’ll wager you didn’t either. He was harmless in the aggregate: a professional comedian doing routine professional comedian’s work. But because he dared to attract the Eye of Sauron, he’s now exiled."

“Throw a few virgins into the volcano to appease the gods” stuff here.

My favorite sign of the night.

Pedro Pascal is a load bearing part of multiple franchises, so Bob Iger better get his act together before his choices manage to torpedo Marvel and Star Wars plans

I think it's becoming clear that if you like indie creators, you're going to need to support them any way you can. And that doesn't mean money, just spreading worth of mouth can be powerful as well.

An excellent argument not just against ChatGPT, but in favor of human translators

Coffee shops are the heart of darkness for republicans. All their horror stories take place inside them. They have taken the place of the forest in middle American gothic.

"Our industry faces the most sophisticated, venomous, creeping evil in America’s history. There’s no standing above this conflict. No impartial observers. If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it." -—Dan Gilroy

“Carr, fully aware of Trump’s stated desire that Kimmel should be the ‘next’ network late-night host to lose his show, grabbed on to the tiniest thread of grievance and spun it into a direct assault on Kimmel, ABC and the First Amendment.” Yes. Thank you for saying this. Yes.

Heya True Believers, do you want to live in a shadow existence full of screams but you have no mouth to scream? Excelsior!!!

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Incredibly envious of everybody who gets to see this. Saw it as a kid. My buddies and I used to gather during recess and talk about whatever we watched the previous night. The morning after part 1 of this, we all just kind of stood around near the swings, looking at our shoes. Truly scary.

"When another character guesses Sarah’s age as 40, five years older than Robbie’s age at the time of filming, she blurts out an insult" Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, hahahaha

"It feels like an attempt to answer a hypothetical question that should never have been answered: what would it look like if you tried to make your own version of a script by Charlie Kaufman but carefully left out all the elements that challenge and disturb you?" www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-bi...

This entire thing is wonderfully brutal, but my favorite part is where the judge corrects the spelling of a word.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Thug in riot gear throws a congressional candidate onto the pavement