The great tragedy of Xitter being down is that all its addicts have nowhere to scream about it.

The Chicago Bears' special gift thus far this season has been picking apart sub-par defenses, and staying heads up through four quarters. Which makes me feel pretty good about our chances next week against the Giants.

Me seeing the Raven's injury report:

Beyond what you think of the actual act of it, the optics alone of the current administration literally dismantling the White House feels like too perfect of a bad optics for it to have actually happened. It's such a crazy bad look.

In my first not-a-review in a while, I wrote over on @cinapse.bsky.social about how KPop Demon Hunters is the biggest movie of the year: cinapse.co/2025/10/is-k...

Look, I am not a ambassador or foreign affairs expert. But safe to say if bombs are being dropped, you can say the ceasefire failed. It isn't "threatened."

Finally thought on the Unc Bowl for now: it is clear that Aaron Rogers sees the Steelers as a vehicle to write the final chapter of his own legacy, where Flacco is doing what he has done his whole career: being That Dude when a team called on him.

Woke up still thinking about Joe Flacco running a 10-yard bootleg.

Football is so great.

40-year-old Joe Flacco rushing for a ten yard first down for a team he has been on for a week and a half is all timer shit.

He didn't die. He just went back to his home planet. youtu.be/uR0T5jxkMJs?...

Still thinking about how the Chicago Bears are both one field goal away from being 5-1, and two field goals away from being 1-5.

I don't think Good Fortune is the best comedy film of the year (that is still Naked Gun) but Keanu Reeves as the idiot angel Gabriel might be the best comedic performance of the year. cinapse.co/2025/10/good...

Every once in a while Trump says something that reveals that whatever horrific things Stephen Miller says in public, the shit he says behind closed doors is somehow worse.

Wild ride of a skeet.

Here is how crazy the NFC North is. The Chicago Bears lost their opener with the Vikings by a field goal; if they won that game, they would be 4-1 and in the lead of the division. As is, they are in last place at 3-2.

If you feel like this once-considered sacrilegious remake does belong with the best of the Sawyer/Hewitt family (or belongs in the chili scrap heap out back), send your 200-400 words in via DM, or email me or [email protected]! Here's also a peek at the other films we're covering! :)

Kathryn Bigelow continues her streak of "films that demand to be seen, and one time will probably do it for most people." cinapse.co/2025/10/a-ho...

Cause, Effect

It is always special to get to see a new picture from your favorite filmmaker.

Finally getting around to reading Joe Klein's Woody Guthrie biography, and still early on in Woody's but it's basically one horrific tragedy after another.

The fact BC's post text, headline and sub-head are all the exact same thing has given me endless entertainment. Now that they all have a typo in it is the icing on the cake.

Draft dodging Boomers dying mad that we lost in Vietnam, rather than admitting that getting in proxy wars with Communism was always the mistake.

Are the Ravens a bottom five NFL team? Bottom three?

I don't know if I had just missed this was what the shutdown debate was over but apparently the issue at the center is Medicaid subsidies for ER visits for people without citizenship documentation.

Someone needs to do a counter on how many times the concept of "the enemy within" appears throughout this ramble. Because this is a de facto declaration of war against the US's own citizens.

Honey, wake up, the new "Please clap" just dropped.

This whole thing has really given up the game on the Right Wing's framing of violence and how politics shapes it. They are going out of their way to lie about what the shooter's political identity is, rather than just condemning it.

This rules and I kind of don't care if it's true or she is trolling.

Saw One Battle After Another last night and I think the process of hearing it hyped to the moon gave me a more guarded response. It is extremely good, but not my favorite of the year (still Sinners), let alone the decade. It probably ranks number three in my personal PTA, after TWBB and Magnolia.

Now that the top level revelation of what is happening on Peacemaker has occurred, I think one of the more important and understated parts is how oblivious Chris was to the horror, because he was part of the protected/celebrated class.

Anyone wanna take guesses on who we are about to go to war with? I think 50/50 chance it is Venezuela or Chicago.

We need to have a talk about young white men in this country turning to horrific acts of violence as their only means of expressing their ceaseless frustration and restlessness.

MAGAts have spent the last 36 hours smugly joking about how obviously Trump made no attempt to get Kimmel off the air. And now...well...

I relapsed back into the Other App, and found myself knee deep in content that just raised my blood pressure. And wanting more and more of it. It's wild how bad algorithms that just feed you rage are so good at being consumingly addictive.

I just sent this to Nexstar as a voicemail. If you feel compelled, I suggest you do something similar: Hello my name is James Tyler. I live in Pflugerville, TX and my local NBC affiliate is KXAN, a Nexstar station. I also have KVUE, a TEGNA station as my ABC affiliate.

Hahaha, the Vice President just having a larf about state run media!

BREAKING: Comedy actually dead

Hey, weird research I want to do: anyone know the most efficient way to scrub for political content from the early era of YouTube and/or Twitter? I want to see what direction the political discourse has gone since the second W. term, and how different it feels.

RIP to Robert Redford. Losing yet another one of the absolute best to ever do it.

Hey! Me and @vforvashaw.bsky.social wrote about Matilda! No, not that one, the other one! The Netflix one! It's great!

The leading ideology of Gen Z is not right or left. It is nihilism. It is a group of young people who have looked at the world they were given and determined nothing matters. So why not go out in a blaze of "glory" and bullets?

A lot of people are arguing that Charlie Kirk was actually a moderate voice within the Right Wing of this country. I am actually inclined to agree. Which makes it all that much more terrifying, and shows you how horrific the rhetoric in this country has gone.

I randomly stumbled into my first ever clearly AI generated podcast in the wild and it was the most emotionally unnerving audio experience I could imagine.

The worst people in the world have been looking for their George Floyd moment for five years now. The fact they are so gleefully all hands in should make your skin crawl.

The people who are taking the Peacemaker storyline at face value and not seeing where it is clearly going are feel like real scum in a few weeks I suspect. All the Best Dimension Ever memes shall crash to earth.

Hey I officially hate football. Stupid game.

This game has been a microcosm of Bears fandom. Flashes of excitement that slowly atrophy into depression.