Six episodes into Pluribus and it's still unclear to me what sort of show it's going to be. I think that's astonishing. Even someone with Vince Gilligan's track record wouldn't have tried to make a show like this in the heyday of broadcast TV.

Pritzker does not like Mando, hasn’t even tried it. You wanna tell Pritzker R1 has too much fanwank? No he’ll tell you, fanwank is retconning every storm trooper into a clone of minor bounty hunter character Boba Fett. Dude died in a pitcher plant, what is cool about that?

Tip of the hat to the Slow Horses costume department for Shirley's windbreaker in season 5. As she's dealing with loss, hyper-vigilance, and addiction, drawing closer to Jackson's world in other words, she's suddenly got her own version of his raincoat. Beige, crumpled, more camouflage than armor

Season 5 of The Americans is such bold writing. Phillip & Elizabeth change profoundly but naturally under pressure that’s been ratcheting up for seasons. And it writes them into tense nasty corners that help season 6 become an amazing final season.

World Series Game 3 & Knuckles

...at some point around the middle they came for John Bolton, and I did not speak out, because it kinda seemed like that dude belongs in prison.

I read the whole interview and this never stops being funny. A large part of it is him describing the details of how his team designed his famous one person submarine, Deepsea Challenger, to ensure the safety of its one and only pilot, him

Sometimes it feels like the lesson older white Democrats took from the Civil Rights movement is that the important, praiseworthy thing is to be involved in deciding who gets to have civil rights, rather than making sure that everyone does.

Just got fired for sharing a clip of Robert Redford killing an old woman because it was "taken out of context" and he was "actually playing a kind and gentle personification of death itself"

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You, grinning: Guliani’s in the hospital! Me, the adult in the room: Was his business partner notified?

John Lennon, visiting Blackburn Lancashire in 1967:

The weird thing about grad school is that i’m now 1000 times more likely to see my professors as human beings and roll with that. Oh I can’t submit my assignment by email this week because the professor got phished? Sure that tracks.

#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe Picnic At Hanging Rock Stalker The Ascent Raising Arizona Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Meek’s Cutoff McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Shout DuckTales: The Movie Zodiac Bringing Up Baby Safe The End of Summer Thor: Ragnarock Vive L'Amour

Catching up on Strange New Worlds and I think Wedding Bell Blues might be the most impenetrable episode of Trek ever made. I enjoyed it, but it feels so reliant on the audience knowing a character from a single 58 year old episode, and being fully up on their Nurse Chapel lore

Look, as someone who's played plenty of shmups I was already well aware of this

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

28 Years Later is a bit like The White Album (complimentary). We know what Boyle & Garland sound like together, but this time around they've given over whole passages to each others' sensibilities and the results are disjointed and comfortingly familiar and inspired all in one. 4/5 ⭐

I'm realizing one of my quirks as a DM is that I rarely start a story with as much intrigue as players expect. To me "Something broke and you have to fix it" is a fine adventure hook, but players often jump to "Somebody sabotaged the thing!" and then I have to decide if I'm telling a sabotage story

Still playing a lot of Death Stranding 2 but I think my initial reaction stands: I wish it was more of a Dune Messiah type sequel, a story about living in the world after having brought vast changes to it, instead of running the same narrative back on a different continent

Is there a more satisfying feeling then thinking a problem can’t be caused by a USB cable just “going bad”, testing it anyway, and getting to throw away the traitorous cable?

Death Stranding 2, a nice game, still has one of the main problems of the 1st game. Once you deliver enough stuff to a prepper that they let you rest in their bunker you don't get to see the inside of their bunker! For such a vibes based game and this a baffling failure to feed the vibes

Many of Elon’s fans have built social circles where they never have to respect people who show strong emotions. So when they see a man they respect making decisions based on emotion they try to rationalize it as some next-level masculinity, rather than the normal messy human behavior it is

Still thinking about how good Sinners is. The set-up before the horror arrives is so strong that even if Coogler removed the horror he could’ve told a half dozen equally interesting stories about those characters and that night at Club Juke. That’s a really interesting way to pace a horror film too

Watching The Lodger and there have already been 3 or 4 shots I've never seen in anything else, like this double exposure shot showing the pacing footsteps characters hear as they look up at their celling. I love seeing silent filmmakers figure out different ways to communicate things

Finished the last 4 episodes of The Pitt yesterday and it's a beautiful example of how to write falling action. New problems are spinning up as the climactic problems spin down, and the characters all have to decide for themselves when they step off the merry-go-round

What's a non Classic achewood thing that you remember particularly strongly for unclear reasons. This is mine

A fun part being into movies is how your appreciation of different things grows over time. Sometimes I haven’t seen a film in years and the only mental note I have is like “used color well” and I’ll rewatch it and it has the most breathtaking colors I’ve ever seen (This is a post is about Vertigo)

Had a dream where an estranged friend showed up during a snow storm with a girlfriend who was in the midst of breaking up with him, and expected me to play referee so they could go to a movie instead of breaking up. If that's not an anxiety dream about becoming a therapist I dunno what is.

4 classes finished for the quarter, just 2 more left to wrap up. Why did I take 6 classes this quarter? I truly have no idea

My favorite genres are: 5. Hepburn, Katharine 4. Of course this movie from 1970–Now is set in the future, look at this building from the 1950-60s 3. A journalist is onto something 2. The landscape we are walking/driving through illustrates our feelings 1. They're coming, but we have time to prepare

Sat with the latest Severance episode (Sweet Vitriol) for a while and decided I liked it a lot. One sign of that weirdly is that I have some complaints about the editing. TV editing is often so formulaically effective that any problems are more about plot lines than cuts. Lemme give an example:

I feel like it hasn’t gotten enough attention that r.e. parrish has started publishing a whole graphic novel here at a tantalizing one page per day

A small #Severance detail I love is how Outie Burt has the full Christopher Walken inflection. It's been fascinating to see Walken play it down, but it felt right to hear more intensity from Outie Burt. Not that he's more real, but he has does have more people to perform for

Why is this support group, which could be happening anywhere, still happening in a school gym? You can hear the execs asking "How will viewers know why these people are sitting in a circle sharing?" Meta doesn't just lack imagination, they don't believe anyone else has it either

If I'm following you through the Cho starter pack and you're like, who is this? please feel free to DM me and I'll reach out over on FB. Trying to be pseudonymous here for now

Grad School Moment: I see my favorite professor from when I started 6 quarters ago in the cafe. I have forgotten his name. I pull out my entire laptop to look it up, then strike up a conversation. He tells me he loves the t-shirt I’m wearing. I have forgotten what it is.

Your action items are: 1. Notice when "a Republican agreed with this" is deployed as a lazy shorthand for something like "evidence based" or "moral" or "constitutional" or "legally sound." 2. Don't be lazy. Avoid relying on Republicans to legitimize facts or ideas you like.

I've been using the NIH's Library of Medicine every week since I started grad school. It has a wealth of free knowledge for anyone researching anything at all to do with health. Tonight it's crawling under heavy traffic, and that scares me

Does anyone have a solution for easily seeing what the people you’re following were posting like 8 hours ago? I’m usually scrolling here in the evening on the west coast so there’s some morning folks I just never see in the Following feed

Making it easy for cis people to violate gender norms, makes it easy to survive transition. And the people pushing bathroom bans know this, that is why they *don't give a fuck* who the bans end up targeting.

Watching old X-Files episodes really drives home how right people are to complain that streaming shows use too much shot/reverse shot coverage. Put on “Nisei” sometime; the camera is constantly moving, it has these amazingly expressive crane shots all foreshadowing Mulder leaping onto a train

Periodic reminder for new Bluesky users that there’s a gift link feed for all the shit you want to read but don’t want to give your money towards because they’re evil like the New York Times bsky.app/profile/did:...

Think I’m going to do some Lego posting while I build my new set. Look at this cozy little music nook and record collection.

The side-lining of trans journalists by major media orgs is such a frightening aspect of the moral panic against trans people. The media isn't bothsides-ing trans issues, they're not tokenizing us, they're outright barring us from conversations about "what to do" about us.

Finally got a chance to listen to this episode and it’s fantastic. The combo of actual D&D with editing, sound design, and music that the WBN team have developed has become its own thing. A swiftly paced modern radio play with the cheery chaos of improv and dice

I like how Deep Space 9 seems to have roughly the same prominence on Bluesky as TOS did in the early days of the internet. Show hasn't been on for decades but people are so happy to have a space to talk about it as if it were new.