If you don’t know much about how transphobes operate you’d be surprised how essential “social contagion theory” is to their claims of legitimacy, and what a load of shit it is. Julia Serano’s been debunking transphobic junk science for decades and I hope her video on this reaches a lot of people

I support this congress in particular being the one to make daylight saving time permanent. This is real "Only Nixon could go to China" stuff. Let the Republicans get yelled at for implementing unfailingly noticeable yet wonkish changes to the fabric of nearly the entire county for once

Everything is fucked up and it's good to be hugely angry about the status quo, but if it helps anyone; dead members of congress being replaced by relatives to serve out the remainder of their terms is a well precedented thing history.house.gov/Exhibitions-...

It would be fascinating to experience how news traveled before mass media We have cautionary tales of rumormongering and scapegoating from those times, but I bet it would be impressive to watch accurate information spread, as it must’ve done sometimes

Lindsay Graham has died after being asked to carry soup into the Jackass offices before being slapped by a giant wall-mounted hand

I didn’t know the Coke Freestyle was Dutch

Best bot on this website and it ain't close

Attack Ad VO: Tom Loftus thinks it’s ok to waste herbs

anton chigurh: heads or tails. you must chose. me: is that a Prince Valiant cut? anton: yeah it used to have more volume me: you want to use something light on it, no silicone-heavy washes and of course... both of us (laughing): blow dry from the roots! me: alright heads anton: it's tails

I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.

hey so if you hate how Fandom wikis are bloated resource hogs i just learned you can go to "antifandom.com/whatever" and it loads a clean, ad and video-free proxy of the page

Random Access Memory: One day my sister’s husband calls me. Nice guy, when I’m out visiting we talk a bit. I pick up, he wants to know what Jollibee is. He saw an ad for one several towns over, hadn’t heard of it before. Has never called me before or since. Perfect interaction.

A day late for Father's Day posting, but this cover of a Grateful Dead song by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, on a compilation by two of the guys from The National, is a both a great track and a great cross-generational work of Dad Rock

Seeing a lot of "Why don't legislators make the internet safer for everyone instead of banning kids from it?" and this is why. The people lobbying for these bans don't want any changes how the internet works for them personally, they want to control who gets to use it

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Considering renewing my MLB tv subscription solely for Jung Hoo Lee. This is a vile Giants season, but Lee is doing All-Star stuff right now, and he was already fun to watch before

A director I'm watching with interest right now is Damian McCarthy. In an era where making original films is extremely difficult he's made 3 since 2020, including the wonderful Hokum that just came out this year. Gonna thread a few things that stand out to me about how he's working:

The car markers won so hard that there’s only one big work of anti-automobile art I’m aware of, and it’s mostly familiar to the sort of people who have opinions on how studios treated Orson Welles, but it’s great and I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently youtu.be/xOJ8Hdd1Nus

Let’s do a few movie recs for Pride Je Tu Il Elle (Akerman 1974) feels like the kind of experience you might have on the early web: A small intimate window on someone who’s retreated from the world and gone a bit feral alone in her room while she works on something emotionally. And then she leaves

Podcast idea: Just release every episode of Frontline as a podcast We've had all the discussions about how famous PBS voices like Bob Ross and Fred Rogers can serve as audio comfort food but we left Will Lyman out of the discussion

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

I’d use the money to actually build a bunch of conceptual architecture that’s never existed. Anything by Lebbeus Woods, anything from a weird video game. This would make me happy, and there’s a risk it could make others happy, but given the nature of public art it will surely make more people mad

Late night Criterion Channel posting: Finally watching “Jeanne Dielman” and so far my biggest wish is to see the view from her dinning room window. What are those flashing lights? Great way of reminding us of the hustle and bustle of Brussels, even as she moves carefully through everything

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone

I turned in my last major assignment for grad school last night. I was so out of it that I thought yesterday was Tuesday, I even apologized to the professor for being a day late turning it in when it was in fact completely on time Really limping across the finish line here.

For the longest time it felt like The Onion either didn’t have a baseball fan on staff or only had intensely self-loathing baseball fans on staff, but something has shifted. The baseball jokes are good now

I got about 15 minutes into White Lightning (A film I understood Burt Reynolds to have a starring role in) without recognizing Burt Reynolds. Has there ever been a more enduring bit of personal branding than Burt’s mustache?

My entire tl watching the nintendo direct

The Americans ST: DS9 Deadwood The Wire Batman: TAS The X-Files NewsRadio Arrested Development The Simpsons King of the Hill Cowboy Bebop Better Call Saul All Creatures Great & Small (either tbh) The Twilight Zone Doctor Who (but this is like putting Lake Erie on a list of favorite beverages)

me in the Ghost Hunting group chat: good find tommy! there's something up with that tire for sure me in the Disney Exec GC that I was added to by mistake: Agreed. People will love seeing "Little Yoda" on the "Big Screen" me in the smaller Ghost Hunting GC: tommy thinks his tires are haunted hahaha

For that certain kind of programmer who spends their free time arguing with other programmers about their tools, the opportunity to suddenly debate the general public about how they generate text must feel intoxicating

I want some midnight junk food, but I'm only realizing as I walk out the door that today was 4/20. This is going to be the longest Jack-in-the-Box drive thru line I've ever seen

I love how the humor here hinges on the unlikely idea that Will hasn't done this exact bit at Deanna dozens of times. Normally their whole deal is knowing each other too well. Here he's finally managed to surprise her for once, but the punchline flows from her bringing things back to the familiar

Barthes’ “The Death of the Author” is like 6 pages long and pop culture debates would be more productive if people read it rather than imagining what it says

Friend: [ronpaul-itshappening.gif] Me: [joke about the Melania press conference] Me (realizing there is no shared reality anymore): hey actually what did you mean by that? Friend: [link to a rip of a viral marketing VHS from a Scottish electronica duo who haven’t made an album in 13 years]

In Symphony of the Night (1997) the Castlevania designers implemented a novel solution to the problem of players wishing to control powerful characters that never-the-less grow more powerful, having the players immediately walk into a room with an asshole who takes their shit

The recent addition of GitS:SAC to Criterion Channel means that, statistically, a few film school undergrads are watching it for the 1st time right this moment, wondering why the fuck the soundtrack goes so hard

I don’t mind April Fools Day in general, but the dominant joke format for it on the internet is usually “We’re changing the thing you liked and doing something totally different”. And that sort of humor is definitely not feeling good right now

Trump is trying to say the Strait of Hormuz isn't the US' problem because the outcome of this war is no longer in doubt. It's past time to say that straightforwardly, since we're in for a tidal wave of obfuscation to portray defeat as victory.

A lot of people in the industry questioned the necessity of a double cheeseburger council. Couldn’t the work be done under the auspices of one of our fine national, and international, hamburger awareness bodies? I think those questions have been put to rest today.

Which man from David Fincher’s filmography seems the most dateable? Assume you have to choose one or the $7.99 /month you paid for Fnchr Premium will go to waste. I’m leaning towards Anthony Edwards as Bill Armstrong in Zodiac

PLURIBUS (2026)

Even if you follow trans rights closely you might be surprised how rare it is for a cis reporter to do a story like this, interviewing trans people about the impact a new bigoted law is having on their lives

Honeydew melons seem pretty bad! I don't love blueberries either, they can be chalky and bland, but I've also had enough blueberries to respect that how they're used matters a lot. Honeydew only ever shows up as fruit salad filler. What is the good honeydew recipe?

The quotes around “understanding” are so telling. These dudes want woman who know nothing about the world but who can mother them when they have big feelings about the world. It’s practically gnostic; men toiling in material muck, demanding comfort from women they chain to pedestals

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014