An underrated driver of human behavior is that it’s actually a lot of fun to believe stupid things

RIP Mike F, he made endless bangers but this is my favorite

Very sad to say it seems Mike Fossey, aka Mike F. has died. Truly one of the funniest posters of all time and a talented artisan. Had been friends online for many years, but I got to hang out a couple times at shows in Boston and he was funny and sweet in real life too.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

It feels like too many people have the mindset that "I can act however I like as long as I'm right" and if anyone doesn't listen because you're being too much of a jerk, it's their fault for being too stupid and emotional to look at the substance of your argument

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us to associate optimism and a positive outlook with low intelligence

IF YOU HAVE A FOOTBALL FAN IN YOUR FAMILY, please show them how to access the Peacock-exclusive Packers-Ravens game tonight, a game with huge playoff ramifications that will not be shown anywhere else but Peacock, a service they may not know exists.

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

Imagine you take a time machine back to the late 1800s and the first person you run into is this guy

why does the oven say piss…

Die Hard Arcade (Saturn) (1997) 1/4

The most shocking revelation of the Twitter era is that most highly successful people are just absolute freaks

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

I honestly think James Cameron's secret is that he desperately wants the audience to think his movies are cool as hell. He's not snobbishly making films purely to impress critics and other filmmakers OR cynically cranking out slop. He wants expertly-crafted crowd-pleasers.

Time is such a weird thing. Laura Ingalls Wilder, famous for writing about her family's life on the frontier (the basis for 'Little House on the Prairie') would live long enough to travel via jet airliner.

it is wild to anyone who was a hard-core PC gamer in 1996 when we realize that NVIDIA is now one of the pillars the entire world economy rests upon.

NFL Films made this for all of us. A Carol of the DOINKS.

I think it's beautiful that most Christmas movies have one moral at heart: "If you don't celebrate this holiday you are a piece of shit."

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

This is some insane shit from Bari Weiss

Most advice from strangers is useless, but here are 5 things I wish somebody had told me when I was younger (I wouldn't have listened): www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iL...

"Did you know [iconic role] was almost played by [different famous actor]?" Yes, because 99.99% of showbiz is meetings, it takes thousands of meetings to get a film made and in the course of those meetings every possible actor is discussed for every possible role

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Watch this, also stop watching 60 Minutes. Frontline > 60 Minutes amd Bari Weiss. youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...

When people ask me what I’m doing for Christmas I just send them this photo with no explanation

It's kind of hard to let go of negative personality traits when you suspect those traits have made your career. From '5 Harsh Truths About Success from an Only Moderately Successful Person': www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iL...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

It's kind of hard to let go of negative personality traits when you suspect those traits have made your career. From '5 Harsh Truths About Success from an Only Moderately Successful Person': www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iL...

"Okay everybody, normal human faces, this is gonna be the one, I can feel it."

The crazy thing about Tom Cruise is if he had dedicated himself to JUST doing comedy decades ago, he would still be regarded as one of the greats

Americans have overwhelmingly favorable views of Amazon and Google, more mixed on Facebook, don’t like Twitter, and haven’t heard of the major AI companies.

I've got a fever and the only cure is for me to get extremely angry about something that ultimately is of no consequence whatsoever and that I will have totally forgotten about in 48 hours

Gonna see what's up on twitter

what the fuck

With this 7-yard touchdown pass to Josh Downs, 44yo Philip Rivers becomes the weirdest man ever to throw for a touchdown in a NFL game.

It is impossible to overstate how accurately this book predicted the rise of a certain type of guy

Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car. www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...

I think they should do a reboot of GI Joe where the Joes fight a organization with a benevolent public image that claims to help people continue coverage on the same healthcare plan after losing their job, but they secretly discover that behind this facade, it's actually very expensive

I don't think you're supposed to wink so much when you say "oh I'm not seeking to take revenge myself, I'll leave it in God's hands"

You should watch this movie. It's funny and fast-paced and has a lot of heart, and the message or whatever honestly reminds me of Looper (violence vs love, vengeance vs mercy)

See also: debates about speed cameras. There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad." I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.

As much as I've been a goofy fuck about promoting I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200, the genuine reception it's getting is incredible. Especially with people totally unfamiliar with my work. Here's an early review thread, starting with the incredible starred feature in Publisher's Weekly.

Is there an economic theory as to why seemingly 75% of companies have no idea how to market their products? "You need new insurance for your car and home? To convince you we're the right choice, here is an ostrich wearing sunglasses doing a comedy sketch with Eli Manning."

First trailer for Andy Serkis’ ‘ANIMAL FARM’ has dropped. In theaters May 1. #AnimalFarm #AndySerkis

We had a discussion on how myths and moral panics spread in the mass media age on the Deep Cuts podcast, with a focus on the insanity that was the Satanic Panic: plinkhq.com/i/1501739859...

This is one of the most annoying claims Altman and friends make because it implies that there's a simple solution to climate change that doesn't involve any tough choices or sacrifices by industry or political leaders or regular people and the only problem is we're not smart enough to think it up

I hate that we have to explain this every year: The TIME "Person of the Year" award is specifically for the BEST person of the year, it means the editors of TIME think this person is objectively better than all other people, that it is their favorite person who they 100% support