Apparently the saying "relationships take work" refers to the kind of work required for your favorite hobby, like practicing an instrument or tending your garden even when you're tired/don't feel like it, NOT the kind of work required for enduring a micro-managing boss or creepy landlord

I’m seeing the term “nihilist” get thrown around A LOT lately, especially when “cynical” or “dark” or even sometimes “realistic” would be more apt. If this is language evolving naturally, then no problem, but I worry about political/commercial interests intentionally warping ideas and meaning

Wild that these busted goons think they're genetically superior to anyone. I've seen better looking egg salad sandwiches at the gas station

RIP Drew Struzan

Nothing like losing a day of work cuz my meds are over-regulated and corporate pharmacies suck ass

From the comments on this, it seems like most folks don’t know just how close Trump and Netanyahu are, or that their relationship goes back to the 1980s:

Working on Letterboxd lists of my favorite horror movies from the 20th and 21st centuries. I’m happy with the latter but feel like I’m forgetting a bunch that belong in the former

How the fuck did we lose her before Woody Allen

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Every time I watch Cheers it makes me laugh but god damn do I wish the cast were even remotely Bostonian. Rhea Perlman has a Brooklyn accent for chrissakes!

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

YES. Also, I’m so tired of people blaming voters instead of the fact that Trump was allowed to be on the 2024 ballot in the first place. He honestly should have been in jail before he could run in 2016!

💯💯💯 @senategabe.bsky.social

This does not bode well. Time to start stocking up on books that tell the truth about Trump Don’t know which books I mean? A thread www.newsweek.com/publisher-ha...

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

LOL what a dweeb

I appreciate the honesty and directness of this article, especially about Jamal Khashoggi www.thedailybeast.com/karen-attiah...

Bizarre to see so many people against this - “but Trump will just take credit” “this won’t solve the underlying problem” man shut the fuck up. If you’re lucky enough not to need $2K right now, then just donate your check and let the rest of us catch a damn break for once

There’s a a lot of discussion about the terms Hispanic, Latino/Latina, Latinx, and Latine on social media, but there are some details I never see First, no group is a monolith. There are trends, yes, but always call individuals whatever they prefer. This point is first cuz it trumps the next one /1

One of my favorite parts of ‘90s TV was all the anti-smoking messaging

Spooky season is in full swing

Some of the best advice I’ve ever seen for navigating self-hate: Don’t side with your bullies

I almost choked on my lunch 🤣@iwriteok.bsky.social

Especially fucked up to do during the High Holy Days

Aww he’s trying to drag me

Love this response to the Marxist influencer who’s currently getting absolutely wrecked for insisting nonstop that it’s cool to call trans women “dudes”

Far from the biggest issue rn but I wish it was common knowledge that whiteness is a malleable social category and not something static. My Irish and Italian grandparents had the same lack of melanin I do but were absolutely not considered white for the first ~20 years of their lives 1/2

“How about…Ghost Mutt?”

You don’t have to be a fan of the ADL to hate this

Had fun at the Bad Movie Monday club last night

The leaves may not change in Los Angeles, but there are other signs it’s Fall

Oh hey, hard evidence to back up the many allegations that Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of Israeli Intelligence open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

This is spot on except the last line. Corporate Democrats didn’t ignore anything - they viewed Adams’ corruption as a feature, not a bug

My favorite snipe at canceled hacks like Louis CK and Dave Chappelle doing the Riyadh Comedy Festival

And just like with John Bolton, there are good reasons to indict James Comey, but that’s not what’s happening here. Trump has abused his power to punish both Comey and Bolton, making a spectacle of it to send a message to current allies who could betray him as they did - “fuck around, find out”

The indictment of James Comey mirrors the FBI raids on John Bolton in some important ways: 1) both men are former Trump allies who crossed him 2) mainstream news ignores #1, rebranding both men as “innocent” Trump critics/opponents 3) politics nerds like me *really* don’t enjoy defending these guys

These pals are somehow making the same facial expression. 😆 Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Like most people, my dad had never heard of Charlie Kirk before he was murdered. I wrote this to help people like him learn the truth amidst a deluge of propaganda and attacks on free speech

Fantastic interview

Watching Wednesday season 2 and dang Billie Piper and Joanna Lumley have amazing American accents

I’m wary of the Sex Scene Discourse™ cuz adults love to drag young people over literally any new behavior that makes them feel as old and out of touch as they actually are. As an Elder Millennial, I have no interest in that shit That said, most sex scenes in modern movies are pretty bad! /1

I'm pissed that they're blaming women for a nonexistent "autism crisis." I'm pissed that they're lying about what autism is and that mainstream people are normalizing what they're saying about autistic people. I'm pissed that this murderous grift is continuing. I'm just pissed.

Seems like the ICE shooter (and possibly Charlie Kirk’s shooter) were in online spaces known for being funnels to the far-Right (4chan, 8chan) but just sat and stewed, getting radicalized by edgelords instead of using them as a stepping stone to Nazism

When a major news story breaks - like the ICE facility shooting today - I strongly recommend treating the first 24 hours of news coverage as speculation. Sure, some of it will turn out to be true, but there’s always a ton of garbage reporting in the immediate aftermath. Don’t fall for it /1

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The president saying not to take Tylenol should not cause you to take more Tylenol. You should not change the amount of Tylenol you are taking.

Finally saw Alien Resurrection (1997) - it was no good, but not for the reasons I’d assumed it would be

Roastbeef : Ray me : drivers who whine about parking in LA achewood.com/2005/12/16/t...