why is there no color

Yes, @decentfilms.bsky.social raises an important point I’m keen to amplify. There is nothing inherently wrong with the passive voice, and it’s often properly useful.

Why did deck.blue just now make things harder to read

TODAY is my OFFICIAL publication day! Which means: if you have nice things to say about it, you can do so on Goodreads, Storygraph & Amazon. (Or not-nice things, but maybe wait?) Thanks to @anamcarapress.bsky.social & @watermarkbooks.bsky.social & those who pre-ordered & reviewers. 📸: AbediniSocial

Guy with visible stink lines: the birth rate,

Wtf

Today's David Byrne's birthday. We saw him in concert a week ago-- his voice can't quite do what it used to, and he doesn't move like he used to (he's 74, so yeah), but holy cow, he's such a creative performer and he's found ways to make up for those physical changes. Just magnificent.

wut

honestly a delight to see

It genuinely fills me with joy how many people find themselves reflected in Jane’s films. Some things you can’t put into words. But you can put them into movies!

My four-year-old has now won prizes from a claw machine TWICE, a feat previously thought by scholars to be impossible

Oh my god variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Green and gold SuperSonics blood still drips from his hands.

Garwen

As usual, people are completely devoid of imagination when it comes to children. Kids are astonishingly exciting and creative and most people (including a lot of parents!) seem to think they're just ciphers and/or property.

Everything you could describe as "maxxing" is the battle cry to get professional help immediately.

Sometimes I see a movie and I can’t really do anything but stare into nothing for a while after. Anyway, Blue Heron

This is the schedule for tomorrow on www.mprnews.org. It’s the first recorded Wits available for public consumption in almost 11 years. 5p central. You can listen. @pftompkins.bsky.social is on it. I’m surprised to see my name on the schedule at MPR again. Never expected that.

Sometimes I see a movie and I can’t really do anything but stare into nothing for a while after. Anyway, Blue Heron

Such a fucking good movie, and if I remember right, the role Nicolas Cage says he's most proud of

Christopher Nolan making a bad filmmaking decision? No one could have predicted

Oh wow

This is how you do it

Took a shot at ghormeh sabzi tonight

Seems like a good day to post this again. #eattherich

A lot of people don't know that "decimate" used to mean "shut the fuck up about decimate"

news reporters stop saying "prices at the pump" challenge

Movie Review: The new animated adaptation of "Animal Farm" might have been better off at the glue factory. www.kmuw.org/podcast/movi...

How about my proprietary go fuck yourself pipeline

Really have come around on Dr. Kelson as one of the emblematic fictional characters of our age, a man who knows he almost certainly won't live to see the better world but can live with the knowledge that he kept his humanity and because of the work he did saw the page start to turn

(flesh squelching)

It’s true! They’re both really good!

hissing fit?

If your marketing team doesn't understand why they shouldn't use AI these days, that's just willful ignorance. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

I mean, I loved MAC AND ME for about a month. Kids love absolute garbage, have some self-respect.

Ah yes. The story to do about the WHCA dinner is a story about the mentalist who’s the entertainment

The reality is always so much stupider than you could have imagined

I enjoyed FUZE quite a bit, at least until those inexplicable last 10 minutes. Just make up your own ending instead!

Top Chef: Carolingians

Horrifying

Naveed from The Great Pottery Throw Down just showed up in this movie I’m watching and I’m 🥰🥰🥰🥰

I resent that when I have to say Kevin Warsh's name out loud it kicks up old trauma about the way I grew up saying "wash"

Not overselling: This is fucking incredible

what's a movie I haven't seen

The French hated it so much they called it “un biopic really really bad”

Your editor is going to wonder even more why you decided to end the quote with your subject taking a breath

Audio reporters, your editor is going to wonder why you decided to end that quote from your subject with them saying "um"

I highly recommend reading the alt-text.

I've been going back through the original episodes of this and it's really fascinating to hear all of the different approaches good interviewers have to interviewing. Some of it would really not work for me! And some of it I've absolutely stolen. Pretty great.