I just passed a guy in the hallway of my building who ended a phone call with his family (who he clearly got along with very well) by saying "welp, I don't wanna talk to y'all no more" and then immediately hanging up. A communication style to aspire to.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

"You made three mistakes. First, you took the job. Second, you came light. A four man crew for me? Fucking insulting. But the worst mistake you made...empty gun rack."

I wonder if it's hard work to suck this much or if it comes naturally. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

a simile is just a metaphor that doesn’t trust you to know it’s a metaphor

How do we feel about this, America? Are we ok with this? Is this fine? Are we going to do anything about it?

"Fuck the Empire!"

"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco

stop making burgers 1) taller. how tf do you think mouths work 2) sodden with melted cheese like... how do you expect people to eat this 3) fancy. a $20 hamburger is not elevated peasant food it's just inflation

U.S. foreign policy:

On this Good Friday, we remember Spock died for the needs of the many.

Real

I know Trump is evil and all but what button do I have to press to never see Kamala Harris ever again?

This looks like a fun time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wek9...

I love that Trump decided to give a speech to the nation on the same night a historic, fully televised manned mission to the moon lifted off, guaranteeing absolutely no one would be paying attention to him.

I know I'm late to the party on this band but HOLY shit. Wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2dA...

I used to think that catcher framing didn't actually affect umpire calls that much but it appears I was as wrong as it is possible to be. www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/cb-...

I love how all these people are like "it's funny how conservatives aren't treating this the same way as when people try to cancel their heroes" as if everyone in the known cosmos hasn't figured out they're hypocrites by now.

If we lived in a just world, it would be federal law that all the traveling that airline CEOs did for work or pleasure would have to be done via a basic economy seat in their own airline. International travel included.

On Instagram Zohran announces that a landlord who is illegally refusing to make needed repairs will be fined $1,000 per day until the work is done.

If your takeaway of literally any movie boils down to either "this movie didn't map cleanly onto my existing worldview" or "this movie didn't make a strong enough case for/against X, Y or Z" then it might be time for you to admit that movies may not be for you.

"I started 'One Battle After Another' but I turned it off after 20 minutes" that means I don't have to listen to your opinion about it, my Very Online Friend.

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

For the record, I do not think it was the ballet thing. I think it was how good Michael B. Jordan is first and foremost, and how much people love the movie, and a little bit that I think Chalamet began to wear on people a lil bit well before that happened.

Crypto was always a scam to enrich the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the credulous. I'm glad it's becoming increasingly mainstream to admit this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEXx...

If your worldview is based on resentment, then it's a bad worldview. Yes, I do mean yours.

This seems clear.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

My running theory is that Training Day and Breaking Bad take place in the same universe and that Tuco eventually got out of LA, moved to Albuquerque, changed his name, and started slinging meth. youtu.be/bXimq-xS144?...

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

The little kid across from me in the plane just threw up more than I thought was humanly possible how's your morning going?

What is the best Nirvana song and why is it "Heart-Shaped Box"?

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If I had a nickel for every time an airport has been bombed right before I was supposed to fly to it, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, you know? All of which to say, this is one of my worst nightmares. www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/m...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Annie threading beads, pencil drawing. #portrait #beads

To the poor bastard getting "it's not you it's me"-d in the booth across from me in the coffee shop: I'm very sorry that was how you had to start your Friday morning.

"Let's kill some poor people to own the libs."

The most immediate (and probably the most pernicious) effect generative AI has had on my industry isn’t job loss. Directing, editing, or cinematography jobs haven't been replaced by AI, nor is AI in danger of replacing actors anytime soon, regardless of what breathless tech bros insist. (1/4)

Rewatching THEY LIVE and when Roddy Piper puts on the glasses, laughs bitterly and says "it figures it'd be something like this" I felt that in my soul more than I ever have before.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

BILLY JOEL: So I have this new song about my unrequited high school crush and how it seems like only good people die young. PRODUCER: Ooh, nice. So we're probably gonna want that to be moody and somber, right? BILLY JOEL: Fuck no. It's gonna sound like you just got a star in Mario Kart.

25 years later 😬 this song still goes hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5W...

Literal royalty facing accountability before the law while our king decides if he wants a new war — happy semiquincentennial!

"The greatest threat to democracy today is anonymity" fucking PREACH IT www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqCn...

Two years ago I was in a car accident that destroyed the remaining cartilage in my arthritic knees. I’ve had multiple procedures since then, including regular cortisone injections, but there are still days when even walking across a room is extremely painful. Today is one of those days.

Dear parents: if you bring your kid into a restaurant and then set them up with a phone to watch with the volume cranked all the way up, yes, we are all judging you.

Barack Obama failed to close Guantánamo Bay, prosecuted whistleblowers while promoting mass surveillance against American citizens, deported record numbers of immigrants, and is the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner (it’s true, look it up).

March for Lifers brought measles to DC because of course they did. The timing and location line up so neatly it’s hard to imagine a clearer transmission trail. www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...