I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!

this is the most Atlantic article of all time

Happy Earth, Wind and Fire day! L

I ain't even gotta check it's All Monsters Attack cos mainstream Godzilla fans are a bunch of entitled man babies who can't get in touch with a childhood that doesn't cater to their nostalgia. That film is a beautiful personal letter from Honda.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score. Someone On Here (I think @jamellebouie.net ?) is also a fan and it heartens me to know someone out there has taste

If you've never held your breath during dial-up static, then been rewarded with the robotic "You've got mail" announcement, then you've never known real joy.

Crying infant on this plane absolutely refusing to be mollified, and you know what, I respect the commitment to the bit

honestly this is a great book but i also have the mental image of a guy in a boston accent going "hey, i'm respecting my ancestors here"

Crispy fried rice can cure me

You had to go to computer and specifically tell it to go online. For which computer would sing you the song of it's people before allowing you to search for things on Alta Vista.

Where computer belong bsky.app/profile/litt...

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

I do not want to see one snide joke about this queen or her friends on this godforsaken free website. Anyone that can set aside the thing they love so much it becomes the center of their identity in defense of the greater good is a comrade i respect

Clint McElroy, surprising no one

Dear gestapo trash:

They aired a Steve Harvey hosted Family Feud rerun instead. So far the Kirk special has under 2500 views on YouTube (views as a metric on YT are worth about 2% of a broadcast viewer). So someone flinched here and I am *very* curious to find out who and why.

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Charlie Kirk must be ice fuckin’ cold if Michael “Mortal Enemy of Defunctland” Eisner is cooking this hard

The weaponization of the FCC is one of the greatest threats to our democracy. Who better to showcase that than… Chairman Brendan Carr? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane through some of Carr’s greatest hits on free speech while he was auditioning for the job of FCC Chair from 2019 to 2024. 1/

Reminds me of the first time I ever heard of him and it was because of the dumbest study ever claiming to have "proved" that twitter had anti-conservative bias because the made a list of accounts he knew had been banned and more were "conservative" but that included the American Nazi party.

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Plz don’t send me classified info but if you want to tell me what’s going on at the Pentagon my Signal username is annabower.24

Nobody makes ad jingles anymore

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

My guess is at least 500 #doctors at my #hospital are on H1B visas including at least a few dozen #hospitalists, and if we lose even a handful to other countries our house of cards #healthcare system will fall apart, let alone all 500+

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient." No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

COBB: “I think this is really tragic .. This will be 3.5 more years of vengeance.”

Administration : we can either ask the entire journalist profession to become stasi mouthpieces or we can ask Pete Hegseth to stop conducting airstrikes in signal group chats with his wife Administration : so the answer was obvious

giving a lawyer written instructions you verbally acknowledge to be illegal is certainly one of the choices it is possible to make

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

give me back the mass market paperback you cowards

this was approximately like a week ago

well you know the old saying one bad story, they're an asshole 97% bad stories, you're the asshole

Trump speaks from experience on this one

Receipts. Receipts galore.

I got halfway through this sentence and started smelling burned toast

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I've seen each of these "former views" of Brendan Carr in individual tweets, but this thread is a handy collection of them

I block much more aggressively, and have a lot more conversations. I think I'm probably more engaged with mutuals here than I was on Twitter, but it's hard to say.

god i hope he does it, it would be so insane. the crash outs would be legendary. he would be liquidating entire categories of businesses in this country and setting fire to an entire vertical of his base. who said national suicide can’t be an art form?

if I die, know it was an irony-induced stroke

The weaponization of the FCC is one of the greatest threats to our democracy. Who better to showcase that than… Chairman Brendan Carr? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane through some of Carr’s greatest hits on free speech while he was auditioning for the job of FCC Chair from 2019 to 2024. 1/

To all the comedians who stood for free speech in the face of wokeness

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.