There are at least three things here that would be unconstitutional in the United States, which is saying something.

NEW ARTICLE! NEW ARTICLE!! Ever wonder ~why~ so many Western stories about samurai all tell you a story about someone who really, really, really likes honor? Where did that come from? And why is it so pervasive? What are samurai movies really about? medium.com/@docseuss/wh...

All the people in the replies banging on about his word choice and not the blatant blood libel, scapegoating and genocidal language of "it's transgender and we're not going to have it" shows exactly how trans people wound up where we are and the continuous dark path we're being herded down.

.......dialectics,?

While this headline is incorrect - the roots of his sadism and rage don't come from the Bible, they come from him - it still seems pretty newsworthy that the Secretary of Defense goes around talking like Judge Holden with a head wound.

America did not meet the universal adult suffrage criteria of democratic governance until 1965. Gatorade is the exact same age as American democracy.

Feds are fucking wilding in LA:

More gas. A young woman with a camera got shot in the eye and carried away Too chaotic to post

Crime novel of the year, decade, century. Get it.

After rewatching BEST IN SHOW and FRIDAY in a the same weekend I imagined a movie where Fred Willard and John Witherspoon played brothers, and I believe it would have been the funniest movie of all time.

Next president will have to rebuild the federal government while fighting a cadre of insane billionaires the whole way. The more bleak things get the more absurd it seems to consider electing some common weasel who wants to be president because he wants to be president

notice how the “tent is big” until it has to include the left wing of the party

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair

Marco Rubio on zoom dressed like the ayatollah: You have destroyed us and we are surrendering. Because you are stronger and smarter Trump: Thank you. Very nice

Luigi Mangione has made CEOs more cautious Five Guys CEO says he gave a $1.5m bonus to his workers so he wouldn’t get shot in the back Jerry Murrell seemingly alluded to healthcare CEO killing when he explained giving bonus to workers after bungled promotion www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

beyond thrilled to share that I contributed an essay to Arrow's new release of John Woo's Bullet in the Head www.arrowfilms.com/p/4k/bullet-...

God this shit is so fucking pathetic. Ruin your life in a normal way. "I talked to the computer too much and went crazy." Listen to yourself. Gamble or do heroin anything but this. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

They try to frame this like this guy is just a normal guy and that AI psychosis could happen to anyone but there is one huge difference between people who fall prey to it and people who never ever will. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Opening day of Michael Mann’s THIEF, 3/27/81

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

also if you want to help fund my escape from texas in a different way, supporting my new patreon is probably the best option since you'll also get a bunch of fun articles and stories in exchange www.patreon.com/interrobangbus

Honored to review my dear friend @jordanharper.bsky.social’s upcoming novel “A Violent Masterpiece” for Poisoned Pen. Pre-order it today, & watch my buddy Patrick & me interview Jordan live online on April 29 at 5pm PST. More details at poisonedpen.com.

authors with an established career who later transitioned and changed your name... how much of a pain in the ass are we talking here? did you keep the same byline or try to update it everywhere despite the risk of potentially confusing everybody? asking for obvious reasons

The new @imprintfilms.bsky.social neo-noir collection features my essay on the shockingly ACAB domestic thriller UNLAWFUL ENTRY, as well as my commentary track for the smutty fuck-noir THE GETAWAY. It also includes David Lynch’s out-of-print WILD AT HEART! Get it: diabolikdvd.com/product/v4-a...

At the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE, during which I shouted “Oh, fuck you!” at the screen and looked around for something to throw. Good thing I was watching it at home.

I can't think of any large social attempt in modern history to sanctify a public figure that backfired so spectacularly. Even people I know who aren't media psychos like myself were like "Why is CBS interviewing Erika Kirk" and kids use 'kirk' as a verb.

"In the strange, confronting the real." That's what nightcrawler Jake promises his online audience, and it's exactly what @jordanharper.bsky.social delivers readers in his ambitious follow-up to EVERYBODY KNOWS. My review of the aptly titled A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE: fanfiaddict.com/review-a-vio...

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Today officially marks Walter Chaw's (@mangiotto.bsky.social) 25th anniversary at Film Freak Central. I'm shocked we're both still doing this, but I couldn't ask for a better partner for whatever "this" is. Here's a brief 'best of Walter' thread; would love to know what some of your favourites are.

Female fruit is being fart-shamed at rates inconceivable to past generations

It's why 'protect and serve' is so funny.

The city lawyers are unfortunately correct here. In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that police do not have a duty to protect people. That ruling was later applied to the specific case of the NYPD in Lozito vs. City of New York in 2013. NYPD does not exist to protect you and has no duty to do so.

it's funny

Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one Stop buying books from Amazon Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores Here’s a 20% discount on your first order refer.bookshop.org/jen52349

Oh look I was right. Oh well, just $1 billion that never gets wired to anybody after an endless media hype cycle about the death of hollywood. Pobody's Nerfect! I'm sure everybody who wrote scary stories about Sora 2 destroying Hollywood will apologize www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

A ship bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba arrived in Havana on Tuesday loaded with solar panels, bicycles, food and medicine as the island's economic and energy crises deepen. https://to.pbs.org/47mwAEZ

Disney has cancelled their deal with OpenAI. They planned to invest $1 billion into the company and let Sora have access to AI generate videos of characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...)

So the Stan girlies have shown that a lot of the accounts that are posting this weird Chappell Roan made an 11 year old girl cry were also used in the Blake Lively/ Amber Heard smear campaigns and considering she just ditched an agent for being in the Epstein files- I’m with them

Uncanny. The only way to tell them apart is that Patrick Bateman has killed fewer homeless people

Barnes & Nobel is having a preorder sale right now, including my next novel A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE. So take some of that money you saved from the Criterion flash sale and buy yourself some Literature™️

SHIN GODZILLA: [blasting an entire city in half with a laser beam] ME: [weeping] hes so lonely...

been seeing a certain amount of ‘LLMs are a tool like any other’ on the timeline recently. in the interest of contributing to a lively marketplace of ideas let me offer another perspective. LLMs can suck my dick and choke on it

The Sheriff Department is a federally funded local militia in every county and the majority of them believe they're Judge Dredd

Gonna ring that preorder bell quite a lot the next few months. So, if you dig a little madcap satire in your crime fiction (and a little preorder swag) make with the clicking! ruadanbooks.com/product/pop/

In one shot: Los Angeles to Boulder

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

Made a little @letterboxd.social list about my favorite subgenre in order to distract from The Horrors. boxd.it/TctXm