absolutely monday pilled. i’m toil-maxxing. going drudgery mode. stumblecore. hitting my slog goals.

First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium is now the sixth most-funded non-fiction book in Kickstarter history?!?! www.kickstarter.com/discover/adv... Last week of the campaign, if you want in on this historic action:

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

Normalize calling it the Epstein Shutdown

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

Black cats are not bad luck. If you see a black cat & something bad happens after, it's because you have bad vibes, dude. The worst vibes, pal. Rancid vibes, bro.

Golly I sure wish somebody would take all these newsletters from journalists I like and compile them into one paper of news

Around #WarRavagedPortland today...

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week. Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition. The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Good time to remember all your posts are public and searchable by any interested government party. Just in case the spirit moves you to post in any kind of way.

Last call! We won't bother you any more after this :) Thanks to those who've subscribed or contributed or shared this post over the past week, the lights are on through the end of the year! (And we'll be back with a proper fundraiser in a bit, to help keep things going beyond that) #Moviesky

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We are not even six months into 2025, and movies have made $5.719 billion. The total for all of 2024 was $8.872 billion. But yeah, sure, cinema is dying.

So you can be positive nearly two weeks before you can be negative? That's fucked up!

host of the devil's plan: spending ten minutes explaining in detail the rules to a game called The Bungus Shuffle that involves a huge game board and doing calculus in your head, I am lost by minute two devil's plan contestant, instantly: ah, so here's my strategy for the first 30 turns

imagining what it feels like to log off

On this 45th anniversary of FRIDAY THE 13TH, I think it’s time we admit that Pamela Voorhees’ cable knit sweater is iconic, albeit wildly underappreciated in the pantheon of slasher apparel. Anyone can wear a mask, but causing mayhem looking like a Land’s End catalog model is a singular diva move.

Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance

Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?

Scorsese likes Mothra 🥰

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

People need to be hearing about this shit every single day. Zoom in on literally anything here.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

get in losers we’re doing pivot to video metrics again but with ai

fortunately I put all my money into existential dread futures

Forever both dominator and simpering victim

No, Elon. 40% of people who call Social Security's 1-800 number are not fraudsters, Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme & nobody who is 150 years old is getting a Social Security check. Stop the lies. Stop the disinformation. Get your billionaire hands off Social Security.

this interview with Michael Shannon is the sole good thing to have come from “Man of Steel”

Shot, chaser:

the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart

It is critical that everyone calls New York Governor Kathy Hochul today and tell her that you oppose any mask ban in New York State: 518-474-8390

You need to read this.

The "what's your most controversial film take" prompt has been muted but my position on the following remains unwavering and devout Ryuhei Kitamura hive RISE UP

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

big fan of Kingpin’s character arc in Daredevil: Born Again

Holding up a little sign that says “please stop” as the notorious serial killer, Illiterate Bob, stabs me to death

just wanna remind people that the person who snitched on luigi got none of the promised reward because of random technicalities. you have nothing to gain by being a rat.

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ writers every time Father Lantom spoke:

For anyone who needs a fun post-#SNL50 read, may I suggest The 30 Rock Book, by some guy named "Mike Roe"? I learned so much about SNL's effect on the culture through writing this book. Tina's writing = such an inspiration. Check it! (I also narrate the audiobook!) www.amazon.com/30-Rock-Book...