I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[Titicut Follies] brought viewers into a previously closed-off place and established an important truth that Wiseman would return to in the 43 documentaries that followed: You can’t separate people from the institutions they’re part of, and their actions are shaped by them in powerful ways.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Saddened to hear of the passing of Frederick Wiseman. I took a documentary film class in college, and the screenings of High School, Hospital, and Titicut Follies are burned into my brain. Incredible body of work, so influential. RIP.

also, when you are terribly mid at something, you enjoy it for its own sake instead of immediately trying to figure out how to monetize an otherwise fulfilling and enjoyable hobby. Normalize doing things simply because you enjoy them, regardless of how good (or not) you are at them.

Remember in Chicago, the REAL SUPER BOWL was beating the Packers last month. Relive that feeling every day with this shirt: www.dangrzca.com

Shame on me for assuming “Democracy dies in darkness” was a warning instead of a playbook

My friend @koziarz.com is telling stories about Pat Lawlor Design, the company where we worked together designing pinball machines. Good reading and not just for the photos of when I had hair that wasn’t grey.

Can #AI really make it easier to work with a #content management system? You betcha. And Greg Dunlap (@heyrocker.com) tells us how in our next free virtual event: 📅 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST February 18 ✍️ RSVP: www.meetup.com/content-stra...

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

Oh hey friends, if you’re a Verizon customer and they are trying to give you the $20 desire for the outage the other day, DO NOT TAKE IT. You don’t have to even call them. Get onto the web chat, type in “agent”, tell them the outage affected your work, and say you’ve been a customer for X years.

Clockwork Orange for sure.

the only thing that keeps me sane is the idea that my entire life is just a save state on a 17-year-old's galactic computer, and now he's just mashing the buttons because he's bored. any other explanation falls apart.

One of my most memorable filmgoing experiences was a screening of Sátántangó at Northwest Film Forum some years back. An enthralling experience. I've never been so glad I spent seven hours in a movie theatre. RIP Béla Tarr.

For the next two weeks you can save £60 (about $80) on any Piccalilli course, and you'll get a coupon code that gives you 50% off future courses. If you've been waiting to grab a copy of JavaScript for Everyone, this is the time to do it: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

@amikebloomtype.bsky.social @jessliese.bsky.social I just finally caught up with TAR and my god ... that chicken. It is going to haunt my nightmares. Did they get David Lynch's ghost to come back from the dead and direct this segment? Easily the creepiest and most bizarre thing in series history.

this is also a good policy for technology products as well.

Like so many others in the fed space, I'm currently looking for new opportunities. My goal is to find a place to land full time, but until then I'm open to short term contracts. Got a CMS project you need architected? A gnarly multi-site content inventory and analysis gig? Give a holler.

Look I hate but the manfred runner as much as anyone but I’m also old and tired.

@jessliese.bsky.social I noticed we didn’t have departure times in this week’s episode. Do you have any idea why they would do that?

I’d never tell anyone they MUST* understand JavaScript to work on the web, but I will make the case that one SHOULD*. To understand JavaScript is to know the boundaries of how users can interact with your medium — any role is improved by that. wil.to/newsletters/... * www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

Y’all think you’re old, there were no video games the year I was born. Like the entire concept of a video game was still ten years away.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

A presidential address about political violence would have made sense in June following the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Minnesota House speaker. But, she wasn't a Republican. Instead, tonight, we got this. It's all so horrifying, and I don't really know what else to say.

while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

Completely torn between the joy of potentially seeing Vince go home and the despair at potentially losing @taranarmstrong.bsky.social’s retelling of his conversations on the live feed updates. #iykyk

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Rylie's behavior toward Katherine on Big Brother 27 looks completely different on TV than it does on the live feeds, because—once again—the producers aren't showing us the full story. #BB27

@jessliese.bsky.social came to Canada and had to try it

I forgot how lovely it is to walk around in a place where you can’t understand a single word that anyone around you is saying.

@pooyaism.bsky.social Why did you have to mention "Thrift Shop" on PALL last week?? Low key had that stuck in my head for *days* now.

You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" www.404media.co/the-astronom...

Pretty sure turning it off and shutting it down would stop it. Pretty. Sure.

wrote about the bureaucractic banality of andor because I needed to understand what really appealed to me about the stories. blog.ronbronson.com/the-bureaucr...

This is 100% true, just as the press spent ZERO time on the attempted mass assassination of the entirety of democratic leadership through pipe bombs just a few years ago. It’s literally never even discussed! A MAGA terrorist tried to kill all of the leading dems!

I'm a 58-year-old retired roofer from Zanesville, OH who has no relationship with his children and has been banned from 4 separate Chili's locations for berating staff, and I have deep concerns about the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, a place I have never been.

DOGE might believe otherwise, but improving government websites takes more than software engineering. 18F also worked with our partner agencies on content and communication strategies, making it easier for the public to find and understand important information.

I went to a barcade in London and bought 36 tokens for 20 pounds. These "tokens" turned out to be American quarters and I have never felt so owned. Essentially I gave them $27 and got $9 back

Real leaders start with kindness. They build projects around people, not despite them.

Anyone involved in the pinball press that wants to write about Harry Potter needs to highlight the immense damage JK Rowling has done relentlessly attacking children, families, and their health care. Sweeping that under the rug is disgusting cowardice.

@dillamonster.bsky.social Finally got around to checking out the Life Without Buildings album today. What a banger!

@alexpavlovic.bsky.social I thought the Marlins loss would be the most frustrating loss of the season but fate had other plans for me.

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options. I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.