you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

deadass?

Mamdani announced in late October 2024 to little fanfare and in Jan 2025 he was polling in single digits. People should please be serious.

This reads almost exactly like the bullshit that the British tabloids wrote about Meghan Markle for the heinous unforgivable crime of not being their perfect ideal of a Royal.

Legitimately might be the funniest three seconds of video I've ever seen.

PATROLLING THE MOJAVE ALMOST MAKES YOU WISH FOR A NUCLEAR WINTER

Every ballpark should offer a scorecard and a pencil for less than $2. It's the best souvenir in the park and it's wild to me that a lot of MLB teams either don't sell a standalone scorecard or force you to buy a $15-20 program for it.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court

MLB's tech regulation plans give itself full control over who can do business with baseball. And I learned an AI scouting firm — founded by the uncle of an exec in Rob Manfred’s inner circle — may win a bid. Team sources and antitrust experts told me it creates a conflict of interest. NEW from me:

This is Neil-Young-during-The-Last-Waltz levels of coked up.

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

How can those dumbasses be so corrupt that they’re messing up implicating Bill fucking Clinton

Long thread, but very good read.

Yes the same way it's not a coincidence that hostility to experise and higher ed picked up right as people with marginalized identities gained wider access to college

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

I used to think Matt Yglesias had some interesting/useful things to say. Helluva thing to see where he's at now - did he get dumber or did I get smarter?

Fuck EVERYTHING. One of my very favorite musicians, musta seen him play at least a half dozen times. Blew me away every time. Fuck. variety.com/2025/music/o...

‘Outrageous’ when translated from Pilot Speak means ‘I am the maddest I have ever been in my life because these stupid motherfuckers nearly knocked my bird out of the air’

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

I love that every time I think I've seen every kind of art another one pops up

a year that begins with the loss of david lynch and ends with the loss of rob reiner qualifies as a nightmare

Great thread.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

Rob Reiner was so beloved that his most memorable film character was, at heart, an incredibly brutal parody of Martin Scorsese, literally the most untouchable director in Hollywood, and it was like "it's Meathead, he's allowed."

A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.

I don’t know how to process the horrific fire hose of tragedy that has been omnipresent but has spiked this weekend, and I suspect I’m not alone. We aren’t meant to carry this much suffering and be able to function at “normal” capacity. Be gentle with yourself and others, if you can.

Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?

Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.

Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.

the good that you do persists in this world

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Gentle reminder that it is okay to get off the internet for the night. It's already been an onslaught. Please take care of yourselves.

As will be noted over and over in the coming days, the *beginning* of his directing career was SPINAL TAP, THE SURE THING, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, STAND BY ME, A FEW GOOD MEN, MISERY and WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. That is an absolutely *amazing* run with quite a lot of variety.

A beautuful thread about Rob Reiner.

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

I think it’s very important that everyone have at least one tacky thing they love unabashedly

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

[begrudgingly] Nice.

I'd love for each member of that voting committee to stand in front of a camera and say, "why yes, I would've much rather had Jeff Kent's career than Dale Murphy or Don Mattingly's. Kent is who, if I were putting a team together, I'd rather have than Murphy or Mattingly."

I think it's nice that the Hall of Fame has created a process designed to debase itself as every possible opportunity.

Decent chance that the BBWAA pitches a shutout this year, which means just fucking Jeff Kent on stage at Cooperstown. Never say that baseball doesn't capture the moment.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

people like gavin newsom want you to think it's "normal" to hate and exclude trans people and to trample on homeless people. it is not, it is abnormal to be full of venom. society is a cooperative, people who sow discord with the marginalized are the ones who need to be fixed.

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.