i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Now rewatching

Even the Baileys are disappointed in you, Chuck.

I watched 13 movies last week. www.unreality.net/weblog/?p=14...

They're going to strip healthcare from their constituents rather than risk experiencing inconvenience.

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Suggestion: Even if your senators are not on the list, call them and tell them how much you support their decision to hold steady. It will have an impact. The overwhelming response will make its way to everyone they know. Word of mouth is very effective.

This is the Dem party position: you MUST vote for us so that we can let you down at every turn

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

Now watching

I canceled my NYT crossword subscription months ago, but they’ve only just started notifying me it’s going to run out. I’ve been wondering if I *really* want to cancel it, and then a Sunday puzzle like tomorrow’s comes along, and it convinces me, yeah, I probably do.

If you looked like a bot so I blocked you, but you weren’t, that still kinda seems like a you problem.

I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”

I am now watching my 11th Sherlock Holmes movie of the week. That’s arguably too many.

Imagine the kind of greedy shit bag you’d have to be to fight this hard to make sure children starve.

It’s almost as if there’s no sustainable market for a product that doesn’t work and that nobody actually wants.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library. www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...

In for a penny…

Well, no jury duty on Monday for me. And probably not Tuesday either, since it’s a federal holiday, but we’ll see.

“Let’s have a smile for an old engine driver” #nowplaying

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On the one hand, this isn’t a great deal, but I think Schumer is making it mostly under the assumption that the Republicans will turn it down—the House isn’t even session, still—and will look unreasonable in so doing.

There were a number of years when my grandparents gave me one of these every year at Christmas. A little sad to see this end of an era.

Huh. I watched this for the first time so recently that I probably won’t be there either, but I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I expected to. Have fun, #HorrorWatch!

The game? It’s been afoot. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

So we're doing phrenology again, I see. The adage that every AI "innovation" is a grift continues to be true.

So glad my trip to Spain was last month and not this one.

Sigh. I think they’re both phenomenal actors, and Lynne Ramsay may be my favorite living director, but “pervy-ness” or perceived lack thereof is not why films should consistently use intimacy coordinators.

I dunno, all of the coworkers on my immediate team are women, as is my boss (as are at least two more rungs up), and have been for years, and I have never once felt my workplace was even close to “ruined” because of it.

Nick Fuentes and anyone who follow him are a Nazi. Full stop. These fascist weirdos keep telling on themselves and telling us the truth millions of Americans are Nazis.

"I'm on fire but I'm trying not to show it" #nowplaying

Some enterprising sub shop should offer a deal on “sandwich and a soda, hold the ice.”

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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Not all capes throw heroes.

“Whеn you read me fairytales, you left out some key details” #nowplaying

It’s weird, the bots and scammers who don’t seem to realize or care that liking a years-old random post is probably going to be seen as immediately suspicious behavior.

Trump has claimed the shutdown, not him, is to blame for Republicans’ huge election night losses. Well, sure, but if voters didn’t blame him and his party for that shutdown, they probably wouldn’t have voted for so many Democrats.

It’s time to tally up “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” in @trailofleaves.bsky.social’s charming new story. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Jesus fucking Christ

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

I’m now 6 movies into this series, and while Rathbone and Bruce are both good, they’re not remarkable mysteries, and I think they were better before Universal took up the series and moved Holmes to the present day.

If you've never checked out Kaleidotrope's starter packs of the fantastic authors and artists who've appeared in the zine over the years, now would be a good time to do so, since they've just been updated—and not just so I can finally pin a new post to my profile that doesn't have a typo in it! 😜