Hell yeah, Mike. Hell yeah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYrM...

I'm watching 1958's The Long, Hot Summer, and my god there is so much rear-projection in this movie.

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

"What do you mean you haven't read any of the new Kaleidotrope yet?"

The show was of course originally about the exploits of four-star general John Jacob Hospital.

The enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend, but I am heartened that my enemy has so many other enemies.

I don’t need to convict him! I just need him not to be one of the 100 most powerful people in DC!!

The idea that you’d see rumors of Lupita Nyong'o being cast as the most beautiful woman in the world and think anything but “yeah, that tracks.”

That Lupita Nyong’o’s looks have made some of the most powerful men go completely insane and fight over her inclusion in this movie only goes to prove that Nolan casting her was absolutely correct bsky.app/profile/dail...

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If a company has to lay off 10,000 people, the executive team should be fired, because they clearly weren’t businessing very well.

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

I see “Ceasefire Week” is the new “Infrastructure Week”

A thing I like about the John Oliver General Hospital thing is that he's poking fun at the form and the weird stunt casting of people like himself, but he's not mocking it or winking to camera.

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

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All Kaleidotrope stories occur in real places. Even—especially—the made-up ones. 😉

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

Yeah, this could be very, very cool.

it's not actually an honor to end up on the cover of Viziers Monthly. it shows your machinations aren't subtle enough

Uh oh.

the signal was set to see what response would be made

It needs to be made more forcefully that every US citizen is a birthright citizen. They are saying that US law devalues citizenship and that they hate that law because it confers citizenship on those that they despise.

Do we think that Chuck Schumer has no inside information? Why is he not screaming bloody murder?

I know I’m the typical confused American when it comes to British politics, but… Nigel Farage is resigning *and* running in the election for his replacement?

People who use generative AI as a shortcut or replacement for creative endeavor make me angry. People who’ve convinced themselves its use *is* a creative endeavor make me sad.

“If you'd stay I'd subtract twenty years from my life” #nowplaying

“We noticed Chrome isn’t your default browser.”

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The problem isn’t that this is such an obvious lie. The problem is that Platner staying in as the candidate makes it sound like an almost possible truth.

The weirdest part of this sequence is how much it comes out of nowhere and has absolutely nothing else to do with the movie. In fact, I think it's the last time you even see Tamblyn's character. Neat dance, though. #HorrorWatch

I find it very difficult to believe Platner, but the thing is, you can believe him and still think he needs to get out of the damn race.

Sorry, deleted, because King's post apparently is real. (I don't have a Twitter account, so viewing posts there chronologically is difficult at best.) This kind of apologia for Platner is beyond disappointing.

I mean not that republicans are exactly bastions of consistency but lots of us pointed out Platner being the candidate was inevitably going to give them the opportunity for shit like this.

So we've decided to replace making video games with just giving like four or five guys a hundred million dollars a year apiece to oversee not making video games

The minute you gave Susan Collins the ability to say, "Well, at least *I* don't have a Nazi tattoo," you conceded to losing the election.

tfw you’re reading a thread about “the worst creative/editorial advice you’ve ever received” and suddenly think, “gosh, I hope nothing *I’ve* ever told a writer is in here…” 🫣

While it’s extremely obvious, I also want to note that drawing the line at something like a fucking Nazi tattoo is not only morally correct, it is absolutely one million percent the strategically smarter move

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

Too many red flags to vote blue no matter who.

As much as I said just earlier today that winning Democratic primaries should be all that's required for someone to be the Democratic candidate—not some obeisance to the party—I'd still hope that when a candidate is such a liability as Platner, they'd have at least the good sense to step aside.

"Maine law states that a candidate for a general election can drop out by the second Monday in July and be replaced, giving Platner until July 13 to quit or stay the course. Maine Democrats would then need to find a replacement for Platner by July 27, per Maine law." he better fucking quit

I don't like to speak ill of the dead. So, because they refuse to confirm that he is, I can still say, "fuck Mitch McConnell."

Now watching.

“I just can't remember who to send it to” #nowplaying

“I know that I’m not the kind of special that you had in mind / But I′m special, they tell me all the time” #nowplaying

“I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more / I don't expect to sleep through the night” #nowplaying