Watched Mercy (2026) last night (I was on a plane). And, folks, you would be wrong to think a movie about Chris Prat strapped to a chair talking to a computer doesn't work, because it works even less than that.

I made a frutiger aero soft soap themed xenomorph...

Wow. He's just like us.

if i can evoke this sense of horror in my work i will be happy. this is an incredible piece www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

You know what you should do today, if you have time and you haven't before? Watch Casablanca. All the might and muscle of classic Hollywood balled into a fist and aimed directly at the glass jaws of fascism and romance respectively. Magnificent filmmaking that goes down like a strawberry milkshake.

This is inaccurate because it's not a pivot. I've witnessed for months now ICE agents physically drag immigrants out of 26 Federal Plaza as they were following the legal requirements to work here, as immigration judges were confirming that they were following the rules.

You can help the Jamil family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving, sick, & homeless, right now by sharing & donating. The father needs urgent surgery for a shrapnel injury, the mother has a heart valve condition. They have 5 children they're struggling to feed:

Conservatives will tell you the harmful lie that all trans women are perverts I'll have you know, I worked hard to be called a pervert and I won't have the title handed out to any girl with a shark plushie and a drawer full of unpainted warhammer minis like a fucking participation trophy

James Coburn on the time Bob Dylan made Sam Peckinpah cry (1/2):

Movies now less than ever.

Fans when Dave Filoni makes a bad live action TV show / Fans when Dave Filoni co-writes a middling movie

The Internet led to an explosion of a massive array of voices who had been locked out by traditional corporate gatekeeping, whereas Ai is like ‘we’re going to program an algorithm to steal your soul, take your job, make a handful of rich people even richer, and turn Earth into Venus’ rocketship yayy

Again: It's not that we don't understand, it's that we understand perfectly.

It appears that the man who has encouraged more stochastic terrorism than anyone else in the past decade has to constantly look over his shoulder everywhere he goes the rest of his life.

"Frisco burger?"

CBS canceled Colbert. join me—cancel CBS!

What did Dave Filoni mean by this?

mech pilot

Circulate for the friend, the homie, the Jude. That's right. I almost typed judge. That's what they call her. The Judge

"Why is the Secret Service so bad?" Hard to say, but in the early 2010s an agent investigating agents using prostitutes was busted after using prostitutes.

The Secret Service has been broken and riven with controversy for decades. I sincerely doubt that working for a brain dead pedophile has improved either morale or efficacy. I'm sure there's a better professional read than this, but they've been busted for years.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

From hamburger born to hamburger returned.

I guess Don Jr. didn't react well to his dad's wedding snub.

New post! www.patreon.com/posts/159056...

"There will never be a President Ashton or a Dr. Katniss."

good morning, West Coasters! the essay about cuck porn is good and the essay about Miller Lite is bad, if you’re just joining us

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

Saying Star Wars used to be an event gets me a lot of shit, but The Force Awakens had cameos from James Bond and the future king of England. The Mandalorian: The Movie has two from Dave Filoni.

Making amends for all this nerd posting by reading Persona by Aoife Josie Clements.

The issue I have with the variations of the line "Star Wars has always been bad" is have you seen Star Wars? It's a really good movie! There's a reason people keep trying to get blood out of that stone. There's a reason people watch it fifty years later!

Continuing my free will streak.

I wrote about the new Gundam movie. It's incredibly dull and confusing. Sometimes the mechs fight. open.substack.com/pub/seawall/...

Absolutely insane to me that emergency management depts are still using these platforms for primary official comms. Set up a blog or something, y’all.

The curse of having an arts education and being into nerd shit.

I do my best to avoid fandoms and fan discussions-- poorly, I might add-- but if you think No Time to Die is the worst movie you've ever seen, you're a fucking idiot. It's not even the worst Bond movie. It's not even the worst Daniel Craig Bond movie!

There was an election for what now

"Every billion in personal wealth is like a loose nuclear weapon, and a threat to representative democracy." — @johnrogers.bsky.social Read the thread and see someone who's so wealthy that they're willing to bankrupt their franchise to 'own the libs'.

This week Rep Eugene Vindman was 1 of 8 Dems to vote with MAGA to condemn trans kids His brother Alexander Vindman moved to Florida to run for US Senate & is on podcast condemning all Muslims Vindmans rebuking Trump doesnt excuse them for being right wingers who trash marginalized communities 1/2

This shit didn't even work with Obama and people actually *liked* that guy.

Star Wars fans are hilarious, because they see the worst shit on earth and go "Oh, there's a lore reason for that."

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

I can do serious, I can do funny, I can do sci-fi and fantasy and romance and whatever. I just need money to live

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

Abolish the Monarchy.

horrible things need to happen to bungie execs for the rest of their lives

we are getting sued stereogum.com/tip-jar

Thinking about the works of Judith Scott again and crying.