Look, I'm sorry, but I will never forgive him for Star Wars. If he wants out of director jail he needs to do at least three movies with a budget of $12 million or less and they all have to be absolute bangers. One more bad "puzzle box" and he goes to the director phantom zone.

New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: NGC-4388-IMAGER. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Take a look at news_by_date.html

Picked up a book that is a good version of what it's doing, but that's a thing I had a real phase with like a decade ago and I read ten or fifteen excellent books in the same vein. So I just put this one down. Didn't expect this particular way getting older would make reading for pleasure harder.

The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930 #Christmasghoststories

I just read that rich people are getting fat injections from human corpses to fill out the bits that Ozempic flattened out too much. I know that's absurd, but hear me out...

One of the joys of RC cars is fixing shit. It must be, because I haven't put a full pack through one in the last year before something breaks. Also, I should paint all my dog bones neon orange so I can find them when they're ejected.

If you thought TikTok wasn't already a cesspool of misinformation and targeted influence campaigns, I don't know what to tell you.

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

I'm a simple man, I hate AI and I love trans people.

As the year wraps up and we all prepare for the winter holiday break, please remember the reason for the season, and that there’s still time to send out an offer on a book, perhaps for six figures, in a multiple book deal, with no joint accounting. Bless.

Ask me about the time I spent three years at see throwing harpoons at cetaceans after reading Moby-Dick

My 5-yr-old is getting into music and I wanted him to have his own, so I picked up this sick Sony portable boombox and bought him a box set of his current favorite band, Dio.

Basically every modern individual complaint can be reframed as, "rent-seeking middlemen are a cancerous byproduct of unregulated capitalism that we need to excise."

Kinda feels like Tarantino just wants headlines for something other than all the shady shit he and Weinstein pulled on Thurman and the stink of collusion with a predator that brings. Y'know, if we're talking about Tarantino.

I think a lot about how most of us wanted to work together and do right when COVID happened and instead we were force fed disinformation and hate to turn us against each other because the wealthy couldn't risk our solidarity and their victory in that most vulnerable moment finally broke us

I think a lot about how most of us wanted to work together and do right when COVID happened and instead we were force fed disinformation and hate to turn us against each other because the wealthy couldn't risk our solidarity and their victory in that most vulnerable moment finally broke us

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

Why it matters

I have said a million times that the rebranding of the luddites as "afraid of technology" has been one of capitalism's greatest PR victories.

ADHD is all fun and games until it's time to switch phones and you realize you have 1,586 open tabs.

The only thing that's newsworthy about lottery winner taxes is the fact that billionaires' wealth is also subsidized by taxpayers so why the fuck aren't they paying their fair share. Otherwise, this is some weird neoliberal distraction bullshit.

So...GM makes really shit huge, expensive EVs, and compromises their cheap EVs with decisions like no phone mirroring, then kills their EV program and says they expect EV sales to slow. Full Eric Andre meme shit. finance.yahoo.com/news/general...

The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows

The thing I do miss is finding absolutely game-breaking synergies. I know they're still out there, but I swear every action RPG I played in the early 2000s had at least one upgrade interaction that just cracked the game wide open without being glitches or exploits.

"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves." www.404media.co/americas-pol...

May your meat be moist and your feet dry

Tomorrow I will defeat my family.

The biggest pie fight ever filmed, from the Great Race starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk. One of my favorite movies as a kid, and the only necessary pie discourse. youtube.com/watch?v=RCne...

I don't need the world to admit mince pie is good, I know that's a lost cause, but I DO need more people to welcome rhubarb into their lives. And not strawberry rhubarb--rhubarb is only diminished by the pairing.

It's always really helpful to get a reminder your writing doesn't suck.

maybe i am going insane

The ghouls usually surrounding Trump are all deeply uncharismatic people. Being around someone actually charismatic would be a real shock to the system. But also...where were all the ghouls? Miller and Vance and the rest really left him alone with a charismatic leader?

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

In the last twenty years technology made a lot of tasks related to our consumptive lives a lot easier, and now no one working in tech can conceive of a human as having anything other than a consumptive life.

Capital wants to replace human workers without investing in changing the accomodations already in place for the shape of those workers. Literally every insanely overvalued company these days is built on the promise of replacing human workers.

Because you don't know who these people are. You don't know what these organizations are. These are just names. You don't care because no one's giving you a reason to. You're being TOLD this is weighty and important stuff, not being SHOWN that it is. You gotta be *Character First, Concept Second.*

Shining a bat signal, but it's in the shape of a pizza slice: Looking for good guests for Library Pizza, my very casual, frequently silly podcast about reading. You can listen at librarypizza.com.

Too much, but very smooth, foreskin that doesn't retract. Pomaded pubes.

It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!! I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜

One thing I don't remember ever seeing on all the "bookshelf red flag" posts (yes I'm years late to the party) was "all best sellers." Like, if you haven't picked up weird random shit in a used bookstore, or at least dug deeper at B&N than the tables up front, we're not compatible.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wait, why did Brainworm and Dr. Snakeoil get obsessed with Canadian ostriches with bird flu? How does this further their part in the dismantling of the American state?

Imported prosciutto and provolone with the works add hot mix from Bay Cities in Santa Monica. I'll throw my shoe and hop home instead.

Yeah, we should all be pretty clear about the fact that slashing US AID was done specifically to kill brown people because Musk is obsessed with white replacement. The killing wasn't a side effect of "saving money," it was the point.

The framing for all these conservatives suddenly sharing voting maps shouldn't be, "lol, these morons think land votes," because the ones in charge definitely don't think that. The correct framing is, "this is dangerous people trying to establish a narrative to further disenfranchise voters."

Holy shit. A babysitter rented this movie one night when I was like 11 and I never remembered it's name. I spent years trying to figure out wtf it was as an adult but never could. Then this comes across my feed. Man, I have such vivid memories from this movie. youtu.be/yJk7m-kjVmc

Just realized "The Day Dick Cheney Died" maps to American Pie.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Current political divides mean there are people in our streets who don't think other humans deserve human rights, including the right to exist. It strongly disincentivizes interacting w/ strangers. A space where you can feel pretty sure about a baseline for the people around you is a big deal.

Just catching up on @clppng.bsky.social and saw the Mirrorshades video. Had to go get my copy off the shelf...