Jun 8th 1925 - Silent film star Lina Lamont signed a contract with the studio that holds them responsible for positive media coverage. This prevents Kathy Selden from being credited for her dubbing work as Lina's voice. 📽️📅 Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

Officially about one in five American women has survived rape or attempted rape, but about five in five are impacted by violence against women in how, among other things, we have to think about in striving to avoid it. We avoid it by curtailing our liberty. The paragraph preceding the one above:

A view of the Paramount Theater on Congress Avenue in Austin, 1936. Looks like a bustling night in the capital city. Wouldn't it be cool to just stand in a darkened doorway and survey the scene and eavesdrop on the conversations of passers by?

I specifically requested no more metaphors

You all need to see this.

Another shitty thing about Platner still running is: to see domestic violence euphemized out of existence with nearly every article. What his ex described was textbook DV (even as she underplayed it!). But every writer finds a cute little turn of phrase ("manhandled") to eliminate any mention of DV.

The Cleveland Clinic has caved to the extortion by DOJ and settled with them over their provision of gender affirming care for trans youth. They're paying a fine of $308k. Following Texas Children's, they also agreed to create a "detransition clinic."

"Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research."

I ❤️ the Canby Ferry

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

Rest In Power

Screwed up the link yesterday! Here’s my Boots Riley profile, a splashy exposé of Oakland cocktail culture, Prince fanhood, Communism, surrealism, maximalism, non-medicated colonoscopies & the real reason Boots wears his hats: Boots Riley, Marx Brother www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Tree Spirits from Princess Mononoke. Studio Ghibli, Japan.

Vote blue no matter who, huh?

NUTMEG

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

I adored this.

This week in Talk of the Town: Shakespeare in the Park kicks off with "Romeo and Juliet," but with a twist—each performance ends with a real-life wedding onstage. I was there for the first one. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Me (to wife): thank god we're not giving The Guardian money any more. Her: Um ... yes we are. (ten minutes later) Her: NOW we're not. The Guardian was my go-to for standard news links to share since I don't share NYT, WaPo, or CNN anymore. Running out of "mainstream" outlets that aren't hateful.

Starting Pride Month by publishing transphobia is not ok.

The Catholic Catechism and the Baptist Confession of Faith state explicitly that God is neither male nor female, has no body or physical form. To think of God as biologically male diminishes the very nature of God. Everyone from Billy Graham to the Pope to the Anglican Church agrees on this.

i feel like the "story" of "Tilly Norwood", in terms of the newsworthy thing that's happening, would be a behind-the-scenes report on the company's PR team that keeps getting these articles placed in major news outlets and keeps getting them written with the company's preferred framing.

People have been asking, so I will once again share my Free Stuff Thread. Thousands of silent movies to stream for free thanks to archives, national libraries and nonprofits. Sweet deal!

happy birthday burnside bridge, this party is objectively perfect, major kudos to the county. We should do this every year

Prepping for #PrideMonth a couple of days early, in our own #StarTrek like way. 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏻

It’s Denholm’s birthday tomorrow.

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Gachora is an orange monster who promotes the Chofu area of Tokyo as a “city of film”. (Chofu is home to the Kadokawa Daie Studio, who made the classic kaiju movies Gamera and Daimajin.)

I always think of what the smart and menschy director Arthur Penn told me about the early- and mid-'60s years just before everything changed when I interviewed him for Pictures at a Revolution: "It wasn't just that we were sick of the system. At that point, the system was sick of itself."

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

tempting

• No, everyone *isn't* using AI to do their writing for them. • Modernizing kids' books demonstrates massive contempt for kids. And for books. • He *is* an ugly fuck, and he should shut up. Have a nice day.

♥️🗞️goodbye for now to @thebarbedwire.com — it’s been an honor, and any newsroom would be stupid not to hire @carakelly.bsky.social @briangaar.bsky.social @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and @candibolden.bsky.social

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

If I still lived in Austin, I'd be very tempted to get Top Notch tonight. Or at least go drive by a moontower. (the image is from Dazed and Confused. It's been 50 years since the events in the film.)

Half the books I read as a kid were mildewed hand-me-downs my mum had somehow held onto since the '50s. For an 8yo Chinese-Swiss Irish girl I sure knew a whole lot about mischief in 1920s English boarding schools and orphans going to live on horse farms. And look! I turned out super great.

If you like bunnies swarming neighborhoods at sunset, now is the time to visit Portland Oregon 🐇

I had never paid enough attention to the actual words in the book excerpt that Eli Cash reads to notice that several of these words are just bullshit non-existent nonsense. I'm delighted. See: www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

Not the writers I would expect for a Paddington movie, but ... not complaining ... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Now out in downtown Tacoma where striking local journalists have gathered despite it being a cold day with gathering storm clouds to march, chanting "AI SLOP HAS GOT TO STOP," "FAIR WAGES, REAL WAGES," and "WE WRITE EVERY PAGE, PAY US A LIVING WAGE." There are also going to be some speakers shortly.

All the unused Lower Decks episode titles @bradwinters.bsky.social and I argued about can finally be realized.

New Blog Post: I Built a Bot I've created a Mastodon bot called NotifyBot that monitors hashtags and sends you a DM when new posts appear. https://www.crosenthal.com/chrome/2026/05/26/i-built-a-bot.html #mastodon #feditips

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In the early 80s, when I lived in Japan, people regularly wore masks in public and on mass transit, not only to avoid catching something, due to close proximity, but also not to spread something they might have. I never questioned their mental health. I applauded their civic responsibility.