Google just extended the Fitbit deadline to May. YES.

Building on @espiers.bsky.social's post, I am again respectfully requesting a Zohran version of the photo shoot Ed Koch did with the Muppets in 1983. You should know I'm a very persistent person & will keep making this demand until someone makes this happen

"And then we peed on The Atlantic."

As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island). The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Not only that - his inquiry to the BBC was the only reason they didn't erase the master tapes after five years, as was policy.

Coolest pic from yesterday that I didn’t know I took until I was going through my camera. I snapped this pic at the very moment a male Eastern bluebird was entering the feeder from the opposite side.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

My dear anonymous letter writers, if you think it is so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets. (1963)

May I interrupt the horrors to show you pictures of my sister's chickens in cowboy hats

OMG. This year there will again be a Veuve Cliquot ‘26 #TempusFugit #TCMParty #Casablanca

I’m crying I love people so much

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

SIGH: 8 out of 10 screenplay noms went to the directors of those films. This trend sucks. Period. Writing FOR a director is a very different skillset than writing AS the director. Night & day. I will continue to argue these are more interesting categories than the fakakta definition of "adapted."

New for @thebarbedwire.com's Big & Bright 🌈⭐👏: Meet Waco's transgender BBQ pitmaster, who's going viral for his outspoken, antifascist TikTok videos. Kaleb told us he lost his job at Terry Black's after being doxed after Charlie Kirk's death, but that hasn't stopped his big smoked meat dreams ...

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I appreciate it when rep cinema staff do an intro before a film and remind the audience that this kind of laughter is disruptive and maybe don't do it. This is often effective, happily. Lars at Austin Film Society had (has) a knack for successfully talking about this; I miss his intros.

Better batten down the hatches. Ted Cruz is getting on a plane to Laguna Beach in winter.

I recently met a widowed 71-year-old woman still working two jobs and living at an extended-stay hotel because even two jobs don't pay her enough to afford rent. This is what "one more year of work" looks like in America.

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

On this bright sunny day in the PNW, Franklin is living his best life. #catsofmastodon

Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.

Shady Grove on Barton Springs Road, Austin TX. Always cheese fries to start (shared), then either a bowl of chili (served on a flour tortilla) or a chili dog. Chocolate icebox pie for dessert. My birthday restaurant for years until it closed. Terrific patio outdoors *and* big indoor fireplace.

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

Only the logo on the box is allowed to smile.

the other day my 8yo said Spanish was his third language. then he counted "uno, dos, tres..." all the way up to "nueve" and then said "uh, i forget." i said "diez?" and this kid straight up replied "diez nuts"

Late last year I witnessed a FB thread where a bunch of Austin film lovers, disgusted w/the local options for THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR, debated *which* city they'd drive to in order to see it on film: Plano? New Orleans? Or should they fly to LA? Austinites going to *Plano* (4 hrs) for a movie.

Y'all. Y'ALL. Criterion is finally giving TROUBLE IN PARADISE a Blu-ray (actually a 4K/Blu) release in April. Literally the last DVD I bought since I couldn't find it streaming and couldn't stand not watching it. I will be so thrilled to swap it out. 1932, Lubitsch, it's about sex because of course.

Entertainment industry folks! Maryland Institute College of Art is hiring a film/tv professor. Please share this far & wide, I think this a great opportunity, esp for someone with experience with the practical realities of modern film & TV production. mica.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

Chuck Schumer telling people to stop hitting themselves as ICE has a hold of their wrist

Loved this peek into the work that goes into assessing and preserving an archive.

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

howling at the fact that someone just took photos of this man's phone from behind him. he was talking shit with his phone font set to large and screen at max brightness

Scoop: Texas has quietly pushed 6,400 truckers with asylum, refugee or DACA status out of work in response to demands from the Trump administration that the state revoke commercial driver's licenses whose expiration dates don't match work permits. Many truckers had no warning.🧵

Great piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The most realistic part of the Handmaid’s Tale, as I keep saying, is how many supposedly enlightened husbands and boyfriends will not be all that upset when you can no longer have a bank account.

Ace Hardware operates as a retail-owned cooperative, meaning store owners are basically independent operators. Your local hardware store might be an Ace, but it will feel entirely different from the Ace the next town over. Each are highly localized, which means you're likely to see stuff like this:

I am really just very tired, in the year of Renee Good getting shot in the face 2026, of nice resistance liberals saying they can't find anywhere else to publish their writing besides the Nazi engine

A neighbor was taken to a care facility, and her little tortoiseshell kitty was left behind. I can't take her in but I've been feeding her and giving her water every day. No one in the neighbor's family can take her in. Is there anyone in the Inland Empire area that could foster or adopt her?

This should be perma-death stuff. Don't shop at Target ever again, even if they reverse course in the future.

death

At the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center at The Dalles.

Anti-ICE protest in Portland today.

Greerbaiting: when an audience is teased and/or strung along with promises of more scenes with living legend, Judy Greer.

this is why we can’t have a nice lysistrata

First headline/article to lead me to understand why Drafthouse might be doing this: "Following labor disputes ..." Oh. Yeah. I see.

Can’t stop thinking about the fact that all of this could have been prevented if Merrick Garland had simply done his fucking job