not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

"You say we didn't use any human employees to make this ad—well, you're WRONG! We abused PLENTY of human employees to make this ad!"

"415ppm CO2" is making me emotional

There's still a ton of work to do on my next video, but I've edited enough of it to feel comfortable teasing some screencaps at this point.

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

Plot twist: your butler is an even bigger freak than you

I was surprised to hear on the latest episode of @movieoubliette.bsky.social that "The Flight of Dragons" is known internationally (if at all) as a product of specifically American cinema, because I had never heard of it before they released their latest episode about it.

I had terrible luck with this on Twitter last year (inbox was immediately flooded with bots) but I'm hoping Bluesky might be better: does anyone have experience creating mock-ups for blu-ray cases? Like, if I provided all the core assets, could you take them and make a blu-ray cover for my shelf?

The primary product of Warner Bros over the last few years has been mergers.

I don't usually fan-cast my own spec scripts but one of my friends recently read one and suggested Dan Stevens & Anne Hathaway for the two leads and goddammit if they wouldn't be puuuuuurfect.

I've got a poll going over on Patreon for how I hope to celebrate Jurassic June in 2026: www.patreon.com/posts/144901...

I want us to hang on to the fact that the people who were murdered were just civilians out in boats, most likely fishermen, who had never even heard the sketchy conclusions of American officials for which they were executed, much less had a chance to defend themselves.

They should introduce a costlier subscription-tier where they un-fuck it up.

You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+

It literally goes up half a star every time I watch it.

One time I was at a Taco Bell and someone asked a fellow patron for some money. He got $20, walked up to the register, ordered more than $20 worth of food, then demanded more money from the person who gave him the original $20.

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

They didn't just rip it off, they ripped it off and *made it worse*

AI companies pioneering sexual harassment at scale.

I like how these guys get to have it both ways they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it

throughout this decade-long war of attrition against sesta, fosta, osa, etc. moral panic over sex work has been manufactured as cover for risk-management, more or less, for investment firms. the issue is ideological, but not in the obvious way; an open internet can't be totally financialized

Not sure what the point of "Dead Birds" is. It's a big pet peeve of mine when movies choose to depict the Confederacy, but for no particular reason. It deliberately evokes the horrors of slavery and yet has absolutely nothing to say about it (save to spare us from caring about most of the victims).

Mamdani is a child of privilege therefore his socialism is cosplay designed to rile up downwardly mobile youngsters into stealing money from job creators. Wilson is poor and her socialism is just a way to get job creators to pay for her expenses.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.

Fuck offfffffffffffffffff

I would like to trade a script for a house I think that would be a real nice arrangement for all parties involved please and thank you 😊

How our snowy landscape, rebate program, and yes, Prince, helped the local film scene thrive.

Not at all the main (or even one of the lesser) points here but "The Social Network" is basically unwatchable now. The fictional Zuck kept the site ad-free for as long as humanly possible, but in real life THE WHOLE POINT was to build the most unscrupulous set of billboards in history.

The physical abuse of children by adult men is an actual plank of all right-wing political thought, a thing they believe in strongly and govern to enable, not just something thousands of them happen to do. Fascism is a politics of violent mastery and no one's easier to do that to than a child.

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Already obsessed

Democrats are pioneering the field of "pyrrhic loses."

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

Every capitalist looks at this and goes "probably a coincidence."

Everybody look at this cursed email I just got.

Golden Age of Grifting.

lol

#OtD 5 Nov 1855 American socialist and labour leader Eugene Debs was born. He helped found both the American Railway Union and the @IWW, and was jailed in 1919 for his opposition to WWI. While in prison he ran for president, and received nearly 1m votes workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww