Could be worse. We could have had a woman president.

one of the things I treasure most about writing is it is one of the vanishingly few remaining pursuits that involves sitting quietly with your own thoughts—something the entire tech industry has mobilized to ensure we never do again

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

CEO blames current round of layoffs on record profits

LFG

I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!

We tried to get funding to TSA workers SEVEN times. Republicans blocked them all. Don’t let them tell you this isn’t their fault.

Really cannot overstate how bonkers the heat wave out West is. Just obliterating records. 🧪

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

A film not reflecting your personal experience back to you is actually a good thing.

People like this are truly the worst.

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

Joy is rebellion. Art is rebellion. Recovery is rebellion. Stories are rebellion.

Bro is talking about federal judges like I talk about ex-boyfriends

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

"The Marty Supreme ballots are going to decide this." I say while bringing up maps of swing counties in Arizona and Wisconsin.

You don't have to love all of these movies, but you do have to understand that a studio that makes Sinners and One Battle and Mickey 17 and Wuthering Heights and The Bride and Weapons grasps its responsibility to filmmaking and its own history and tradition in a way that David Ellison does not.

I saw The Bride! tonight--wildly audacious and accomplished, and in fascinating dialogue with monster movies, musicals, and Bonnie and Clyde. Jessie Buckley is beyond-belief great. Huge swings like this & Wuthering Heights are why we need studios--it takes real $$ and support of vision to make them.

To other film festivals out there, especially those of you that regularly platform films from the major studios. Now seems like a great time to NOT DO THAT. If three total companies are going to own the world we all have a responsibility to work harder than ever to discover and platform new voices.

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

bitch it's March?

This… Today was a sad day. What an absolute bummer of a time.

Chainsaw Awards writer/director Michael Varrati is keeping busy with FOUR SEASONS OF FEAR, a new comics anthology from Stacked Deck Press.

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

We are disturbed

2026 basically

Tell me you live in the northeast without telling me you live in the northeast… 🤣

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

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👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

This weekend I did a double feature of THE BONE TEMPLE and SEND HELP and I have no one to talk about such things with here in PA! 😫 Well…no one but this guy.

For Liam.

Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Blue states are being denied federal funding for essential services simply because we voted Democrat. Our representatives should refuse to fund the government until this is corrected. Why should we continue to contribute taxes to a federal government occupying and terrorizing us in Minnesota?!

For those interested... the remarkable tv series "Watchmen", starring the fantastic Regina King & Jean Smart, is being run in full on the HBO Drama cable channel this afternoon. Stop whatever you're doing and go watch it! #tv #Watchmen #comics #comicbooks #dccomics

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Wake Up Dead Man Unless You’re a Vampire, Then Please Don’t

I cannot believe this is real.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

The cashier at Target should be able to work full-time and afford their bills with a little left over. That’s not radical.

I’m glad Amy Madigan is getting awards buzz for #Weapons, it’s a fun performance and we certainly don’t have to choose!…but Sally Hawkins was in #BringHerBack this year too. Just saying!

Just four more sleeps until VIOLENT NIGHT! Tickets still available to see the bloody great new Christmas classic with writers Josh Miller and Pat Casey in discussion after the film. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film/violent...

Read the whole thread. It's funny for the first sentence and then immediately switches to horrifying.