this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Hunter S. Thompson, pretty much calling the birth of the 21st century after 9/11.

The greatest minds in history are on the case

this city is afraid of me. i have seen its true face.

The cruelty is the point but for people who care about personal art. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

every time Google docs offers to “help me write”

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

I can

The entire ChatGPT lawsuit story today is horrifying and nauseating, and I really am just stunned by every amoral, vile aspect of it. So I'm just going to let this statement stand as my best reaction to it all, and then I think I'm offa here today.

this is a super normie riff I know ok. but the idea occurred to me at a traffic light and I had to work it up, and I thought some people would enjoy it, so here

I don’t want to cast aspersions on the county that the TN State Fair is in, but they apparently had to relabel all of the signs in the parking lot because they spelled the word “hazard” like…well, “Hazzard.” Like the Duke boys.

Apropos of nothing in particular.

really? this fucking guy? we're doing it all for this fucking guy?

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

None of this AI shit would be happening if you all had posted this on Facebook like we told you to

I feel like the way to get rid of "AI" is to use every version of it to fake JK Rowling talking about how much she respects trans people, then just sit back and let her billion dollars and litigious rage do the work for you.

I’ll never forget what it felt like the morning of the 27th of Barler12z.

This is an excellent post from a very good short thread.

Have yet to do anything but love Tremblay's work, and this is no exception. A smart, insightful dive into horror that toys with the audience, makes them question the genre they’re in, but still delivers the goods, with a finale that's among the most nightmarish things he's put on a page. A must buy!

This is an entire thread of delight, and I can’t recommend enough just digging through all the replies.

the shining (1980)

ozzy osbourne dies everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)" hulk hogan dies everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"

This is a beautiful piece of writing (not that you would expect less from @themountaingoats.bsky.social), but also, does what only the best obits for icons can do - not only remind you of someone’s importance, but of how they FELT to those who idolized them.

Remember! If you want respect when you die, earn it while you live!

Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society. That's it. That's the post.

showing an unhealthy elderly man increasingly upsetting news stories about him until something funny happens

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

There’s so many times recently where I watch the news or see what’s happening, and my biggest thought is not only how horrible it is, but that it’s all for THIS person of all people. That THIS man is the one so many sold their soul for, that the world is going through this for…it’s hard to fathom.

Trump every day of his entire life.

What a way to go out

You should put two spaces after a period when: - Writing a fax to your travel agent - Penning a eulogy for your uncle who just died of "confumption" - Addressing the constable or lorde of the duchy

If you ever think English isn’t a needlessly complicated language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme but read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

Rarely have two words upset me as much as this.

Just to join in the trend. Hard omissions here (that I have a ballot without the Coens feels wrong), but this is a good mix of "movies that genuinely moved me" and "oh, that's right, movies can do ANYTHING." (Not in order here, other than that THE FLORIDA PROJECT would be #1.)

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

I feel like, if I was a lawyer and I did this, I would immediately resign the bar and then walk into the ocean.

as always, @johnrogers.bsky.social said it best

At a time where everything is so awful and depressing, things like this remind me how delightfully weird and entertaining human beings can be. This rules and brought me great joy.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals