Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

"Wiseman was one of America’s finest artists because he never stopped wondering how things worked; even if the answers weren’t pretty, the people who were affected—that is, all of us—deserved to know." -- @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social

Stressed at work, distract me with questions about my 2025 ballot

[watching a movie on Tubi] “You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a..” “Bedshitter. Does that describe you? 95% of adults poop the bed. In fact, you’re probably pooping the bed right now. Take Glorblax for a better night’s sleep.”

Not this Instacart ad being scored by the Climax opening track

OBAMA CHOOSING A FURSONA: Uhhhh…let me be deer

oh so very much this

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

I was like a genuine lib until 2008 happened and then noone went to prison, the banks got bailed out, and I spent years looking for a job in a collapsed economy while the EU spent its time breaking the Greek people on the wheel. I still want nice things but now I also want revenge.

Tom Noonan (1951–2026)

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Chicago institution who left footprints globally in his ardent advocacy for civil rights, has died. He was 84. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

You just KNOW this fucker is right next to a vase it just shattered.

CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE: anyone more online than me is a loser phone addict and everyone less online than me are basic underdeveloped normies

Transgender update: I can now do that thing where my breasts are covered by my hair

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

If the Twilight Saga took place in Massachusetts this would be Renesmee

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

Louise by George Hommel, 1927.

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

*laughing hollowly* remember when all the magazines wrote thinkpieces about how Me Too had "gone too far"

Guess who’s gonna be injecting estrogen starting today!!!

I think opposition to abortion is actually a great place to situate a working definition of fascism. The baseless desire for control over the bodies of an underclass, reaffirmed as such by that control. bsky.app/profile/dolp...

Time to do what I do best: post a gigantic list of cinematic faves from this year in the hopes it will kick me into writing something. Without further ado, my longlists for the best filmmaking achievements of 2025! itsjustlikethemovies.com/2026/01/20/2...

Mescal was good in HAMNET, but attempting to pass him off as a supporting actor in that film was ridiculous, so I’m not mad he missed while Lindo, a film-enhancing asset in a genuinely supporting role, got the nod instead. (Yes, Elordi and Skarsgard are leads too, but one small victory at a time.)

Amy Madigan is the big relief and Delro Lindo is the big surprise so far of the first half of these nominations. Big day for horror, too, with The Ugly Stepsister and Frankenstein including that Elordi nod which… is that the first classic movie monster to get an acting nomination?

Chase Infiniti missing, what are we doing here

DELROY LINDO LET’S GOOOOOOOO

Time to do what I do best: post a gigantic list of cinematic faves from this year in the hopes it will kick me into writing something. Without further ado, my longlists for the best filmmaking achievements of 2025! itsjustlikethemovies.com/2026/01/20/2...

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

A year after its Sundance premiere, you can stream all of TWINLESS on the internet and not just the leaked Dylan O'Brien sex scene that nearly broke the festival's online strategy.

Walz is failing his state if he's going to say it's the protestors who have to behave themselves

No one in power did a goddamn thing. Tim and Frey left the brave parents and dedicated members of the community and Will Stancil alone to fight ICE

It's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

Happy (almost) end of 2025, here’s some movies I loved. boxd.it/ESxW2

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

Gonna visit my family for Christmas and I’m pregaming by missing my cats before we even leave

The Bridge Over Jamiroquai

when will the evil(s) be defeated

Did not care for Bug On Ya boxd.it/bYHOGP

I love both One Battle After Another and Sinners, but if you don't think they're doing at least as much to work you over and get you to a certain emotional place as Hamnet is, I don't know what to tell you. There's no rule that it's okay to go for your adrenaline but cheating to go for your tears.

Happy 29th Birthday to ME!!!!!!

They line up perfectly.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.