this exists it is called thinking

First Cole Escola beats George Clooney for a Tony. Now Jeff Hiller beats Harrison Ford for an Emmy. A chaotic gay moon is rising!

Einbinder on saying 'free Palestine' during her Emmys speech: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

I quite frankly don't know how to speak to people who call themselves Democrats + who've worked their entire lives in the Arts + yet continue to muck about with AI thinking it doesn't make them look like unethical pigs (and I just realized you can put Twitter into that sentence where AI is and same)

So Blue Sky is turning out to have a policy of silencing transgender posts and transgender accounts. So - for the record: J.K. Rowling is a hate filled monster. TERFS are not feminists, and the "LGBT needs to drop the T" people are traitors to the struggle for human rights.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

"[U]nlike ... Andrew Cuomo—the serially accused sexual predator and current legal counsel to war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu—Mamdani wasn't backed by billionaires or towering figures of the Democratic establishment like former President Bill Clinton (also a serially accused sexual predator)."

Good morning, America. We have concentration camps in our country. If that is not freaking you out, you're not paying attention.

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

Do not ever do this under any circumstances. You will be held to the actual contract, not the AI summary, and the AI summary has no way of knowing which terms you might personally care about or have questions about. Dooooo notttttt dooooo thissssss.

Already second guessing myself!

What a loss. Several of White's books are among my favorites. I'll never forget the experience of reading The Beautiful Room is Empty for the first time. An absolute legend.

Going into June, just a reminder... Kink belongs at pride. Trans folks belong at pride. Ace and aro folks belong at pride. Bisexuals belong at pride. TERFS and drop the T queers can fuck off.

Boston/New England peeps: Fenway Health workers are making some demands for better pay, stable insurance costs, and better staff retention! I've been a patient there for ~15 and this place deserves better than what they're getting. Link: seiumass.salsalabs.org/faircontract...

like maybe stop trying to predict why other people feel or think the way they do and just ask questions instead?

Oh boy. I just know some poor soul is someday going to turn on what they think is Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor, but it’s Bruce LaBruce’s The Visitor instead.

There is a type of liberal/left bleakness that manifests itself in a compulsion to announce that nothing that doesn't fix everything means anything. The people who feel the need to keep expressing that are victims of our time (and this medium). But they are also ultimately enemies of improvement. >

I hate that the state of the world means I have to be sincere about Trans Day of Visibility because it is just another Monday where I go work at my job where I can't possibly be any more visible. Maybe y'all just need to do a better job of seeing us as more than the rock bottom, bare minimum.

This doc is so, so good and fun! See it if you have the chance!

in retrospect it's kind of funny that sci fi was like "imagine a world where robots gain sentience, but humanity refuses to grant them personhood" but in reality every loser techbro loser thinks chatgpt deserves more rights than like, actual people

When was the last time all four acting awards went to original characters?

And the answer is...yes! Wow!!! Absolutely incredible.

3/4. Is he about to make it a clean sweep?????????????

I don't know if it's the bottle of wine I just polished off, or I'm just high on the I'm Still Here win, but this seems like the best Oscars in years???

I'm Not a Robot for Live Action Short

Art is a powerful truth-teller. #NoOtherLand lays bare the ugly reality of Israeli apartheid & ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Mazel tov & Mabrouk to Basel & Yuval, who, like us, know that there is no safety, no future, without solidarity, freedom, justice, & equality for all.

That win, and those remarkable speeches, will infuriate the worst people in this country and the world. Good. #NoOtherLand

No Other Land just won an Oscar without US distribution. Absolutely legendary for them, this film and its message. The most important award of this year, hands down.

I really admire the work of these two incredible, brave activists and journalists (and I think it would be nice if they kissed).

Doc Short going to Only Girl in the Orchestra feels like the first genuine surprise of the night. I'm not mad at it!

OK, but....Clement Ducol IS extremely hot and I'm not mad to have him up on that stage

I am now in the top 300 and honestly, it's the only thing keeping me going right now.

I fucking looooooooved Armand. OMG!

According to a senior CDC official, some of the pages that were removed on Friday have been reinstated due to backlash from the scientific community and the public. Keep speaking up, it matters!

Remember — the first lie of fascism is inevitability. And it is a lie. We can fight back.

Nothing is good right now, but at least this was fun My #Oscars watch progress! Damn Memoir of a Snail messing me up. Best Pic 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Best Actress 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Best Actor 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sup. Actress 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sup. Actor 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Best Animated 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 Best Int'l 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Directing 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #oscaround oscaround.com

I will also add that people in Congress are not volunteers. They are being paid. They have health insurance. They have retirement. They have ONE JOB—to serve their constituents. And if they cannot figure out how to push back politically they don't deserve to be in office.

That wasn't an earthquake per se, it was New England trying to break itself free from the US.

It’s important to talk about Karla Sofía Gascón as the first *openly* trans Best Actress nominee, as opposed to first trans Best Actress nominee. (E.g. Let’s not forget Elliott Page.)

Karla Sofía Gascón just became the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Oscar.

Sean Baker just went from never having been nominated to earning himself four nominations this morning. That is WILD! Good for him!

That "Challengers" snub in Score, I'll never get over it.

It all goes back to you didn’t want a Black woman leading you and it’s all it’s ever gon be for me. You’d rather split your ass sideways and dive into a vat of lemon juice than let a black woman tell you to stop calling people out their names.

Coco Montrese has stepped in to replace TikTok, as the app is unable to fulfill its duties in the United States

For some reason my audience for The Room Next Door was made up entirely of boomers who hated the movie more and more as it went on. They were actually getting rowdy in their dislike. Talking back to the screen and everything.

This Friday I am celebrating very nearly cracking the top 500 in the Vulture Movies Fantasy League. I eschewed potential box office points for this crop: Anora, Emilia Perez, The Brutalist, Babygirl, A Real Pain, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Will & Harper, The Substance. It's finally paying off!

Love when you're swiping and suddenly stumble upon the Tinder Bot nom du jour. Like, sure, of course there are dozens of attractive gay men in Boston all named Jouko.

The Last Showgirl: it’s a “yikes” for me.

Yes, it’s this exactly.