STRANGER THINGS S1: bad Spielberg pastiche by way of SUPER 8 S2: the same thing but... worse??? S3: they realized this whole thing is kind of dumb and leaned into it, making it fun for the first time.

Here's Rhea Seehorn in a Magic the Gathering tutorial video youtu.be/1jp4tMSIr_U?...

STRANGER THINGS underplays how brown the 80s were.

I will give season 2 credit for how dirty it did Sean Astin. Legitimate cruelty there.

Wait every season of STRANGER THINGS is about the same thing?

Art.

Season 2 Halloween episode: giving everyone movie quality costumes and props misunderstands how charming homemade stuff was in the 80s, when you had minimal reference and nobody was selling anything remotely accurate.

Oh lord yes

A lady in her eighties who lives in my building asked me if she should see Marty Supreme, or as she put it, "the one about the pisher who thinks he's a big shot," and I don't think this movie has anything to teach her that she doesn't already know.

Having now watched season 1 of STRANGER THINGS I can say this is the perfect show for the AI age. There's not a single original idea or concept in the thing. The series picks from the work of others to build itself, just as AI does. And like AI it's incapable of creating anything new.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Me reading so many of the replies on Bluesky

One of the most important things I have done the past couple of years is taking a regularly scheduled Sunday walk with a friend. We don't have to plan it, it's always assumed to be happening, so it happens automatically. Having to make plans is the death of getting together with people.

This is a simulacrum of a TV show

I'm catching up with yesterday's zeitgeist and finally actually watching STRANGER THINGS and they say this kid Will is gay 17 minutes into the first episode.

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

RIP Brigitte Bardot, convicted at least six times of hate speech

I think it's interesting that the Avatar films don't seem to have much of a life or cultural impact outside the theater but I also think it's extremely weird that such an observation is commonly met with the angriest sorts of responses

speedrunning Buddhism by escaping samsara in a single lifetime

I love that the comments on this DC Facebook post are split between people confused because they don’t know #HeatedRivalry exists and people who never saw #Joker2 and are thus doubly lost.

On the first day of 2026 my health insurance doubles and my rent goes up - let's hope this is not setting the tone for the whole year.

I was going to post Elisabeth Moss talking about how “Fred Armisen’s greatest impression is that of a normal person” but when I looked it up to get the wording right I learned AI has somehow turned it from being a scathing post divorce condemnation to being a really nice complement

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

An impassioned plea to put the Christ back in Christmas and reclaim it and him from these evil assholes who run our country.

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

I have seen very few instances of people talking about DIE HARD being a Christmas movie, and that is the biggest gift I've received this year.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

JAY KELLY isn't great but I do appreciate that the message of the movie seems to be that it's ok to be a bad dad if it's because you're making blockbuster 1997 motion picture THE PEACEMAKER.

I have enjoyed watching people online respond to PLURIBUS as if it's a mystery box show. Many folks don't understand that what's more interesting isn't if the plurbs are hiding something about themselves but rather if they're telling the absolute unfiltered truth.

Today my six-year-old put his head against his brother’s and said “let’s connect ponytail weiners” so don’t tell me Avatar has no cultural footprint.

It occurs to me that in the world of PLURIBUS the people of Earth would be losing a ton of weight and getting fit.

8 years ago today the best holiday photo ever was taken.

"The Maltese Falcon" era of San Francisco is officially now more dangerous than the version today which makes every tech investor want to invent Robocop

Taking a moment to appreciate the fact that I am living through the collapse of the American empire and republic. I know that we have been living through a lot of historic times, but this is truly epochal.

Lucasfilm’s official 2025 holiday card has been revealed 🎄

What if you never got to see one of the best and most exciting movies of the year because the title has a dirty word in it? Such is the situation with FUCKTOYS, a movie I adore. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ma...

so the existence of this letter has, actually, been written about before - the question is whether it’s authentic or not because, uh “I killed myself and Trump is also a pedophile” is pretty clear if so

What if you never got to see one of the best and most exciting movies of the year because the title has a dirty word in it? Such is the situation with FUCKTOYS, a movie I adore. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ma...

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I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

Almost word for word what the white supremacist villain in the HBO series WATCHMEN says in the final episode.

Maturity is understanding that there are certain things I want to post on social media that seem funny to me that will make people text me privately to check that I'm okay.

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH is yet another entry in this series that is enjoyable to watch but that dissolves as soon as you get out of your seat. www.patreon.com/posts/avatar...

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

It used to be testicles came with the penis, now they count it as a side dish. And they charge if you want extra sauce

Last night I saw FUCKTOYS, a movie that no one seems willing to buy solely based on the title. It's brilliant, the kind of work from a new director that forces you to make a prepatory space on the shelf dedicated to the greats. Annapurna Sriram is a triple threat, being a magnetic and total