PLATNER IS LITERALLY STILL OPENLY USING THE "R" WORD IN CASUAL CONVERSATION. TODAY.

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

20 short stories about The Guy Who Makes You Laugh and Cry. Bill Lawrence tells tales from Shrinking, Rooster, Scrubs, Ted Lasso and more. ** Including how Harrison Ford personally made sure they wouldn’t have to pay to add the Indiana Jones theme song joke to Shrinking. 🎶

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

american masculinity is a pathogen

One of the coolest gigs I had was running the Facebook side of the One Perfect Shot Account in the mid 2010s. I thought I lost my entire collection of film stills I shared, but just got a new device that somehow synced up to a really old account & I found them! Let’s kick things off. 1) VERTIGO

I keep watching this. Haven't seen somebody more over somebody's bullshit in a long time.

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

And now he has pleaded guilty to murderering eight women (including Karen Vergata, killed in 1996 but not IDed till 2023) and will receive 7 life sentences without parole.

I think about this post almost every day bsky.app/profile/ianb...

reposting with alt so i can share!

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County. Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23. 20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t. They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

Somehow I don't think this will help achieve that objective.

AVOID INTENTIONAL HARM APOLOGIZE AND MAKE AMENDS WHEN YOU DO CAUSE HARM FIND YOUR PEOPLE CARE FOR THOSE PEOPLE CARE FOR YOURSELF MIND YOUR BUSINESS LET EVERYONE FUCKING LIVE

Michigan did warm-ups to Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield all tournament and turns out that was the secret weapon in the end www.instagram.com/reels/DWH9Gw...

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

I'M SO FUCKING TIRED OF WAKING UP EVERY DAY TO A FASCIST DICTATOR THREATENING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AND PRETENDING THAT DOING ANYTHING FUCKING ELSE DURING THE DAY MATTERS.

Okay but am I allowed to try to sell your book? Because one of the things across the BOARD we are seeing is how the kind of horrors that are destroying us are enabled And Burn it Down is one of the necessary books about it

My 2023 book Burn It Down has chapter about exactly this & LCK mentioned obv. Not trying to sell books, get it from library if inclined. Tl;dr: if someone does not do the hard, consistent work of amends, repair & reparation, there doesn’t have to be a path back. If not, experts agree: fuck that guy.

TIL

An important thread about a big story that the press is under-covering.

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

This is also relevant to why it’s hard to make short podcast seasons profitable, regardless of the show’s quality or how beloved it is, in an advertising-spot model.

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

If you’re watching the Artemis II launch, I can not recommend enough TIME’s fantastic cover story about the crew and the mission by Jeffrey Kluger, the best space journalist in the biz time.com/7346146/arte...

One of the least surprising things I have read: Megan McArdle using AI extensively to do all those pesky tasks that she prefers to skip, like “fact checking” and “understanding what she reads.”

What a fucking shot holy shit

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

This is some Carl Hiassen-ass scamming.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

I still see too many users here unaware of this, and it's why we are never getting things like soft-blocking, restricted/locked accounts, or circles (and if we do, you shouldn't trust them). Treat EVERYTHING you do on here INCLUDING DMs as though it is fully public (because it is!)

As we have always said: it was never about "protecting women." Scratch the skin of a transphobe and you will always find a garden-variety misogynist beneath it.

There are so many ways to show up even if you don't do so in person, and can keep showing up after the rallies are over, because there is so much work ahead.

For those want to participate in the #NoKingsRally today, but can't physically attend an event due to any number of hurdles/challenges, #StandUpForScience has organized a virtual rally you can join online. ☺️ #NoKings #March28 #Protest #Resist www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

So the NYT is so committed to shitting on trans people that when the AMA tried to correct their reporting, they responded by saying they know more about the AMA's position than the AMA itself. That's zealotry.

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

I fully believe that the barrel jeans trend is a psyop by Big Denim to use more fabric and no one can convince me otherwise

1488 Jump Street

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

The trailer for the "Harry Potter" series makes it look exactly like the "His Dark Materials" series, with the key differentiations being that the "His Dark Materials" movie was garbage and required correction and that Philip Pullman has never advocated the erasure of people I care about.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

My more nuanced take is FUCK J.K. Rowling. Our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings need our love and support more than we need another Harry Potter. Read and adapt books by better humans. Especially trans ones.

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group