Just had this same thought.

People will try to downplay this because it isn't the big win they might specifically want, but: public pushback just forced one of the largest & wealthiest media companies on the planet to walk back its capitulation to the regime. And that is power.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

A couple of weeks ago David Sirota turned up in my mentions to rant about hard his life is with everyone always picking on him, all because I'd passingly disparaged Don't Look Up. He was very clearly name-searching and got mad when I used the nifty Detach Quote feature on here. He then...

I liked PREY but I don't actually think the PREDATOR movie is worth keeping Hulu for.

So the funny thing about D+/Hulu/ESPN cancellations is that I sat down to go over my budget vs. how often I actually stream something on any given month, and......it would make more financial sense for me to cancel almost all of them and just pay the occasional $3.99-$5.99 one-time VOD rental fee.

If Disney wants to rebuild any of the trust they set fire to with this, the *first* thing they'll need to do is be transparent about what those conversations entailed.

Thinking about this some more, in light of people getting mad that it's what's radicalizing others: "Cancel Kimmel as Revenge for Charlie Kirk" is the kind extremely-online troll thinking that immediately breaks containment and gets the negative attention of normies when enacted in the real world.

Shaun King playing footsie with rote antisemitism is a development that surprises exactly nobody who's paid even a fraction of attention to the man over the years.

Shaun King backing up Tucker Carlson that Jews killed Jesus. It is important to state this bluntly (I should actually write a piece about it): Antisemitism is close to getting mainstream. One thing preventing it on the right is Trump's support of Israel, but Carlson and others are pushing it.

Gonna write a version of the Left Behind series, except it's about how life actually gets better for everyone else after all the evangelical a-holes get zapped up off into their final reward.

Autism is not a conditioned that needs to be cured. If anything, we're long overdue to reevaluate our antiquated criteria for what constitutes "neurotypical."

My late-90s crush on Beth Orton just woke up.

A completely petty, utterly unachievable fantasy I occasionally entertain to get me through the darker days: being present to see the look on Stephen Miller's face when the white nationalists finally turn on him for being a Jew.

Must. Not. Back. Yet another Kickstarter. For. A. For. An. Arty. Playing card deck.

Marc Maron remains the comedian whom I've heard speak out the loudest and most assertively against the Jimmy Kimmel suspension. Meanwhile, absolute crickets from the anti-woke/free-speech contingent.

I'll admit, there is a certain degree of elegant synchronicity to the overproduced nationalist spectacle of Kirk's memorial service happening at approximately the same time as a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl's work is coming out.

Am actually hearing a factual description of the 14 Words white supremacist dog whistle on NPR, in the context of ICE recruitment ads. Media, are you finally learning?

One does not owe respect to the dead; that belongs to the living. To the dead, one only owes honesty.

I'll admit, there is a certain degree of elegant synchronicity to the overproduced nationalist spectacle of Kirk's memorial service happening at approximately the same time as a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl's work is coming out.

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

A completely petty, utterly unachievable fantasy I occasionally entertain to get me through the darker days: being present to see the look on Stephen Miller's face when the white nationalists finally turn on him for being a Jew.

Social and political progress would be a lot easier to achieve if people could set aside their emotional need to feel righteous while working towards it.

One does not owe respect to the dead; that belongs to the living. To the dead, one only owes honesty.

Spent today’s boat time doing throat seizing on the headsail sheet pendents, allowing me to once again demonstrate why old timey sailors were sometimes called “jack tars.” (And for the snack aficionados out there, that’s why the little dude on the Cracker Jack box is wearing a sailor suit.)

I have a big tote bag in the bottom of one cupboard that is full of other tote bags. How many, I do not know. I send them there so that they may dwell indefinitely, forgotten. It’s the totes Negative Zone.

I will day this, the Disney Adults have proven themselves much more ready to meet this moment than any Harry Potter Adult has.

Hey look, Newsom actually doing a good thing. Enforcement is a separate issue, obviously.

Social and political progress would be a lot easier to achieve if people could set aside their emotional need to feel righteous while working towards it.

I’ve lost count of the number of times and different ways I’ve been called some variant of “coward” by anonymous accounts on here because I agreed that RSVPing to attend a protest is a dumb thing to do. (It is! Just go!)

Is there some code hiccup in Bluesky re: follows? I’ve had a couple of accounts turn up in my timeline today that I’ve never followed, but their profile pages say that I am.

Imaging trying to tell my teenage nieces and nephew that around the time they were born there was a guy on TV who straight-faced called himself "the Situation."

I am genuinely glad I did not have any social media profiles or any real online presence besides membership in a couple of band fan clubs when I was in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago.

I haven't actually seen a photo of Ezra Klein in a while, when did he start to metamorphose into Jordan Petersen?

Thinking about this some more, in light of people getting mad that it's what's radicalizing others: "Cancel Kimmel as Revenge for Charlie Kirk" is the kind extremely-online troll thinking that immediately breaks containment and gets the negative attention of normies when enacted in the real world.

Are all sports fans bad? No, of course not. Is the rando stranger who just popped into your mentions to mansplain something to you going to turn out to be a sports fan when you look at his timeline? Almost certainly.

Every now and then, I get the urge to take myself to Disneyland on one of my off-Fridays. Then I price the cost of that out, and change plans, because that would cover a few days' pocket money on a foreign vacation. Disney Adults are *dedicated* heavy-spenders, and losing them would hurt A LOT.

Ellen out here hoping everyone else has the exact same memory problems that her Dory the fish character had.

$115 on groceries at one store today, $24 at another yesterday.

Oh holy shit, I usually get my coffee from a local roaster or cafe and not the grocery, and hadn’t seen how high the price of supermarket coffee has gotten before now.

Today, I am choosing optimism about the future.

Suspending Jimmy Kimmel over alleged Charlie Kirk comments, only for that suspension to immediately become the free speech crisis conservatives tried to spin Kirk’s death into, is maybe the most succinct demonstration of poetic irony that I have seen in a long while.

Y'all, it's possible to critique congressional Dems' decision making while also understanding "potentially getting murdered by a MAGA adherent" is a very real & demonstrable factor in their decision-making now.

I think people are really missing what a memelord this kid is. It doesn't mean much of anything, and that's the point. Y'all need to be getting your heads around how nihilism works on the net.

Get off Instagram. Seriously. It is, in some ways, worse than actual Facebook.

The fact that he's watching people crash the Disney+ and Hulu cancellation pages in their en masse scramble to protest Disney/ABC and thinking, "hey, maybe I should RAISE my prices" just demonstrates that this man has the business instincts of a wet dishrag.

This movie-within-a-movie scene (from HAIL, CAESAR!) is so good that it deserves to be an actual movie in its own right, and/or is solid evidence that Coens should do an actual musical.

Suspending Jimmy Kimmel over alleged Charlie Kirk comments, only for that suspension to immediately become the free speech crisis conservatives tried to spin Kirk’s death into, is maybe the most succinct demonstration of poetic irony that I have seen in a long while.

On top of Pedro Pascal being a core part of current plans for both Star Wars and the MCU, he's also big enough & in demand enough that he wouldn't be out of work for more than a hot minute if he pulled out. Any other studio would snatch him up ASAP.