absolutely unfair to my heart to come across a song tonight that i recorded with my son when he was like 2 or 3 years old; life was simple then, for both of us

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater. Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

true america is also this, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise

inject it into my veins

"The ADHD brain, during what should be a focused task, is intermittently switching into sleep mode. Not because the person is lazy or unfocused, but because the neural architecture that keeps the brain engaged at low-arousal tasks simply isn’t firing the way it does in a neurotypical brain."

YO SPACE NERDS: The Nova documentary Return to the Moon, which follows the recent NASA #Artemis mission, is live now on the PBS site (and should be on the app/channel/etc). Spread the word! Turns out we *can* have nice things, as long as they are in spaaaace www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

“We need to imagine a more democratic, more egalitarian, more generous country, one that operates in recognition of an abundance of wealth that should serve all of us – and nature & future generations too – rather than is driven by the moral poverty of billionaires.” - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

dreadful sorry, clementine

Parenting wins in my world: showing my 16 year old son THERE WILL BE BLOOD in the same week he asked if he could borrow my copy of A People’s History of the United States. He’s gonna be amazing, the future is bright.

best book i’ve read all year, if you like loving stuff, and being a big geeky fan of music and movies, and the happy/sad, this is something to move right to the very top of your list

there is ALWAYS the point in eating cheese puffs or cheetos where you just say fuck it i’m gonna be a mess and there will be orange dust everywhere and it’s worth it because i am alive

Don’t worry, we only have to make it through another 1,018 days of having an unstable, vindictive, abusive, grifting billionaire convicted felon with access to nuclear codes in control of the world, I’m sure it will all work out.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Anyone who was a kid in the '80s has residual trauma from all of the nuclear nightmares they instilled in us, and today is triggering the ever-livin' fuck out of me.

I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.

So fun to live long enough to have people think movies from the 90s are old

Quite the 250th birthday we’re giving ourselves here America

“You can actually do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step …Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.”

Fiona Apple & The Roots covering Wings’ “Let Me Roll It” spoiler alert: it’s amazing

Thrilled to be back in BW/DR to write about one of my all-time faves, HOT FUZZ

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! We've just unlocked our Trans Cinema issue from 2023, guest edited by poet Spencer Williams. It is now (and forever!) entirely free.

“I like buying books and I have a really nice house, but that’s about it. It’s always been my attitude that others could benefit from what I didn’t need. Rich people never seem all that happy, either.”

It's hard to think of anything more important to watch this week than the interview my pal @samfragoso.bsky.social did recently with Tristan Harris. Please, definitely, make some time to watch (or listen) to this soon.

Basketball is the greatest sport ever invented you’ll never convince me otherwise. What a game! (And I don’t even like UConn—they beat UW in 1998 when I went there, denying us a Cinderella appearance in the Elite 8 and I’ve never forgiven them—I just hate Duke and had my entire basketball life.)

Crazy but true: Preston Sturges was born Edmund Preston Biden, and was likely a distant relative of Joe Biden; his second wife—whom he eloped with over her parents’ objections—was the daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post, who built & originally owned Mar-a-Lago in the 1920s with her husband.

A final thought: the most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old normie Dems, "wine moms," "resistance libs," whatever condescending term you prefer. They're the ones doing the actual work. But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.

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

it's been almost two weeks and i'm still not over this

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

You gotta be kind to yourself, it can’t work any other way. This is also a message to myself from me

SPRINGSTEEN IS IN. 🎸 Over 3,000 protests are about to hit every single state and The Boss is headlining the main stage. This is officially the biggest political stand in U.S. history. See if there’s one near you: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resist...

Been saying this for a while--thankfully this article says it far better.

Lots of gold in this piece, as there almost always is in anything @author-calnewport.bsky.social writes, but this part of his NY Times op-ed feels especially worth highlighting, re: using AI to offload basic writing tasks

i truly do not know what i'm going to do when i can't play pick up basketball games any more

God it was so wonderful liking a book or a movie or a play or a band before social media

A general reminder that if you've got ADHD (and probably RSD) that when someone tells you they want you to call it's very probably not that you're in trouble.

we might see 70 percent disapproval!

Go fash lose cash bb

we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

what a legend, what a life, and what a thing to still be doing at NINETY THREE YEARS OLD

60 freaking points from Luka & a triple double from Lebron leading to their 8th straight win, jesus christ it’s fun to be a Lakers fan right now *for other nerds like me, it’s the first time any team has had a player with 60 points & another w/ a triple double since Wilt & Elgin did it in 1969 😮

“It is a pleasure—one of life’s greatest—to take something stupid deadly seriously.” So very, very true! This entire essay we published earlier this week from @oldmcdougall.bsky.social is just wonderful and surprising in so many ways, and I’ve never even seen BETTER MAN. 🐵

i know we’ve all normalized that he can say anything but dear god why did we do that

i am a happy person whenever conan o’brien is on my television screen

sometimes I wonder why everyone on here is so on edge all the time and then I remember that we are all living with a constant stream of horrors going by too fast for any of us to process

Hearing the song like this, you can’t help but notice how well it’s constructed, and how it still works completely in an entirely different context. Also Chris Thile continues to do things with a mandolin i didn’t know were possible, my goodness

As a primer to @filmforumnyc.bsky.social’s Agnès Varda retrospective: my profile & interview with her on one of her last trips to NYC in 2017. I dug deep on this one. tried to tell the story in English of how exactly she became a filmmaker. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/04/10/t...

bright wall dark room started on tumblr in 2009 and was there for 4 years before becoming a real thing, will always have a place in my heart for tumblr dot com