Everything is MARJORIE PRIME

None of the Burning Cauldron reviews mentioning Antlia Pnuematica, its clear spiritual successor..........OPEN THE SCHOOLS!

This but also for public sector employees (and I mean actual employees, not consultants/contractors air dropping in). Talented, driven people shouldn't have to take a 50% pay cut to work in the public sector, especially in a city this expensive.

Okay, now that we got Zohran elected it's time to focus on another important campaign--getting Joshua Henry his Tony.

James Earl Jones, the old guy from the end of The Sandlot

Cal and Julio hitting home runs as beautiful as the Sistine Chapel tonight #mariners

There are so many things that annoy me about the national MLB playoff broadcast, so might as well scream them into the void here...

The Nobel Peace Prize is so funny because it's one of those awards that's completely opaque and self-reflective in its meaning, but because it's been branded as totemic everyone takes it seriously. It's like the Golden Globes--if the award is stupid, why does it matter who it goes to?

The words "Heather Christian, MacArthur Fellow" are so pleasing to me

this is so sweet

Props to the folks at FS1 who just got this trivia right. Good on their research people.

At the phase of my aging millennial gaydom that literally any encounter with Defying Gravity makes me cry. This week alone it's been the UMich show band and a Lawrence cover in a Broadway melody.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

One of the Apple TV announcers just said Castillo is nicknamed La Piedra because he looks like Dwayne Johnson which is just...not true. #mariners

Another day, another morning spent cosplaying as a statistician in an attempt to understand art better

The Gilded Age is such wretched material but Baranski and Nixon really are luminous in it

GREATER CLEMENTS (Samuel D. Hunter, 2019)

"I heard down in Argentina...you know Argentina? Great country, really welcoming place to some Europeans who needed it. Anyway down there they're crying for me. Crying because what the radical Dems have done. But they don't need to do that, don't need to cry for me because we never stop winning."

I know I'm gonna die a thousand tiny deaths between now and the end of the season, but goddamn does it feel good to be a Mariners fan tonight

Another day another (sad) reminder that ASSASSINS is the most astute and powerful observation of American culture ever written.

Thank you for your privacy during this difficult time (all of the recipe newsletters I subscribe to are corn-centric this week)

This is a really lovely interview both from a politician who continues to rise to meet the moment AND from a journalist who coordinated a perfect forum for an authentic look at him. hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

Also New York isn’t in decline and remains the intellectual, cultural, financial, culinary and artistic capital of the country, in no small part due to the contributions of Jews and other minorities, most of whom live together in relative harmony, which is a miracle.

In this sample no one under the age of 70 includes Cuomo on their ballot. I sincerely hope that as I get older I maintain the humility to be aware of when my politics are way out of step with a younger generation and adjust accordingly.

Don't have a fully formed thought on this, but I think RCV (which is Good) has unfortunately intersected with pundit-brain approach to voting (which is Bad). It does not matter who you rank first or second, as long as you don't rank anyone you don't want to be mayor. Easy as that!

Hacks is the queen of "This ostensibly smart character is going to act like a huge fucking idiot for a scene so we can move the plot forward."

2025 turning into the Year of Stellan is more or less the only remaining support column of my mental health

@joereid.bsky.social The people need to know, what will the gods of Cinematrix consider the title of the newest MCU move to be?

So clearly Thunderbolts* is Flo's audition to play Harper in the next Angels in America revival, right?

IMO, Redwood and Maybe Happy Ending are about equivalent in quality, with some parallel flaws (weak scores, a heavy hand with sentiment at key moments and an overreliance on video screens) so will be confusing to me for a while why one was treated as the second coming and the other was so derided.

Really tried to distract myself on my two cross-country plane trips in three days this week #LastFourWatched

The world is bad but Maryann Plunkett is being paid to say the word "micropenis" several times a week on a New York City stage and that's something

Starting to get really stressed for Emma Stone having to deliver a straight-faced "tribute" to Karla. #Oscars

One of the (many) things that makes Andor great is that it's the first SW property to really grapple with the fact that so many people watched the original trilogy and thought the Empire looked cooler than the rebels.

SEVERANCE FAN THEORY CONFIRMED: Burt's outie is a Lutheran

One of the greatest strokes of luck in my life was to be an adolescent baseball fan in Seattle during the era of Ichiro. So pumped to see him getting his due.

One of least explored aspects of the de-churching of American life is that it's one of the few places where practice dictated you regularly went and sat and listened to someone who you hadn't hand-selected talk about how to live a good life who had done lots of thinking about the subject

Is there a Bluesky filter where I can see ONLY the first few posts when someone discovers something interesting/terrible/fascinating/wonderful and the posts from 4-5 days later with good considered takes on that thing? Not sure I need ~67 posts of people agreeing that the Meta AI thing is stupid

I try to be pretty realistic about the levels of nuance that a piece written for a general audience about a niche topic can have, but this article makes no effort at all to explain how DnD actually works which just undermines any analysis it's attempting www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/a...

Got unreasonably trashed at a work happy hour today resulting in my patented blend of overwhelming love for those dear to me and insatiable need for fried food.

Do you think the Water for Elephants elephant and Lion King elephant are friends?

The first time I went to Chicago I used an Alaska Airlines credit card and the person ringing me up assumed I lived in Alaska

I love this game because my answer is Ron Watkins, the founder of QAnon

@davidlsims.bsky.social I never do stuff like this, but did you just (like at 10:15pm) get onto a downtown 6 train at Brooklyn Bridge talking excitedly to a friend about something to do with aliens? If so, I didn’t want to interrupt, but a big fan of you and Blank Check!

Niche skeet, but Rob Lowe's reaction shot when someone on The Floor doesn't recognize a picture of Jodie Foster is worth the (free) price of admission for this silly show

I just finished War and Peace. Ama about free will.

Trump cameo jump-scare in S2 of Sex and the City. There really should be a trigger warning.

Honestly have to hand it to Sex Education for pushing the bounds of what constitutes an "episode" of television by just cramming as many plot lines into one as it can think of (and for getting Hannah Waddingham to come back for wordless cameos)

My toxic trait is that some weeks my internal monologue has the cadence and style of a Grub Street Diet.