Movie you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

For this month’s @outsidemag.bsky.social column, I took a rat taxidermy class, and it was… surprisingly sweet? As the teacher said, “We’re reclaiming what’s beautiful and interesting about the things we’ve been told are bad or gross.” I love my rat. His name is Meatball.

♥️

It’s always “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” and never “Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie”…

Hard bias on my part: Artists should not trash-talk other artists unless their work is morally reprehensible, period, the end. And successful artists in particular should avoid it. The defense that it's some kind of refreshing contribution to public discourse? It's not. We already have tons of that.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

This is why I pay for the World Wide Web. Because it delivers ART!

RIP to the brilliant Tom Stoppard

If you ever find yourself in an old movie, here is how you must smooch: 1) Sloooooowly bring your faces closer. 2) With ~1” left, MASH those closed mouths together. 3) Rub ‘em around like you’re exchanging chapstick. 4) Ladies, be sure to crank your head back until your chin points at the sky.

Listen, I am grateful that many assholes are facing some level of accountability for their past behavior, but the most depressing thing about listening to a podcast about movies nowadays is that just about every episode starts with, “Yes, we’re aware of the allegations…”

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

The most evil tech bro thing you've ever read SO FAR.

You're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)

Is there a word for that unique, adult dread you feel when there's a weird smell in the kitchen so you take out the trash and the compost, but when you get back inside, the smell is still there? Feels like the Germans ought to have something for that.

It's very annoying that Black Friday has turned into a whole ass month.

I got very badly burnt out at a previous, unrelated job and said, “Fuck it. There are people who need things written. I will find them individually and ask them to pay me money to write.”

very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved

I’m howling.

CS degrees are over; now is the time of the English BA

one of the best movies ever made

I don’t know why, and I don’t want to make a big hairy deal out it so ICE’s Special Media Prosecutor Division doesn’t notice, but People Magazine has been incredibly straightforward with their Trump headlines when he’s being a weird old asshole. They’re a quiet Facebook behemoth, so this is good.

AO3 is also down, so between the two our whole acronym is affected

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

This is Mack. In his head he absolutely crushed this agility course. Who are we to tell him otherwise. 14/10 (TT: adventuresof.mack)

sir this is a McDonald's

The beeps are beeping again. Luckily, they're very easy to drown out in this apartment, and I haven't heard them in a long time, but JFC, it will never end.

This is so moving, etc. Also, she is an opportunistic monster without a single internal value she wouldn't happily trade away for the smallest professional gain, so let's all enjoy this particular clown show while remembering that it is worth less than nothing.

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

If you get an #AO3 comment making accusations about the work creator or other users, that is a Spam Bot. Do not trust it or click on any links it includes. Our OTW #Tumblr has a post on how to handle spam comments like these! otw-news.org/2p98huyz

@chucktingle.bsky.social is working on new bestseller, I see.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Some good-ish climate news.

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Big news day! Yes, the Wicked Witch of the West died, but also: Brian Cox/Daniel Day-Lewis feud! ew.com/daniel-day-l...

SNL Digital Short (Series, 2005 - 2012)

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Y’know, I work really hard at countering perfectionism and trying not to beat myself up over the little things, and then I get chastised by a client for sending in a monthly invoice on Sunday instead of Friday by 11:59 pm. Were you really gonna pay me over the weekend? Really?

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

Hint: 2-for-the-price-of-1 necessitates the existence of 4-for-2, 6-for-3, etc.

I don’t think it’s the case that all awful people are secretly miserable. But in Trump’s case, I really do think he’s so chronically discontent about every perceived flaw in his life that the only thing he knows how to do is make everyone else suffer for it.

Baseball will always break your heart.

Here's what I'll say: I think I've seen better World Series, but I don't know if I've ever seen a World Series with so many things I'd never seen happen before.

It’s an ECHO CHAMBER smh

It's called horse power. Yeehaw!

They need to communicate the signs to Springer with trash cans. Everyone knows this.