Finally caught Bugonia and it feels like the anti-Hillbilly Elegy

Good movie year, I gotta say

For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

It's okay to be surprised and outraged by stuff Trump does. It doesn't make you a naive palooka or bourgeois reformist scum.

BIG DAY FOR THOSE FLUENT IN THE GOOD GRAMMAR OF CIVILITY LOOKING TO DEPLOY DECORUM TO MASK AGENDAS OF CRUELTY

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

STOP. PUBLISHING. STORIES. LIKE. THIS.

I genuinely hope that the one positive outcome from the first year of Trump II is that people realize that, when you have power, you can actually just fucking DO stuff

It's my MOMENT

How I'm walking out of 2025 and entering 2026:

Rewatching When Harry Met Sally and god I miss movies like this that love LANGUAGE

As someone who grew up in the Central time zone, I was forever grateful

2025 was a garbage year but also I got married and saw a bunch of movies so who's to say if it was bad?

It is possible to say that Trump openly campaigned on many of the terrible things he is doing and also that many people either did not believe him or were unaware of it and that Nicolas Cage as John Madden is the sexiest either Nicolas Cage or John Madden has ever looked

YO "there's more than one way to be a girl" is a lesson I only really learned from trans girls

Benecio Del Toro in One Battle After Another is probably my favorite movie character of the year

The John Wick movies are only going to grow in stature over time. They're our Indiana Jones.

To state the obvious about this, talking about artists as having a “duty” to perform “for all” is the same underlying ideology that thinks artists are considerably improved when they’re replaced by AI.

Hey if you donate to this guy's fund I'll sketch your fursona

Grateful that Chuck Jones looked exactly like he's supposed to look

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

can i please get some help. i’m sorry i’ve been asking so long. im trying to make it less fucked on my end too. i promise i am

I cry every time

I do think that the Jim Carrey movie, as terrible as it is, was a big enough deal that it fully entrenched the Grinch in the culture. That plus the fact that "Grinch" is just a really fun and useful word to say and the character design is great and easy to replicate.

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

All in the name of "protecting kids" 24 hours before we learn exactly how close Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein

The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.

The great secret of TNG's storytelling is that most of any given episode's runtime is spent watching people killing time while waiting for the emitter array to get reconfigured

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

Every year at Christmas I rewatch Klaus and marvel at how someone made a genuine Disney Renaissance level hand drawn animated film and it just kinda languishes on Netflix with everything else

*Sufjan Stevens voice*

I'm old enough to remember when they started playing commercials before trailers in theaters. People older than me were offended by it, I didn't think it was a big deal, but I should have listened. We should have held the line. I should have listened.

It was a great time to be alive except it objectively wasn't, but the music hit though

They have a dream that one day they will be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character

This was the birth of the modern anti-democratic GOP. The SCOTUS stepped in and stopped the recount because conservative influencers convinced their base that Democrats were rigging the recount and triggered threats and violence; the “Brooks Brothers Riot” was a rough draft for January 6.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released.

Eighth Grade

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BORING: Assigning "levels of canon" to Star Wars media. NOT BORING: Construing all Star Wars media as variously motivated propaganda which actually exists in some notional Star Wars universe, often only tenuously related to real events, and loudly speculating about what "really happened".

Ram > Abbey Road

Gonna post a take that everyone will hate even though I'm right

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

The thing is that a large percentage of people don't actually understand art, but before social media, we didn't really hear about it. But since the Internet was built by and for people talking about movies and TV, we now are bombarded by the dumbest takes you've ever heard on a daily basis

Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.