I have the strong opinion that the best advice the mid '00s internet ever gave was "lurk more"

The last episode should've ended like Roseanne with Carrie admitting that she made most of it up and actually her friends have totally different names and are played by different actresses

She was a queer woman peacefully exercising her First Amendment right. Every person with a sound conscience should be furious.

Amy Klobuchar trying to get ahead of the Onion headline by posting it herself

Finally caught up with Roofman and there are few movie stars that American audiences have done more dirty than Channing Tatum. Every Channing Tatum movie should make at least $80 million.

Gavin Newsome is the Democrats' Rick Perry and he will last about as long

Nice reminder that the past sucked actually

Like, the best predictor of Avatar fandom isn't also being a Star Wars fan or Marvel fan, but being a Mission Impossible fan

At this point, Avatar haters feel like the cinema equivalent of the "sportsball" people.

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

By making explicit how the position of the child under patriarchy is simply a parental investment, one that owes its parents heterosexuality and reproductive labor, we arrive at the logics underlying queer oppression, revealed as a kind of reproductive monomania fixated on preserving the in-group.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

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

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.

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.