I feel like the argument against Wes is that it's samey but I feel like the Wes of French Dispatch/Asteroid City is actually very different from the Wes of Rushmore/Tenenbaums and tracking the journey from one to the other is what's interesting

I think the opening Coruscant section kinda rules and John Williams really went off with "Across the Stars"

Rewatching the Brosnan Bonds and he's the best Bond actually because Bond should be a romance novel hero. It's the one thing that he has over other characters like him. He's canonically horny.

Easter is the worst candy holiday, right?

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Take 2 :/

Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?" You might recognize some people from your life within the piece. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I’ve watched this happen for easily a decade. Anything that targets trans women gets more attention as soon as it affects another group, who then becomes the priority. This happens with bannings, ostracism, inspections, and all other forms of social violence.

As always, a reminder that this is a Wine Mom Solidarity account

The next president needs to be a Lincoln or FDR level transformative figure and I don't see anyone stepping up yet to do that.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

I agree. Graham Platner is redeemable too. But redemption is a personal story arc. It’s none of our business. Not only has he not demonstrated redemption but what he is seeking is not redemption. He is seeking tremendous political power. Like a Nazi would in this very moment.

If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

something like over 80% of professional athletes are men for a reason and it sure as shit isn’t because “women just don’t wanna play sports.”

the biggest disconnect between most people and government is that they don’t feel like government is doing anything useful for them bridging this divide is as difficult as it’s ever been in the age of fractured social media, but I genuinely do not think anyone is doing it better than Zohran

I read this earlier without noticing who posted it and thought it was a shitpost

The only tech product that has delivered on its promise of redefining its field while also preserving the best of the past is this

It’s shocking how the motivation behind almost every single bad tech bill is about hating LGBTQ people and specifically trans people

I'm glad it's finally understood that the most important Cheers character is Lilith

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

Is there a streaming series adaptation of something that already has a well loved screen adaptation where the streaming show is as beloved or more beloved than the original adaptation? Does that exist?

As someone born in 1988 I feel equally about both

What will do Newsom in is that he kinda just agrees with whomever he's talking to in the moment, which means he'll eventually take positions that are anathema to every single voter individually.

He looks like if Maui was on Once Upon A Time but they somehow actually got the rock

which, incidentally, is exactly what was going on when those statues went up in the 1920s, 60 years after the war. the lost cause keeps losing but there's always a loud contingent of racists who won't give up the ghost.

a lot of you don't seem to think immigrants or people of color go to the airport,

turns out attacking self-id in trans people has trickle down effects that cis transphobes use to attack us, abuse victims, and people with mental health conditions

I've also been rewatching Marvel movies because I'm depressed and I forgot how hot Brie Larson's Captain Marvel is. It's a shame the character has never been in a good movie.

Put back in my Letterboxd four favorites because it had no business not being there

True "is this typical, or does every single person in my entire extended family just have undiagnosed ADHD?" moments.

Is Portrait of a Lady on Fire the best movie ever made, actually?

Finally catching up with season three of Strange New Worlds and it's definitely the weakest but it's still just nice to have the reminder that holy shit is Anson Mount an amazing screen presence.

This is in the top ten Star Wars things ever made. Probably top five. A masterpiece.

Oh god!

it probably isn't helping anyone's mental state that the news every morning is like "Things Have Gotten Much Worse Again! Further, No Sign of Anyone Attempting to Stop It" great thanks

Dems should already have a Project 2026 ready to go for when we take back house and senate this fall. We will have to move fast to investigate, impeach and remove cabinet members like Pam Bondi and RFK Jr, and throw up as many road blocks as possible to every Trump objective.

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

In case anyone is still unclear, “zio” isn’t short for “Zionist”, it’s a *KKK-originated slur* for Jews. Not Zionists, JEWS. Using it announces you as an ideological white supremacist and white supremacists recognize you as such.

"We're thinking maybe it's a restaurant now? I dunno. Maybe tapas? I'm just spitballing here."

Thread where you can do some good

Conservatives online: "Wasn't it lame when my parents loved me?"

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation

Thinking more Dan’s casually brilliant observation here: Don Quixote feels like the novel that most accurately presages the 2020s, because it’s about a guy inflicting his own delusional subjectivity on the world around him.

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

This is so astute. Fascism, generally speaking, is a rebellion, denial, and suppression of the fact of interdependence. That’s why a politics of care is the most effective response.