The juice of so many talk podcasts is two people with undiagnosed and semi-incompatible types of autism

Legitimately well executed twist from the universe right there.

Shame was apparently the load bearing wall beneath our entire democratic experiment and the "has cancel culture gone to far" people blew it up. It turns out you can have democracy or say slurs but actually not both. And they chose the slurs.

I absolutely know why but why is a news outlet writing headlines that sound like something Sheev Palpatine would say?

I think that The Doctor functions a lot like the Muppets in a literary adaptation or genre riff, simultaneously opening up the story to a family audience and also adding an anarchic/deconstructive slant on the material

Whenever I see one of those Jonathan Frakes Beyond Belief compilations, I think about how that was a whole genre of television that's just YouTube and TikTok now.

If you obsessively look at policies and platforms as a to-do list, and ignore everything else, you are extremely easy to manipulate. Look at John Fetterman. Look at “anti-war” Donald Trump. The only inoculating force to grifters like this is to study their character. Can you trust their judgment?

The ultimate irony of fascism is that it attracts a kind of guy that wants to be seen as cool and powerful, because they're actually weak and uncharismatic, which means that there's a real lack of leadership inherent to the project.

The Trump regime is ramping up its deportation agenda again. ICE quietly arrested 10,000 people in just 5 days last week. There are now 63,000 people in ICE detention, while deaths in detention are at a record high. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html

God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory.

Hold up, the blackwater guy with the Nazi tattoos was bad??

In general, I feel like Hollywood has lost the art of the benevolent trickster protagonist, which is crazy because it's one of the oldest archetypes in storytelling

Watched the Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie for the first time and no offense to The Death of Robin Hood but that ain't it. We need a big colorful classic Robin Hood movie again. Maybe get Rian Johnson to do it. He properly hates rich people and shot the only good lightsaber fight in the sequel trilogy

God bless Tatiana Maslany

everything is gamergate

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It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”

I think that Spider-Man is gonna underperform in a way that shocks a lot of people. The trailers are very uninspiring and people can get their Zendaya and Tom Holland fixes elsewhere this year.

Yes! Give me shows and movies that love language! Give me BOOKS that love language!

There's a deep-seated fear and resentment in the American mind, and in the mind of Americans in the politics/pundit classes in particular, of the idea that someone, somewhere might possibly think that they are better than them.

Disclosure Day was a mixed bag but every new John Williams score is a miracle

The real problem with RTD2 was that it was trying to be a Disney+ show when it really should've been trying to be a Netflix show

Hire a trans person today.

It’s always interesting when I get to explain to a cis person that the current anti-trans hysteria is not only 100% astroturfed, it’s 180° opposite of the initial popular reaction to public medical transition. People thought it was cool! Look what modern medicine can do! She’s a bombshell!

"I don't understand why they all say they're trying to save kids when they are doing things that actively make life more difficult and less safe for kids and also for adults" well they're lying to you, is the thing. they do not want to save kids. they explicitly do not want to do that.

Catching up with Netflix's One Piece adaptation and it really has that Matt Smith Doctor Who juice in the best way

Tired: Instead of fighting crime, Batman should use his wealth to fix Gotham. Wired: Actually, Batman does use his wealth, but Gotham is just too broken. Inspired: Batman should travel to Earth Prime, use his wealth to buy Warner Brothers, and force the Batman writers to fix Gotham City.

This is all I ever want a novel to be

Yeah, I appreciate the philosophy of, in order to make all these old timey monsters scary, you have to put yourself in the headspace of the people who originally were scared of them. It gives them their power back much more than attempts to update them usually do.

So glad that Robert Eggers is a filmmaker in the Tim Burton/Wes Anderson mold, who just had the thing that he does and keeps refining it and getting more and more silly with it

Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.

I had to take my car in to the shop the other day and because my name change isn't legal still I figured it might be a good idea to dress a more masculine with jeans and a T-shirt and no makeup and literally everyone ma'amed me because I look like a woman

This post is perfect engagement bait because it's both a) so obviously correct in the broader sense that it's banal to point out, yet b) so annoyingly wrong in the level of specifics that the list of counterexamples is a mile long.

I think about gay men during the AIDS crisis, in the face of what often seemed like utter hopelessness, using everything in the arsenal--rage, resolve, defiance, humor, sexual energy, imagination, and art--to prevent despair from ruling the day. Even Larry Kramer didn't simply say, "We're doomed."

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People doing what they can to get around Citywalk's new security protocols

Democratic Socialists are 1930s New Deal Democrats. 2026 Democrats are 1980s Reagan Republicans. 2026 Republicans are 1940s Fascists. Hope that helps!

only white men can be "working class" and they can choose it as an aesthetic regardless of their actual socioeconomic standard everyone else is just sparkling poor

The best thing about Zohran Mamdani is actually that he can't be President. He can never get sucked into the all-consuming presidential pipeline which distracts good people from doing good work, and keeps his admirers from putting all their hopes on him and encourages them to look for more like him.

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

First City of the Klingon Empire by Syd Dutton, Illusion Arts, Inc, "Sins of the Father", STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1990)

the entire conservative media apparatus was born out of a conviction that what happened to Nixon should never again happen to a Republican president and it worked and they now feel comfortable enough to admit it

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

In his inarticulacy, Trump inadvertently reveals how much of reactionary discourse is actually just spoiled toddler bully shit dressed up in verbiage.

It's funny to watch establishment Dems compare Mamdani backed candidates to MAGA when the only thing that they have in common with MAGA is winning elections

The Tea Party was a top-down astroturfed marketing campaign to rebrand the right wing of the GOP to a something that wasn't associated with George W. Bush's toxic Presidency. The extent to which it was an "insurgency" or "anti-establishment" is wildly overstated.

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."