Current DS9 watch-through status: ugly crying until my head hurts

Looking through a wiki list of pseudoscientific ideas, as one does, and I'm struck by the fact that we STILL don't treat cops and others in the justice system as quacks when they mention polygraphs or hair, voice, and handwriting analysis. We should be reacting like they're mentioning Bigfoot.

Does anyone have a screencap from that part of the WBD merger call slideshow in 2023ish where it was like "hbo max is for smart cool men and discovery+ is for dummies and women"?

This is right and good and a huge fucking bummer.

I just saw a commercial that called Jenga the "must-play game of the year." JENGA.

I have a lot of ideas for some essays and newsletter posts in my head, but I fell off the map for so long that I'm scared to even try.

It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you. I repeat: It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.

Anyone have recs for good, fairly up to date block lists? Mostly looking to block anyone who's loudly on the wrong side of a genocide

🤡🤡🤡

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Some other, less deep thoughts: -wild that the Coppola family was at the scene of the crime for several infamous inciting incidents in Sheen's life -can we talk about how Sean Penn looked 100 years old and seemed vaguely like he was doing lines off the table between takes

I watched AKA Charlie Sheen expecting an outrageous novelty project, but it was the most beautifully complex and humanizing look at addiction I've seen in quite a while. There's an honesty and a sense of miracle to it that disarmed me -- and melted a little bit of my child-of-addicts cynicism.

I realize this thread probably sounds Very Intense since yall barely ever hear from me anymore, but i promise I've been playing stardew valley and napping all week, not plotting a revolution

I went to Steve Mcqueen's Resistance exhibit at the National Gallery of Scotland earlier this summer, and it made me think a lot about how one of the most poisonous lies we are ever told as children is that going to jail or being policed relates to having done something wrong.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

You really come away with a clear message from the media: liberal white people who die from political violence signed up for a violent end by challenging white supremacy. But being right wing is just a white man’s natural state so killing him for spouting fascist bile is unnatural.

in a lot of ways, the Obama era was a fictive universe running on the shared delusion of endless and inevitable progress.

MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for saying this.

This is how Trump's initial social statement always sounds whenever a prominent MAGA person dies or gets gravely injured

Good lord

It's been a good week for spoiling the creatures at our house. The backyard birds got peanut butter, the hamster got fresh apple pieces, the worm bin got the cores, and this lil arthritic lady ate a dog-sized grilled ham and cheese from my hand AND got a mini massage for the first time.

I just realized having two toddler nephews in the house most days means I can share kids' TV hot takes. What's the single worst show your kid watches? I personally think Like Nastya's dad should be tried at the Hague. I'm also ready to fight both Bing and Blippi.

Finally resurrecting my newsletter and website after spending the better part of this year as offline as possible. We have a LOT to catch up on, so I'm starting with an AMA/FAQ. Drop questions in the replies or ask anonymously via the link below. Be nosy, it's fine! ngl.link/aandeandval1...

Tell me about your 2025 favorites so far. I wanna hear about: -new or returning shows -new movies -older first-time watches -documentaries -foreign-language films and shows -you can also throw in a book or play or album or some other creative thing if you want

Make America The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Episode "Breakdown" Again

I'm trying to be on here more, but it's hard when everyone is so terms-and-conditions-pilled that I wouldn't even know we were collectively manifesting a dead prez today if not for my groupchats popping off!

Whether it's today or not, the importance of today is that it reminds us that one day, it will be today :) Mortality gets a bad rap but it's really cool.

Guess it’s my turn to say that I was laid off at IGN. Real crummy birthday gift, to be honest, but my union fought like hell on my behalf and people came out of the woodwork to support me. Couldn’t be more moved by my colleagues & friends, and am devastated to lose a job and community I love. (1/3)

I either forgot or didn't know Timothy Olyphant was in Alien: Earth and I just did a full-blown, across-the-room spit take when he popped up in a promo. Real cartoon shit.

Had a nightmare that The Pitt season 2 wasn't in real time and featured Dana snorting a full brick of cocaine, so I'm very happy to wake up to this Emmy news.

Perfect. They really are Grant and Malcolm.

Happy best and gayest Fall Out Boy song day to all who celebrate

Calling all splatterpunk slasher freaks and paperback from hell experts! A friend is trying to find a book he read approximately 20 years ago that featured a mid-BJ eye gouge, a random Godzilla simile during sex, and a deadly house party. Possible black and red cover. Anyone?

Not "8 ICE agents," 8 unidentified masked men. Unless and until they provide official identification, it's fair to assume that they are imposters.

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

New York Times haters have more fun.

Did not have "Australian mushroom poisoning case actually has tons of reasonable doubt" on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are. The defense did a great job. [This post is brought to you by me listening to dozens of hours of court reporting while waiting to see if our dog would be okay this week]

Stick yourself. Stick up for your trans friends.

lotta people don't want to buy polite Fox News in newsprint form

Now that I've finished the season, I can safely say: Emmy, please.

No one told me how good Matt Bomer's Rose Nylund is in Mid-Century Modern. I'm kind of obsessed.

I think it's pretty telling that these examples remind me of when my friends and I used to treat super-active spirit boards as our own personal magic 8 balls as teenagers. I can't imagine a world where this doesn't fuck an entire generation of young folks up for decades to come.

Nothing I hated more than I worked in practice than a closed pyo. Spay and neuter your pets, guys.

Spay and neuter your pets, folks. Over a decade ago my partner's family didn't because of a tragic prior experience with anesthesia, and yesterday we almost lost this 12-year-old baby to closed pyometra - a sudden, often fatal uterine infection that requires risky emergency surgery. 🧵

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok

Since I've started treating my debilitating symptoms from the past six months as POTS, I've finally felt good enough to start focusing more on what I can do than what I can't do. Case in point: I went roller skating last night!! I woke up bruised and proud this morning.

We are not above a guilt trip here at Certified Forgotten!

Thanks to everyone who passed along birthday wishes today. Turns out watching the worst Americans go to war with each other was all the gift I'd ever need, but I do hope you'll consider supporting @certifiedforgot.bsky.social. A follow or a newsletter subscription is free and goes a long way!

As I am back on the job hunt (and, in the meantime, the freelance work hunt), I'm dropping a thread of some of my proudest work here for consideration. Contact info and journalism portfolio are both linked in my bio. www.huffpost.com/entry/future...