This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

instead of a fanboy the ideal creative director for lucasfilm is someone who doesn’t give a shit about star wars but does care about making good movies and TV

"Executive Producer Dick Wolf"

Finally playing DREDGE - slept on it for ages because I'm not a big fishing-in-games guy, but yeah, this fucking rules

ChatGPT but for fully-formed irl organisms

I did a Model UN thing in high school and they put me in the USA chair (big mistake) and I won Best Speaker for a dramatic and satirical speech about the need to strike against "xeno-terrorists" (literal aliens), but also got censured for taking the piss. I don't think I should've been censured

1400+ words the NYT editorial board wrote denouncing the Venezuela strike, and not one of them was "oil"

We got Stranger Things, we got US-backed South American regime change, the nostalgia meter is off the charts

“It’s bad luck Ghorman. We need what's in the ground, and when we're done, there won't be much left to call home."

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

60% of the way through the decade, what are your fav movies? 2020: Last And First Men 2021: The Matrix Resurrections 2022: The Fabelmans 2023: May December 2024: Sasquatch Sunset 2025: Weapons

Going into 2026 like this

In 2025, I: - Won a playwriting award - Acted in a play - Designed 2 other plays - Released a short film - Had a feature directing project collapse - Wrote 3 drafts of that movie - Progressed on a different feature directing project - Broke stories for a few more movies - Went to therapy - Survived

I've answered this before, but I'll never forget being stuck in line behind then presidential candidate Ross Perot in a school cafeteria as he struggled to figure out how to work the soft-serve machine

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

Writing a sci-fi satire with some pals this holiday season. Hitchhiker's Guide has come up many times, as has Colonel Sanders (not Sandurz though)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

GenAI is so bad at producing quality results that the sales spin is now literally "hey, just let your product be kinda crappy, who really cares how good it is anyway, the important thing is not paying people"

This MARTY sequel doesn't seem very true to the character

I saw 34 movies in theaters this year, and I can't wait to do it again next year. Here's how the movies won Gen Z back. www.businessinsider.com/movies-in-th...

I don't know why it took me until now to put together that the reason there's a lot of people who put their faith into ChatGPT et al is because of anthropomorphism. This is just pareidolia, but for words. They're seeing a human where there isn't one.

Hades II has got its claws into me now. I struggled with the pacing difference from I to II but once you get into its groove it's every bit as addictive and charming as the first one, with added scale and depth to boot.

Forgive me for holding the opinion that functions performed on remote data centres and not in an app running locally aren't actually features of the app

I have been given an air fryer for Christmas, heralding a probably short-lived struggle between high-minded visions of cooking balanced healthy meals and just pounding multiple kilograms of nuggies at a time

When Kumail Nanjiani told me to "stop being so sexy"

I ordered this for my sister's birthday (which is near to Christmas) and am very excited to gift it as she fucking looooved Andor

Meri Kirihimete from Aotearoa you fuckers

Who are these lords and why are they leaping What the hell kind of lifestyle is that

When Breaking Bad was airing, the ricin cigarette was kind of the show's unexploded bomb for a while. Vince Gilligan clearly wasn't satisfied with that

Maaaaaan there is a really weird effects shot in the season finale of PLURIBUS and I'm desperate to know what it was put in there to cover

My audience

Holy moly, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is a veritable smorgasbord of That Guy actors. Virtually every scene, just packed to the rafters with the motherfuckers. Also did Trump watch this thing this year or what

Just rewatched the best Christmas movie of the year (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER)

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment. The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.

Anyone who cites sci-fi literature, TV, or movies about artificial life to push narratives about the supposed personhood of AI misses the point that none of those stories were actually about artificial life, they were allegories about humanity, *as all science fiction is*

2025: America watches Canadian bootlegs of journalism about US concentration camps. Nothing is for sale, everything is for rent. Computers will take your job but will be worse than you at it. You make less than ever but can gamble on your credit balance. One racist ket addict gets paid $1 trillion.

Please join me in manifesting success for these projects I'm hoping will progress toward production next year in their own ways 🌈📠🎧 💑🐗 🪓 🤳🕳️🧜‍♀️ 🚀👩‍🍳☄️ 🎤🏨💦

Yamaha has made my USB audio interface obsolute purely by withdrawing driver support for newer system software, and this fucking 🤌🤌 infuriates me

For real, most screenwriting back-end negotiations are fiercely fought over single-digit percentage shares of the net profits, and it ain't high single digits

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

The kitchen fight scene in this film is an all-timer. Great movie.

Here’s how huge @letterboxd.social is for Gen-Z and Alpha, the only demographic keeping theatrical moviegoing alive. Marty Supreme sold out every one of its first 92 screenings. If you lowball that as about 20,000 admissions, well it currently has 15,000 reviews on letterboxd.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

At this point, I'm okay with it

FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...

I can't understand how "writing is my dream job" and "ugh, can't the robot do it?" coexist comfortably inside the same skull, but a lot of people live in cognitive dissonance.