Man, BABY STEPS truly is an accurate simulation of having a body aged late 30s

Very odd that Noah Hawley has so vehemently distanced Alien Earth from the Scott prequels when thematically it's ended up quite sympatico with those films (especially Covenant). Guess he just didn't like the black goo and the engineers?

If I was an armed mercenary and I was asked to bring down the infamously vicious, borderline invincible Wolverine, I might simply refuse the work

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

"You couldn't make The Birth of a Nation nowadays," laments D. W. Griffith, "because it's three hours long, very racist, and I am dead."

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

I've been obsessed with the "purity politics" Venn diagram of how the fascists treat trans people & people with autism (correct me if I'm off): 1. Both have existed as long as people have 2. The fiction that either can be "cured" tortures families 3. Fascists really don't give a shit about either

People will blame anything for their kid's autism before they admit they fucked a nerd

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

You can also, and I hate that this seems elitist, watch something else. There is a LOT of sci-fi and fantasy and pretty much everything else that DOESN'T have a giant recognizable brand on the cover. You can just roll the dice until you find something you like.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

“21% of americans trans” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is not transgender. Genders Georg, who lives in new york & transitions over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Just started rehearsing WOLF PLAY at the Court Theatre and it is such a thrill to be working on such a fantastic piece of writing (soon to become a fantastic piece of theatre!)

Somebody has chalked a whole bunch of tributes to Charlie Kirk all over Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Also on my mind, for no reason: Power Wash Simulator 2 is scheduled for a 2025 release.

If you hired a human employee who did this with this much regularity, you'd fire them

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

I'll mourn QuickTime Player 7 until the end of time

Short form video is ideal for jokes but terrible for conveying nuanced information. If you learned something from tiktok there’s an equal or larger chance that it was misinformation. Bring back vine, basically.

What a quick and simple way to completely undermine your reputation as a teaching and research institution.

A decent question to ask when we’re scolding told that we must “debate” and “have conversations” with the MAGA right: is what is on offer from these people actually a conversation, or is it a domination exercise?

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

I feel real bad for everyone who's been struggling to care for a delusional family member, watching whatever progress they've made get annihilated by ChatGPT in an afternoon.

It's never been about any particular ideology in education - not really. It's the education itself. They want people dumb. Dumb, poor, desperate, and obedient.

you hear people say stuff like "we live in a post-ideological world" but the reality of it doesn't fully hit until you see an image like this

Rolled credits on INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE, which I really enjoyed but had the bleakly discomfiting thought of "how refreshing, a piece of media that really isn't afraid to call Nazis bad in 2025"

If you're a producer and you want to do talent development, you have to produce the person, not the project. Get to know them, learn their taste, learn how they communicate. Otherwise you're not developing the talent, you're just trying to exploit them.

Hey, if you're a competitor in a creative competition and you don't advance in said competition, best practice is NOT to barrage one of the judges with cold calls and texts from multiple numbers to ask why

The reason why corporations and billionaires love the idea of AI replacing the workforce is because it knows labour is the only force that can topple them. Maybe folks should take a stand now before even that is taken away.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Following the money literally never misses

What's happening in the US at the moment is a great example of how the state can censor speech without directly censoring speech

The “wokeness killed comedy” people are now literally killing comedy

The Holy Mountain (1973), Dr. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

Depressing but important. We all need a reason to look forward to tomorrow or bad things start to happen.

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

no one has ever deserved an Emmy more than this man

Super thrilled about this - every department killed it on this show but it's the writing that really stands out

When will the media learn the difference between "honest debate" and "debate me bro" and why is it never

Story structure does not constrain creativity, rather it shapes the chaos of our impulses and ideas into something coherent. Within that structure, we have the freedom to follow our characters… and see where they take us. #screenwriting

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

I am reminded of this Not The Nine O'Clock News song about infamous British fascist Oswald Mosley (and, more pointedly, about the press coverage of his death) (for context: this was the often savagely satirical sketch comedy show best remembered for launching Rowan Atkinson's career)

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes