*checking social media to see what horrors await every morning*

fun reminder: the reason why they make these fucking pointless "live action" remakes is because since it's "live action", the animation is considered "vfx" and not character animation, so they can pay these non-unionized satellite studios fuck-all and make a cool few million for essentially nothing

I may not personally bring about the dawn of #Woke II but I have all the right #memes saved for the occasion.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

For Immediate Release. "STAR WARS" SET TO BEGIN PRODUCTION IN TUNISIA ON MARCH 22.

If I click this and it isn’t satire, I will throw a fit.

Democrats should levy an Iran War tax to keep this insanity from the President from adding to the national debt.

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

It's a service, not a business. How much money does the police dept, etc. "lose?"

The video clips from this trial are amazing. Afroman in an American flag suit just pointing out the ridiculousness of being sued by the people who wrongly broke into his house for making fun of them online.

"I’ve been wondering for a while why many of our Silicon Valley overlords behave like they’ve repeatedly sustained traumatic brain injuries, and I think I’ve come to a conclusion...."

"I am instead going to try to set out what happened, which is that I believe Andreessen read a book."

Factory-resetting my phone and then defaulting EVERYTHING to no notifications was maybe the best thing I did in 2025 for my mental health (and it freed up a ton of memory space). (H/T to She's a Beast's DIY Dumbphone Method for showing the way.)

I’ve come to think of it as a risk response. People want no risk. Perversely, tech systems introduce almost infinitely new forms and degrees of risk into everyday infestations but the text also makes people more binary about risk. Crash course with anxiety.

do you remember in 2009 when they were saying there couldnt be consequences for the people responsible because there would be a “brain drain” on wall street? i sure as fuck do and i for one cant wait for that news cycle again

hope your getting hype to get laid off and if youre one of the fortunate ones left behind i hope youre ready to take on double the work while simultaneously taking a 20% pay cut

get ready to hear about how essential it’s gonna be to cut the deficit, i mean the public trusts republicans more on that so might as well keep feeding that bull shit too

hate to be a debbie downer but as a veteran of living through economic collapse sparked by republican policy, not looking forward to the next decade or so

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

It is astonishing to me that right-wing influencers are drooling over modern, dense, high-tech cities WITH EXCELLENT PUBLIC TRANSIT in China but again and again vote AGAINST THOSE THINGS here at home. We can chinamaxx right here guys, we have the technology

Our go-to images of the 1950s – white picket fences, conspicuous consumption, cheerful conformity – are often, and effectively, contradicted by the cinema of the era, @audreyfox.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/1950s-cinema...

“I told him, ‘I’m a U.S. citizen!’ He told me, ‘I don’t care.’” Everyone should read this account of an ICE raid on a home in Vermont. This is what secret police do. Great reporting from @sevendaysvt.bsky.social: www.sevendaysvt.com/news/teen-sh...

For today's column on Patreon, @darrenmooney.bsky.social posits that hey, maybe we don't actually need a Firefly revival? READ -- www.patreon.com/posts/column...

THREAD. A collection of excellent scarecrows I have met on walks in the countryside. You will find the all-important caption to each photo in the alt text.

I ranked every Sturgill Simpson album, as it is my destiny to do. Big time catalog for me personally! uproxx.com/indie/every-...

Some quick busride home thoughts on “The Bride!” boxd.it/dpWAd1

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Why is SpaceX going public?

this is one of my all time favorite tweets and if you'll forgive me being a serious tennis nerd about it for a second, tennis is one of those sports where it's really difficult to overstate how many levels there are between you and the pros (mini thread)

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

Your Friday is better with a new Darren Mooney column to read.

FREE COLUMN! At @secondwindgroup.com , I wrote about the strange soullessness of "Scream 7", a movie about the condescending emptiness of fan service nostalgia that revels in condescending empty fan service nostalgia. Give it a read! If you want. READ: www.patreon.com/posts/collum...

Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy. Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

These people are literally demonic and deserve to return to hell.

after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions

Fraiser: And how is your work going in Gotham, cousin Johnathan? What do you have there, is it a Batman or a Man-bat? Scarecrow: We have both. Niles: How exciting for you.

Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

To quote bastion of journalistic ethics Bari Weiss: this is 60 Minutes, and we need to be able to get the principals on the record

Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...

YOU GUYS THERE'S A LONGER VERSION bsky.app/profile/gigi...

THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND. HE FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM.

This is the greatest thing I've ever seen

👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.

Heck yeah! Also need this energy and action for @discord.com BS partnership with Persona AND IDs check ins. Screw the surveillance state!