PSA the shitty America’s State Fair is a money laundering scheme whereby the funds from a bipartisan public commission were diverted to a private organization. At least $100 million dollars. Do you see that much money on display with the plywood Arc de Trump and carnie level Ferris wheel?

I loved the Stars Are Legion, can’t wait!

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Let’s celebrate the 250th anniversary of declaring independence from a tyrannical monarchy by consolidating all the government’s power in the supreme executive, building gaudy shit for him, and putting his face all over everything. I am just waiting for the EO requiring mandatory celebration.

I’ve been watching too many actually good movies on My Italian Vacation. Time for some real trash!

Is it just me or does Letterboxd go down every night at 10:30 CDT? It’s like “oh shit everyone is logging their watches of the day” EVERY SINGLE DAY. BUY SOME MORE BANDWIDTH AND COMPUTE WITH OUR PRO/PATRON MONEY

I've created a watchlist for the My Italian Vacation project separate from the films I've already watched. If you're so inclined, go take a look and suggest a film for inclusion. Could this maybe turn into a podcast? Who knows. Stay tuned.

Help me pick the next stop on my tour of Italian exploitation cinema! If I haven’t rated a film on this list I haven’t watched it yet, so comment away. If you know something that’s not on the list let me know as well.

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

I am happy to say that my Italian Vacation film project has finally led me to what must be the greatest single scene in cinema history: real actual live tiger shark vs zombie stuntman while topless female scuba diver looks on! Zombie (1979) d. Lucio Fulci

He can also be the first trillionaire to lose it all too. Cmon AI bubble…

Dragon sickness is real y’all.

If Dozin’ Don can’t stay awake in front of a camera, you KNOW he’s sleeping through pretty much every national security briefing.

1/ Let’s pretend climate change isn’t happening due to us disrupting the carbon cycle. There is still a limited supply of fossil fuels on this planet, at this rate of consumption a few centuries at most. Meanwhile, the Sun will continue to shine for the next 4 BILLION YEARS.

I need one you need one everybody needs one!

A little side project I’m doing because fake guts and maggots horror is preferable to the actual horror that is USA, a Trump Subsidiary

In 1934 Hitler created a medal to give to everyone who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch, in case you want to know what's going to happen to all these people after Trump gives them a big check.

Go watch Demon Pond, the 1979 Japanese folk horror/fantasy/romance right now, preferably in 4K. Do not read anything about the film in advance, just go in cold and be amazed.

I’ll never get tired of catching bluegill.

First sighting of the neighborhood Mississippi Kites this year!

Elon Musk thinks he’s aura farming when he’s actually aura composting

So racism is over so the VRA is unnecessary. Let’s see how the South reacts. Oh look, they’re redistributing away as much Black representation as possible. But in a totally non-racist way! Just a bunch of nice white folks drawing crazy shapes. It’s fun! This one looks like an octopus!

I’ve discovered the films of Lucio Fulci and boy howdy does he glory in various eyeball mutilations. The Beyond (1981) is a veritable treasure trove of eyeball gore effects.

Slightly diminish a book. Project Screen Pass

John Roberts spent decades waiting to put the knife into the Civil Rights Movement solely because the GOP would rather pander to racists to maintain power rather than continue the legacy of Lincoln. His court will mark the death of the legitimacy of SCOTUS as well. Also fuck Mitch McConnell.

this is a great piece and i'm also somewhat annoyed because it means i have to rework the piece i was writing for next week www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

Begun, the Gerrymander Wars have

I’m in Fairbanks, AK for my step-kid’s college graduation. We popped by Creamer’s Field to see the trumpeter swans and sandhill cranes, and off in the distance I see an American coot. No biggie for me but I log it on Merlin (and eBird) Almost immediately the bird people start looking for the coot!

Boy howdy I sure am glad that there will no longer be any racism anymore and that the GOP will certainly not redistrict every single blue district out of every red state.

I’m not saying it was all staged. I’m saying it might’ve been known about and allowed to proceed to the point where it would be useful. The other alternative is utter incompetence, which is also very plausible.

“Ballots, not bullets” says the man representing the party that has the support of the militia movement and does everything in its power to make eligible voters unable to vote or to make their votes irrelevant via gerrymandering.

Over on Reddit I got a warning for the comment “If they arrest Obama, we ride at dawn.” I’ve spent a lot of time there and I’ve seen far more egregious “time for a 2A solution” posts.

Remember Sleepy Joe? Meet Drooling Donnie!

Hannity renouncing Catholicism because he believes in Trump more than the actual Pope…ok for once I want all the Catholic juju to actually be true, I want Sean Boy to spend 10^500 years in Purgatory working that egregious sin of idolatry off.

Karp is clearly trying to one-up Musk and Thiel in the “Sheldon Cooper But Cartoonishly Evil ” impression contest.

This is insanity. The US is the world leader in space exploration and science. This is intolerable to the new oligarchy because it’s money that could otherwise be spent on themselves. They want their private space programs so they can claim space as their property.

Triangle Man is the epitome of Toxic Geometric Masculinity.

But hey at least there’s no woke in the military anymore and being hungry increases lethalitymaxxing.

I do have some big issues with the Catholic Church wrt LGBTQ+ and abortion, but I’m going to always side with a peacemaker over a warmonger.

Being neurodivergent can really suck sometimes. Sure I can solve Saturday NYT crosswords in less than 10 minutes or memorize the periodic table. But I can’t keep my shit together and I’m a relationship train wreck.

#StarTrek #Sisko197

We could have a functioning social safety net if we just made the obscenely wealthy only ridiculously wealthy.

The new Bajoran Kai is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Interstellar Policy. I don’t want a Kai who thinks it’s OK for the Gorn to have a Genesis Weapon and to meet with Opaka Sympathizers. The Vedek Assembly needs to get their act together. PRESIDENT Gul Dukat #StarTrek #Sisko197

I really think of all religions, the core principle of Buddhism is the one that really explains humanity and its sorrows: the desire to possess and control. Exhibit A: Elon Musk. Not even a trillion dollars will make him happy. He will want another trillion. And adulation. And power. And Mars.

How exactly does an Arc de Trump improve the lives of Americans?

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1/ My buddy and I were fishing for white bass on the Delaware River above Perry Lake and got totally blanked. Not even a tap. Very strange. On the way back to the car, we ran into a game warden who told us we would have better luck if we fished below the “illegal dam.”

Donald Trump: Jesus “Free Loaves and Fishes Commie” Christ was a Fucking Pussy for Getting crustified and Tomorrow we will do the Biggest Bombing ever on Vatican City against Pope Loser Leo. HAIL SATAN! American evangelicals:

Somebody needs to take the keys away from Grandpa ASAP. I have been saying for quite some time that he cannot be trusted to be in charge of a nuclear arsenal. He is clearly mentally unfit. Reagan was pretty dotty in his second term but unlike Trump he wasn’t a vindictive psychopath. 25th now!

WE NEED RAIN. Still only a few fish in the creeks.