Ha ha YES! The Festival of Ooray Gin & Jam is almost upon us!

Robert Conrad

Writers are so terrified of cliches that I can no longer find a rattling good read about a character I like going through hell.

I’ve read waaaaay too many award-winning “prestige” novels involving child abuse.

All. Of. This.

I hate how things get labeled a “controversy” just because some racists are complaining about something. “the bad bunny halftime controversy” shut up

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

The right is doing themselves a disservice, because when we’re finally past this nonsense, and we will be, they’ll never again be able to claim they stand for the Constitution, states’ rights, law and order, separation of church and state, free speech, or protecting kids. Ever.

This is my blood

Step 1. Back into business model accidentally or steal one (cabs, food delivery, etc.) Step 2. Venture capital Step 3. Billionaire Step 4. Write mission statement retroactively about how all of this was a plan to make the world a better place Step 5. Make world worse place

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

bluesky’s exec team be like:

the wise admins of bluesky have decided that creating a moderation list of AI slop posters is a no no

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says: "Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

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My no-plans, 3 week vacation now includes a trip to Sydney for a dance party, Brisbane Writers Festival talk, friends visiting, a road trip up the Queensland coast and a music festival in Adelaide. I’m a lucky boy.

Maybe talk about JKR less and boost trans writers more, yeah?

If you’d like to celebrate #SilentMovieDay, all 13 episodes of HOLLYWOOD are on Internet Archive. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill wrote, directed, and produced this 1980 documentary series for Thames Television/ITV, featuring a score by maestro Carl Davis. Watch: https//archive.org... #FilmSky

Hermína Týrlová was a stop-motion legend -- and she used wool to create pure magic. Her wool animation was part of her career rebound in her 60s. We're exploring these wonderful films and what makes them so special: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-legends-...

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

Haven't seen enough movies this year, but top 5 of the year* so far... Anora The Brutalist Flow One Battle After Another Weapons Honorable mentions: Companion, Grand Theft Hamlet, Nosferatu, Sinners. * Released in Australia in 2025

Loved "One Battle After Another" Few thoughts: Two words: propulsive and queasy. Surely this will win Best Editing at Oscars. Cognitive dissonance between a movie that doesn't actually feel American, but is set in America and has a huge star in the lead. (Leo is great!)

So exhausting..

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Gagging for Halloween season so I can show my husband The Paul Lynde Halloween Special featuring Kiss.

Wretched entertainment

Oh, I like Elsie. She sounds fun

Politics is now a choice between people offering real solutions to imaginary problems, or people offering imaginary solutions to real problems.

celebrities out walking the characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

You really should read this excellent, methodical piece by @moryan.bsky.social about FX's renewal of ENGLISH TEACHER. It's hard not to read a broader cultural narrative being expressed through the story of the network that dropped Louis CK not dropping Alvarez here. www.salon.com/2025/02/12/f...

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on November 25th on #4K in the US from @kinolorber.com: The #AlecGuinness Masterpiece Collection (1949-1955)! In these four classic comedies from Britain’s famed Ealing Studios, the ingenious Alec Guinness demonstrates with great style and wit why he is

First rapture, huh?

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

There is an artist named Mr Doodle and he coveres his house in doodles and its kind od impressive but it also fills me with extreme anxiety. There is no where for your eyes to rest. Its so overstimulating to me. Its like the visual equivilant of loud music you can never turn off.

Now listening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpAu...

I actually come from long line of dead people

final girls but with muppets: thread

It’s been going around for a day or so, but you really need to watch this Dutch late-night show’s parody of MAGA Disney. It’s brutal and honestly better than anything our comedy shows have done this week (though Colbert had a cute riff on Be Our Guest) youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE?...

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on November 18th on Blu-ray in the US from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #GrassAndChang (1925/1927)! In 1924, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong) linked up with journalist/part- time spy Marguerite Harrison to

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

Nothing like a batch of new @criterion.bsky.social release announcements to make me cry. So many I want, all locked away in America by region restrictions, ginormous mailing costs, terrible exchange rates, and Australian film companies refusing to put out the classics on anything other than DVD.

I heard that “Exorcist II: The Heretic” was under loved, so I watched it last night and it’s true! I definitely under loved it.

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social I’ve been hanging on to this one for a while but I think tonight’s the night. It may not be true WeirdTok but it is genuinely joyous.