The state of our union is (eldritch screeching, blood gurgling in throat, bones being cracked and snapped, five forks in the garbage disposal, klaxons...)

Updated my ranking of Alien vs. Predator vs. AvP 1. Alien 2. Aliens 3. Prey 4. Predator 5. Predator: Badlands 6. Alien: Covenant 7. Alien: Resurrection 8. Prometheus 9. Predator 2 10. Alien³ 11. Alien: Romulus 12. Alien vs. Predator 13. Predators 14. The Predator 15. Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

Update: I continue to think Predator Badlands rocks

Gonna just talk like the B-52's guy today

Fun to watch Russell Brand lose his mind exclusively through the aesthetics of his Youtube thumbnails

So interesting that many institutions are taking being named in the Epstein Files seriously, truly fascinating

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

Do you find Asylum movies too well-crafted and artistic? Consider AI

Lil' Lady Wiping Out

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

Have you tried 'make a better movie than Citizen Kane'?

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Um, no, i was not aware disney made a kids version of Devo youtu.be/Qe572HvyKKE?...

Today in 'Hell isn't Hot Enough' news

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

We elected this guy and the right-wing got so mad they now make excuses for pedophiles and throw nazi salutes

Still funny to me in Pulp Fiction when they accidentally shoot Marvin in the car and they panic and don't know what to do so they pull in a cool, competent professional who just says 'clean yourselves and the car then get rid of the car and the body'

The Atlantic: Milkshake Duck has stepped back, listened, and now it's time for us to listen to him

I want to believe Newsom is not so inevitable as he imagines

Killing a million people for an apparatchik’s armored SUV is failed state behavior

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.

Not for nothing does misogyny get called the original bigotry

The true revolutionary watches and likes the Matrix sequels

Elon promises your sophomore year crush will want to get in touch 'within the next few years'

This is all happening because they folded on the shutdown the first time and gave ICE an unlimited budget

Cats have snack attacks in the sense of 'want snack = attack'

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

Found at the place I'm staying tonight @ifbookspod.bsky.social

Why do i get the sense that when he dies they're gonna send out something like this

Elon scales back plans to go colonize the moon to colonizing wyoming

Little funny to name your org 'Turning Point' and then it has that name for over a decade

Yeah sure

if a game turns your cursor into a little gauntlet, it automatically gets +1 point

I yield the remainder of my time to football fans

Whoever wins the Super Bowl must then defeat the team of their shadow selves

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Yeti: What do they call me in civilization 'the incredible snowman? Me: Something like that...

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Democratic politicians deciding that they're dropping the f-bomb youtu.be/CrYYhO-aTEg?...

JD Vance looks like yassified Chucky

I like LOTR as much as anyone and these fucking dorks need to stop

Hegseth popping out after hearing 'boos', smirking and shaking his head, ducking back in

Quite simply an unfair level of charisma

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

For a certain type of nerd this thread is basically pure uncut good shit

Dave Gahan tells you that words are very unnecessary and yet keeps singing them, concerning

Our politics could do with a lot less spurned billionaire energy