I GET IT, I AM OLD

While You Were Sleeping would be an absolutely perfect movie if I knew for sure Joe Jr. met a nice lady who made him happy.

Are you even a friend if you don’t do this?

I like this. It also fits nicely with my situation--hating my friends' enemies more than my own

The *real* answer is _this_ album (just making it in with a January 1990 release).

I think the downfall of society started when they did away with Google Reader those were the days

just got back from the lesbian bar what's goin on bluesky

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Supremacy wants to gain all the benefits of society without paying any natural costs, like fair competition. This response to even the slightest leveling of the playing field demonstrates how committed to the supremacist notion we white folk still are. Imagine if we ever experienced true equality.

You know what IS being pushed out of "our" lives? Diverse voices. Google "book bans." Google "DEI bans." Or just turn on the fucking news. Choosing to frame white men's apparent struggles to be rewarded, awarded and cheered as the problem to be solved sure is a fucking choice in 2025.

Feeling a bit blah this morning so cheered myself up by watching Stevie Nicks glare at Lindsey Buckingham while singing Silver Springs. Meanwhile Mick Fleetwood is just having a great old time.

It’s snowing so the salt truck keeps driving by really loud. The last time it came around, my wife, dead asleep, in the most mocking voice I have ever heard, goes “Look at meee, I’m a maaaaan.”

Fuck yeah, Shoresy season 5

Wild how hormone therapy is “life-changing” when it makes a menopausal woman horny enough for her husband again, but “dangerous ideology” when it helps trans people. Turns out the moral line is just whether a man gets laid.

Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union could do HEAT, but Pacino and De Niro couldn't do BRING IT ON.

Relatable.

If Albo is serious about social cohesion, inviting the head of a genocidal apartheid rogue state is an odd move. As @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social said: "The far-right Israeli government does not speak for Jewish people in Australia and is not interested in our safety." www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

parents tried to watch one battle after another but when my nephew heard the title he said "you should watch battle bots instead" so now they have watched 10 minutes of the movie and four hours of battle bots

<Sad Puppy noises>

The energy minister having the audacity to make announcements about energy policy? ANTISEMITIC! JFC, these people have to get a fucking grip.

Because I'm a fun person, last night I listened to a podcast about Millett's Sexual Politics and Mailer's reponse, The Prisoner of Sex. It's been about 30 years since I read Millett, so I think I'll reread it before I read Mailer. This is the description of TPoS on Goodreads. It made me snort:

Best time of year. The outrage! The chocolate chip brioche!

And as several folks are saying in the comments: curiosity about the Epstein files is understandable, but just for yourself personally, think carefully about what you want in your head forever. It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect. bsky.app/profile/sass...

the grinch literally stole christmas. and of course Dr. Seuss, who’s always been desperate for eyeballs and clicks and ad dollars, platforms him. 🙄

just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans

Happy first day of hot cross buns in the shops day.

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

My absolute favourite, though, is the name for Die Hard: With a Vengeance in Denmark, which is Die Hard: Mega Hard.

you can read it here it's so stupid substack.com/@johnpaulbra...

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

45 minutes in. Only 11ish hours to go!

Alan Rickman was also a famously lovely, kind, patient, and softspoken man. No one has ever had a bad word to say about him to my knowledge. All praise for his class and professionalism. So imagine how bad Tim Allen has to be to get that reaction from Rickman, of all people

What makes it even funnier is that Steven Spielberg had popped onto set that day. So his overriding memory of Tim Allen - who Allen was desperate to impress - ended up being Rickman's God-tier burn of the man. Which Allen had no idea even happened.

You can hear Parisot tell the story below. Rickman (and others) HATED Tim Allen. Rickman lays into him in his diaries. It's one reason the film works so well. Allen was IRL more like the Shatner parody of actor-who-overrates-himself than Shatner ever was. www.instagram.com/reel/DLzlFiT...

Yes! In Madly, Deeply: Alan Rickman Diaries, Rickman relates this incident. I’d love to read his unedited diaries. The book seemed to be excessively edited and feels like his personality only made sporadic appearances.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

I find it incredibly difficult to write about my Jewishness. I didn't want to write this, but I did. We need to re-embrace complexity and nuance in thinking about and discussing the Jewish future.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

I just watched a reel of a Gen Alpha go after Gen X for not canceling Metallica. And I just. Napster, Child. Look up Napster. And the Lars Ulrich toilet.

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

Oh no!

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

And the biggest compo payout for Robodebt victims is ... drumroll ... Scott Morrison! Vics get $1k, we pick up Scomo's $461k legal bill although *he knew* @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs are back. #MerryChristmas #auspol michaelwest.com.au/biggest-comp...

Finished work, pork loin is in the fridge drying out, and I’m preparing for a lazy long weekend of movies, tv, and reading. Tomorrow will be the (now) traditional watching of all 3 extended editions of LOTR.

That absolute fuckery of our absolutely racist country

Barnaby Joyce is what you get when you ask the question ‘how can we make Mark Latham look like a model of good taste and judgement’