when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The enemy of your enemy is not your friend, and there is no Deus Ex Machina or Adultier Adult in the room who's going to save us so we can go back to "normal". "Normal" got us here. The villains of decades ago who built the foundation of the hell we're in today want you to forget it. Don't let them.

I'm still not convinced that Marty Supreme isn't some elaborate SNL skit

This is a good point from Michelle Goldberg. I’d add that in an atomized media landscape, where attention is both critical and dearly bought, there are few incentives for the type of cooler, consensus-based presentations when audiences were both large and stable. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...

youtu.be/qF8_YcxZp6U #TCMParty ^JW

my most boomer-coded belief is that cigarettes belong in a bar more than a newborn baby does

Screw the Oscars, TCM once again gives us the only In Memoriam that matters

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

imo if all the richest ppl on the planet are at once begging you to lower your standards for art and media consumption you can bet that it benefits them more than whatever they selling your ass on and should consider the opposite of what's suggested

updated my letterboxd favorite movies

Cleaning out the random assortment of stuff on my DVR

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

There's a dark triad for predatory scammer types: refusing to pay their bills; constantly name-dropping and social-climbing in pursuit of new marks; escalating depravity as if in an attempt to see if there's anything they can't get away with. The problem is that millions of Americans are like this.

Per the charging docs there’s a paid informant in the LA activist scene that’s provided intel to the feds since 2021.

Reading a bunch of books this year has really solidified for me how awful the internet is in comparison nowadays. Obviously in terms of general hostility but more generally in terms of lack of depth, insight, reading comprehension, base of knowledge, etc

It's law now – Josh O'Connor has to appear in every movie

This entire weekend

Why is this tiny gesture so funny

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

Funny how we are 'expats' and everyone else is an immigrant.

Victor is right. Promotion of the word "wokeness" allows right-wingers to pretend their racism and sexism is issues-oriented rather than hate-oriented.

THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

I think about this tweet every day

It crops up every Xmas and I always post it, because I love it. Ian Curtis at his office Xmas party.

Somehow I didn't realize that SCIAC now has the only DIII football teams left in California, and about half of all of them west of the Rockies

"Now quite frankly you will see me one more time if you say good, and additionally you'll see me two more times if you say bad. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

this has become a very important video to me

Way too stoned seeing Natural Born Killers on opening weekend Seeing Star Wars in its original run in a packed theater when I was 6 My parents took me with them to see Jaws when I was 4 and it freaked me out so much that I refused to swim until I was an adult

A terrific reading of one of my favorite films of the year. It's rare to see a mainstream film frankly address issues of religion and faith with so much respect and grace

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Norma Torres, like clockwork

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

If there actually is a "culture war" its something like this: a lot of people driving their own political and social activity based on incredibly abstract or remote conceptualizations of what is happening outside of their immediate experience.

Easy answer: Because to them, “Retro” is anything more than 10 years old… and that’s basically the EXACT point where tech flipped from being something that solved problems to something that sold subscriptions. Kids aren’t stupid. They see it.

Maybe the only good thing AI has done for me is make me realize how deeply I need to get back into reading, tactile hobbies, and whatever other practices help me get offline.

For those in the US - this is the best way to find if there's a theater near you playing our movie when it opens 11/26. Sadly no AMC on this run, but Landmark, Alamo and other wonderful chains can keep it running as long as they want, even past the 12/12 Netflix drop. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com

I was not ready

Skill issue, people have been raising newborns without ChatGPT for 300,000 years at least, pretty embarrassing for Altman to admit this out loud

Guido van Rossum invented Python, the programming language in which ChatGPT is written, based on ABC, based on Fortran, based on Speedcoding, based on Harvard Mark I, based on the Difference Engine, based on the Antikythera mechanism, based on the planetarium of Archimedes, who did not need ChatGPT.

Rob Pattinson really digging in to his unhinged domestic drama era

My sincerest condolences to the marketing team on The Housemaid who locked this creative in months before it became HILARIOUS.

We don't have a culture that says that "public goods are GOOD." Vociferously. We have a political culture with one party that says public goods are BAD and the other that says "Meh, they should be means-tested."

People who have personal cleaners see regular tasks like buying your own groceries or mowing the lawn as some complex mystery

Manual newspaper design and pasteup. (Xactos, pica poles, proportion wheels, wax, the whole bit)