Unbelievably great. Stay for the homage to the Archers.

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

📉 Decimate Disney's financials for their unprincipled cowardice 🤑 Force the sale of valuable IP to stabilize the business 💿 Get new owners to release original Star Wars trilogy on 4K

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Avoiding the "news" like anyone with a working brain, but a MAGA coworker insisted on telling me what a wonderful service it was & how everyone put aside the political infighting to celebrate "a truly good man." They do not live in our reality, they never will & you need to start accepting that.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

This explains *a lot.* (ICYMI from February.) Full text: www.theguardian.com/global/2025/feb/27/how-anti-vax-parents-changed-their-minds

It's ironic to see Disney capitulate to Nazis when anti-Nazi films were the only thing that kept the studio alive in the 1940s. Maybe they should watch some of their own films.

Blows my mind that when you hit "return" in Google Docs, you have literally no idea how much space it's going to leave before the next paragraph, and no matter how many times you hit "return" and "delete" it's impossible to get two paragraphs with the same sized breaks after them

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This is good, you should read this.

Someone asked one of the co-writers of “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey” about the deeper meaning of naming the aliens Station. Turns out they deleted a page, but didn‘t notice a paragraph continued on to the next page for a single word - Station. It got edited in as a name.

More of this, please.

No one is making you be a writer if you can’t do it and also don’t enjoy doing it. If you’re larping a job for clout I’d probably pick surgeon or Nobel prize winning diplomat, stealing valor for from isolated weirdos at their laptops is like shoplifting from the landfill.

Street art in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.

After a 90-minute wait, I secured four tickets: Peter Hujar's Day, Deliver Me from Nowhere, The Wife of Seisaku, and Duse. Everything else was sold out, so I'll be waiting in some lines and hoping for the best. I'll also be keeping an eye on Discord's NYFF channel, which has a ticket marketplace.

Disney cancelled the red carpet at the Lilith Fair premiere tonight. I know why but also Lilith Fair bothered people then and it is definitely gonna bother people now. I have a piece coming out on it on Tues, it’s on Hulu now and while you wait for your Disney+ subs to run out you should watch it

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

One of the touchstone films.

Y'all still have time to sign this petition! bccla.org/2025/09/reve...

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

I haven't had Covid once. Just get vaccinated, ya dunce.

If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

I'm here *trying* to enjoy autumn, the best season, but the rampant fascism is really FUCKING UP THE VIBE

An eloquent requiem for a psychedelic warlord who has disappeared in smoke.

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

life comes at you fast

Big thanks to Ken Lowe for reaching out to me via @pastemagazine.bsky.social to help opine on the state of Chicago's film critic scene in the wake of Phillips's departure from the Trib. Come see me talk about SEO, the brain drain we're going thru, and more. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/film-...

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Quinault's new favorite thing: squeezing her not-so-tiny body into a storage cube. Looks totally uncomfortable. Gotta love the what-am-I-doing expression on her face.

Anyway there's lots you can do outside social media. Yesterday I drew a security guard and then gave him the drawing, he was thrilled and I felt great. Make something, give it away, move on, do it again. Learn all the words to Windmills Of Your Mind. Stay away from the internet for a while.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

Canada still allows military goods to be sold to Israel, has yet to even recognize the genocide in Gaza, though it “strongly condemns” what is going on over there (wow, chilling). But it’s definite hardline action barring an Irish musical group from the country because we don’t tolerate terrorists.

Fun times talking about the importance of altweeklies with the crew of @racketmn.com @coyotemedia.org and @emmaruthless.bsky.social and @usefulnoise.bsky.social we talk about the good, bad, and the ugly of them and I tell the story of one of my favorite and most notorious columns.

"To me, the problem with music criticism now isn't the lack of negativity, it's the lack of a sense of humor."

When you behave in such a way as to make Ted Cruz rise from his haunches, straighten his spine and defend American civil liberties and a concept as liberal as open speech, you are certainly the rarest and most extraordinary kind of asshole.

Once again, Charlie Kirk’s most rabid fans seem to be old white men.

Hakeem Jeffries supporting Charlie Kirk before endorsing Zohran Mamdani is really fucking nasty.

I hate selfies, but this one was pretty good.

They aired a Steve Harvey hosted Family Feud rerun instead. So far the Kirk special has under 2500 views on YouTube (views as a metric on YT are worth about 2% of a broadcast viewer). So someone flinched here and I am *very* curious to find out who and why.

Tough guys

Masterly analysis by @jasonzinoman.bsky.social — stick around for the subtle but savage filleting of “Kremlin star” Jimmy Fallon [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/a...

“But we’ll keep digging until we find it!”

Looking for a silent movie? I have reviewed over 770 of them from every genre and era! All organic human brainspace, typos and all, no AI, here's my index: moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

Yeah, no reason to defend a thing Maher says, but defending his right to say it matters. Imo, it wasn't the words Maher or Kimmel said, but that they said them "too soon" for the conservatives in power, then and now. Neither should have been taken off the air.

Working on a review, and considered using the AP abbreviation for Illinois, except it's Ill. Sorry, but that's a loser. Will either leave it out or spell the entire word. As far as I know, there's only one Champaign-Urbana, though not everyone has heard of it. The catchall option: the Midwest.

Bobcat Goldthwait on Jimmy Kimmel via Instagram. FWIW, I met Bobcat when he was in Seattle shooting World's Greatest Dad with Robin Williams (I did not meet Robin). We talked about Hal Ashby and cats, yes! And he struck me as a neat guy. Anyway, I love the dig at Jerry Seinfeld among the hashtags.

Muting Ezra Klein permanently.