Is Alicia Keys's "New York" the single best way to say "New York"?

It's time for your personalized reading recommendations! In celebration of Pride, send us your queer reading requests by replying to this thread 🌈! Don't forget to stop by our table at the Portland Pride Waterfront festival this weekend!

I can hear @peter.petermorwood.com muttering at this in *fury* from right over in the Afterlife. "*No* sane pilot should ever pull a stunt like that! Stupid reckless fucker should be cashiered." (And there weren't many things that could get P. to drop the F-bomb, but this kind of thing was one.) 😡

going to start using this as shorthand for "highly politically engaged + highly online" and the nice thing is that the latter basically selects for people who will get the reference

There's a FB article making the rounds that opens, "BREAKING: TV networks refuse to clear airtime for Trump's 'election integrity' address as schedules stay unchanged." But the article doesn't say anything about them "refusing," only that they haven't committed to airing it. That's VERY different.

This is what happens when you cast Gillian Anderson

Connery performed a Rod Serling script!

Ultimately it was something silly I was complaining about and no one will remember it a year from now, but I really felt the need to get it out.

And also it’s good to remember who you shouldn’t vent to. The whole Ring Theory thing (“support in, complain out”). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_th...

It’s good knowing who you can vent to. (I just vented to just the right person to understand WHY I’m venting.)

New art today, description in the alt text

Happy 10th anniversary to endless Ghostbusters discourse.

The Childe’s horse camp was on the corner of Lilac Lane and Land of Nod Road and if ever a book title was born from directions… At the Corner of Lilac and the Land of Nod says hey mama how you doin

this really made me laugh because it made me imagine SSPX as Lara Flynn Boyle in “Wayne’s World” “you know, Wayne, if you’re not careful, you’re going to lose me” “are you mental? WE BROKE UP! get the net!”

I think about the line “why should I change? He’s the one that sucks” from Office Space perhaps more often than is healthy.

This is partly because I’m bothered by conspiracy theories, but I’ll say it: Mitch McConnell is most likely still alive. Speculation can be its own kind of satisfying, but I doubt even the U.S. government could keep TMZ from finding out he’d died and announcing it.

this screenshot is my Pride flag.

Any five minutes of PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE will fix what ails you.

Reading @scalzi.com's STARTER VILLAIN means I just looked up the meaning of "Toxoplasmosis." While eating. Oops.

TIL the original Budweiser Frogs commercial was directed by Gore Verbinski

I appreciate The Vampire Lestat writer's room throwing shade at James Carville this week.

I don’t have much to say today.

When I finally saw ANCHORMAN in a revival screening (big screen) in 2008, I thought “I feel like my brain is melting. This is a good thing.” 👍🏻

In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.

I had lunch at the 50th and Powell Taco Bell, and was happy to hear the crew joking around and singing. Sounded like they were having fun. 👍🏻

This is partly because I’m bothered by conspiracy theories, but I’ll say it: Mitch McConnell is most likely still alive. Speculation can be its own kind of satisfying, but I doubt even the U.S. government could keep TMZ from finding out he’d died and announcing it.

Cue up the music! youtu.be/B3eAMGXFw1o?...

I have ordered 3 stickers for Boston Fan Expo, just 50 of each because I have no idea if anyone will want them. They are random and strange, like me. I hope they're a hit! Here they are, but please be kind, because I am very shy and just learning Procreate.

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

Goodbye Sam Neill.

For some reason, the Sam Neill news is hitting me hard. I really appreciated how he approached social media and, from what I was able to see, being a human. Vale, Mr. Neill.

Drinking sweet tea straight from the half-gallon jug, why not, it’s mine and I’ve got free will

Graham’s death quote should be cross-stitched on a giant loom to be displayed in the White House or at least posted in lights over an old-timey marquee.

I appreciated this Wired review of this chair that I will almost certainly be buying and also I love that whoever created this graphic knows exactly who this chair is for www.wired.com/review/amsea...

Perhaps the most 1990 thing I've ever seen. Eric Bogosian (and mullet), introduced by Arsenio, doing an anti-censorship monologue at the MTV VMAs in support of 2 Live Crew.

Weird work week. (Weird week generally, but also, weird work week.) May I relax now?

Reminds me: it's been too long since I've bought whiskey

I was listening to Birdhouse in Your Soul the other day on my scooter and a woman screamed in glee from across the park and threw her fist in the air, "Yes!" Smiling the entire time. I love how much joy They Might Be Giants brings the world. :)

Omg look at this big buddy in traffic.

Afternoon matinee.

TO BE CLEAR I'm not blaming a. the social media person or b. the journalist. But if you wrote that headline, GFY right now. "Cowards" my ass. CAR DRIVERS MURDER BICYCLISTS EVERY DAY. & some of it is when they're actively trying not to but the disproportion of size is MASSIVE.

Oof. Same here. And come to think of it, the timing of this video is too perfect until you think about it. #AISucks

Side effects include

It’s crazy how prominent Rene Russo was in the late 80s and 90s movies. Just everywhere Hell of a run

Not naming where I saw it, but just saw a basic copy editing fail where a person was quoted about another person but the two people were mixed up. i.e., [she] spoke about [he] but the quote was credited to [he], not [she].

#vague: You're trying to make this a Thing, aren't you? *eyeroll*

Now you fellas have said some pretty mean things, some of which were true, under that fiend Boss Grissom. He was a thief and a terrorist. On the other hand he had a tremendous singing voice.

My (actual, unironic) favorite part of social media is waking up to learn someone terrible has died because everyone's laughing about it. All news should be broken in the form of snark-ass jokes.