reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

The BACK TO THE FUTURE films inspired a guy to write an essay called "The Other Marty McFly," and he wrote other essays after each sequel came out, and in his PART II piece he speculated PART III would involve Marty and Doc making so many time changes that Biff would become good and save the day. +

JAWS BUT LITERARY, written by @trollprincess.bsky.social

Got reminded of the 1992 film WAYNE'S WORLD. It's still really good and funny.

My current mood is "almost teared up at the slow part of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody,'" if you want to know how my day's been.

Please report this fake TikTok account (that’s enabled subscriptions 😒) for “something else>frauds and scams”! you can also try submitting a report for “pretending to be someone else > username @hellosiridahl” but usually it won’t let you, bc TikTok has shadowbanned my real account.

I mean, maybe it's true that the guy who only hit civilians was aiming at federal agents? That is possible. Sure would be nice to know if we could trust what "officials" say.

some film critics love talking shit about films that people love. "Oh it's not that good!" they love to say. they cannot stand letting people praise a film.

At least today I helped a spider get out of a van. Iiiiiiit's been a day. #SmallVictories

Horseshoe crabs are the spiders georg of average species age

It's already been a long day and it's only lunch.

Whoa, even the sound of just a fender bender is awful. (Two-car accident on the Upper Roadway a little after 8:00. It's cleared now.)

at least five of my friends got covid at Fantastic Fest. big fucking thanks to the person who infected everyone.

Who am I to go against the universe's directions?

And it's not like this was a hit in spite of it. That clip of Haliee Steinfeld graphically describing how she was seduced was viral. People loved the movie BECAUSE it was a gleefully horny movie with a cast of beautiful people looking amazing even when monsters.

turn off reposts for selected users also "enable replies only from users who can recognize when someone's doing a bit"

A dream detail: I was looking at a copy of the novel JAWS. The novel had been rewritten to be more “literary.” (The dream-book was written in present tense. I doubt the original novel was.)

I see what you did there, and so does @edidin.bsky.social

One of my best moviegoing experiences ever was in 1994 watching an Asian-market print of DRUNKEN MASTER II that a Eugene, Oregon theater had managed to get. This film is insane in all the good ways.

In 2015: Eddie Redmayne's gazillionaire emotionally unstable capitalist batshittery feels a little over the top. In 2025: Oh. I understand now.

Showered, at least (Good morning)

🎶 And he sets out to slay with his rain gear on 🎶

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I don’t know why we have to go through this rapture bullshit every year when we all know full well that the only person who would actually get raptured is Danny Trejo.

I know we all love to whine about the left eating itself, but the right is so so so fucking ready to eat itself and this terrible administration just set the table.

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I am going to see the Demon Slayer movie knowing absolutely nothing about the series, wish me luck.

As we were pushed up against the exit doors, the words came out. "Look. Speaking as someone in media for forty years? Do us all a favor. Don't talk this shit on the train. *Get a fucking room.*" And (Luzern being a good place for this) I vanished upwards into (the passerelle and) the night. (3/4)

Behind a car with license plate CHKPARM 👍

This is super fucked up and as an old I am here to tell you cops will extremely often make up cruising charges just to harass some queers. This shit had tapered off in the 90s but now here we are.

Today a dream thing happened. I published an essay on Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Best of Both Worlds" Borg double episode in @reactorsff.bsky.social. #SFF #StarTrek #TNG #histsci #histmed #writingcommunity

Anyone who’s seen Jim Henson’s Oscar-nominated experimental short film TIMEPIECE knows that his creative brain could go to some pretty avant-garde places, but imagine seeing either of these pieces advertising Wilson’s Meats in the late 60s…

I got shocked on my ear. Just a little shock, but you don't expect to get shocked on your ear.

Conservatives being angry about the current president’s teleprompter going out at the UN amuse me considering their response to other presidents using a teleprompter was, “Only an idiot needs to do that!”

Early streetcar management woes. When asked in September 1888 why cars weren't waiting to make transfers with other branches, Manager H. C. Campbell of the Willamette Bridge Railway Co. answered in part: "Two of our drivers became intoxicated while on duty yesterday, and I had to discharge them."

"71% of procurement professionals say AI helps them get work done faster" 71% of procurement professionals are shitty procurement 'professionals'.

Brandeis T Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice

Well, maybe every sound around me is a Godspeed You! Black Emperor song, so... #Long

Alaska Air has been using Concourse D, as well as its usual gates on Concourses B and C. The airline has been shifting certain flights here (and adding service at Sea-Tac). Check out the retro livery on the Horizon/Alaska plane.

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

MELVILLE'S GOT FLOW

I still think of Ty Burr’s review in Entertainment Weekly, where he admitted how bad EYE OF THE BEHOLDER was but enjoyed its badness, and added “For the record, this reviewer would willingly pay cash money to watch Ashley Judd read hog reports…”

That was my first full episode of BUFFY and I got it *immediately*.

I never saw 1986’s RAD, partly because D.C.-area film critic Davey Marlin Jones said “RAD may not be the worst movie of the 20th century, but only because there are 13 years left.”

And NOT Tylenol. That's science.

A food I wish I liked more: sweet potatoes. I like them in stuffing and that’s it. Not as fries, not as themselves. Sorry.

Chappell Roan surprised fans at her recent Forest Hills concert by bringing out Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson to perform ‘Barracuda.’ As Wilson now reflects, ‘It gives me hope and positive appreciation for where the culture is going’