Going on an indefinite hiatus. Might come back, might not. Take care of yourselves.

I hope there are advertising execs who are looking at the run-up marketing campaigns that glitch runs for its shows/episodes and how extremely successful they are when they believe in their own product, instead of just cynically dumping it and moving on

Okay, I'll be real, the more I hear about the original version of Elio, the more thankful I am for the version we got, because V1 sounded like an overstuffed, tonally confused mess with a really bad third act.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

The right wing press is just making up shit to terrorize trans people.

These maga ghouls want to demonize trans people so fucking bad, they’re willing to straight-up fabricate evidence.

Replace Trans with Jews then it’s exactly like 1930s Germany.

what in the actual fuck is this bullshit, how god damn desperate are they for this to be a trans person's fault?

This is sick

On Labour Day, 200+ attended a scheduled evangelical rally in Seattle promoting hate against LGBTQ and drowned out the hate speech by singing and playing “Pink Pony Club” on kazoos. I can’t tell you how much joy this gives me.

Nothing is inevitable. Stop acting like it is. Stop panicking about every little thing. Don't give into the defeatist doom cloud circling around in your head. Don't give into the bastards who want you to worry all the time. And fight like hell. Always fight like hell.

Lmfao Gavin, you fucking suck. Christ

Just thinking about how ANDOR is, against all odds, one of the defining pieces of political art for capturing the mood and tenor of our moment for no particular reason this morning.

One thing I've decided to focus on less is how a movie will do at the box office because one thing I know is that just because a film doesn't do well initially in theaters doesn't mean it's always doomed to be forgotten. Films can always get second lives and find audiences.

At this point, we need to actively and publicly clap back at this slander and silencing somehow. Perhaps starting off with a firm letter signed by over a million people and sent to the press or something.

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

the wsj coverage of the shooter might be one of the worst and most irresponsible handlings of a story i’ve witnessed in the last 10 years

I firmly believe that ATP, some kind of definitive, public stand needs to be taken. One that communicates 'we're fed up of all the injustices, slander, & silencing and we're not gonna follow leadership who want to strip our basic human rights'. Protests are good, but we need more potent action.

As soon as the shooter was revealed to be a white cis male you could tangibly feel the entire media ecosystem shrug and move on.

Managed to carve out a few hours from watching the ongoing collapse of civilization to write about the ongoing collapse of the film industry.

Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany. Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.

I hold the belief that art is meant to unite us with a shared interest in telling stories and it's something not separated by borders. I promise I will never shun artists because of their birthplace or government decisions they have no say in.

I'm NEVER getting over how beautiful trans people are. Every time I see one, especially smiling and thriving, I just go "holy fucking shit, no fucking way" and the possibility that someone else looks at me that way hits me like a shovel to the face

The conversation we’re not ready to have yet is that having empathy for a white supremacist is part of what upholds white supremacy. And by that measure alone, it fails to be empathy at all.

Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck the Wall Street Journal for spreading the initial bullshit

Who knows how much hate and lies have been spread, the story was picked up by hundreds of outlets. People always see the rage bait, they almost NEVER see the retraction. Because of the WSJ the world has become a less safe place for trans people.

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGA

Decided to give Nimona a watch this week and like KPDH, it was terrific. The worldbuilding and futuristic-medieval setting was creative, Nimona herself is a riot to watch and the story itself moved me to tears multiple times, especially in the third act. To describe it in one word: METAL! 🤘 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

An accurate and reasonable point. This is is a perfect moment to present the world with his actual views, not to conceal them because they might make him look bad.

Just so we're clear, Ezra Klein believes that practicing politics the right way is saying things like "gay people should be stoned to death" just so we're clear. Ezra Klein thinks we need more of that.

Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that. We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

I love this movie so much, in spite of all it went through. I hope and believe it will develop a strong cult following sooner than later.

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

Ffs do not nominate this man for anything ever again

at a time when people would really like to blame violence on trans people and we don't know anything this seems like a deeply irresponsible thing to write

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

remember to respect women, people of color, the LGBTQ+, and marginalized groups out there ‼️

"Charlie Kirk spread infinite amounts of disinformation about LGBTQ people. Lies & vitriol about transgender people were a frequent part of his rhetoric & events. We need leaders & all those w platforms to prioritize safety over disinformation, irresponsible politics, & profit.” -GLAAD spokesperson

a lot of people today don't seem get the concept of "treat others the way you want to be treated"

Meanwhile another school shooting happened around the same time, and there's less coverage of kids getting shot over the fucking Neonazi because it's been so normalized

Push back against all the darkness today. Check out this thread. Support human art. Thanks.

To everyone saying we shouldn't mock Charlie Kirk, how about you focus on an actual tragedy that he'd claim was "necessary" instead? 👇

folks, don't post anything that can be easily used against you in a court of law