Rob Reiner is so much more than just a director, but I am struck at his ability to be so versatile during that great span of movies he made. Rather than dwell on the constant, horrible conversations, I want to celebrate someone who I hope will be remembered as an artist for real human emotions 🧵

naturally one has to say “ok fuck this” about the president’s deranged post but let’s always remember to then be pivoting to the actual subject when he tries to shift the focus over onto himself, which is always what he’s doing

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

Man, he is such a little loser, isn't he. Just a little pathetic loser.

I’ll say this about the constant “who knew” Walmart ads—at least they’ll finally get people to agree with me when I remind everyone that “Who Are You” is a terrible The Who song

It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

We’re just innocent men

[jurassic park] ALAN GRANT: the t-rex can’t see you if you don’t move ME: *In The Air Tonight on my headphones gets to the drum solo part* fuck fuck fuck

based nancy

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

You think you’re fully desensitized to him but every now and then he spews out something so vile it short circuits your defenses.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

The only good Duke graduate

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of? The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

This is so disgustingly fascist

Almost beyond belief in how patently wrong and, as part of a pattern, partisan this is. It’s fascism & SCOTUS & Congress are in for it (for now at least). One wonders why Congress is even bothering to pass a budget other than to performatively reassure themselves that they still matter.

Wearing desert camo and 110 pounds of tac gear, covering my face and putting on bulletproof nightvision goggles, grabbing my RPG launcher and strapping eight knives to my legs so I can walk across a well-manicured soccer field and scare some kids, and then I guess I'll get an Uber home?

this guy kicks ass

After Bass spoke with what I assume is a DHS rep, they packed shit up and headed out. The whole neighborhood turned out to chase them out of the park. Some fruit was thrown, alot of yelling

Again! No one highlights the ICE money. If you are posting like this, you're pitching to the white Americans you hope don't care about brown people getting kidnapped, and not to "the groups" that GET YOU ELECTED.

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

We should do this, especially because Jan 6th is sometimes referred to as “Three Kings Day” in Christian circles, and frankly No Kings Day sounds much better anyway

Hey, you goofy eared fuck--this is the definition of authoritarianism. You're gonna censure a sitting senator who was attacked? After you tried to "tar and feather" a sitting governor? Stop talking about my state and sit the fuck down. Anyone who likes these guys is a chump.

Are we for fucking real? There's so much absolutely insane, horrid crap that this administration has done and this is not the worst of it, but it is fundamentally the most insane. This is a sitting US senator! Is any new outlet going to talk about how fucked this is? Fucking ANYONE?

Stay out of our city you weak, loser morons. Pack your shit and go. We don't need you, I don't need you, this city doesn't need you, this state doesn't need you. Occupying this city is not just illegal, it's stupid and fascist. GTFO.

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot these days and applies to very few people, but it applied to Brian Wilson. You don't need to look far to figure out why--just put on noise cancelling headphones, press play on "Caroline No" or "Heroes & Villains," and disappear for a while.

Sharing the piece the wonderful @celialowenthal.bsky.social did for my wife and I’s second wedding anniversary. Celia was one of the first artists I ever worked with back in my early BOOM days and I am honored to have a commissioned piece of hers in my home—a huge thank you to Celia! She’s amazing!

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

Most important question of this Cavs/Heat playoff game is “did Jarrett Allen get his Switch 2 preorder in”

Since this is bluesky, I feel a lot more comfortable sharing my amateur March Madness Draft Guide, a google doc designed to help anyone who wants to know about draft prospects playing in the NCAA tournament. If anyone wants to take a look you can browse here:

bluesky and twitter both have annoying people but at least on bluesky the most annoying people can't pay $8/month to make me see their posts more

We did it everyone. We killed the bird site. It's over

Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate

The Pokémon Company International and Aardman announced a special project collaboration coming in 2027. Aardman is the studio behind Wallace and Gromit.

Billionaires are evil but sometimes they own the Mets so maybe it all evens out in the end

Kendrick dropped an album on my birthday no present will compare