At the very least, Pluribus has a great answer to “If you had to cast somebody to play a character who changes the course of human history, which You’re the Worst cast member would be the funniest option”

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

Everyone on the east coast, right after this game ends

As sublime as that last moment is, it’s wild that American Girl isn’t even the best end credits song in a PTA movie from this decade

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Can’t get over how *loud* this is

LOOK AT THIS VERY GOOD THING THAT JUST HAPPENED

Caught some of this on cable the other day and my new favorite part is when Reuben asks the team who’s on the $100 bill and someone off-screen just says “Adams”

And a very merry Only Connect Is Back Day to you as well

Ten minutes of incredibly funny buildup to a final payoff that had me laughing so hard I was sobbing. youtu.be/8KCfw0NBg08?...

Hey book lovers! Support your local library, of course. Also! Cool news! @bookshop.org has free shipping July 8-11. They also now sell ebooks, which is an excellent development. AND if you sign up for their email, there are periodic boook/ebook deals & I've snapped up many fine books that way. 💚📖🔥📘

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

"GenAI can simulate all of the steps: it can summarize readings, pull out key concepts, draft text, and even generate ideas for discussion. But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you."

Only one of these albums gave us this youtu.be/fPuCIfpNtA4?...

Video games. Powwows. Frybread. Family ❤️🎮 Pow! is cartoon short about a young Native kid trying to charge their video game console at a powwow. It's one of the first times a powwow has ever been animated! We put our whole hearts into this and we hope you enjoy our trailer.

taking this opportunity to share the mindblowing thing about the Miette tweet I only learned recently: AT NO POINT IN THE ORIGINAL TEXT DOES IT MENTION THAT MIETTE IS A CAT. the text is so evocative that it communicates all without ever needing the c-word.

All things Pope, All things Pope

me: I still find it really weird that not only was there a TV version of The Mosquito Coast in 2021, the opening credits sequence in the first episode uses the main theme from Ain’t Them Bodies Saints prosecutor: sir, the question was whether or not you feel impartial enough to serve on this jury

this song riles me up (positively) music.apple.com/us/album/sin...

⚠️ 🪫 So if you, like me, are now wondering, “Well, how DO you safely dispose of 1 million pounds of highly flammable lithium-ion batteries?” then boy, do I have the story for you. (It involves a large machine named Pork Roll, manufactured in New Jersey.) My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Long live the Good Fight opening credits: www.indiewire.com/features/gen...

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every MLB opening day I like to reflect on some of the lessons baseball teaches us about life, like how it's a miserable grinding slog that almost always ends in meaningless failure, and even your attempt to endeavor it is something most people will never have the time or inclination to care about

It's kind of a simple concept for the show this week: call up three smart, wise, funny friends and ask how they're holding up amid the chaos and the fear that flows out every time one checks the news.

a win for mikey madison is also a win for BETTER THINGS

Need someone to set Ralph Fiennes in Conclave passing out the simony file to "I Have Friends" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Today is a great day to listen to @lovelettersglobe.bsky.social (All days are, really!) Just finished this episode and it does so much of what makes so many of the rest of them special: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQ3...

me, to all the other people at my Brutalist screening wearing a corduroy rope hat

A Super Bowl ad using music from The First (!!!!) is my Super Bowl.

The LA Times has a good list of places offering discounted or free food and coffee to displaced families and/or first responders. Check it out and double check to be sure what deals are where. (added this to my running resources list) www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...

Just a reminder that if you’re anywhere near the fires but haven’t received an evacuation order yet, it might be a good idea to charge your devices, pack a go bag — important paperwork, medication, hygiene items, cash, changes of clothes — and come up with a plan for where to go, just in case.

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Make your New Year’s goals more achievable by removing nouns. Get what? Doesn’t matter, it’s 2025

As ever, I am incredibly happy that this is my legacy. May he help keep us going throughout the year until this day comes around again.

🫡 (Pretty sure I ate my body weight in this stuff over the course of my high school years)

Song a Day thread for 2025? Song a Day thread for 2025. open.spotify.com/track/3Xbsfz...

Who says Christmas has a monopoly on upbeat melancholy holiday songs open.spotify.com/track/5ThkKq...

Chicago! I'll be helping celebrate 20 years of the Filmspotting podcast at the first-ever Filmspotting Fest — join me for a screening and discussion of TANGERINE on 3/1, or better yet, come for the whole three-day event www.filmspotting.net/filmspotting...

I can't believe it but here's a rule-following flock of Canada geese. Crossing in the crosswalk, with the lights.

Gladiator (Scott, 2000):

Don’t think I’ve ever said “That’s for sure” without saying it exactly like Dean does here: youtu.be/ih9hH0Z5hGU?...

The music supervisor of Shrek after another month of terrible “Hallelujah” covers