Any time an app is set to run on startup. As a standard. With a difficult to find extension. It should come with a name and photo of the developer who did it. Maybe some kind of scarlet letter. No violence, just a permanent social death.

The biggest surprise I had over the WGA pickets was how frequently someone would tell another Union professional “You can’t expect that to make a living wage for that though.” It changed me as a person. Because I still believe in unions. But I’ll never believe in reciprocal empathy again.

A cool side effect of a comprehensive legal education these days, is the knowledge that everything you’ve ever done is wrong and all your gods are dead.

Steve Agee as John Economos might be my favorite thing about anything right now.

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some... I think I’ve been seriously underestimating Etsy Witches. September 8.

Generally people need to stop being Charlie Brown with this Supreme Court. These rulings at best use inductive reasoning to get where they’ve been told to go. Stop reading them like they are part of an intellectual tradition. Be honest. These bigots got marching orders. We need to say it.

Someone cancelled an interview on me today. Last minute. So I’m sitting in my bedroom in a suit and tie in silence here. In front of a camera. I guess I just put on comfortable clothes again? We super duper broke Earth, right?

I got stuck in the rain. And my favorite day bag shrank. However it shrank into my perfect camera bag… #35mm

Look just in case it winds up being “too soon” I think a fatal case of cankles is exactly how I want Donald Trump to go. Also Fatal Cankles, I offer this name for a punk band or Metropolitan bakery.

Yeah I’ve seen Superman four times now. And I’m probably gonna go again. It’s like I got to “re-do” the release of Superman IV. Which is when I learned about pop culture disappointment.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3806 - Jim Shooter RIP. sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-se... #Loss #Death #RIPJimShooter #JimShooterRIP #MarvelComics #dccomics #GOAT #greatness

150 Billion Dollars is certainly enough for a good starter Gestapo.

Reminder or warning.

We cannot let the Trump administration silence free speech. Even left leaning publications like *checks notes* The Wall Street Journal?! I’m so tired.

I just realized I’ve spent twenty years writing waiting for it to read like someone else wrote it And that’s never gonna happen…

On The Media just used the phrase “bull-stuff” to quote the president. I am so embarrassed to be an American and an On The Media listener. Honestly it’s the moment that’s permanently changed my relationship with American media. Which was a surprise.

Apparently Cuomo is campaigning for Zohran now?

My graduate work was all in ethics of technological innovation. Biological and traditional. Never occurred to me those would be obsolete. Well it did occur to me. But because I was an edge lord academic trying to intentionally overstate an encroaching authoritarian monoculture.

The struggle is real.

It’s not fair that we learned the name James Cheesebro in line with an attempted insurrection. Because otherwise that would be objectively hilarious.

I did a little double take.

Today in Midtown someone unprompted threw a bowl of Chipotle at me and told me to “Eat her c*nt.”

Yeah we sure can’t be trusted to have anything nice. Don’t use WeTransfer ever again. Also if you work for a lab or post production house get something else fast. Because you are the front end.

November 29, 2023 I went out for coffee, cat food, and shabbos candles. After my last errand, there was Marc Maron, I yelled to him like an asshole. When I got home Henry Kissinger had died. And you’ll never convince me I didn’t stumble onto an Easter egg in the simulation.

In Superman, James Gunn does more world building with the sentence “No, that’s just an inter-dimensional imp.”, than would be done in like five Disney Plus shows.

Anybody else concerned that this is just the plot of HBO’s Watchmen? Like even the sequence? No. Okay, that whole art shapes the body politic only works if you see it and aren’t very stupid. Copy that.

Whenever I saw an ad for any “other body parts” deodorant when I was a kid I used to think, “Look at this sexist bullshit. They’re tricking you into thinking you need that.” We fixed it. Now we tell men their bodies are disgusting and not correct too. Thanks so much, capitalism.

They’re so close… so close..

There’s a particular brand of Western European American Judaism that I was raised in that has sort of been smushed together with The Eastern European tradition. Neither good nor bad, but over a few decades it just sort of vanished. Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Judaism. It was just a particular culture.

Superman was great. Thanks @jamesgunn.bsky.social

To wake up every day is the height of hubris.

Yes Murderbot, we all just want to be left alone and to watch our shows.

Every time one of these MCU effects pops in HDR I simultaneously go “Ooh, oh that’s how those are supposed to look!” And “Ew, that’s how those are supposed to look?!”. They defy actual convention in a very uncanny valley way. They’re produced purely for video screens.

I use a vintage 1997 DC Comics calendar. This month doesn’t feel right. July is a Superman month.

It costs nothing to behave with and treat others with dignity. But it makes people so mad.

I became a nonsense person who plays pretend for money. But I did go to law school I still remember most of the things. It’s like being an enormous lapsed Met’s fan and suddenly everybody you know is a Met’s fan. But now the ball is a thousand bees, they play on ice and there’s a horse.

A quick reminder that media literacy isn’t noticing that things made before are worse.

That is not a number.

Franklin Richards was my access point to Marvel Comics when I was a kid. Power Pack to The Fantastic Four to The X-Men and I was in for life. The FF can really be a pivot point for an MCU that doesn’t run out of steam. This should not be read as even a partial endorsement of Matt Shakman.

A certain type of guy is so allergic to coalition-building or taking a W that if anyone he deems uncool embraces his preferred candidate, it’s proof of something nefarious or insincere.

The Meow Meow Beans episode of Community is perfect tv.

MAGA: IGNORE THE INTELLIGENCE is a movie starring James Woods produced by Dinesh D’Souza funded by Leonard Leo

Now that I’m a somewhat healthy human being I might lack the self loathing required for the verbal abuse of a film set. I keep responding. Or feeling ways about it. I always forget it’s really a part of their day rate.

New York, your natural deodorant’s are not working. Go get some heavy metals. Yours, The Rest of New York

I just saw an Iggy Pop commercial for Dom Perignon. I don't know why but it might be my breaking point.

I don’t know how to react to anything anymore

I’ve been spending the morning reading Steve Ditko’s run on Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen this morning. I’ve always known about these but also always assumed I’d be above it if I ever read it. Nope, it’s amazing and he was making high art in the strangest place possible.