A Lord of the Rings cover band called Jefferson Istarship.

One Battle After Another was decent! DiCaprio as bumbling goofball works better as he gets older, it's very believable. I don't know if Benicio del Toro likes roles like that but it seems like he's always the token cypher. The cryptic weirdo.

Dopelessly devoted to goo.

If we were French we would be rioting.

Sean Penn plays a great stick-up-his-ass career military man.

Their most successful efforts have targeted unions.

Wow it's a good thing we let all those slimy motherfuckers ignore Congressional orders and that the threat of contempt of Congress has been so thoroughly weakened that the whole "balance of power" thing has become a quaint artifact of our past. We don't live in a civil society anymore.

I feel comedians acting like they're doing something morally brave then playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival is kinda bullshit. Telling people with money to fuck off because you have principles is one of the easiest moral stands to take.

Decided to stop thinking and start making. Starting with procedurally animating a character. 2 important things are: hitting a zombie in the head with a crowbar needs to feel satisfying and the motion of running/jumping/vaulting needs to be seamless.

I'm at an all-time high weight (176 lbs!!! I've been a tall skinny man most of adulthood) and I'm still freezing my ass off.

In this last year I discovered "The Koln Concert" by Keith Jarrett and... yeah. There is nothing like inspired improvisation.

Dershowitz says Trump can run for a 3rd term... but he also said he'd kill himself on television if Mamdani won and the $50 I'd spend to watch that on pay-per-view is still in my pocket so who can you really believe.

Clam chowder with a ton of Tabasco makes a fella feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Note that when these sociopaths go after non-vulnerable people who have support and can defend themselves, they shrink and cower. This is because they are cowards who believe in nothing.

Part of the reason Russians and Ukrainians are good at hacking and viruses is they had cheap shitty silicon in the 70s and 80s. They didn't have the UC Berkeley system building operating systems and compilers. They had to learn how the chips actually worked.

Holy shit.

Folks on Nextdoor saying their neighbors should call the police on kids knocking on doors and running away. I'm so glad none of that shit existed when I was a kid or half of my age cohort would have been victims of gun violence.

This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛

Lance Henricksen. Iggy Pop. Billy Bob Thornton. Jared Harris. Gary Farmer. Crispin Glover. Robert Mitchum. Gabriel Byrne. Alfred Molina. John Hurt. Oh yeah, and Johnny Depp. Dead Man is one of the best-cast movies ever made.

The Lowdown grabbed me in a way I haven't been grabbed since Lodge 49. Good shit.

Lots of Big Lebowski references in The Lowdown. "The beaver film?" "My special friend" There have been others but I don't immediately recall them.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

"Tax wealth, not income" is among the first steps.

Watching Wake Up Dead Man and even my atheist ass knows better than to wear a hat in a damn church.

One of my favorite things about social media - you see some dumb article about something even dumber. You look in the comments and there's some smart-arse echoing the precise random thought you had. It makes a person feel less alone in the universe.

Why we need to tax the super rich more. Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's. And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.

@dr0girl.bsky.social Finally getting that car stereo installed... 3? 4? years later lol. I had to get something for the wiring harness in my Ranger.

I hate Musk but this is smooth-brained shit. Rigging an election via the vote machines is nearly impossible. The way to rig elections is by taking over and corrupting the many layers of human-monitored/certified processes in-between. Precinct manager positions and the like.

Goblin naming conventions implies the existence of Dikpix and Feetpix do you think they're siblings with Mr Holepix here

I feel like I should be rioting but I don't want to be the first person that gets shot.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

If our collective voices held no power, Capital wouldn't work so hard to silence them.

Nice. Go Cher.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Hell yes. I start January 5. This is the first good news I've had in 3+ years.

I constantly ask "What the fuck is wrong with people" and one of these days I'm probably gonna get an answer I really don't like.

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

I bet you Idaho's idiot governor Brad "Lickspittle" Little is going to do something similar to Abbott re: TPUSA. What a dumb time to be alive.

Reminder: the folks at the central banks that set our economic policies all belong to the same families, went to the same schools, and studied the same WILDLY INCOHERENT economic theories. It's why their policies and predictions ("interest rates will rise!" 2007-2015) are consistently wrong.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

I don't understand the difference between trusting the code an LLM gives you and blindly pasting code from Stack Overflow. In fact there's a good chance the solution the LLM suggests is a non-solution from Stack Overflow due to how LLMs work.

Smallpox is the deadliest disease in the history of humanity and as of right now, it exists in 2 places on planet earth and both are disease research labs run by governments. Smallpox is a thing of the past because vaccines work.

www.wired.com/story/big-in... This guy is a fucking petty piece of shit and I have receipts to back it. He put a job posting on the Hellsite, I responded, he acted like a complete shitbird then signed me up for all kinds of spam mailing lists. I hope he gets butthole cancer.

Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpX... My favorite Christmas song. The little descant thing Bowie sings is beautiful.

I somehow ended up on Rep Russ Fulcher's mailing list. Pretty much every one earns a "Go to Hell you shitbag" response from me. The dude is a fucking snake.

I know his family will miss him greatly but I hope they take solace in knowing how many people Steve's work inspired.

Netanyahu continues to starve and kill the people of Gaza. Putin is pretending to negotiate peace while attacking Ukraine. Trump is randomly killing Venezuelan's. They have no desire for peace. It is how they stay in power. Netanyahu, Trump and Putin are now the leaders of the new axis of evil.

Michael Dells "donating" to the US government is gonna be a pattern going forward. Governments, bankrupted by oligarchs, are going to have to seek loans from those oligarchs. If you think it's bad right now, wait til our government literally owes the oligarchs.