we live in the stupidest fucking time in history

Look at this beauty! I renewed my @libraryofamerica.bsky.social membership & they sent it to me.

HBO Max added 50 pre-1980 films in March, bringing its total to 485. Paramount+ added 3, bringing its total to 17. If, as announced today, Paramount intends to merge the two services, this is a concern. #FilmSky

Why do I have to pick just one? I think Platner is BOTH really dumb and Nazi-ish.

One Perfect Shot: Sinners (2025) d. Ryan Coogler

They're calling them 'Epstein's Angels'

The longest section of Pete Hesgeth’s wikipedia page is “Abuse and sexual assault allegations.”

Wolf Blitzer + Ving Rhames is Gen X’s Hobbs & Shaw.

On the plus side, Paramount buying CNN means Wolf Blitzer can return to Mission Impossible.

could a dying empire do THIS

The Warner Bros. story now has a title, "One Bad Merger After Another."

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

The defining feature of the Trump administration is glee at the suffering of girls.

“‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.'” — G.K. Chesterton (1901)

“Make no mistake about it: We are At War now ― with somebody ― and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.” — HST, 2001

Best Picture Nominations, 1990: Dances With Wolves (🏆) Awakenings Ghost The Godfather Part III Goodfellas If I redid the 1990 nominations now: Ghost Goodfellas (🏆) The Hunt for Red October Misery Reversal of Fortune

Any Democrat in a position of power should oppose this loudly and immediately. Make antitrust laws a campaign issue. Fight it every way imaginable. Do not hand over mass media to a creepy dad-son dyad who want to cozy up to an increasingly loathed president bent on maintaining power illegitimately.

Criticizing the Mayor for successfully achieving an outcome that will help NYC is insane.

Elder Dog About To Cross Rainbow Bridge Delighted By Young Man Feeding Him As Much Peanut Butter As He Wants

Ben Simmons seems to have posted a video to IG … in which he’s about to shoot animals from a helicopter?

Patrick Swindle is the CEO operating the Dilley concentration camp. There are people behind this. They must go to prison.

We are on day 4 of Snowball discourse, I can’t take it anymore.

The thing everyone needs to understand about Jessica Tisch: she's *already* running for Mayor. Could officially happen in '29, or maybe it's '33. But everything she says or does right now has to be understood through this lens.

4 Minnesota guys

I just preordered, this is going to be incredible.

schools are open

blizzard map

Are taxpayers also funding his cocaine?

candy corns

US Mens Hockey has now won Gold twice since the last time the Flyers won the Stanley Cup.

Five authors by whom I’ve read at least five books (and with three of them I’ve read 10+ books): Roberto Bolaño Amy Hempel John Fante Lion Feuchtwanger Graham Greene

this winter = parenting difficulty level set to All Madden

the Broadcast News poster from its release in Poland is the most gloriously insane thing ever?

I get why this is great news. But I want to make an informed decision. What do RFK Jr, Dr Oz, Andrew Wakefield, "Nurse Hannah," Ruby Franke, OKBaby, Bryce Harper and Bashar al-Assad have to say about it?

when I see his face I immediately think about the Wild Bill poker scene in Deadwood

how monumentally bleak is the movie business? I'm rooting for JOSH HARRIS to buy Warner Bros!

fun fact: also the only MLB team to have an Astrologer on the payroll

"The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill *their* blood. Shoot *them* in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do."

STATLER, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, I READ YOUR BOOK!!!

No Muppet ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb Muppet die for his country

"The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill *their* blood. Shoot *them* in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do."

I'm straight now.

fuck it, I'm buying Warner Bros

This is how you live a life