Vale, James Ransone. Thank you for entertaining us. I'm sorry things never seemed to get easier for you. May your memory forever be a blessing.

here’s an Elon Musk Christmas Tale. Merry Xmas everyone ❤️

New collection alert! My story "A Return" is featured in this glorious horror collection "Necro-Sapiens" from Savage Realms Press! Get a copy here: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G1...

Vale, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer. Thank you for entertaining us throughout the years. May your memories forever be blessings.

The hero of the day was Ahmed al Ahmed, 43 year old shopkeeper and father of two. Wrestled the shotgun from a shooter. Give him the medal for bravery. He saved people today.

On the first night of Hannukah. At a Hannukah by the Sea event. Fuck.

Vale, Peter Greene. Thank you for entertaining us.

thinking about all the cool winter monsters of folklore that just casually got swallowed into christmas. zombie horses, intestine eating witches, madness gnomes and so on www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mon...

part of me thinks it's bogus to have distinctions like best actor and best actress in award shows but part of me also thinks it's good to have more separate categories to give more awards to more people

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior. that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?

Netflix acquiring Warner Bros is...not good.

We need a writer/director who does the fun Tarantino stuff (approaching dramas with a sense of play and silliness, putting most of the tension in long dialogue scenes, etc.) without, you know, all that other stuff

Tarantino, a director whose work I love, recently went after two actors I also love, Matthew Lillard and Paul Dano, two people who are by all accounts very kind people on top of doing great work. It's really shit and Tarantino just looks like even more of a shit.

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I am embarrassed to have an opinion about what a director I’ve only seen I think 3 movies by said on a podcast but every time I’ve ever seen Matthew Lillard in a movie I’ve enjoyed it; giving props to work you like rules over being catty and rude, & people who think catty and rude is good are bores

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Anyone else get really bad image tearing on Apple TV?

If BETTER CALL SAUL wasn't enough, PLUR1BUS is proof that Rhea Seehorn should be a household name.

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

Vale, Udo Kier. Thank you for entertaining us.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Just saw a Kickstarter for "bed sheets for men". The straights - and a lot of the men - are not okay.

SLOW HORSES is a fun show, but they simply do not understand how windshield glass works.

Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) acts and looks JUST like Simon Pegg. He's like an action hero version of Simon Pegg. Pegg is still funnier, but the delivery is almost the same. It's wild.

If you live in Australia, your cat should be an indoor-only pet.

More games like HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER please. Anyone wanna collab on something like this? I wanna write a pro-union space opera where the gameplay is taking apart space stations and uncovering the evils of the company you work for.

Here's the details: $5.50 each Venmo: mnutz-69613 They will be shipped by stamped mail Leave your address in the notes !! I cannot accommodate international orders at this time so sorry!! PayPal is available too but it will be $6.50 to cover their fee

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Thinking of Emma Goldman’s prosecution and subsequent deportation for encouraging people to resist the draft and keeping a “wagonload of anarchist records and propaganda” at the organizing offices, among other things Different era, same fucking playbook

Lol good

Fuck the Cup, now and forever.

my takes - This should be treated in the same way as the Nationals formally rejecting vaccination as a tool for fighting disease - The most material impact of this will be even further reducing scrutiny on the party that has not formally dumped NZ but has done so in spirit

I will be happy with this NY mayoral race is over because then I, an Australian, will not have to hear about it anymore.

I really wish we could make the necessary and important point about how much hateful Islamophobia is being directed at Mamdani without saying, "Actors could never get away with saying it about the Jews!" Because, you know, Mel Gibson still gets plenty of work.

Please donate and help my friend Mahmoud

Begging book publishers to stop doing shit like this. Why do you make books different sizes even though they're stylistically the same? Why swap whether author or book title comes first? Why change the cover style and size of books WITHIN THE SAME SERIES??

My friend wrote an amazing piece about why starving Gaza and refusing to allow aid in is against Jewish law and is a moral & ethical crime. It's very worth your time!

"In one video, a rapper named MaKss Damage cited Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and suggested Adolf Hitler was right to claim the Jews caused destruction, with the artist’s face morphing into an antisemitic demonic silhouette."

I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee

get their assess George 💪

A Lynch-inspired scene from AHED'S KNEE (2021) that kills me every time I watch it It sucks that Nadav Lapid gets ostracized by the pro-Palestine movement for being Israeli by birth — his movies are arguably the most brutal, haunting, and unflinching critiques of Israel ever committed to celluloid

I know it's never hopeless, the fight isn't over, but it's really hard to keep seeing headlines like this. "Earth’s vital signs are “flashing red,” fossil fuel use is at peak levels and warming is increasingly impacting forests, oceans and disaster frequency, according to a new report."

"Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani indicated...that Hamas violated the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday when it attacked IDF soldiers and killed a reservist. Al-Thani stopped short of specifically blaming Hamas, referring instead to “the Palestinian party.”

"Footage reportedly shows Hamas terrorists taking the body of a slain Israeli captive from an apartment in Gaza City, burying it in a pit, and summoning the Red Cross shortly afterward."

"Blasts have been reported in Gaza after Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to carry out "powerful" air strikes. The announcement of strikes came shortly after Israel said that Hamas had opened fire on its forces in southern Gaza on Tuesday."

As an Australian (mandatory voting) and a Canadian (not mandatory, but generally done), I always think it's wild to see USAmericans pitching not voting as a reasonable option. It always feels like a cop-out to me.

New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.