I’ve read hardly any books that came out this year. Tell me a good one.

These are the best movies I’ve seen this year SO FAR Benicio Del Toro, Andrew Scott, and Josh 🐐 O’Connor having real good years #movies2025

Charging my advent calendar, as one does….

I’ve read hardly any books that came out this year. Tell me a good one.

I liked it

You: “They call me ’Fat Freddy’” The French:

Oh, hello!

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

❌ learn to code ✅ learn to read

I tell you what, no university official on the planet could say this shit is not relevant to the subject I teach. Exhibit A: Dante, _Inferno_. Levels 8 and 9. The older I get, the more Dante looks like a fucking genius #ItsTheFraudStupid

The currency of the realm is Fraud

We need a better name for "cyber Monday" mostly because it's not 1996.

WTF “cancelled performer” are you high as a kite he has won major awards and made millions ffs this shit drives me insane

I have spent exactly one night of my life in London. That night (1994), I saw ARCADIA ❤️

tom stoppard: "jesus fuck, that's not what i should be remembered for"

I can’t recommend this interview enough. Eddie Murphy is so relatable as the old dude who just likes doing nothing, being home with his family—he’s just like me!—but then he reminds you, many times, that he’s the most effortlessly gifted mf ever to walk the planet podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

joining the war on AI on the side of bong joon ho

A rare moment of a Republican genuinely giving a damn.

I love not being able to trust government institutions about basic information about reality. It’s great.

“It is good for one to be reminded of the depths of idiocy to which one can sink even when, or perhaps _particularly_ when, one means well.” —Helen DeWitt, _The English Understand Wool_ (2022)

This panel from 1985 never gets old.

The Hague. No exaggeration. No hyperbole. Locked up forever.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

Indulging some misguided 80s nostalgia

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Correction: Lucinda Williams (*3*) — forgot about her surprise appearance at the Cyndi Lauper concert in Minneapolis last year ❤️❤️❤️ Also Elvis Costello (*8*) — forgot about *his* surprise appearance at the Lucinda Williams concert at the Beacon (2005)

Nation Tires Of Deals, Bargains https://theonion.com/nation-tires-of-deals-bargains/

Spending this Black Friday getting rid of practically everything that isn’t bolted down. Books in particular. Everything stacked ⬇️ is outta here. Getting to age where Stuff is starting to feel burdensome… and there’s always more books to be had…

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 📲 Been a good week…

Doing the lords work … oh that’s his job, I see. Nice.

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Peanuts, 1953

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Blessed 🐈 💤 😇

🙌🏼

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

The main actors are amazing and lord knows I like Shakespeare but I just can’t imagine sitting through HAMNET

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

1978 puzzles were wild. There’s maybe a theme but the answers aren’t symmetrical? Also, LENE? Anyway, I won 🙌🏼

Introduce yourself with artists you've seen multiple times: Elvis Costello (7) Richard Thompson (2) Lucinda Williams (2) Nanci Griffith (2) Indigo Girls (2)

1978 puzzles were wild. There’s maybe a theme but the answers aren’t symmetrical? Also, LENE? Anyway, I won 🙌🏼

Happy etc 🥂

“Jesus don’t like killin’/ No matter what the reason for” Fucking song never ever stops being relevant. Evergreen, undefeated youtu.be/sRCLHBhZPQ4?...

The Great Crossword Club!! 💀 😇

Gonna take this Maleska-powered jalopy out for a spin later. #NYTXW (birthday gift from my daughter)

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

If not now, when? #HappyThanksgiving ☕️

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

Happy birthday to me (gifts I got myself🥰)