oh my god i forgot to note that robby can't swaddle a baby to save his life, scrap this whole piece we have to start over

Great critical piece from @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on Dr. Al-Hashimi and The Pitt s2 finale: "Her ending is anti-climactic and abrupt because it doesn’t feel like Al-Hashimi’s story line was about her as much as it was about Robby." www.vulture.com/article/the-...

this piece is lovely and more involved than this framing would suggest. sometimes we can’t fit a human experience into a headline

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

We should have never doubted this man

thought “It’s a great time to be a novelty-seeking wellness writer on Substack” was the most demoralizing sentence i'd read today before i made it to "Those pharma brands need to advertise somewhere" i mean sheesh

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

Had to bring my most important Gundam post over from the other place.

I understand Pope fatigue (I was confirmed by a child molester) and to an extent it's a Let Them Fight situation but it's genuinely important and different that the Catholic Church, a major geopolitical actor with endless resources dating back millennia, is coming out hard against fascism this time

From: Bobby's Girl (1985), dir. Toshio Hirata, Madhouse/Project Team Argos A famous piece of animation by Takashi Nakamura

i lapsed a long time ago but every new day of this feud sends my head spinning, wondering what the brothers at my old catholic all-boys high school would think of it all

Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”

It will never not make me sad how unknown jiri trnka is. literally my favorite puppeteer ever. if there were any justice in the world he'd be held up on a pedestal as high as aardman or laika

you can commit any number of mortal or venal sins with impunity but posting blasphemous AI slop with shitty ringwraith-ass angels in the background is a bridge too far apparently

This is a great illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social's point about how "backlash" framing lets the right play the victim.

Van Gogh spent a lot of time in Arles, France. There's a restaurant that used to be a hotel where Van Gogh stayed and in a letter he wrote that the food was bad and they overcharged him for wine. Directly next door, sharing a wall, is this Dragonball-themed barbershop.

unbelievable how stupid these people are, in addition to morally bankrupt

The NYT editorial board is influential enough that if it called for Trump to be removed from office or — second best — to stop the war, it might actually have a positive effect on the political discourse. Instead we get this weak shit: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

We’re so used to calling the various tech oligarchs and Trump pigs Bond villains but Eric Adams is unique in that he is the only irl Venture Bros villain.

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

Fellow Cowboy Bebop fans: I went to see Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts last night. Their first ever (!) U.S. performance. Absolutely incredible If you are in NYC, highly recommend Kanno's Piano One performance tonight!!

EXCALIBUR is emphatically the Good Shit, handily blows every other King Arthur movie out of the water, and not for lack of trying. The Arrow 4K re-release is splendid.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

shoutout to whoever is putting trans flag stickers on the harry potter audiobook ads on the nyc subway

Getting ready for the return of Artemis. Does everyone have their lights ready?

hell yeah new VanderMeer

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

One of the coolest gigs I had was running the Facebook side of the One Perfect Shot Account in the mid 2010s. I thought I lost my entire collection of film stills I shared, but just got a new device that somehow synced up to a really old account & I found them! Let’s kick things off. 1) VERTIGO

Joe Rogan spent the entire election cycle campaigning for the far-right candidate, now he says he wants a "logical centrist government". Bro, Kamala Harris WAS the centrist, which you would have seen if you weren't a racist piece of shit who went out of your way to ratfuck her comms team.

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

“It should be illegal to blame us if the thing we make hurts people” is the kind of opinion that would’ve doomed the airline industry and currently props up the businesses of guns, cars, and oil.

Superimposing a live-action Hanya mask over an animated character rules. Rintaro forever.

An extremely funny thing about retro rereleases that use unlicensed emulators is that you are basically committing the exact same crime (using software outside of the terms of its license) that has you so scared of downloading roms in the first place but now someone has monetized it.

On Saturday, workers at NYC's Attaboy went public with a union drive. It's a big deal in part because the bar is world-renowned, but also because there just aren't many unionized bars, period. In this week's FREE column at Fingers, I framed up why: www.fingers.email/p/there-are-...

“60 Minutes” staffer to Weiss: “Go focus on the ‘Evening News.’ Your changes haven’t exactly landed w/viewers. If that becomes a success, I’d be a lot more open to your ideas about changing the longest-running, most successful, most-watched news program in history.” www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

EUPHORIA S3: "The series’ genre switch is just a theatrical exercise, like Euphoria is putting on another play, this one against a Korine– and Tarantino–aping backdrop. Neither Levinson, nor his characters, have grown up." still not for me. @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/euph...

ICE loves hurting and killing women.

So to recap, Trump: - Started a war for no reason on the belief that Iran would surrender immediately - Killed thousands including over 100 elementary schoolgirls - Threatened genocide up to and including nuclear war - Then backed down in exchange for a worse position than the US had before ?

US and Israeli forces “completely destroyed” a Tehran synagogue during Pesach. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.

A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).

I was always too scared to tweet during its heyday but I'm curious to meet anyone this article might shake out!

Spirited away

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

the world was on fire but the animation went hard af, a lesson in this somehow

From Yorushika "Madder" music video, directed & animated by Yoshiki Imazu. Full MV >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_z...

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

Great news out of Georgia! ALL of the 15 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have died as the Georgia legislative session comes to a close. This was only possible with intense efforts from local LGBTQ+ activists. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Oh so now copyright matters.