deleted a post about this, because I don't want to ruin a phrase that elicited the loudest theater laugh I've had in a while

don’t be “in a fandom.” grow up, get a hobby, make friends.

Zod’s pants are still trapped in the Phantom Zone

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Jay’s been a dork since jump

Just in case you’ve never seen it, CITIZEN KANE is on BBC iPlayer and you really should give it a go. In the era where multimillionaires are shitting their pants publicly on the reg because money can’t buy the love they want, it feels as relevant as ever.

some dudes deserve to get wedgied everywhere they go

so does 60 MINUTES staff resign en masse now, or the first time she spikes a story (presumably week 1)

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know: help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/ tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

"The GOP is lying. Will it work?" Scour this passage -- nay, scour all of Politico -- for even the slightest passing *hint* that lying is ... bad. That you shouldn't do it. That it degrades politics over time. You will find nothing.

oh baby does he put the Michael Jai White part back in?

My buddy who's a HS Physics teacher said that one of his students asked him why it's called a hallucination when AI does it but it's a wrong answer on a test if a student does it and yeah

A Frank Quitely page from a three-part strip called “Blackheart” (written by Robbie Morrison) that ran in Dark Horse Presents. This page is from the conclusion in issue 93 (January 1995). #ComicsOriginalArt

love Harley Cameron, but that cat makeup needs to go #AEW

it was kinda cool that when Columbo found the body: she was dead, wrapped in plastic this aired 4 months before the Twin Peaks pilot

I normally don’t go in for these 80s/90s Columbos, but he’s trying to nail Dick Tremayne in this one, so…

watched two eps of this show and had an almost visceral loathing of its blithely cruel hedonism. Sean gets at why.

The first episode of 31 Murders To Midnight, in which I review 31 horror (mostly) films for 31 minutes each in the month of October 2025, is now live for members of the patreon. Walk the first six steps in the inexcorable path toward midnight! patreon.com/sfultra

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I normally don’t go in for these 80s/90s Columbos, but he’s trying to nail Dick Tremayne in this one, so…

as a person who has also felt very lost and scared in recent years, this essay hit like a Mack truck

a deeply-held belief that I have no real evidence for: there’s a wide-open lane for a politics of old-school virtue and civility, applied in broadly progressive ways

I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.

Ten that shaped me: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Raising Arizona Eraserhead Pulp Fiction They Live F for Fake The Last Boy Scout Duck Amuck 2001 Airplane!

post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Ladies and gentlemen Pete Hegseth

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

View Master Cyclops by the great Mike del Mundo. #comics #art

30 years of this man gifting us with the most sublime line deliveries

TikTok owned by Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison is going to be wall to wall Trump and Netanyahu apologia, and ethical people still on there should begin contemplating their exit

The one pro-ICE guy they found to interview downtown today being a suburbs-based casino marketer and erotica convention entrepreneur named Larry Goone might be the thing that tips me over into We're Living In A Bad Fic territory

thank you, sensei

prophesying the downfall of the roman invaders and all the sellouts who collaborate with its blasphemous regime to keep judea from exercising independence: definitely not legal. in fact, the usual punishment for this kinda behavior - and hang on b/c this is a wild coincidence - was crucifixion.

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

the President of the United States believes bacta tanks are real this is like if the Obama “chaos emeralds” tweet really happened

the President of the United States believes bacta tanks are real this is like if the Obama “chaos emeralds” tweet really happened

who is this for

Whitney Cummings as an all-timer of a hack is underdiscussed

reconstructed knee held out for an entire @goose-band.bsky.social show in the pit

Sorry, I already have my warrior ethos