Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

Bardot brought the reaction to her death upon herself, as the counterexample of Rob Reiner proves. Moreover I think that reaction is sort of a dry run for people regarding any artist who's betrayed their gifts by going fascist, as we've now got a lot more such passings to look forward to.

Barack Obama was no left wing firebrand but particularly because of his opposition to the war he got more progressive support than HRC the establishment candidate. In the general election this was a plus not a minus and he won. We’ve spent the next 18 years pretending this didn’t happen.

I’ve said it and I believe it is true There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed

The Sound of Music is a period piece. If came out today, it’d be set in the mid 90s.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Perhaps it will happen overnight.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

The whole Trumpified GOP has become a nest of whiny little thin-skinned snowflakes. Pathetic bullies who throw tantrums instead of being bold and strong in the face of adversity.

Why should I, someone who doesn’t own a family farm nor stand to inherit one, particularly care whether a farm is farmed by a family?

More journalists and politicians should use YouTube for fun. And probably TikTok, too. We have a media and political class with Extremely Strong Opinions about entertainment platforms they don't use, but which millions of normal people do. The resulting opinions both are weird, and look weird.

People DID fight back against the Gestapo so please stop sharing that dumb ahistorical meme

Here's an interesting article re: the Avatar cultural impact debate, with this particularly trenchant line: "Unlike multiple actors associated with Star Wars and Marvel, no one on the Avatar cast is receiving death threats." movieweb.com/avatar-movie...

The last time the Dallas Cowboys made the NFC Championship Game, George Burns and Gene Kelly were still alive and RENT was months away from debuting on Broadway. The Baltimore Ravens were not yet an NFL team.

Remember how rich folks were gonna flee NYC because of Zohran Mamdani?

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.

im already foreseeing a scenario where dems do their usual thing and try to mealy-mouth their way around not abolishing ice, and those of us who call for the agency's end are derided as absolutists pushing "purity." my response is: fuck that. we keep giving up the line. hold the line.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

we get it, man there's just a lot and what are we supposed to do about it

They have it on YouTube too! youtu.be/7suJVVEWt9g?...

Tiny Tim, who was clearly <checks observational data> NOT dead when we last observed him

you aren't watching the NFL in the spirit of Christ, who played tight end at Nazareth High?

holidays emphasize the fact that my personal life didn't quite proceed on the path I had planned but one thing i got going for me is, I don't have hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, joking-not-joking that maybe this will be the day I die

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

We sent a bunch of effete, Ivy League scientists into the desert and they returned with a portable sun.

Cunk spittin Christmas cheer

@repdangoldman.bsky.social worked with advocates + attorneys to secure the release of 9 ICE detainees “We don’t control the immigration system. We don’t control the courtrooms. But we have some power and we are going to aggressively use it in every way we can" talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

Plus: Donald Trump would be in jail. Minus: Todd, whose entire job is sucker-punching elderly women at bus stops, would need to learn to code.

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

lucky for trump people arent interested in true crime stories and haven't shown a habit of following the twists and turns of crime stories - that have very clearly defined heroes and villains - for years and years on end. so nothing to worry about w this epstein stuff.

what being alive currently feels like

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Nativist italian americans are so funny. Wym your whole personality is being italian and then talking about immigration the way people used to talk about your ancestors

I know how seasons work in both the “orbital mechanics” sense as well as the “shifting atmospheric conditions” sense but it still always bothers me that we can have varied weather - a warmer winter, an extra-rainy fall, a chilly spring - but the length of days is scheduled down to the second.

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

I don’t care how stupid this looks because there’s no way it’s ever built. It’s a fully new class of a type of ship nobody wants, so it’s not like anybody has plans or schematics or requirements or anything laid out already. It’ll take years and in the meantime, It will happen.

As yet another way the latter-day United States mirrors the police states of the Soviet bloc, we’re re-inventing samizdot.

This Victorian Christmas greeting card showing children staring at the dead body of a robin—typically a symbol of hope and good cheer—captures the 2025 holiday vibe:

Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons

told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime