Need a bumper sticker that says, "In case of rapture, this car will be occupied and celebrating like the rats when Scrooge leaves the office in the classic 1992 film The Muppet Christmas Carol".

Some "great snatch". Didn't even come!

The rapture already happened and it was when we left Twitter together.

Fascinating how Elon seems to be playing out his relationship with Trump in such a similar manner to his relationship with his father: he knows he's on the Epstein list, and even said so publicly when they were fighting, but can't help being codependent anyway.

See you tomorrow, heathens.

As an exvangelical, I am terrified that I'll still get raptured and stuck with all the worst people forever because "once saved, always saved".

26 *hic* minutes in. Honestly, not loving it.

Got the hiccups, AM*hic*A

Happy Rapture to all, and remember that the best version of "Heaven" is not on Echoes, it's on the Insound Tour Support EP (CD-only, sadly). www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ1g...

SCOTUS CORRUPTION ALERT 🚨 Brett Kavanaugh is set to rule on a case he lost 25 years ago. He has a clear conflict of interest. My colleague @andrewlseidel.bsky.social broke the news on his pod One Nation Indivisible: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...

What movie do you consider “perfect?”

More like the New Orleans taints becase they're close to ass.

more like the New Orleans Satins because they're soft as hell

The Sehawks have now put up more points against the Saints than the 49ers, Broncos, and Cardinals. There are 37 minutes remaining.

CINEMA

Pro tip if you are canceling Disney+ and refusing to visit the parks, but reallllly want to visit the parks: Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea are owned and operated by the Oriental Land Company under a licensing agreement with Disney. Signed, someone without a Disney+ account, going to Tokyo soon.

We should really be honoring Ch*rlie K*rk’s stated wish that the Epstein files be released.

Consider me buckled as fuck.

Basia, Roby Duke, Pat Metheny

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

Except the one who came to my school to rap about Jesus. It was a Christian school and we still thought he sucked.

Just hit me that the crackdown on how people talk about Charlie Kirk in the wake of his passing is a warmup for how they will police the responses to Trump's death. They know a huge chunk of the country intends to be vocal and, uh, not respectful.

Will CBS even need to buy Warner for Last Week Tonight to get cancelled? These companies are falling over themselves to please Trump.

TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!

Which begs the question: why have all these guys actively doing the work of running the government, when we could have AI do it instead? Introducing our new startup, USAi. There's only three branches of government, but with AI, each branch can have an unlimited number of leaves.

As Hollywood is increasingly run by hedge fund bros, not FILM folks who worked their way up, Robert Redford's passing is uniquely moving. Yes he was a great actor/director, but his biggest legacy is Sundance, cultivating and championing creators with vision, growing indie film and fighting for ART.

Also recommend The Old Man and the Gun (2018)

Because there was a man, and there is a group, but all the rhetoric around it is magical mythological propaganda. But the body count afterwards? That'll be real. And they'll lie about it.

Mourning a man who didn't exist to whip up the mob to murder a group that isn't real is absolutely fascism.

Seriously, this is a stunner, and does not sound like a song recorded in 1977, especially from 2:20 to the end.

TIL the best Beach Boys Christmas song is a droning melancholic stunner by Dennis Wilson that was recorded in 1977, unreleased until 1998, and it's never been released on vinyl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueR...

AI Charlie Kirk is 100% going to give a speech at the next CPAC.

Great book.

Saw a movie last night in which religion is not mentioned explicitly, but a character who's struggling with adulthood and loss mentions they're from Moscow, Idaho, and a game of Chubby Bunny is played. Nice, subtle things where IYKYK. Twinless. It's in theaters. I had some quibbles, but recommend.

Saw a movie last night in which religion is not mentioned explicitly, but a character who's struggling with adulthood and loss mentions they're from Moscow, Idaho, and a game of Chubby Bunny is played. Nice, subtle things where IYKYK. Twinless. It's in theaters. I had some quibbles, but recommend.

I don't even think of what folks like Charlie Kirk do as debate. It's apologetics. It's memorizing the expected points your opponent will make, and the proper points to cancel out each thing they may say. The thing is, a lot of people in an apologetics debate don't know they're in one.

Happy to read this and have some films to look forward to in the last few months of the year. My 2025 top ten list is, frustratingly, wiiiiide open.

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

Seahawks defense allow something other than 17 points challenge.

#14 forces himself out of Seattle, goes to Pittsburgh. Seattle's opening TD in Pittsburgh caught by #15.

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

The perpetuators of "fundie baby voice" would like you to know that Charlie Kirk was a model Christian because he used a very civil tone while dehumanizing people.

Dr Dobson, welcoming Charlie Kirk to the afterlife: Well done, my good and faithful servant. Kirk: Hi Jim, nice reference, say where is Jesus anyway? I'm kinda looking forward to HIM saying that. Dobson: You know, I haven't seen him yet, I'm sure he'll turn up sooner or later to thank us personally.

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

Stop reading the news and normalize lounging inside “Visiona 2” by Verner Panton at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1970.

Our long, national nightmare is over.

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Every outlet covering any of this stuff needs to have somebody who actually knows conservative American religion and somebody who actually knows weird conservative internet shit. See in here how they not just overlap, but also collide

Some personal news:

A record I ordered was delivered half an hour ago and put in the wrong [locked] mailbox (it's a 7"), and I am now on a stakeout, waiting for my neighbors to check their mail so I can get it.