There’s an underrated moment in Godfather 1 when flowers arrive for the don, and Tom Hagen explains they’re from Johnny who got the part in Woltz’s new movie. A glimmer of pride flashes on Tom’s face, because he’s playing the whole thing like a kid trying to make his dad proud, and it’s PERFECT.

I think we could pay for reparations by putting a hefty tax on sunscreen.

Sarah and I are re-watching Derry Girls, and the first season finale hits A LOT harder now than it did a few years ago.

"'Latin music' has been outselling country since 2018," I say to anyone who will listen. www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbe...

Apparently, NBC cut this from the American broadcast, so I’m doing my patriotic duty and reposting it here.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

The world is fucking terrible, but my five-year-old learned how to throw a perfect spiral today, so I’m counting that as a win.

If 28% of cops beat their wives, what do we think the percentage is for ICE? 100? 120? HIGHER than 120?!

I’m fucking sick over this. Kid is the same age as my son, goes to a school with the same name as my son’s school. I hate this. Fuck all the people who make it happen and all the people who allow it to happen.

Do yourself a favor and read this.

Me: "Eighteen years ago today, you invited me out for a drink." My wife: "Wow. You make hundreds of choices every day. Who knew that one would be so important?" ... This qualifies as romance around here.

Get in, losers. We’re going to hell.

Ford has caved to MAGA pressure and suspended TJ Sabula, the auto worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector” to his face today. “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often — and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” Sabula said.

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This is insane. American Samoans are classified as U.S. nationals as opposed to citizens

The Comeback finale is perfect. (So nervous for the new season.)

100%

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Still writing 2026 on all my checks, but only because they were supposed to be post-dated!

89th percentile 📖😎📖

The Knives Out movies are great, and this illuminates what makes them so rich — beyond the conventions of your standard whodunit fare.

Passed this on our drive up to my dad’s today. Praying for the victims’ families, considering their unspeakable loss on Christmas. Been kind of speechless all afternoon/evening.

@sarahpq.bsky.social made it 2hrs25min before scolding her parents about A.I. That, my friends, is a Christmas miracle!

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Sick.

Sarah and I started watching Meet Me in St. Louis last night — our first time seeing it — and I am legit traumatized by the Halloween sequence.

My grandparents had a typewriter in their den. This was the late 80s. I used it to write (very, very) short stories. Then in first grade, I got a computer for Christmas, along with Storybook Weaver, a program for kids to write and illustrate their own stories. 34 years later, I'm still at it.

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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Sarah and I saw Wake Up Dead Man last night and loved it. I feel like the Knives Out movies uniquely capture what it’s like to live through this hellish era of pervasive selfishness, influencers, and online radicalization. Go watch it for yourself!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

The World Cup draw has some of the cringe-iest shtick I've ever seen.

Matthew Weiner is famously a chill, go-with-the-flow guy. I’m sure he doesn’t mind this at all.

For context: It's been fifteen years since Randall Munroe's wife was diagnosed with cancer. xkcd.com/3172/ 😭 (via @kottke.org)

If you don’t know Jesse Welles, do yourself a favor and 👀

I don’t like this new trend of acting like the year is over in… (checks calendar) MID-NOVEMBER!

“I am Dunkey, the bball-playing jackass,” he thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep.

On a rainy day like today, my son is humoring my choice of a movie to watch.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Yeah you can sum up the failures of the best parts of the American experiment as white people disenfranchising white people because they're imagining Black people Yes it harms the rest of us too, but just by population numbers antisocial policy obviously harms way more white people than anyone else

By my count, the Blue Jays led for 27 innings, the Dodgers for 19, and 28 innings were tied.

Happy to be ruining baseball. 😄😭😁

She’s lying. One hundred seventy citizens (that we know of) have been arrested. Again, she’s lying.

“Can you hear me? I don’t want this anymore. I wanna call it off!” —my continual reaction to living in the A.I. era

My son received WIC benefits for the first 3 years of his life. Programs like SNAP, WIC, free school lunch, and SunBucks help protect our most vulnerable members of society, and what’s happening to SNAP is just one more unconscionable injustice in a long line of Trump’s unconscionable injustices.

“[If] you can’t oppose this man, it’s one of two things — either you’re cowards or you’re with him.”

Hour 9 (of 84) as a solo dad. (Granted, for the first five hours, he was in school.)

Saw this today and loved it. A story of a short writer in his 40s who fears his career is over, whose talent is outweighed by his own ego and ambition, who drinks too much and falls in love with anyone who pays him a compliment… THIS MOVIE WAS WRITTEN JUST FOR ME!