A weird thing about Kid Rock is that when it comes to ticket prices, he's actually said some nice and pragmatic things. He was interviewed on NPR's Planet Money about it! If you heard this interview, and didn't know his music or politics, or other interviews, you might think he was a cool guy.

The Dakota Johnstons and the Brooklyn Beckhams.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Our kind of super bowl. 🍜

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." James Baldwin

'I Think You Should Leave' is such a good show.

The neighborhood theater is showing a chilling horror movie about a European beauty who marries a bloodthirsty, ancient, parasitic monster, and also Dracula.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

It is completely insane. I've seen a couple of people do it. I'd rather lie down in traffic.

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

Sorry to be talking about Melania again, but isn't it weird that they hired Brett Ratner, who (afaik) had never made a documentary? Like, I'm sure there are actual right wing documentarians who would've loved to do it.

Once again sharing the art my dad drew on our backyard wall, to show that you don’t need Ai or an education or permission to be creative or to make art. He did this for no one but himself. He said he could see the faces in the stones.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Magic Wand Micheál is the kind of nickname that could finish a politician if it really stuck.

Today I learned that Griff Rhys Jones is in a belated sequel to Yes, Minister, on stage in London. That sounds like a pretty good pairing of actor and material.

Usually AI stands for “Actually Indians” so finding out that Waymo is driven by people in the Philippines feels like a disruption to the market

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I agree with this, actually. If you’re really good at something, people do tend to ask you to do it instead of asking someone that’s bad at it.

"Talent is a gatekeeping mechanism" is a hell of a quote.

Friday quiz! What do Brett Ratner, Quentin Tarantino and Brian Singer have in common?

Very good week! 2 surprises: Monkey creature feature was a highlight while Aronofsky was a lowlight. #lastfourwatched #Letterboxdfriday

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

Indeed, numerous Americans tried to convince me during the first election that Trump was not racist.

Incredibly damning numbers here. The only surprising one is that there are people who think there's progress being made on housing.

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm rich tea...

"These boots are made for walking/ And so is a shoe/ When buying footwear I recommend/ That you purchase two"

it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

Ordering Guinness last

Colonialism?

I actually just sung out the full four lines in my head.

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

My daughter (10) made up an Avatar sum in her maths book. There's your cultural footprint!

Joyce Carol Oates has the answer to his problem

Yeah okay, my top 10 westerns. 1. Unforgiven 2. Little Big Man 3. Once Upon a Time in the West 4. The Searchers 5. The Ox Bow Incident 6. The Good, the Bad and The Ugly 7. The Ballad of Little Jo 8. The Man who shot Liberty Valance 9. The Good, The Bad and the Weird 10. Bone Tomahawk

A lot to unpack here.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Fianna Fáil TD Michael Cahill claimed he was driving at 190km/h because he was eager to facilitate a meeting with the parents of children with profound disabilities. Last week he voted against providing disabled people with an emergency winter payment of €400. #spéirgorm 1/3

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

I know you all might be Melania'ed out, but this review is very entertaining.

So much to choose from! Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison

If Marty McFly travelled from 2026 to 1996, what song would he perform in the Enchantment Under the Sea dance? I can't decide between Wannabe by The Spice Girls, Where It's At by Beck or No Diggity by Blackstreet.

I know Steven doesn’t really want to do anything about this because if he did, he’d simply start a petition to stop new dads suddenly take up triathlons the week after their new baby arrives. So many women see what curve balls others deal with re motherhood and very rightly nope out.

It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

I think people with money and public forums discount how insanely propagandistic Fox News is because they see it in airports all the time and get used to it. On the rare occasions when I see it's like a scene from "They Live."