<chef’s kiss> No notes. Merry Consumer Day, y’all.

This is the best Christmas sweater of all time, and I’ll be honest. I am sad I don’t own it.

if you're shooting jews at a jewish social event in the diaspora, you're not targeting the state of israel, nor are you targeting its policies, nor are you targeting anyone with the power to effect change in israel's policies. you are just targeting jews.

Holy hell is this a brutal crime against adolescent humanity. I offer my deepest condolences, and I’m a complete stranger, and this is years after the fact. Reparations, literal reparations, are owed here.

Wh… why? I don’t… why would they have an abridged version?

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I remain forever stoked that my office wall hosts “Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves” that Clint Wilson did for a Spoke Art show a decade plus ago. That print, done in the classic Japanese ukiyo-e style, is f*cking amazing.

I wish I was young enough to be alive if/when Home Alone hits the public domain, because it is _begging_ for a violent remake where lots of people end up dead at Macaulay Culkin’s hands.

I still can’t get over using that f*cking typeface for subtitles. It’s a crappy display type. Just based on the need for subtitles to be clear and legible when read quickly… this is a design fail.

Did… did you just… did you just say “breakfast cereal?” Mayo? Look John. You are probably, almost certainly, my favorite author. But what the f*ck, man?

I cannot say this with any clearer enunciation: Fuck. That. Shit.

Well, we never did have to apologize you racist beard turd. But damnit, now we have to apologize for our Vice President (among many, many others currently running amok in the executive branch).

You just gotta love the public domain.

Drew McWeeny’s take on James Cameron and Avatar films feels right, though I can’t dismiss that his savvy business instincts have engineered them to be globally appealing and thus wildly profitable. It’s not mutually exclusive, but 1/2

“This is a limited test to understand whether the ability to publish an increased volume of posts with links adds additional value for Meta Verified subscribers,” a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch. It doesn’t add value if you have to take away something from users first you absolute f*ck turds!

There’s a speechwriter in some communications bullpen in D.C. who wrote “pack their best attitudes and best spirits” and thinks they’re just the cleverest boy. May I suggest they spend some time in a certain New Jersey airport?

Ebenezer is a cool fucking name. Charles Dickens really, ahem… dicked us over by ruining it for us. Maybe it’s because I’m from Atlanta, the land of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ebenezer Baptist Church, the coolest church.

1. To be old and compromised in a sleepy way was Biden’s sin, while Trump is old and compromised in an animated, ranting way (when he isn’t snoozing). This is how the media has so completely blown this, when the sin should be being president while old and compromised. 🧵

Yes! Let my computer talk like I do!

Favorite Star Trek character from each show: Original Series: Spock Next Generation: Picard Deep Space Nine: O’Brien Voyager: The Doctor Enterprise: T’Pol Discovery: Saru Picard: Shaw Lower Decks: Tendi Strange New Worlds: Hemmer Prodigy: Rok-Tahk

Also… I need an Aussie historian to pick up the thread. Real cliffhanger of a season finale there, Buckinghamshire!

My hideously independent and rebellious younger self would’ve asked Mary Young for a date. On. The. Spot.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

I want this art on my wall, and I didn’t even really like Close Encounters that much.

At some point, one of these Avatar films are going to flop, right? I’m not predicting or hoping here. I’m legitimately, curiously asking. This is far from the most beloved franchise in the world, and I’ve never understood their box office prowess.

This was after a survey designed to get an opposite result with leading and fatigue-inducing questions. Good on the Brits… not so much your government who’re trying to ignore the clear consensus these results reflect.

This is far from the worst idea.

Design details matter. I too love every part of this. #StarTrek #design #sound

Rough weekend for the Jewish community, just as Hanukkah is starting. Rob Reiner and his dad, Carl, were Jewish cultural icons, each in their own way. Carl was a foundational figure in Jewish-American comedy, and Rob was a major cultural and political voice in American film and public life.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

For Rob Reiner to die just one day after Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday, whose eponymous show was created by Carl Reiner, his father…. The universe is really fucking with us.

From your mouth to G-d’s ears.

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

Zosia, what in the hell happened to your dad?

My friend, Matt, made a joke about Star Wars and why we will never have Star Peace, and he’s right… just the phrase “star peace” sounds ridiculous. Imma be thinking about that shit for days.

I shall be there on release day, but right this moment, I need whichever one of you has an 88-mph Delorean to tell me how long it’ll be before release day. What’s the over/under on 5 years?

Someone had to write that headline. Somebody went to journalism school and picked up $75,000 of debt to write that headline.

Does he not think we already live in a system where rich people have access to whatever care they want and the rest of us have to make do with waiting rooms and peekaboo surprise bills from the anesthesiologist?

I feel like Mark had a couple cocktails and decided to rage bait, but f*ck it, I’ll bite. 1. They’ll do what big, expensive hospitals do in any of the many, many other countries who’ve implemented single payer systems. It’s not like we’ve never tried these things before. 1/2

How did Mr. Reagan screw us? Oh, let me count the ways.

Hey @gamelawkate.bsky.social, you’re a really smart lawyer. Does Spotify have the same Section 230 protections as other platforms? Is there really no legal liability for them in this seemingly blatant violation of King Gizzard’s copyrights? Will we get sued if we ride with pitchforks at dawn?

You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go

I don’t know why this insight makes me cackle so much, but it does, and so I share it with you in the hope you cackle too. Cackling is fun.

I used to be pleased that my mom doesn’t spend a bunch of time mainlining Fox News. Instead she mostly watched CBS News via our Paramount+ app. I am now… less enthusiastic about this arrangement.

I’ll never forget this guy’s absolutely atrocious interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book on Israel-Palestine. Mainly for how he railroaded his co-host, Gayle King, a woman of color who had clearly come prepared with interesting questions, right out of the conversation.

A wise justice once said one’s right to swing a fist ends at another person’s nose. These people who think their faith gives them a veto over my life and wellbeing never learned that lesson.

What in the absolute ever-living f*ck is this nonsense? Besides a shanda, because it is very much that.

Such inspiring oratory. <pukes>

The f*cking audacity!