That news alert was the equivalent of a cock tease.

...the way Jon Stewart started using Insta in the past week for some funny shitposting is kinda inspiring, tbh

Asshole is so out of touch it hurts.

It feels like everyone got a memo/legal threat before the Globes about saying anything explicit about current events. So they all went for vague but emphatic with a troubled expression on their faces. This is on CBS now, unfortunately. And after Kimmel's whole thing, and Colbert getting canned...

If you start Phantom Thread around 10 PM, you will have the shot of them together at a happier, future New Years around midnight and it feels like a hug.

If you're in New York between now and end of June, you have to go see Ragtime at Lincoln Center. OR ELSE.

I appreciate that this essay embraces the (accurate!!) reading of the film that gives Mary the most agency in the film. She tells George and the audience what she wants within, what, the first ten minutes, and stays on that path to the very end.

the SNW casting of the original series characters literally feels like they're playing a terrible game of darts. they did fine with Spock and Uhura (I GUESS) but what the fuck is this Bones casting?! Karl Urban's willing to do TV, they should've just had him come back.

Mary I was seven years older than Catherine Howard, her fourth step-mom. Because men have always sucked!

My parlor trick is being able to nail the opening of Forget About the Boy with a Merman-esque belt with no lead in music.

The CT2 being a student shuttle at Ruggles and immediately emptying after one stop is pretty funny. (I mean I don't mind, since I ride on to Fenway.)

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

I miss when conservative kids actively JUST went to Christian colleges; they're bubbles, sure, but they have a lot of fin aid to toss around, and it keeps those little trolls away from the rest of us for four years or so. (And some of those colleges DO change minds and lives for the better.)

The whole story about baiting a trans academic at a SOUTHERN state school... as a trans academic/PhD student myself, I'm not going to be taking an opportunity west of Metro New York, for the time being. I went to undergrad just outside of ATL, and I'm glad I was deep in the closet at the time.

My room in Dorchester/Savin Hill is coming up for rent starting 1/1! Super chill place, just one other housemate. www.reddit.com/r/bostonhous...

TDOR is a day I've had complicated feelings on for many years, and this year it feels especially hollow. To have people only celebrate our names on the day we remember the dead. There has been little to silence of any of our triumphs and joys, and many feel all too eager to lay flags in memorial.

The Huntington has done a version of Fun Home which feels brand new and just as relevant in 2025. I'm verklempt.

wow hannity's never been so pickled as he was at the patriot awards lol

WORST GROUP CHAT EVER.

the insistence the numpties i work with have in misgendering me every day (despite the fact that they've only ever known me as a man) is just. charming. i especially love when they say 'she' and then default to 'they' (WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN A PRONOUN I USE WITH THEM.)

Shook there's no BELLS OF SAINT MARY'S or GOING MY WAY. Also, the oldest film on here is from 1946 -- it's not an 'old film list' lol.

we're just literally at the point when no one can do anything right. That's fucking chill. (guess who got told just now my birth control appointment was scheduled for one day past the window -- BY THE CLINIC THEMSELVES). thank God I don't want to have sex ever again, I GUESS.

I wish I'd written this:

God they COOKED with Back to the Future. As good as it always was.

the whole 'this is the way things are' mental rut the entire world's gotten itself into has GOT to stop. you all might be brain dead, but i've still got neurons firing.

well. hate this. fucking hate this. great. loathe this. 2025 just continues to fucking sink into like a new king of hell

i'm not saying the curse of the bambino descended upon me and any team i willingly root for BUT MY TRACK RECORD IS PRETTY FUCKING BAD YOU ALL

why are the innings rhyming lol. this is psychotic i hate this BUT ALSO I LOVE BASEBALLLLLL

BASE. BALL!

oh DEAR FUCKING GOD THIS SERIES

Canada NOT cutting to commercial is sexy AF.

Bases clearing in the seventh game of a red hot WS was sent as a gift to me, personally.

"Why did you almost start crying at work?" "Because the 90th Oscars opening montage ended on Humphrey and Claude at the end of Casablanca, and also the moment when the word 'hope' was spoken and little Shirley Temple appeared. MOVIES!"

THIS NEEDS TO WIN AWARDS

The Slow Horses finale had a moment that made me shout NO and we're not even to the action-y part yet. What a cracker jack of a show.

I'm going to start brandishing my Epi-Pen in the workplace as a reminder at this point.

[Exit pursued by a bear.]

THE DUMBEST TIMELINE.

Keanu Reeves HAS to get pushed for a BSA nod for Good Fortune. Or else.

Oh 💚💚💚

WELL. FUCK.

If I get fired because I silently roll my eyes on a work Zoom call at being told to use AI over and over again (I WILL NOT), does that count as a moral falling on my own sword? I think it does.

This is an old interview, but it does illustrate a dichotomy I've seen between writers who write because it is our joy, and people who write because, somehow, it became part of their job, and they hate writing. And, as I've noticed my whole life, they resent those of us who love it, always.

...jon makes a joke about listening to the whole Taylor album in tonight's TDS episode (via kelce's huge dick reference) and after we were done with that segment they played the literal song in question (the YT video is up by now so it's not a spoiler)

It only took 15 years, but I'm finally getting to see Jon Stewart host TDS at a taping tonight!!!

My allergies would probably chill the fuck out if we could stay at a consistent fucking temperature for the next few weeks. (Going from sub 60s most of the week to a high in the 80s today is both confusing nature and KILLING my sinuses.)

I think a former teacher insisting a satire is fiction no matter what is why satire is dead. (...are you FUCKING kidding me.)

The next education professional I know to insist on using AI because 'it's just like a calculator' is going to get pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables, because that's just like expressing respectful dissent these days, or SOMETHING.

getting exhausted how, as an ordinary, poorer than most consumer, I keep having to pay for the incompetency of corporations and organizations with VAST fucking resources. the jolly march of the world toward total enshittification continues.