This can't be my original thought, but shouldn't Denmark just rename it Epsteinland?

So sad to hear. Always a compelling presence on screen.

Wait til you get to "The Party."

This would be a terrific Pixar-like short to start if you're having a 60 Minutes viewing tonight.

I bet JD Vance thought Ashley Furniture was a real person at some point

The more I think about this story, the more awful it is. Think about the wife of "Coldplay Guy." She's just about gotten their life back together. She's tried to sustain her marriage... maybe parents or in-laws coming for the holidays, kids out of school ... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...

Maybe just slide it into the Signal chat?

@justinsayles.bsky.social Hi Justin — Sorry to bother you ...will you send me an email? [email protected]

Here's something I learned from Google's AI yesterday.

Poetry is for amateurs. They should leave it to the prose.

Your back is up against the wall. All looks lost. Who is coming to save you? Film stills only (that is, no GIFs) #FilmSky

Los Angeles, 2019. I am a courier, delivering important materials by hand. In order to navigate the dirty, crowded streets better, I glide through them on a pair of roller blades. I'm what's known colloquially as an ANDROID MURDERER. (There was a mix-up at the job name factory.)

"This new piece is baroque in style and covers themes of misplaced loyalty and broken trust and it's called 'Concerto for An Empty Bowl'"

this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)

High-larious piece on Olivia Nuzzi by the Ringer's Brian Phillips. @brianphillips.bsky.social It's from a day or two ago but I just noticed it. Very funny. www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...

Take a moment today to check in with older people who seem disconnected from reality and may be unwell.

Olivia Nuzzi is like a character in a movie -- one of those crummy movies where the female reporter always sleeps with people she's covering.

This is a pretty weird story, though the hed isn't quite accurate: The reporters busted their editor and the board isn't doing anything.

@kenwhite.bsky.social Purely theoretical, strictly legal q: If a female reporter said, to the president, "Call me 'piggy piggy' again and I'll punch you in your fat fucking face," could she be charged with threatening the president's fat fucking face, I mean the president?

I've never read anything like this.

OK the Olivia Nuzzi excerpt gets crazier and crazier. "...how the officials did not know what to do with them..." What officials? Trump officials? Biden officials? Who didn't know how to deal with them? What does this mean?

"A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed." There are so many weird things in that Olivia Nuzzi excerpt. This makes no sense:

@pantagrapher.bsky.social not text, but texture!

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

BREAKING: Highlights Magazine Caves Into Trump Administration’s Demands, Kills Gallant Off and Only Keeps Goofus

Defense Atty: Did you chase after my client? Witness: Yes, but he got away. Defense Atty: Are you telling the court you couldn't [stifles giggle] ketchup?

There must be a general call out for a Ken Burns-style documentary about this event, to which I would like to join my voice.

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

It really seems like the mainstream press has virtually no sources in the Trump White House. They must have told folks to start vacating their offices in the East Wing, right? Wouldn't offices have to be relocated? And no one leaked? Or did people come to work to find the place in ruins?

Am I the only person seeing this?

It was the what of times. It was the the fuck of times.

I was thinking about you guys. I was having a good year, '70s oldies show-wise, what with Gilbert O'Sullivan a few months back ... @corry342.bsky.social @ginanarchy.bsky.social

@corry342.bsky.social Corry this is you right?

This is very bad writing, right?

I can't tell if I'm being pranked.

@rparloff.bsky.social Can I send you an email? I'm at [email protected]

@matt-levine.bsky.social is en fuego today. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... The article is paywalled but you can subscribe to his newsletter, which is as good as it gets, for free.

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

I 💯 percent agree with you, but it not often said enough that MSNBC does step on a lot of rakes, starting with enabling fabulists like Joy Reid and Brian Williams.

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

This is a really good piece that calmly, plainly and apolitically explains why it's not inflammatory or improper for reporters covering the Kirk situation to clearly point out who he was. It's labeled 'opinion,' but it's all fact. It's well worth a few minutes of your time, IMO.

I think that the key move I made in Bluesky was subscribing to a starter pack of jokesters or shitposters or something ... and it's really improved my online experience immensely.

This has got to be the dumbest thing a serious news org has published since the NYT's infamous guide to grunge lingo.

Every presidential candidate should be legally required to do a 30-min interview with Jiminy Glick.

Slightly diminish a book Hop on the Guy My Mom's Seeing

Gary, The Wrath of God

One nice thing about Burning Man is that it removes the more insufferable part of the population from San Francisco for over a week. Parking is abundant and the vibes are pristine.