Didn’t know Trump was a #landback guy

“I hope 2026 is the year Utah finally acknowledges that housing affordability cannot be solved city by city,” writes Alessandro Rigolon in an op-ed. “If it is not, the consequences are not abstract.”

I watched Twilight for the first time while finishing my film syllabus for tomorrow and boy it did not disappoint. From the atrocious color grading to the smoldering eyes, the book got what it deserved. If only David Lynch had made it, alas!

Given that Trump's critics call it a kidnapping, and Trump says it's an apt term, I see no reason for the media not to use it. Literally both sides agree it's the proper description of what happened.

🧵My good faith effort to have more nuance about AI in the classroom. (tl;dr six months thinking about it and I’m still opposed.)

IMPORTANT: Congress could do this tomorrow. Trump could be unemployed by Monday.

Spotted a bunch a AI videos on TikTok of Venezuela mixed in with the real ones. I think it’s pretty easy to tell the difference but a sense of urgency can lead to less caution with mis/disinformation. Check sources

Vecna (which apropos of nothing autocorrects to “bean”) needs to become creative director for Balenciaga. That’s all I have to say.

Fun fact: @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social's book on axe murder has a brief discussion of GOAT social guidance film impresario Sid Davis. You can watch a dozen or so of his films (WILD AT THE WHEEL! DANGEROUS STRANGER! BOYS BEWARE!) on @archive.org! #nontheatricalfilm archive.org/search?query...

Sam Altman looks like Ellen Degeneres to me

iPhone software update reset all my NYT games streaks. Thanks a lot, Apple. The “glass” effect was totally worth it 😖

Hamnet. Whatever you’re hearing about how amazing it is, believe it.

as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me: notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted

Not a shocker: Alleged pipe bomb suspect is a Trumper.

The hands of the damned pulling earth into hell award

I don’t know if the Pantone “Cloud Dancer” discourse has reached Bluesky yet, but I highly recommend the chapter “White” from David Batchelor’s brilliant book Chromophobia to interject some scholarly context into the debate. In fact, Pantone execs should have read it.

This is like if Edward Gorey did political hopecore

A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...

1000x better choice than 67

Just finished my book for Bloomsbury! Let’s gooooo!!!

A new Hollywood list to strive for!?

My thoughts on the Zentreya outfit, meant to critique/teach. As someone so entrenched in fashion, I feel the need to use this as an educational moment for all. As nervous as I am, it's important to address these things directly, for learning, transparency, and growth. Alt is text provided.

Trump saying “permanently pause” as if the word “stop” doesn’t exist. 🥀

If we compare AI in the classroom discourse to sex ed discourse, I’m currently reckoning with the reality that kids are going to AI whether or not I like it. I don’t want them to and will continue to discourage it, but I’m going to try to prevent brainrot for those who do. 1/3

Hear me out: Cynthia and Ariana: Folie à Deux

AOC's right about MTG, her actions speak louder than her words.

Sophisti-pop needs a comeback. (That’s my 3:30 am take before finally going to bed.)

Sen. Chris Murphy just said Trump was “at the center of a child sex trafficking ring” as the Epstein file vote nears. If a senator is saying that out loud, the files must be worse than we think? America deserves to see it! #ReleaseTheFiles #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AOHS9aw1_THO...

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

Half-staff not half-mast

We gotta make this man politically toxic. He puts his name next to yours? Primaried! He endorses you? You lose!!

Do any of my followers have connections with the Spence school on the upper east side? They have ghosted me and my research assistant and we are just trying to find out what happened with the wallpaper they said they’d take down in 2020. Just interested in the facts, not judgment.

Our health insurance is more than our mortgage. 😡

You need to use a VPN, but Arte TV did an entire studio quality professionally shot version of the incredible orchestral Queens of the Stone Age concert. It really is amazing, unbelievable quality. www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

apple.news/AoggXQT_GQ5q... Hilarious that the guy everyone was saying was the detective hired to solve the Louvre heist is actually a 15-year old

Why are people flocking to get that Starbucks bear cup when this exists and half the price?

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

We've all waited so long to hear a politician say this. Far too long.

If any of the million people who were supposedly fleeing New York after a Mamdani win would like to give me their apartment I’m willing to brave the socialist hellscape the establishment was warning us about.

Turns out that the Republican Party standing on the sidelines in cheerleading outfits as Trump destroys our Nation is bad for Republican candidates at the polls. 🤣 #FDT

The movie Jess and I Executive Produced, MAN FINDS TAPE, has a trailer! In select theaters and on VOD December 5th! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN9g...

Art by Cris James Art

The whole contorted joint-cracking horror trope is so played out. If I wanted to see bone cracking I’d go to a chiropractor

Gonna proudly wear Viagra Boys band merch even if people think it’s a pharma ad.

How are we supposed to trust critics? V/H/S Halloween is great of you’re 15; Frankenstein is absolutely stunning in every way( the wedding dress alone deserves an Oscar). Frankenstein needs a wide release. Everyone should see it in a theater. My favorite adaptation.

Look what just came in the mail! My advance copy of the second book in my Icons of Horror series, Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film by Damien Pollard! This is a must read for anyone who loves gialli or is interested is sound and cinema.

““If this trend continues, in three years this campus will be as Black as it was in the Civil Rights era,” said Quire, a member of the campus’ Black Student Union. “It feels like tying our feet together and telling us to restart.”” apnews.com/article/affi...

Just noticed that the kindle version of my book Household Horror is on sale for $1.99. I have no control over pricing so I have no idea how long this will last.