I spent thousands of dollars filling my Airbnb with deadly soccer-themed traps in preparation for the World Cup. Now it looks like I may have to settle for a pulse-pounding duel with life-or-death stakes between me and someone who is just in town for business and doesn't get how clever it all is

We have such sights to show you

Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. 🕳️ 📚 Read Maria Bustillos’s essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive: 📖 Download FREE: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 In print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... 🧵

"I said we're watching THE MENTALIST again. Did I fucking stutter?"

quote with your vibe if you were a vampire

Among other things she'd have been a brunette if PKD were writing it.

We should really uncancel poor Louis CK, who has definitely suffered enough what with his recent Grammy win and playing the Hollywood Bowl next week as part of Netflix's huge comedy festival. There has to be a path to redemption.

Blocking donations to a nonprofit that’s fighting for justice. What happened to Trump’s executive order against debanking, you ask? Could its enforcement be sporadic and politically motivated?🤔

Weird. My dad had the same rule for me on long car trips.

some of it stems from fear of funding cuts, but the majority of it comes directly from the fact that american universities are corporations, and their administrators are c suite executives. they are inherently right wing, and they feel like they can spread that shit university wide.

this is everyone who likes will stancil now

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

Look, this is not difficult: If you show up for someone's party, you are endorsing the appropriateness of their actions, even if you vocally object to those actions. If you explicitly invite someone to a party, you are endorsing the appropriateness of their actions.

running to the Nazi website to complain that people were being mean to you for hitting the red carpet at Nazi Prom

I have considered Moleskine to be outrageously overpriced for quite some time but using AI to generate a sketchbook cover betrays a level of hubris that is wild even for them. Those high prices and they couldn't be bothered to pay a human? Dump 'em. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

this guy still has to go on. they paid the deposit.

Sextagon is where they hold the Ultimate Surrender Championships.

AUTO FOCUS (Schrader, 2002)

If you're doing throwback noir set in LA in the '40s/50s you are no longer allowed to do freeway construction corruption as a plot device. In addition to the two works below, this is also a pivotal part of the book version of L.A. Confidential

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

The ancient literary debate: "I dislike allegory in all its forms" vs. "The Emperor is Nixon."

@robzacny.bsky.social Based on today's newsletter recs, if you haven't heard it I highly recommend this episode of YMRT on Disclosure and other Bad Brunette Bosses of the mid-90s: www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/the...

Ah the classics

SICARIO is a weird case tbh where I think there's a tension between the screenplay (which thinks Alejandro and Matt are cool guys) and the actual movie as directed by Villenueve (which clearly thinks they are the villains)

@bencollins.bsky.social I don't know if you possess the ability, but I would dearly love it if the original video that played upsetting variations randomly when you went back to watch it on the same link could be restored. The YT version is but a pale imitation. theonion.com/new-marijuan...

I do not understand why the notoriously litigious Tolkien estate puts up with this fucking shit.

My one wish for the Elden Ring movie is that it's also a stealth Paddington sequel.

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

Time to disorient my dogs

Throwing this out to my followers for any help on a thing I’m working on. Trying to find examples of filmmakers citing the influence of Los Angeles Plays Itself. Text, video, and audio all welcome but video preferred. I’ve found Rogen citing its influence on The Studio but looking for more. Thnx

Like A Prayer through Bedtime Stories-era Madonna is so fundamental to my understanding of pop culture that I cannot agree that she's overrated, but it's probably different if you're much older or younger than me (46).

I stopped correcting people and I don't really care if we're casually acquainted and you get it wrong or forget, but I do judge people who reply with an incorrect spelling to emails or messages where it's spelled correctly

Really hope this flops. Subscription bundle services like this prey on both creators and consumers, and this one sounds really egregious.

Oh no, I thought it couldn't get worse

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Damn I love living in Long Beach

[whispering to someone dressed head to toe in Vuori athleisure at the Blue Bottle on Beverly] did you hear Runyon has become a violent hellhole

I'm tickled that in 2026 Rockstar still hasn't fixed my favorite typo in RDR2, in which Pearson says he left the Navy for the regular world which is more genteel, which is subtitled as "more gentile."

When you are the party of feeding babies to Moloch, you can’t run out of babies.

Remembering that time the BDSM gear and sex toy retailer I worked for spent a bunch of money to flash an ad for 15 seconds in Times Square and a bunch more money paying some PR grifters to send junk emails about it to every contact that hadn't blocked them

clavicular? sneako? are we living in a dick tracy comic??

"Of the top 100 employees by gross pay earned, 87 of them are employees of the Worcester Police Department." The highest paid librarian - Director of WPL, who oversees about 100 staff across half a dozen branches, and consistently receives the majority of Worcester's positive press - ranks at 325.

The ability to find contemporaneous accounts and reporting on subjects when the original publication's archive has been nuked *cough LA Weekly cough* is just one of the many invaluable benefits of the Wayback Machine and Internet Archive in general.

so anyway, like i was saying, the dem party as an institution is a willing participant in the fascist project

There were a lot of essentials I thought I could only get by having Prime, but it turns out that almost all of the companies that aren't owned by Amazon will sell directly for similar or lower prices and often offer free shipping

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

You know what Pope wasn't soft on crime?

Dutch and the rest of the gang are gonna stage an intervention to stop my Arthur Morgan from spending all his time and money at the vaudeville show