Started PLURIBUS yesterday, & it's a fine example of why execution is what matters in art. There's nothing incredibly original in the high concept premise, but by pilot's end it sings because of the writing, performances, direction, what Gilligan's personal vision brings to it.

now I wanna suck off bill clinton just to see what all the fuss is about

This genuinely might be the funniest thing he’s done in his second term. Absolutely incredible

I'm gonna say one that happened recently. I read Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men when I was super depressed and was like wow this is me

normally I don't like it when people rush to infer queerness in every depiction of men displaying homosocial intimacy, I find it reductive and even a little fetishistic. That being said this is basically a hardcore sex scene

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Me and Elon Musk now have something in common, we were both owned online by joyce carol oates

neat

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom

Look where he stands and glares!

solidarity forever ✊

really terrific breakdown of how Mamdani did what he did. Focused on New Yorkers, not himself.

If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

my mayor quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech 🤩

Haha unless

They should make Little Shop of Horrors 2, a completely different set of characters & a completely different monster bought from the mysterious store. They should make a series of episodic horror musicals like Tales from the Crypt with only the little shop and the doo-wop girls as connective tissue

Hakeem Jeffries has the sad eyes of a paternal aunt. Languid, barely holding on. After each visit, a melancholy lingers. No one sleeps. Kash Patel’s eyes are severe. His unkempt lawn houses an intense German Shepherd tied to a wire. He yells from the porch. The dog bellows back. Disharmony abounds.

Whoever thought of calling the spongebob town Bikini Bottom was really cooking

rip in advance to Scott "Mr Dilbert" Adams who is perhaps most famous for writing a now-deleted four part blog post where he attempted to hypnotize his readers into nutting and asked them to email him after they have nutted to tell him about the nut. www.tumblr.com/manlethotlin...

I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything

went to the bakery this morning and they were out of cardamom buns so the guy said how about a raisin roll instead. Ok great and could you shoot me in the dick with a gun afterwards too

CHOTINER: So Harry, you're the butcher at the Busytown Supermarket? HARRY: That's right. CHOTINER: You sell pork at your store? HARRY: Certainly, We sell the best pork ever! CHOTINER: Seems your customers agree, but I couldn't help but notice, you're also a pig, right? HARRY: Yes.

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

The Guardian asked me and a bunch of amazing horror authors about the stories that scared us the most. I love any opportunity I’m able to talk about THE AUCTIONEER by Joan Samson. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

It is extremely on brand for trump to consider a 92 year old nobel laureate with a history of calling out dictators a mortal threat

a really terrific read from Joy Williams. RIP Gene Hackman

Re the Platner situation in Maine: we're all so sick of the Dems throttling anybody who wasn't grown in a cloning vat under McKinsey HQ that people are willing to give him a chance. Thing is for every India Walton or Jamaal Bowman there's a Tulsi or a Fetterman

we all like Curtis Sliwa because he's like if Paulie Walnuts ran for mayor

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Zohran being born abroad is actually a strength in a roundabout way. He can't run for president. I genuinely think the hard cap on higher political ambitions makes his pitch that much more believable. It's certainly a great contrast with Cuomo who obviously just wants a springboard for 2028

Gonna shout out Fake Documentary Q this Halloween, the elevator episode here in particular really fucked me up lmao

rewatched Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead today and absolutely the most relatable thing in film is wrecking your entire life for Marisa Tomei

There was a time nerds got mad that the LotR movies had New World foods like potatoes and tomatoes. They should have gone even harder in that direction. The Council of Elrond chowing down on corn-on-the-cob. Sam looking at the camera saying "Look away, Blanco Niño" and devouring a whole Ghost Pepper

actually hold up wait I've got one that's probably more controversial. I don't want any likeable characters. Everyone should be a different species of flawed. Or we get to go inside their brain and see their slimy thoughts. The second the author is too in love with a character I lose interest

IDK if this counts as unhinged but give me back that 19th century omniscient narrator who sometimes directly addresses the reader or comments on the action like a greek chorus. Bring that back, that was good shit

#nyc bsky, could use Halloween suggestions. What do you all like to do? Other than the big parade and whatever House of Yes is up to #newyorkcity #Halloween

Incredible atmosphere. Great for an autumnal playthrough

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Here’s some Jarosław Jaśnikowski art to make your Monday a little better.

I will be reading at this! Please stop on by!

neat

wow I would watch that musical

a boy band who's members are named Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch

OMG! Mychal did it. Anyone who first caught this wonderful human gaining an audience on TikTok knew there was something special happening. What an incredible journey and story. Promoting reading and libraries is so damn important right now, and I can't think of a better ambassador.

Gene Wolfe sounds like a Hideo Kojima villain but he actually wrote some books about a topless dude and invented Pringles

epistemological horror ass sentence lol

in this golden age of corruption and bad governance it's wild that anyone could stand out but Eric Adams managed it. Here's to a future where this odious cretin gets jailtime, and all his credulous cheerleaders four years ago also get humbled.