Jurassic Park was one of the first movies I recall seeing in a theater and I imprinted on Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler like a geeky little bird. I have /adored/ that movie and both those actors my whole life. I love many other films and shows Sam Neill has been in but damn, losing Alan Grant hurts

In fairness, Norway is one of the few countries that tells you what direction it's in.

Greetings from Vienna, where I just met Keytar Bear’s Austrian cousin.

Bison are one of nature's FAFO machines. Always remember the reaction of this reporter, Deion Broxton:

Peoples' reactions to Lindsey Graham's death vs. peoples' reactions to Sam Neill's death really tells you all you need to know about how to live your life and be a person.

the rest of my life will be spent exuding Pstew energy

a thousand monster / dinosaur / megafauna movies since Jurassic Park have tried and failed to replicate its magic, but the thing Jurassic Park understood is that we aren’t just hooked by the Big Toothy Creature, we’re hooked by the moment a crotchety old grump rediscovers his sense of wonder

Sam Neill was just brilliant. For a really fun, heartfelt movie I highly recommend Hunt for the Wilderpeople. youtu.be/dPaU4Gymt3E?...

No. Put Sam Neill back and try again.

"Neill changed the Union flag on his uniform to an Aboriginal flag... In the movie's future of 2047, Australia would have progressed past being represented by a divisive symbol of oppression... his hope that the country ends up on the right side of history." Source: screenrant.com/event-horizo...

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Chapter 43 — Pemberley Big

The contrast between the reactions on here to the deaths of Lindsey Graham and Sam Neill is quite striking. Makes you think.

live the kind of life that has MUSEUMS posting nicely about you lmao

Not one of his biggest roles but Aussie movie The Dish (2000) is just perfect Sam Neill

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

This was my favourite long interview with Sam Neill, and if you loved him you should watch it. This series took people back to where they grew up, and it’s beautiful. He had an emotionally complicated childhood and grew into such a thoughtful, interesting person. tv.apple.com/au/episode/s...

If you haven't seen Hunt for the Wilderpeople, you should.

Vale Sam Neill 🥹 An actor that used his platform to raise awareness of environmental issues, including single use plastics and climate change. He spent this year fighting a mining project in Otago, NZ. A true role model. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Sam Neill, the versatile New Zealand screen actor who appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career, and who was perhaps best known for his star turn as Dr. Alan Grant in the “Jurassic Park” series, died on Monday in Sydney, Australia. He was 78.

FUCK.

They really fucked up by not giving it three cupholders

"The global population milestone of 8 billion represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth." www.prb.org/news/how-man...

Famed octogenarian Harrison Ford shaves a few parsecs off the Kessel Run with his electric road bike, October 2025 Happy #BicycleBirthday, Harrison! Born July 13, 1942

I let my daughter, 9, stay up a little late to finish reading her third Nancy Drew mystery, by the lamp at her bed. Is it 1955? 1985? What is happening? Not a phone in sight, literacy thriving; don’t let the world fall apart.

One of the best new devices in OB/GYN, the JADA — which saved my wife from a scary post-partum bleed this spring — was developed *as a senior thesis* in 2011 by two ugrads in biomedical engineering at Cal Poly That‘s how much underinvestment there’s been, a senior thesis could disrupt it that much

Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil?

correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right

Teen pregnancy used to be one of the right's top bogeymen. It's now fascinating to watch how their nativism - falling birth rates which now can't be solved by allowing foreigners to join us as Americans- has led them to bemoaning its decline. They're now shifting policies to help teens get pregnant.

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

A GOP senator died. No, not that one. Also a state party will have to replace Graham as its candidate. No, not that one.

I am absolutely astounded at how good Sheep Detectives is. It's such a patently silly premise but it's executed so well and has a surprising amount of depth for a PG film in 2026. I didn't know studios were allowed to make PG films touching on all the themes it touched on.

Me: I'M ON A BOAT! Charon, the River Styx ferryman: That song is the worst thing that ever happened to me.

I am at a rugby match in Australia and I mostly don’t know what’s going on but they DID just play Sweet Caroline for a stadium singalong and I know exactly what to do there

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

I was looking through old photos and found this Accidental Renaissance Painting of the cats

Oh okay not the one I expected but

Shade is good. While the best shade is from trees because they make people happy, other types will get the job done.

Covid-19 is on the increase again in the US, after reaching the lowest levels of emergency dept visits and positivity since the beginning of the pandemic. US will see a summer wave once again. But coming off a trough an astounding 4X lower than last year, how big will the wave be? 1/

ELIZABETH: Should we… expose Wickham? JANE: I don’t know about it. What do you think? ELIZABETH: Well, I guess we shouldn’t be the ones to do it since it’s Darcy’s account and not our story to tell. AND we have this precise discussion about abusers to this very day!!!! JANE!!! AUSTEN!!!!

When I started researching this piece on mass transit for FIFA matches and how hard it is to get tens of thousands of people in their seats by kickoff, it finally dawned on me: having to get everybody’s car into stadium parking lots before the game is *why American tailgating culture exists*.

My piece for @dezeen.com: FIFA’s mandate that World Cup host cities provide game-day public transit is a unique opportunity for American cities. It’s a chance to experiment and to learn from other places addressing the same challenges at the same time. www.dezeen.com/2026/06/30/w...

and now a very special extra time where everyone gets a sword

Historical comedy. We need more of it. :D Special shout-outs to: Blackadder (various), Plunkett and Macleane (highwaymen), Our Flag Means Death (pirates), Plebs (Rome), 1670 (17th c Poland), Allo Allo (WWII France), Life of Brian (Jesus era) & Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Arthurian)

Holy SHIT

I’m sorry it looks like a Thai restaurant in a suburban mall

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.