also can i fucking tell you how good it feels to watch a prestige sci fi series that leaves plenty of mysteries open but is not a god damn puzzle box

welp, the first two episodes of pluribus are fucking fantastic, in a shocking turn of events

oh my god it's out early

“Shut up!” screamed Toad.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

that would explain a lot

This is because Netflix has a specific list of approved digital cameras and a specific production pipeline that ends up making everything look extremely same-y. Nothing else looks like a Netflix show, but every Netflix show looks like a Netflix show. www.vice.com/en/article/w...

It’s cool that they have the same filmic quality as “oh fuck this documentary has acting in it pick something else”

it's really incredible how cheaply lit every period piece netflix produces is, they all end up looking like drunk histories

He gets grilled about it because the political consensus within the Democratic Party on the issue is breaking down and as a result elite backlash against the ascendant POV is at an all time high. Trump doesn't get grilled about anything because Republicans aren't actually held to a standard at all.

best ending of all time, let's be real

Most of the Tesla shareholder proposals are like "Tesla is an incredible company, but maybe we should make sure we have some basic accountability or make sure we aren't exploiting child labor" and the board recommends against all of them

lmao

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

sorry if I smell like trash I’ve been rooting around in the trash for valuable trash

“We're ready and willing to go on the biggest strike we’ve ever been on,” said Silvia Baldwin, a Philadelphia barista who is one of the delegates representing @sbworkersunited.org in negotiations. “If the company wants to avoid that, they can settle with us today." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

wrote about how zohran mamdani’s failed rap career is giving me hope today open.substack.com/pub/alibrook...

And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

i heard the sandwich guy was acquitted. i bet he went up to the judge and said "i'll have an acquittal sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes!" or something like that. i'm just kidding, i doubt he did that. this post is just for fun really

on top of everything else this has been the most gorgeous autumn week in nyc you can imagine, all the trees finally hitting peak color, blue skies, the lot. even if you don't put stock in augurs and portents it feels like a definite vibe shift

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.

Johnny DuPree flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district while running on expanding Medicaid, eliminating the grocery tax and adopting a “Mississippi Earned Income Tax Credit.”

tilda swinton would find me so repulsively boring she'd be tying a noose within five minutes, and not for herself

trump doesn't seem particularly bothered, i wonder what he sees

the level of wishcasting is astonishing, they really believe they have a magic fairy dust they can sprinkle over a game production and it'll make huge chunks of the workforce redundant

now let’s not give up too quickly on them fleeing the city in humiliation and defeat i for one was a big fan of that plan

This is a big deal, the opposite of Obama standing down his organizing base after 2008.

i had a stuffed gizmo and i don't even think i had seen the movie

rereading little women as i am wont to do about once a year and while jo is obviously our queer-coded authorial goat the chapter with meg trying to make jam for her husband haunts me like no other in the book

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

AND shea whigham? and nobody told me??

accessing gender affirming care in the UK

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No, Nut November!

monkey's paw making the "honk the horn, trucker dude" signal

HBO should hire me to make a prestige post-Gremlins streaming series. the setting is a world where Gremlins have killed most humans using rigged RC cars or exploding microwaves.

you'll definitely wanna go and make sure because turns out they had engaged the nanny locks for everything on mine

There were several settings in there that I wanted to change - worth checking! (I do not need cartoon nudity blocked, thanks ever so.)

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1915 Studebaker hearse, with elaborately carved curtains, tassels, ribbons and pillars, echoing earlier horse-drawn hearses made by Studebaker. www.bonhams.com/auctions/247...

“You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”

Jesus I see what you've done for others

this week could only get better in one way but let us not be greedy i suppose

The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.

Me and the other labubus were talking and we think your apartment is too depressing to justify coming to life at night

there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀