@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

Somehow Palpatine returned

P.S. not only does every franchise’s graph look like the one on the left (a testament to the utter fungibility of owners and the unfathomable demand for what football players do), but any given graph reminds us that every Chiefs needs a Browns (to “make” football).

“But what about (ownership’s) money?” — the majority of Bears commentary, inexplicably and pathetically

The Chicago Bears have played at Soldier Field this entire time. Owning an NFL team is fail-proof (see left) and impervious to merit (see right)

@nasboat.org you will like this

Waiting to see Mando & Grogu as intended (on streaming months later) but all public reaction confirms my theory that Star Wars has a story that ends with Return of the Jedi, with interesting blank spaces to fill, and that everything post-RoTJ is smashing action figures together in a sandbox.

A friend randomly used to say, “Naw, gotta go home, man.” And his timing with it always made me laugh. ”The Wire”

Does liberal triangulation allow for calm and reasoned debate? Well, no. But does it allow for coalition building? Also no. But does it win elections? Well, surprisingly enough, no

Another, differently horrific film would unfold if told from the point of view of the character whose point of view and inferiority is treated (by the POV through which the film unfolds) w/ the disregard one might show in ditching one cap in favor of another:

Obsession isn’t just about turning someone into a puppet or action figure. That puppet will only show “love” as the puppeteer conceives it. The ventriloquized speaks in the voice and mind of the ventriloquist.

The contemporary Catholic tradition calls this "integral ecology": as Francis writes, “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” cannot be separated.

Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

Obsession immerses the viewer in incel consciousness, an ontology of solipsistic entitlement. It is a horrifying place. Maybe the most upsetting movie I’ve ever seen.

I'll also say, I would snip off a pinky finger to read Nikki's insane novel.

Something I didn't find time to talk about is the way post-wish Nikki obsessively fixates on the last few morsels of real human information exchange she experienced. The cat comes back again and again. Horrifying.

I reviewed the hatefully brilliant OBSESSION, a nasty and deeply scary horror flick with a jaw-dropping central performance by Inde Navarrette. patreon.com/posts/159047...

Obsession and I Love Boosters both coming out at the same time and doing well means there is some hope for original movies and creators as billionaire mergers, censorship, and AI slop try to take over and destroy our present and future.

it's very obviously a movie about very human impulses, the danger of getting what you want, of treating people like objects etc, it's not meant as a practical warning about a fictional magical trinket. how bad is your reading comprehension? do you think rosebud is just a sled

Obsession is a very good horror movie. Be forewarned that it is genuinely one of the most upsetting movies I've ever watched.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands / artists you've seen live Santana Crosby, Stills and Nash The Grateful Dead Mos Def De La Soul Robert Glasper Tina Turner The Roots A Tribe Called Quest The Pharcyde

No it wasn’t.

@shengokai.blacksky.app (Obviously you aren’t obligated to answer, w/ apologies for appointing you ‘philosopher on Bsky I’m asking’) Is there a lacuna in the (Western) phenomenological tradition: the experience of humor (which may reduce to the experience of irony, or juxtaposition)?

The GOP caters to its base while Democrats despise theirs and would like a different base.

6 // reverberate “The strings of your life are vibrating even now, down at the atomic level.” -Keith Blanchard, Reverberation “[…]your voice is the song of your disappearing, which is our most common song.” -Ross Gay, Book of Delights

Gov. Tina Kotek is putting out a lot of messaging about how she wants to keep Oregon safe from Trump, which is all well and good… But running cover for & taking money from giant tech companies who are building/operating the data centers that surveil us is working *for* Trump. These are his allies…

any death in Watership Down Artax, of course

this is literally America, Rebecca. I- ok.

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Grogu found some raisins in my backpack and ate them and had a seizure and died

Among other welcome provocations, ‘I Love Boosters’ has escalated celebration of the glories of cunnilingus after the gauntlet thrown down in ‘Sinners.’

Lupita on set and in motion! 🔥💃🏽

Among other welcome provocations, ‘I Love Boosters’ has escalated celebration of the glories of cunnilingus after the gauntlet thrown down in ‘Sinners.’

No Bears fan, ever, last season: “Damn I wish they were playing somewhere else, this just isn’t viable.”

Farewell to Rob Base, whose "It Takes Two" sounds like the greatest single ever whenever it's playing.

No Bears fan, ever, last season: “Damn I wish they were playing somewhere else, this just isn’t viable.”

This is a lie. It’s an insultingly blatant lie. If your goal is to play in Chicago, shut the fuck up, keep playing at Soldier, and be eternally grateful you were born into an absolute unstoppable ATM built on the backs of others.

And there was nothing that we could do about it. Babu Frik was a made man, and Grogu wasn't. And we had to sit still and take it. It was among the Mandalorians. It was real greaseball shit. They even shot Grogu in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.

The facts: -Bezos paid $0 fed'l income tax in 2007 -He paid $0 in '11 -Btn '14-19, his wealth grew by $99 BILLION and he paid $973 million in taxes. Sounds like a lot but it's 0.98% of his wealth growth (which is his true income). www.propublica.org/article/the-...

damn, I did *not* remember Simpsons season 1 going this hard

How fucking stupid do you think we are, you yacht trash piece of shit

Absolutely this. Almost every good moral philosophy I know makes this a central point. If you're not asking regularly if you're a good person, then you're not doing it right.

This is a necessary condition for being a good person, although it guarantees nothing. Non-negotiably necessary, and it can never end, and putting oneself in question cannot occur in isolation.

Imagine that you ate mushrooms 23 minutes ago and you walk outside to calm your nerves as the first wave hits.

‘Dirty Laundry’ in ‘To Die For.’

How it feels watching the masses gradually turn on this bullshit: