Her: Come over Me: I can’t, I’ve left the island and returned to my life as a prestigious spinal surgeon Her: My parents aren’t home Me:

the best detail in here is that he fucked up Marco's shoe size, because of course he did and of course Marco wore it anyway

we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals

please enjoy the actual photo of Marco with shoes that are too big for his feet

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

Fortunately weird fiction genreologists have been hard at work on a hierarchy of affects for exactly this situation

Airdrop 50,000 copies of Middlemarch with parachutes attached over every campus in America and then over the western half of Brooklyn

“You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

holding @dboyfajardo.bsky.social Movie Hostage (i will watch what he wants this week if he watches what i want)

Pixar used to have really strong brand equity as the yuppy’s Disney, sort of like Target was the yuppy’s Wally World. seeing them consciously and deliberately torch whatever remainder of that ancient branding remained intact after years of sequels and declining prestige should be studied in schools.

Reading a recent and buzzy Weird Fiction collection and don't care for how convention-rich and stilted the genre can be.

Just saw the trailer and Toy Story 5 being about LeapFrog is so funny. Pixar dialed in on the big issues of 2002 childhood.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

we cut the gay stuff because parents felt bad having to out themselves as blatant homophobic bigots to children who have otherwise been taught to love everyone and treat others as you'd have them treat you

"pixar musical by domee shi" is one of those phrases that makes my heart into joyous confetti

unless you read well - often and broadly - you are agreeing to never hear the ideas of 99% of people who have ever lived, simply because they happen to be dead when you're alive. it's that simple for me.

In the last 4 days one of my senators broke a Marine’s arm, the other one announced he wasn’t running minutes before the filing deadline so his hand-picked successor could take his place without a primary and my rep announced he was giving up his seat as well. How’s y’all’s congresspeople doing?

my example of this is Dragon Ball. The original series makes Z matter more, but you can also drop in at the start of any arc of Z and cool shit is happening. there's deep, real history - time passes - but there's also always cool standalone shit happening no matter where you drop in. One Piece too

this. Really think the unsung skill of the great superhero runs - Miller on Daredevil, North and Henderson Squirrel Girl, Simonson Thor, Morrison/Burnham and co Batman, you name it - is the ability to make this story about this story. Not a previous moment, not the next moment, this moment.

Terrible news: I have been informed by a youth that Cowboy Bebop is unc media

likely going to be able to a. stop doing a lot of the stuff at my job that is necessary but doesn't set my world on fire so that i can b. keep working with brilliant people but have my Curricular Design/Teacher Hat more firmly on 24/7/365 as opposed to "some teaching, but also some logistics"

like...the support Israel wants is thuggish mass violence and aid with genocide. maybe we could just stop? I think it's time to stop.

I think it's also worth asking whether we should be supporting a country that pushes us into dumb wars.

Making myself watch ER before I started THE PITT was a great decision – the show is just so good

okay I know like 40% of my tweets these days are "justin retweets annie abrams with ed trauma" but:

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…” @nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory” this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

mildly embarrassed that this means so much to me but: yesterday was the first time in my almost-thirty years watching movies in theaters that a friend whispered something to a friend in the adjoining chair *and then turned to me to make sure I heard the whisper*, or sometimes started with me

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

He’s perfect

you know what movie is literally faultless? PAPER MOON. everyone watch PAPER MOON.

Kind of terrifying to know how many people I otherwise respect creatively are solo-dark Batman no Robin guys

i learned from The Leftovers that "takes a while for the show to get good" and "takes a while for the show to know it's good" are different things.

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

Rewatching Ben 10 now that it's on Tubi and just from a pure storytelling perspective, the economy of the pilot is wild.

Dream Spawn, 2025

was so excited to like, fuck off to a library or coffee place this weekend now that I had a Sunday aide trained. then she took a week off then she quit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTHq... starting a support group dedicated to helping people cope with the indisputable fact that both of the 1989 They Might Be Giants dudes are extremely hot.

Can think of nothing more cowardly than pressing a button to shoot a missile that will land dozens or hundreds of miles away. Little bottle of water next to your desk. "Yes sir" and all that shit. Walking around saluting each other. Fucking losers. Killers.

One of the most gorgeous animated shows ever made.

Like when they do the three panel thing or the static double page spread shots I think “they did this because it was cheaper to do” and also “it is so fucking cool.”

Watching Samurai Jack for the first time after becoming a Primal head and there’s a lot of the same to like about the animation, which is gorgeous, but I also can’t help but notice and appreciate the creativity of working with the budget they had. Really inspiring. Constraints are important to art.

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

had to fire an aide yesterday. my other aide, who had only worked a single day two weeks ago, quit today. just now. out of nowhere. fuck my life.

someone who isn't at least *provisionally* excited about driverless tech has not met an adult with a physical disability who's between the ages of 16-65. sorry. would create my life utterly.

Yes