Another week of movies. Some surprise fun ones, and disappointing reassessments, nothing very good or very bad, just cruising into 2026 on a wave of Fine

post deleted but it’s abolish ICE now and always has needed to happen

I read more books this year than I have any year since high school, thanks in large part to making friends who read and would cheerfully show up to coffee every week with a new armful of whatever they'd read recently. I read many excellent titles, but this was the one that shredded my heart to bits.

women do not want men who look like Andrew Tate, we want men who look like the ghost of Christmas present in The Muppet Christmas Carol, especially when he goes silver fox mode

This is like the Great Man theory of "coolness,"which is a framing choice, post-widespread COVID infection. Nicotine is often thought to help the brain fog, at least perceptually, and the passive suicidality of chronic illness plus already-damaged lungs seems like an easy mindset to grasp.

Elf sequel where his dads children's book publisher has a business conflict with an Unnamed Major Online Retailer so Buddy infiltrates it's fulfillment center and unwittingly organizes it

Another week of movies. Every time I settle into some backlog, some event or seasonality takes its portion. In any case, still fruitful (I only log rewatches if it has been at least 5 years).

The suggestion that Australia's recognition of Palestinian statehood is the cause of the Bondi horror is a most egregious and grotesque example of the PsyOp bullshit that fills our twisted political hellscape.

Our three-legged girl managed to climb up the cat tree for the first time, we're all very proud.

Another week of movies. A Holiday I Do deserves special scorn for its attempt to recoup lesbian relationships and how badly it fared in my local audience of lesbians. You cannot simply find-and-replace "woman" for "man" and end up with a commensurate story.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

It's a good talk, but I would object to describing Trump as confused. As usual, to me the Liberal objection is mainly aesthetic. The strength of the petrodollar has since the 70s relied on an assurance that America is militarily able to secure its debts, i.e. drop a bomb anywhere at anytime.

Video games have come a long way since Pac-Man

The real question is if Mark Cuban is this stupid, or if he just thinks we are.

Maybe this is very basic, but I asked my own mother whenever I needed advice on raising babies. This reminds me very much of Graeber observing in Debt that when faced with a debt we cannot repay, we either deify it or invisibilize it. Feminine labor too often doesn't count as labor. Makes me see red

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And another by Belle Waring "Nothing Happened"

"Baby Random" by Bell Waring A poem by a nurse

Another week of movies. I passed 365 for the year on Thursday.

We will remember Dec 6 1989 and the lives of these folks cut short because of hatred for humans marked as female/feminine

neither here nor there but this was an amazing movie IMO

The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

Bilbo Baggins voice: "The pedos are coming! The pedos are coming!"

Not really interested in watching Stranger Things anymore. First season had a vibe. But once it settled into itself, blah, no thanks.

People have a lot of nerve writing new books when I still haven't finished reading the books that have already been written.

Some real ups and downs in movie-watching this week

Feels like there's some relationship to the observation that needing your robot to be human-shaped really only proceeds from a desire to own a person. The AI fetishist wants a self-directed person to take the place of their own imaginative labor, to hitch to an active brain and just go to sleep.

Just got home from a parent-teacher conference, finally able to start the day

Good quick litmus test for determining if you think American propaganda aligns with your class interests.

A toddler when in a moment of exhaustion and weakness you let them have or do something you normally wouldn’t:

Another week of movies

Another week of movies poured into the slurry of my mind.

Jean Thoresen, Sinister Wisdom, Winter/Spring '98 issue

First week of November. Good break from horror every day of October. Might do some Wuxia tonight.

I went to see Bugonia yesterday and it made me think of Adorno's astrology essay, Stars Down to Earth