Brazil bans Kalshi and Polymarket from operating in the country. obviously things aren't perfect there but I think we need to think seriously about how to get institutions like theirs

Does anyone else loudly exclaim to their dog,”Look at this distinguished gentleman,” like at least 4 times a week?

"Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death is one who deceives their neighbor and says, 'I was only joking!'” -- Proverbs 26:18-19 (NIV)

There is probably one person in the world who was both traumatized and oddly fascinated in the 3rd grade by the Animorphs book series, and is currently obsessed with everything associated with Ryan Coogler. So you can only imagine how I felt when I read this news: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Pope Leo at the Stations of the Cross: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says. "Whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."

I would like someone to explain how the words Psycho, Hustle, Graffiti, and Beauty were all connections words today, and the connection wasn’t that they all were movies with the word “American,” in them.

When your teenager comes home after a movie and eats 12 eggo waffles…

Amy Madigan deserved that Oscar. That was definitely one of the wildest and most memorable performances of 2025.

This has been a day of pop culture ugly crying. First stupid Divine and Weston kill Hyoi in Out of the Silent Planet. Then I read Puppy by George Saunders and ugly cried. Then I ugly cried when I watched Mitchel vs the Machines again. Then I watched Shrinking…which is guaranteed weeping.

I had not clocked the end credits of The Other Guys until tonight’s rewatch, but bravo, Adam McKay.

Chuck Norris was my commencement speaker.

It’s important that you have one friend at work that is familiar with the Key and Peele continental breakfast skit so that any time the phrase comes up at work, you can immediately send them this.

This is just a reminder that if you are a person of Christian persuasion and you think this kind of rhetoric is so ridiculous it’s not even worth addressing, I guarantee you every teenager in your student ministry knows who this guy is, has likely seen this clip, or is hearing something similar.

Who was the casting director for The Faculty? The fact that this movie was genuinely like the breakout movie for Jordana Brewster, Clea Duvall, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, John Stewart (lol), Usher, and one Elijah Wood’s first adult roles is like unbelievable.

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I’ve now listened to The Wager and The Zorg narrated by Dion Graham. There is nothing better than listening to this man narrative the history of ships. Every ship book should be narrated by him.

I’m just going to keep saying how much of a problem this is.

During every movie trailer in the previews today, the couple behind me kept saying, “eew no,” and “definitely not,” for every movie. And it got me wondering if they understood that they we were all about to watch the new Sam Raimi movie and that perhaps they aren’t the target audience for this one.

Every day, I wake up sad that sports betting is a thing. I can hardly watch sports on television anymore knowing that every single ad is trying to exploit working class viewers during the one pass time they have. Am I the only one that wants to throw up?

Going to go soothe my nervous system at Barnes and Noble after doing a driving lesson with my teenage daughter.

When John Mayer sang, “One day our generation is going to rule the population,” inquiring minds want to know what Mayer’s timeframe was on that statement. Because the song is going to be 20 years old this year, and the average age of Congress is something like 58 years old.

All I’m saying is that for all of the weird things that evangelical Protestants have critiqued over the years (I’m thinking leggings, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, etc), it would be super great if we could put that same energy toward critiquing sports gambling.

Middle and high school Sunday school was me just making them look at the Beatitudes for 30 minutes and make as many observations and ask as many questions as possible. And telling them not to ask ChatGPT for the answers, which was their first impulse.

Watching Face/Off right now. Trying to explain to my son the chokehold that John Woo had on action movies in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Stranger Things time…see you on the other side!

I’m thinking about watching one director’s complete filmography in 2026. I’m leaning toward Scorsese, but I’m open to suggestions. Any ideas?

Trying to get my boys to take Shutter Island seriously during their first watch, but after Leo found the note that says “Who is patient 67,” they won’t stop saying “Six sevvvvenn!” Literally of all the numbers…Scorsese could never have known.

People say I’m an over explainer. But you know, I’m just saying that if eco-terrorists were freeing zombie chimps that rapidly infect people and they asked me what they were infected with, I would have said more than just, “Rage.” 28 Days Later would never have happened on my watch.

So I’m going to need Barnes and Noble to expand their philosophy section to more than how to be a Stoic because I personally plan on being insufferably loud and emotional for the foreseeable future.

Every time I see a Karen Hao interview I’m both impressed by the breadth of her investigative journalism related to AI and simultaneously depressed on her behalf due to the insane number of absolutely ghoulish facts she knows about these tech companies driving the AI insanity.

Here’s my review of Wake Up Dead Man. If you haven’t seen it, don’t read this thread, as there will be mild spoilers.

24 days of cheese.

I don’t think a show has done a better job of introducing new characters as well as Stranger Things does. Derek Turnbow!!!

Starting to prep the Stranger Things charcuterie.

These Sunrise on the Reaping trailers and edits are already making me cry.

The Perfect Neighbor is probably the most infuriating documentary I’ve watched in a long time.

Since the internet is slop at this point, I’m creating an intentional network of friends who will basically function as a search engine now. If you were to create a network of friends who could function as a search engine, what would your superpower be in that network?

Halloween charcuterie

Why did my middle child just ask for an egg boiler and an electric fly swatter for his birthday?

What in the late stage capitalism is this?

Review of #BlackPhone2. I am a huge fan of the first movie, and generally of all of Scott Derrickson’s work. I was not sure how they were going to do a sequel of this one, so I went in order to skeptically to the movie.

I’m seeing a lot of “the dialogue is corny,” in Black Phone 2, but have these critics ever been in a conservative evangelical context with a high level of spiritual bypassing? Because some of that dialogue was very accurate.

I’m so boring at this point because the thing I’m most anticipating this week is my 2026 planner that is arriving in the mail this Saturday.

One thing about being a boss that is fun is that you can encourage a culture of sweet treats. Did today go badly? Go get a sweet treat. Did you do something awesome today? Award yourself with a sweet treat! My team would tell you that I am really into a culture of sweet treats.

If anyone is wondering how I’m doing, I bought TWO of these on Saturday at 930pm, thinking I would be a healthy girl during my pumpkin spice era. My 9year old warned me that this was a bad idea and it wouldn’t be good and I went against his judgment.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

So I’m reading Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and I cannot stress enough that if you’re a human alive today, you should read this book.

www.thetimes.com/business-mon... I was curious to see if any notes from Thiel’s private lectures would be made public. Super convenient interpretive framework that sees any form of external regulation of his hoarding of capital as the hastening of the antichrist.

Pro tip: if you make your cold foam at home, you can put in as much as you want.