The idea that these movies are supposed to be swift and fun—which was so deftly set up 18 years ago in Iron Man—now feels buried under tons of leaden fan service and 1960s-Biblical-epic-level self-seriousness. And it looks ugly.

you know that kwame ture quote about how nonviolence only works as a strategy when your opponent has a conscience? something similar at play with pointing out your opponent's hypocrisy. that only works if your opponent agrees that he's playing a word game not prosecuting a holy war

been trying to figure out what it is people want youth to Do with every activity and space being taken from them, internet starting to be walled off, but adults not liking them at home either and i think the unstated desire is "some kind of constantly running summer camp, but one we don't pay for"

On the occasion of the passing of my colleague from across the aisle

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

This is without a doubt the biggest wedding held at Madison Square Garden since Adolf Hitler’s wedding in 1938

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

I was not prepared for how sad and repellent I would find this trailer. I know this isn't even close to the worst thing that happened today but Christ Almighty, if you work in the entertainment industry, it just isn't that hard to decide that you're not going to make things worse.

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

And I think this from @peterbeinart.bsky.social is important context, without undermining the point: open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...

There's way too much talk among Democrats right now that the 2028 nominee can't be black and can't be gay and can't be Jewish and can't be a woman. We are not good at this kind of "casting" crap and it usually bites us in the ass. We need to pick the right candidate, not the right type of candidate.

Hard to overstate what a huge deal this is for NYC residents--just a massive "I did exactly what I said I'd do" moment for the mayor. Can't wait to see who denounces or downplays it.

It’s honestly pretty cool we’re just gonna keep trying out “being a socialist means you hate [certain marginalized group]” with no actual explanation until we run out of groups

new yorkers en masse have expressed their enthusiasm for democratic socialism. but these forty men surveyed in the waiting room of the coeur d’alene family court have a different perspective

When a Jew wins a landslide election in the most Jewish city in the United States, where massive numbers of Jews turned out to reject a terrorist org that lobbies for genocide:

perpetually misreading kalshi as kashi and wondering how high-fiber cereal has such a stranglehold on the nation

Life is a mystery Everyone must stand alone I hear you call my name but then who was phone

actual wolf: let's sleep in a pile tonight idiot guy: *reads a book called Based Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius On Defeating Wokeness*

It’s great that since anyone who has ever been to New York at all counts as a New Yorker, we can all share in this victory ❤️

ALFRED: why do we fall, master Bruce? DEPRESSED BATMAN: because we’re fail and we fucking SUCK alfred

You are only a real New Yorker if you grew up in the sewers under the city with your Italian-named brothers and were raised by a mutant Japanese rat and trained in the martial arts.

Followup: As I guessed it would, Masters of the Universe flopped, grossing just $29 million in the US. From the @thr.com story: "The biggest age demographic for the weekend was 45- to 54-year-olds." This kind of nostalgia is a niche business that Gen X male execs still think is a mass business.

"Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" is only a meaningful slogan if you actually do the work to keep the genuine bona fide antisemites out of the anti-Zionist political movement.

Since Israel's genocide in Gaza, I have worked to convince my Jewish family that anti-Israel politics is not all antisemitism and is in fact justified at this moment in time, with some success. Making a guy with a Nazi tattoo the face of anti-Israel politics in the US makes that job so much harder.

every little thing she does is magritt everything she do is not une pipe

it really does suck when something you don't think is very good gets a bunch of haters who are just batshit insane

(yelling over the roar of a huge building that provides no jobs and spikes utility prices to power a bad, unpopular product being forced into everyone's lives with the promise that it will soon replace them) YOU RUBES ONLY THINK THIS SUCKS BECAUSE YOUR FEEBLE INTELLECTS ARE UNDER THE THRALL OF MEMES

I’m proud to be endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and I look forward to being a partner for him in Congress. Meanwhile, my opponent couldn’t bring himself to endorse Zohran as the Democratic nominee in the general election, even when the alternative was serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo.

thinking about this a lot today

I love you.

We're living in the golden age of watching videos of random bedraggled strangers confidently explaining the world's most complicated topics they just read about on Wikipedia five minutes ago

The concept of “free speech zones” and “first amendment zones” is fucking bonkers. So you mean the full constitution doesn’t apply outside of the little square y’all decided on? And we’re supposed to just comply with that?

Bro is playing 40 chess

My take on Disclosure Day has to stay Under wraps, I think. Obviously I'm not objective about Steven Spielberg, so all of the Things I want to Say to you about it will have to wait Even though I want to Exclaim them from the housetops.

that's just how it is on this bitch of an earth

It seems to me that you lived your life like a candle or some shit

these cretins will, without fail, reveal that they haven’t read a book since ninth grade (Orwell, etc.), didn’t even understand *that* book, hated their teacher for making them read at all, hate anyone who studied or attempted their own literature, and still demand a whiter cast for big poem movie

right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit

Girl are you a microwave because mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

beautiful women can’t get enough of this fifty degree drizzly weather. we’re cavorting and giggling in our sensible anoraks. splashing each other with frigid rainwater

Massive away win for the little fella.

"birth rates are declining" don't care I already got born

I wonder who else has been enriching himself through lucrative government contracts

At this point, journalists who still persist in declining to talk about racism and cruelty as key GOP motivators are essentially colluding in writing fiction about the present state of politics and of the country.

Guys. The Ancient Greeks weren't white. They were more like cephalopods than modern humans -- their skin was bioluminescent and constantly shifting its color. And they didn't live in in idyllic seaside villages; they could only survive near deep-ocean vents. They DID have Matt Damon accents, though