Realized I never dropped my Replay here, so here it is. Pretty jam-heavy year for me.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Dream Theater Andy McKee Thrice Death Cab For Cutie Deafheaven

Currently having the type of #lastfourwatched that makes me question whether or not I actually even like watching movies all that much. What I need is the cinematic equivalent of a juice cleanse or something.

Top 5 movie genres: - Sad astronauts with family trauma on a mission to save humanity - microbudget single-location Twilight Zone homage - putting a heist team together with high-concept sci-fi twist - WTF did I just watch? - the monster is a metaphor but it’s also cool as hell on face value

I have never gone from knowing nothing about a film to adding it to my @letterboxd.social watchlist so fast. This looks like a blast.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

RIP Drew Struzan - the best to ever do it. Lots of his iconic poster art is going around today, so I’m sharing a deeper cut - the poster art that he created as a prop for The Mist, depicting a theoretical Dark Tower film.

This is wild. I really didn’t expect this to ever happen, but it could be amazing. Missing out on seeing them live with Neil is one of my biggest concert regrets.

This is honestly some of my least favorite type of nerd griping "why would that scientist not properly secure a container" "why is she eating in the lab" bro do you want to watch a TV show where the monsters escapes or do you want to be an OSHA inspector 😅

Apologize for retweeting the same article twice but - and I say this with no hint of irony - this is a pretext to the single largest, easily litigated lawsuit in human history. This is an egregious violation of IP law, law protected quite literally & specifically by the Constitution. Total insanity.

Psyched to see Deafheaven tonight at the Vogue. A week like this one calls for some catharsis.

relatedly, severely curb youth travel sports so more kids play on their school team with their schoolmates and just for fun

I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to kill their way to a better tomorrow. Not that folks don’t keep trying.

Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne

Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

As someone who has listened to more Staind than is socially acceptable to admit, I can believe that Lewis’s grasp of lyrical subtext is pretty nonexistent. Ironically a lot of Staind songs get at broadly similar personal issues but with all the subtlety of a brick and none of the social context.

Alien: Earth is pretty great so far. Loving the new directions and themes in the storytelling while totally nailing the aesthetic of the classic movies. Some killer needle drops too.

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

Utterly shameful. What a depressing place this country is heading towards.

Showing up unprepared to a rehearsal that I didn’t know I was expected at is literally my idea of hell, so uh, not sure if the implications are clear to the meme maker here.

This one is hitting hard. Dude WAS heavy metal. A titanic loss.

Very hyped for this. Liking the vibes of the single.

just adding to the chorus here that this is fucking bullshit, and everyone knows this was an unmistakably political decision

*looks around anxiously* Hell of a night on here, huh. That new NIN track is a banger, though. youtu.be/-Sj-FmI5JfA?...

our country rn

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

This was a great read and gets at the staggering amount of influence Wilson had on practically all popular music. RIP to a titan.

This doesn’t quite track to the rhythm of “Killing In The Name” but I really wish it did. (Also, very much agree.)

in continually prompting people for their input 24/7, social media has created a world where people believe that everything is their business. the proper response to 99% of what you see on your computer is "that's none of my business"

Great write-up, but there’s been some mistake - I clearly remember this coming out when I was in college, and there’s no way that was 20 years ago. …right?

It's like having a flat earther in charge of NASA.

Partner just tried to write “Fyodor Dostoyevsky” using text-to-speech and it called him “Theodore Dubstep”

Yes, I fell for the "Got your nose" trick, but that shouldn't distract us from the real issue of nose theft in our society

A bit spoilery, but a great review nonetheless. I really can’t wait to see this.

Inside us there are two wolves…

Wisconsin now needs to prosecute Musk for his lawbreaking election stunt.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”

ai art is like being a runner and youre excited for a marathon and youre training and then someone comes up and says 'why not use this new 'car tech' it can drive you to the finish line and youll have run the marathon without that pesky running'. then theyre confused when you say no and run instead

I mostly hate that "the worst people in the world are obsessed with going to space" is giving "going to space" a bad name (and also currently defunding NASA)

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate. Fix your hearts or die.

Look, I'm as panicked as the next guy, but please verify info. studentaid.gov/manage-loans... is still working just fine (for now)

people love Jefferson's adage that revolution is a tree that is often watered with blood because they think it means killing the bad people. what it really means is lots of good people die pointless, stupid deaths, and you are obliged to enact progress to make those deaths less pointless.

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

i simply cannot understand, on any level, how these folks are just bursting with hatred for their fellow human beings. so keen to be cruel. so gleefully eager to watch other people suffer and die. it is the most un-Christlike behavior imaginable.