okay i thought I'd write a few words and then I was up until 1am going through the book Townshend & Richard Barnes wrote about the making of the film: jukeboxgraduate.com/fun-facts-ab...

I think this is really important. Anti-violence means accepting it’s common and not relegated to monsters we can other.

Another popular refrain seems to be “We’ll wait to see what the courts have to say about this before passing judgment!” What courts?! That so many regard the criminal legal system as a magical and omnipotent entity rather than a limited, fallible, human-made tool is, I guess, telling.

so many women keep stories like this hidden because they know they will be ripped to shreds if they come forward to knock a hero off his pedestal and we can’t promise to protect or even believe them if they do, especially when they know it will be weaponized against their whole movement

Some people can't imagine why a person would share their experience of sexual assault if not to launch a criminal investigation. I've read so many variations of "He's dead now. We should focus on more pressing issues" today. Which, of course, points to why a person *wouldn't* disclose.

The nationwide book ban bill is now entering the House of Representatives for consideration. Here's everything you need to know about HR 7661, including next steps to take in helping defeat this anti-LGBTQ, anti-intellectual, pro-voucher bill before it goes any farther: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others. It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.

45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015)

Something I've been trying to do lately is formulate my principles and beliefs in positive rather than negative terms - "I believe X" rather than "I'm not like those fucking guys" - and it's been a useful and (I think) healthy little reorientation

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

Me, praising the dog: “You’re such a fast runner! Like Atanarjuat!” Tell me you worked in a video store in 2001 without saying you worked in a video store in 2001.

I just read this comment about Mary Harron's film, American Psycho ... "A male director probably would have taken the lurid aspects too far (not even on purpose, he just wouldn't have had the necessary restraint)." ... and now I have to go lie down forever.

It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…

I saw the dog trot by with a checkbook in her mouth. After I managed to get it away from her with a stern “Drop it! Drop it!”, I softened: Maybe I was too harsh. After all, she probably doesn’t know what a checkbook is. She’s not even two years old.

"From the beginning, covering AIDS has been about the fight to tell the truth. Every single paradigm that has been thrown at us about it is untrue."

Secrets 🤫

An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

She really is the bee's knees

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

I saw an electronic billboard for the Catholic school system my brother and I attended as kids (not an overwhelmingly great experience), and discovered their new slogan is "Your Child, Your Choice". Oh, the layers upon layers of smdh.

Anyways.

I was at a work meeting with a partner agency, and their executive director remarked “I finally figured out who you remind me of…” It turned out to be a perfectly normal-looking actor from Call the Midwife. But let me tell you, when she showed me her phone screen, I was fully bracing for Shrek.

I gave myself the meaningless challenge of watching all this year’s Best Picture Oscar nominees before the awards ceremony, mainly because there are only two I haven’t seen yet: The Secret Agent and F1. And, damn, why is F1 so long? 2 hours and 35 minutes! I can feel my life slipping away.

OK, this film is very much my shit. Double-feature with Clouds of Sils Maria when?

My 19-year-old and I are going to Sentimental Value and I asked the 17-year-old if she wanted to come, too. “What’s it about?” “An aging director proposes casting his estranged daughter in his film, but ends up going with a Hollywood actress instead, and it results in—“ “Murder?” “—feelings.”

Stairs to nowhere Sidney, IL

No war with Iran! No wars and sanctions! End the blockade on Cuba! End illegal killings, kidnappings, and seizures! End the genocide in Palestine and Sudan! End exterminationist domestic policy!

Im not mad about helping my neighbors I'm furious about sending money to random venmos and paypals when the state is sitting on billions in surplus and the federal government has money for anything they want.

I’m sure this is happening elsewhere, too, but it seems like my state’s conservative legislature has been churning out these bills that deploy CSA victims/the specter of CSA as bait for some flimsily-disguised power play and I! Hate! It!

After that Super Bowl commercial about linking Flock and Ring cameras, I saw many comments to the effect of “But we need this to keep domestic violence and stalking victims safe.” State surveillance will never do that. In fact: the opposite.

"He seems nice." (stage-whispered by Homer, about insufferable designer Formico [whose name must never be spoken]) and, of course "My only friends are grown-up nerds like Gore Vidal. And even he's kissed more boys than I ever will." "Girls, Lisa. Boys kiss girls."

One of my favorite songs that always nourishes my soul m.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kD...

Lisa is 💯here AND: - repeating false claims w the aim of disproving often only amplifies, even w quality rebuttal - better to assert values-positive messaging unapologetically than dispute nonsense - if you think someone is reachable, ask q's rather than move to immediate rebuttal

RIP Tom Noonan, a friend for 18 years. Often typecast as villains, he was an actor's actor, a unique playwright & filmmaker, a gifted composer, and a pianist with a sweet voice. My kids & I used to go to his tiny apartment for dinner (pizza). We'd have a few drinks & he'd start to play. Magic.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

My son is a highly anxiety-driven, but eminently capable, first-year college student, who falls back on a kind of stilted-sounding writing style to cope with academic self-doubt and is NOW worried that that'll trip the AI sensors and I don't think he needs this added stress in his life, thanks.

This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."

Predator: Badlands (2025)

Still standing strong, I’m happy to report.

Are my nerves a little frayed? Is even the IDEA of emotional regulation just the vestige of a dream I once had? Did I just start weeping at a FB video from a psychic medium who purports to communicate with pets who have “crossed over”?

Florida's opening argument in their appeal of the ruling that they cannot ban books from schools is that the government doesn't owe students public school library books at all.

Her and Noem are on different ends of one axis of the dog owners graph, but are both maxed out on the evil axis of that chart.

Our (ethical, science-backed) dog trainer always reminds the families she works with that dogs are captive animals. And I believe whether that fact inspires a sense of responsibility/accountability, or a sense of entitled authority, says a lot about a person.

My 19-year-old* is a lifelong fan of cinema. Recently, we were watching something featuring the song "Singin' in the Rain". Which, you may recall, begins with the lyric "I'm singin' in the rain". Stuart: "Isn't this from--?" Me: "-- Singin' In the Rain." Stuart, dryly: "A Clockwork Orange."

I saw a comment on a news article (about the horrors): “I’m not sure I like where the 🇺🇸 is heading.” What part seems like it could be OK, I wonder?

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay