we got your genetic tests back and it’s definitely maybelline

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Images from films shot by cinematographer Haskell Wexler - BOTD in 1922 The Loved One (1965) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Bound for Glory (1976) Matewan (1987)

this was perhaps inevitable but still, heavy sigh

I totally missed that Bitcoin is implicated with the Guthrie kidnapping. This is going to introduce a lot of older folks to the dark side of cryptocurrency in a really horrific way.

And web.mit.edu/slava/space/... doi.org/10.48550/arX...

It’s depressing to hear that Ian McKellen will be playing Gandalf again. Surely he’s hogged the role for long enough and it’s time to give Timothée Chalamet a turn

"The group that should be in the streets, has been bought off. by Jay Z"

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

Chappell Roan is now in Fortnite

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Jay-Z's Jet (N44440) Landed in Van Nuys, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 51 min.

Oh, these ones? Poor baby

Saddened to learn that First Monday will cease publication. It was a quality open-access journal that eschewed the traps of big publishing and promoted innovative thinking & research regarding tech and society. #academicsky firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Gotta be honest: I'm still not convinced.

WHAT?? SO SOON AFTER LOSING VERLAINE?? mannnnnnnnnnnn

would much rather go through another month of "will-he-won't-he" instead of having to accept this

Marshawn

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get … tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

this is a Sonic game, the crowd is winning those rings for having confronted the Eggman (Vance)

very good

Yeah when I think of "places I want to lend money to" it's a Hobbit-themed operation run by this guy.

I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing

"summarized"

oh my god

I guess this is a provocation, but does it work when it's out of context like this, when it's affirmative instead of defensive, when the symbol isn't deployed a century ago as a means of securing Italian American whiteness? idk seems weak

I liked "Blue Lips" when it first came out but I just revisited and that is one of my favorite albums of the decade. What a journey through sound, and Schoolboy's ability to wrap his flow and move through the varying personality of the sound is fucking brilliant.

Your subscriber dollars at work: Aftermath has a new regular contributor and monthly columnist. Welcome @adashtra.bsky.social and @jmrivera.bsky.social to our regular rotation of writers! aftermath.site/podcasts/after...

The idea of making a name with a fine minute show that aired before the late news in the DC market is funny to us, but it's a good reminder that television's real parent isn't really film (though obviously, the latter could be aired on it), but radio - there was no reason for it to be otherwise

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

I made this poll for the group chat to see who the real ones are but you can do it too if you want docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

love when Jack goes full "Icky Thump" mode

The Post's announcement named Book World as a discrete entity being eliminated, which led to a lot of kind words, all of which are greatly appreciated. But other critics weren't in a section entirely eliminated (though what will remain of it, I have no idea), so I've seen much less about them. 1/2

ICYMI: Jon Hagler, class of '58, is sounding the alarm at Texas A&M in an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News. TL;DR from me: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

COREWEAVE GOT CHANCE THE RAPPER AS ITS NEWEST SPOX?? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO000OOOO000 finance.yahoo.com/news/corewea...

"Talent is a gatekeeping mechanism" is a hell of a quote.

Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

not the only racist dirty trick he played in that election! (a reminder once again that New York rappers saw Giuliani for who he was long before the rest of the country did)

In honor of Bad Bunny's victories at this year's #Grammys, we dropped the paywall for @nicolefroio.bsky.social#Grammys,s review of THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS:

Anti-trans bigots lie, all the time, about everything.

How could we forget. We used to get real news from a reliable source

That Kid Rock "halftime show" isn't even gonna be on TV. Just YouTube and X and Rumble. It's a glorified live stream.

Vital reporting by Theresa. She is one of my top reads on LGBTQ health/science reporting

Huang just said "Anthropic is generating profitable revenues" wtf does that mean?

thank you elliott! and the same to you!

the people who are outraged over bad bunny are not worth engaging, they don't know anything about him and don't want to learn anything about him, they just need to be mad at whatever right-wing media tells them to be mad at because they've forgotten any other way to live their lives

This starts off as a horrible idea, and becomes an even worse one when you realize that the average MLB player's "voice and interests" is, uh... www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...