fucking shameful.

solid album and "autodidact" (the opener) is maddeningly catchy - re-unions after long layoffs are often bad news but these guys beat the odds - both their (semi)recent albums are genuinely good.

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

Pitch in to join the fight: secure.actblue.com/donate/lande...

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

Lander seems like a genuinely decent human being while Goldman is a soulless ghoul so this cheers me up.

Lifetime channel noirs/thrillers are fun - that they all run about 90 minutes means 0% self-indulgent flab that sometimes ruins prestigious movies in the same genre - i turn 'em on for background noise but find myself actually paying attention/enjoying it after 15-20 minutes - never fails.

Jimmy Fallon has mussed Trump's hair, hawked nfts (when he was an investor in the nft co.), and now given Sam Altman a platform to talk about using chat GPT to raise babies. At this point I hope we can agree that this soulless buster has more than used up any goodwill he got from hiring The Roots

genuinely curious as to the "how many" as regards attendance at these things + how incoherent did it get? is there a transcript available?

cases of "imposter syndrome" have gotta be hitting all-time lows since the start of Trump 2.0 - how can anyone feel unsure about themselves while these utter fucking idiots are in charge?

Again, I'm getting a LOT of mileage out of this Mastodon post of mine

saw someone post a 1-year anniversary of their most famous tweet, which reminds me of something (this happened before elon ruined the place) - someone tweeted that you could find great stuff by visiting well-to-do neighborhoods on the nights that furniture and appliances are put out for pick-up (1)

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

“My biggest fault? I’d say it’s that I work too hard and care too much” ass lede

After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

I have a longstanding theory that the “classiness” associated with rich people is a vestigial cultural artifact from the aristocracy, and the modern version is mostly people who make like 200-300k a year. Actual rich people are goblins with horrid taste who would live in trash heaps without servants

i only know one of these songs and sadly, it is mariah carey's

liberals and centrists - i am literally BEGGING you guys: before you post a quote from wise old dwight eisenhower, please do a little research into some of the shit the CIA got up to while that guy was president - and stop wetting your drawers at the prospect of embarrassing trump supporters with

i don't know that i could take or make jokes like these under similar circumstances, but holy fuck this is HILARIOUS.

It's very annoying how 30 seconds after Crockett wins the primary the DSCC will abandon Texas like it's that last shot of the empty apartment on a sitcom's series finale and somehow everyone will still find a way to blame her inevitable loss on people who voted for Bernie Sanders nine years ago

When BP asked Harry Truman to help overthrow Iran's government, Truman told 'em "fuck off" but old President Beware the Military Industrial Complex responded with "Great idea, we're in!" That's the problem throughout this country's history. Lotsa big talk but nobody ever looks in the fucking mirror.

big ups to bsky devs for making accounts DISAPPEAR from view the second you hit mute.

the democratic party cannot be taken seriously unless they start addressing how serious this is. the "fever" is not going to break when trump goes away. this is who and what they are and have always been. it's the dems timidity that has emboldened them to do whatever they please.

So anyway, I started blasting.

whoa whoa whoa. wait a minute. stop. Quentin Tarantino talked his shit about Paul Dano on *Bret Easton Ellis's* **podcast**? you all buried the lede on how stupid this is

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Saw a movie post about a film that I am a detractor for. But I did not comment. Rage posting is the tool of the enemy. We do not use it. We do not *need* it.

Cameron got ALIENS because he was willing to do it cheaper than anyone else and to my mind the theatrical cut of ALIENS and the 1st Terminator are still his best films.

The studios no longer make movies primarily to attract and please moviegoers; they make movies in such a way as to get as much as possible from the prearranged and anticipated deals. (1980)

stancil gets chewed up for stuff like this or takes on the economy but he's not completely wrong - if he said there's a huge number of dumb middle-class voters for whom these things don't register as problems he'd be spot-on. middle-class folks of any color are gonna have a hard time recognizing

Kevin Costner sitting in his kitchen at 3:00 AM, the only light from the still-open fridge door, housing an Entenmann’s Crumb Coffee Cake all by himself, no silverware or plates.

makes sense

It's the year 2077. All movie studios belong to Netflix. Cinemas only play trailers for their streaming catalog. Every franchise is canceled after two movies/seasons, on mandatory cliffhangers. Nothing from before 2002 is available. Owning physical media is punishable by death. Netflix is love.

Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

while i often complain about a tendency to IGNORE vote suppression in favor of what i think of as "conspiracy nonsense", this is a genuinely interesting story and i'm curious as to how it will play out - republicans (voters and electeds) will cheat whenever possible - that's just how they are.

maybe given the current political situation, finding things about which to say “the president has a point” is not only not a good look but actively bad and fucked up? Maybe maybe resist the impulse to say “well I agree with this chump” and find something else to talk about instead?

Over on the Facebook, you can bet that whether it's ICE brutalizing immigrant toddlers, or the US military mass-murdering civilians in international waters, every person cheering it on makes sure that you know they are a "Christian" in their profile. Every. Single. One.

Here's a free life lesson from someone who grew up on the Internet: You cannot have a conversation with someone who only wants you to be wrong. Keep your peace. Save your time.

he big mad those zionist lunatics the ellison family didn't win. swear to god this fucking guy sucks ass.

If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench

i don't say this lightly but i hope people realize that if the response to SCOTUS overturning roe-v-wade (or hillary clinton not going to the white house after winning the popular vote a few years earlier) had been months of civil unrest (protests, strikes, etc) it would have stopped conservatives

this is bad messaging (premiums are going up either way - a little or a lot, and many people are going to associate what happens with the dems) this would be a great time for them to blame everything on republicans and go for a public option - they won't, of course. because they're fucking useless.

yeah, the president is just a big kid who has enabled a level of unparalleled government-backed destruction - attacks on trans ppl, immigrants, blacks, women etc etc etc. fuck you, politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Once you’ve hit a point where your understanding of the economy doesn’t account for how the average person might experience housing, healthcare and food costs skyrocketing, you have educated yourself into being a fucking moron. It really is that simple

these people are so dumb it strains belief.

apparently he was next on stage? ouch!

Watching Hakeem Jeffries do politics is like watching a tree do alegebra. "jazz hands" optional.

So… all the people who were telling us to stop criticizing any Dems — do you believe me that Hakeem Jeffries is a problem yet?