I have this little move I like to do where I flash my high beams at an oncoming car to let them know they have their high beams on and then they flash their crazy bright LED actual high beams at me that burn my shadow into the headrest as I crash into a telephone pole

Things that will literally turn us all into the joker.

You want to be famous, and rich, and happy but you're terrified you have nothing to offer this world nothing to say and no way to say it You are more than the sum of what you consume Desire is not an occupation You are ultimately thrilled and desperate Sky high and fucked

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

Maybe ask instead: do you want the party to cave to corporate interests, echo Republican framing of social issues, let more people around the world starve and die, and generally wimp out? 2/2

this is a masterpiece

Nothing is more depressing than watching young artists give other young artists advice like “only use one colour palette in everything you do to have a more recognizable brand” and “draw everything with a target audience in mind”

Our hearts break with each new emerging detail from the deadly, hate-fueled shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

cd player in the subaru has been finicky lately so I've been listening to the radio instead, and man i hadn't heard that live song about the lady whose placenta fell out in a long time

A write-in campaign to challenge/protest Juan Vargas here in the fightin' 52nd! I'm down. Let's go, Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla!

I'm increasingly determined to go to theaters only for non-sequel/reboot films, honestly. I'm excited for: We Love Boosters Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Girls Like Girls The Wrong Girls I Want Your Sex

If you go see Mandalorian & Grogu but skip Sheep Detectives, you lose a bit of your right to complain about Hollywood doing nothing but endlessly milk old IP... just sayin'

I have been told several times by NYT reporters that they *include this crediting* in drafts and have it removed by editors.

Hay eveybodie, They Might Be Giants is giving away a free download of Flood in America, a collection of songs from Flood as performed on live tours, for today and tomorrow only! Here: tmbgshop.com/collections/...

I watched Thomas Tokar's Claws last night and, man, so-called "ai filmmakers" are such an embarrassment. If you wanna make a movie bad enough you'll just make one. youtu.be/AuGrTKhW6KA?...

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McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

Aubergine de Poitrine #anginedepoitrine

"hey ya" and "mr brightside" are for sure up there, but no, not "we are young"

Happy Mother Day!

People who have lost their moms, mothers who have lost a child, people who desperately want to be moms and can’t be, people who have strained or no relationships with their mothers…. It’s a big boat. 💔 You are not alone.

Happy Mother's Day

Oh yes - Dandy Warhols brings me joy and leads to some major kitchen dancing. If you are not on to kexp.org community radio, globally streaming, yet… I will just keep nudging you. Their space is a must- visit if you come to Seattle, too.

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These idoltors worshipping the golden g*d And those evangelicals right there including this fool Mark Burns

The way you know Jessica Rabbit was an actual for real sex icon on a cultural level is my old ass dad responded to me renting it for the first time as a teen by roasting my nerd ass alive with "Now I don't get revved up by cartoons like you do, but Jessica Rabbit? THAT'S a woman." Never recovered

Do it. You’ll be legends.

If the juice in oysters is called liquor, are they high on their own supply

George Clinton:

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Immigrants built this country—and they’ll help defeat the MAGA movement. (QUESABIRRA—recipe in my Substack)

And of course the data center build-up is counteracting the gains made by adding more renewable capacity while also installing new fossil capacity. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that there should simply be a ban on new fossil generation capacity in general.

You can only create a universally abundant public good if there's not a problem of induced demand, and by decoupling electricity usage from real human-originating demand for something, computer nerds have cut this possibility off for the electrification revolution.

Part of my hate for AI and crypto comes from the basic fact that... we now do have the technology to turn a capital investment today into a world where electricity is too cheap to meter. But unfortunately techbros invented two infinite power sinks so that's not happening.

(Jethro Tull Voice) Claudes Die By The Thousands

Saw my first Hillcrest waymo on Sunday, my friend @shutterlabcreative.com said "yeah that one lives somewhere around here." we are both old school anti-clankers, but he physically bristled when he saw it coming down the street. I'm a nimby for waymos only.

when is it not absolutely and unambiguously relevant to talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, red pandas, and pigeons i ask u

Min maxing is the capitalism of video games

Can't stop singing this to the theme of the Muppet Show

My reason didn't even make the list: looking sexy as helllllllll

i collected a bunch of explosions for specific reference so I made a little video of them some cool movie explosions youtu.be/qwl9azNeup4?...

I also have a folder featuring sketches from animators. Whenever I'd come across anything that an animator had drawn (hand drawn cels, specifically) I'd save 'em. Here's thumbnail sketches of Medusa by Milt Kahl. #wardsmorguefile

We need to prepare ourselves for just how bad the trauma bond between the president and the press is going to be.

This is Dick's brother, y'all. Show some respect.

I watched the California governor’s debate last night. Xavier Becerra is the real deal. He’s a candidate of substance. He knows how government really works, because he’s been there, done that. Successfully. I’m for #BecerraForCA

Here’s the thing about the Mr. Beast suit: there’s this cultural expectation that ”new media” and “tech” and “startup” and “younger” companies will be more freewheeling and that you have to expert more douchey guy behavior, but the law doesn’t really reflect that. /1

Work is tough for me this week, but some people have it worse!

Think about it: AV companies trumpet their supposed safety benefits while programming robotaxis to drop people off in bike lanes. If you think that's a problem, maybe don't take robotaxi safety claims at face value.

I guess Waymo shouldn't exist then.