I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him" WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.

This is a tremendously fun read. I've never heard Teixeira speak, so I don't know if it comes at you in a rat-a-rat mile a minute, but that's what I was hearing in my head. That enthusiasm seems to be fueling a lot of terrific films.

All we do is make movies about moments like this and when the moments arrive it's like no one has ever seen a movie.

On brand for the GOP - remember Elon Musk thinks Judge Dredd is an unambiguous hero.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

I am being completely serious when I say these are the moments where we begin developing left-lib wingnut welfare. We should make this guy rich and begin establishing the norm that you can get paid for being on our team.

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

"The Myth," Giorgio Moroder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ05...

"The Jezebel Spirt," bootleg version, David Bryne & Brian Eno. www.youtube.com/watch?v=95FX...

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

Bluesky moderation remains a fucking joke. Also, reinstate Lexi Alexander.

words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian

Apparently nothing matters anymore, so be weird. Make stuff. Build community (online counts). Show your appreciation for the things and the people you love.

Translation from CEO Speak: "People using a pithy and accurate term makes our very expensive product difficult to sell and we want them to stop. We also don't actually know what this product is supposed to do for people."

I really cannot emphasize enough how extremely worth your time this entire series is

I don't think deciding to skip Shear Madness is going to be the thing that ends theatergoing in DC.

So @lexialex.bsky.social filed this appeal but is only getting automated replies @support.bsky.team very disappointed given @aaron.bsky.team also lives in Ireland. Have they not taught you anything about solidarity with Palestine?

What I really hate about this is that it's a strain of Democratic Party know-it-all-ism which is going to assert itself with a lot of $$ and a lot of free media in '26 and '28, which is "We could win this whole thing if you freaks would either just act normal or hide." Do not trust those messengers.

"While President Donald Trump’s peace plan appears to be holding, albeit with regular Israeli airstrikes, the crisis endures." That is one hell of a load-bearing "albeit."

I will not vote for, endorse, campaign for, or donate to any candidate or party that does not explicitly endorse FULL AND EQUAL RIGHTS to trans people in all areas of society. I'm not a full citizen, you don't get my second-class vote. Period. I think I'm being clear.

The Criterion Collection's montage of getting room tone from interviews.

For Whoever's Eyes Diamonds Are As Long As You Want, Man

Liberals: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good Me: yeah fair ok, show me the good Liberals: this isn't the time for fucking purity tests you little shit

Goes against the narrative, in an inspiring way

Here’s the story Bari killed. Spread it everywhere. archive.org/details/60-m...?

The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.

Jason's right. This show rocks. Also the STC venues will have among other things Bill Irwin doing Beckett, a live PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, HAMNET, and Wendell Pierce as Othello. Ex-TDJT+TJFKCenter patrons have a place to go for live awesome.

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

Turbulence (1997, dir. Robert Butler). It isn't Christmas 'til Teri brings in Transcon flight 50 (and Ray Liotta gets totally Wile E. Coyote'd).

I got a lot of weird static (from dummies) when I said this was important from a campaign perspective but we really do need to commit ourselves to scraping Trumpism off our civic fabric like dogshit off a shoe

Real heads now that the time to go out is tomorrow while all these fuckin amateurs are sleeping off Santacon (Straight Pride, Yuletide Edition)

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

Ah, yes, because the Republican party officials currently holding power — obsessed with children's genitals, breeding women, and woo woo hewlthcare — are very normal. Fuck this guy, grind him to dust in the primary.

Going to the movies "getting worse" is obviously not just ticket prices, audience behavior, movie quality, or theater quality. It's traffic congestion, grocery prices, commute times, diversification of entertainment, media illiteracy, cultural mores, longer work days, suburban and urban sprawl etc.

WB has two of the most astute creative executives in De Luca and Abdy, who just delivered a magnificent slate of (mostly) original films this year. Meanwhile David Zaslav only cared about Harry Potter. Just insane incompetence.

Support movie theaters. But also, theaters need to start getting better at making the experience worth paying for. We’re spoiled in Los Angeles…

congratulations to ZOLA-X pre-show music closer George Strait for his dubious honor today I guess

They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:

One of the key throughlines of the past four+ decades of American Conservatism was the conscious construction of a well-funded media apparatus which would both make nitwits like these two useful and keep them busy with as little work as possible—but that wasn't good enough for them, so here we are.

It’s World AIDS day. You would have grown up with queer elders to guide you had Republicans not murdered us in droves, allowing AIDS to cull us.

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

good thread about a bad thing

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.