Literally nothing is better than friends with movies coming out. Literally nothing.

Apologies for not talking about more serious and important stuff on this app, but the world needs Sam Raimi movies too. So we're gonna be a little annoying this month with the aim of bringing you a little entertainment in a dark time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdh...

ER. It’s just ER. This isn’t a hard question. You stopped watching by then, but the finale was poetry. The answer is ER.

I don’t know why it didn’t cross my mind until now but it is distinctly possible—maybe even probable?—that Maduro is found not guilty. And then what? He just goes home? Returns to being president of Venezuela? Would be absolutely bang-on the most hilarious outcome of this historic shitshow.

The beginning of US ground action in Venezuela signals that we are now in the “Avatar” timeline

Hold on—so is it OK for one country to invade a neighbor and arrest their leader because if it is CANADA HAVE I GOT AN IDEA FOR YOU.

I can’t believe Mamdani let this happen on just his second day in office.

It’s crazy how THE LORD OF THE RINGS are the three best movies ever made, a fact I forget until I start watching them again.

Mostly I just want to remind everyone that Bruenig uses as his profile pic a picture of John Rawls looking angular, all-knowing, confrontational, and dismissive, because the actual Matt Bruenig is a large round mayo sandwich.

Ending the year right.

A few weeks ago, I heard of a man

Does anyone know what Will Stancil thinks about Avatar?

I see you, bro, and in the words of recom Quaritch in Avatar 3, “I’ll blow your grandma’s skinny shit straight through the hooch”, a line far better than anything Aaron Sorkin ever wrote

My take on the Avatar-has-no-cultural-impact convo is I saw the third movie today and it fucking rocked and the kids want to go back one more time before it leaves IMAX.

Maybe the answer is we need to reassess the yardstick for “impact on wider culture.” What are we talking about here? T-Shirts? Halloween costumes? Themed pornography? A subreddit of adequate activity?

I am never so religious as I am when Linus in a Charlie Brown Christmas says, “Lights, please.”

Season finale of Heated Rivalry spoilers!

If I am being charitable, Stelter’s “judge for yourself” q here is sarcastic, even if it is also ill-timed; the quote given is patently stupid and unworthy of inclusion in the report.

This sounds familiar but I can’t quite put a finger on it…

What I learned from 2025: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/four-big-t...

Idea: a feed that only shows posters who are currently crashing out

GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY, I’m here for it.

comin for a visit

I really don’t understand why people have such a hard on for “natural immunity.” My guy, do you know how many people died from diseases when we relied on natural immunity??? It was a lot!

The literal point of Aardman is the texture and feeling of filming real things?

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

This is the first time I've ever felt like maybe he won't run in 2028.

No jury would convict me, especially if my trial were in LA County

how big a loss did the Department of Defense post last year

🎶I don't wanna wait... for our lives to be over...🎶

Putting a $10,000 hedge on “John Gary hung out with Epstein” right before I go on Pablo Torres Finds Out.

Nah I think autocorrect/predict did most of the work here—which would make a lot of mysteries clear!

Thirty years later, we have gained zero jobs at the TV level and lost jobs at the feature level. The greatest act of love you can do for someone is to make them keep their day job.

FWIW, when I was a young writer 30 years ago, the NFL comparison was the standard one. Every writer used it. Just under 2k jobs, a little lower, a little higher, all the way to even the cable boom. It's why you could never recommend the career to someone you actually liked or cared for.

It is pretty damning that the right are so bad at social media that Elon had to spend forty-four billion dollars in order to give them a place where they could talk to each other.

Happy to see @jimjarmuschhair.bsky.social on bsky!

Almost exactly one year ago, my son’s best friend died in an e-bike accident. It has left a hole in our community that we try to fill with memorial gardens, services, gatherings, plaques, pictures, reminiscences, dinners, scholarships… but it is deeper than all that. It is deeper than the world.

And that man was Nate Silver!

“It’s the economy, stupid!” she shouts as the cruise missile breaks through the cloud cover overhead, the fins adjusting one last time to target the late-model Subraru in the Buc-ee’s parking lot where she’s zooming from.

Am I surprised to learn that Ryan Lizza does not understand the definition of "catch and kill" in the context of journalism? I am not.

I am really hoping the 4k preserves the VistaVision ratio but not holding my breath.

It is more complex than this. Capital’s goal is to diminish or eliminate worker power, because worker power costs them money. Workers are their biggest expense. Shutting down one profitable location doesn’t hurt at all if it stops all workers from gaining more power.

are we six days away from invading poland

yes but see if the computer can measure the size of your forehead and the distance between your eyes and the also length of your earlobes, it can accurately determine just how racist we all are

Part of the point of the movie is the higher up you get in the chain of command, the less smart and serious the people become, culminating in a president who is competent as a person but 100% out of his depth as he makes a decision whether or not to immolate the planet.

One of my core theories is that some sectors of the economy became so overheated and made some people so much money that everyone with an MBA now believes that every business should achieve similar returns.

I don't understand why you need to connect to the internet to make things hot or cold.

I'm not going to pretend EDDINGTON was a feel-good movie and has the humanistic joy at the center of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER but if you watched it and hated it I probably think you need to learn how to laugh at yourself.

Goddamn. I’m so sorry, Mariners fans.