me watching the first couple figure skaters: "wow can you believe human beings can even do this" me by the fourth figure skater: "hmm looks like she had a little trouble with the landing on that triple triple combination"

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

I always spend four years having zero interest in sports whatsoever and then every Winter Olympics I discover anew a passion for curling

imagine working at a company where your new ceo addresses the entire staff for the first time and the first thing they show you is this picture

I heard the nearest Whole Foods was a zoo this afternoon and it is so funny when people in New York City in particular do this en masse, because I’ve lived here through plenty of worse storms than this one will be and people stay inside for at most 12 hours before they decide to walk to a bar

One might say that there’s not a lot of reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last.

teacher teacher look I completed the homework for the year boxd.it/Rv2n2

frankly I don't know if we will ever top this episode art

It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.

One of my favorite covers ever: Harry Nilsson drunkenly screaming his lungs out to Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross"

As basically anyone who’s talked to me since the summer knows, I’ve been working on this for months. Thanks to everyone who shared their insights. (I’ve got a lot more to say in the future, too.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

auto-tuning children has become very prevalent (see: Wonka (2023)), but it should be a criminal offense. the Sesame Street theme rocks because it's full of secondary dominant 7th chords, so no matter how flat the kids sing, it sounds hip and even bluesy. let kids' voices be pitchy!!!

Wishing a joyous 83rd birthday to the legendary Martin Scorsese!

-"you let ME handle the board" -"you're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid" -"I did it just to see the look on your face" -"what are YOU doing here?" "saving your ass" -Tarkovsky

We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

Peter Hujar's Day!!!! I loved it!

I started a newsletter, it's very very naval gazey in a way that might get literal, it will only exist for one week, here is the first one: dressedlikeme.beehiiv.com/p/i-dressed-...

feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞

it's 3:50pm on 10/31 and I'm only just now seeing my first drag Aunt Gladys costume of the season???

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

tomorrow on @99pi.org

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

I'm going for round 4 of OBAA tomorrow (twice 70mm IMAX twice VV), but I'm impressed that Junglepussy went SIX times

If it wouldn’t be a good story if you told it in chronological order with a single narrator, it cannot be made a good story by jumping around in time and switching narrators every chapter

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

this saga has pioneered so many incredible new ways of losing a rap battle

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

I believe this genre of airbnb sign is a rich text that neatly sums up the failures of the neoliberal technocratic world order, but I'm too jetlagged to expand on it right now

I'm not gonna lie this is how I've been talking to people about One Battle After Another

announcement: I have long been a Dan hater who begrudgingly acknowledges they have a few cool songs, but thanks to PTA's "Dirty Work" needle drop, I am willing to give it another shot

if you, like me, are annoyed by having a helicopter buzz past your house every 30-90 seconds this weekend because of the Ryder Cup and UN, please sign this because right now private helicopter usage is a total free-for-all that we need guardrails around stopthechopnynj.org

“incorrect password and/or email address” “incorrect password and/or email address” “reset password?” “enter new password” “re-enter new password” “new password cannot be the same as current password”

One Battle After Another is the best movie to be released in the last several years, and I recommend enjoying it ASAP before the right-wing backlash kicks in and an annoying discourse forms!

Esther and Delaney turned in a masterpiece here. The entire history of the meat packing industry is a vivid example but much of the story is analogous to ICE raids and labor shortages today in many industries

Woke up to 7 @signalawards.bsky.social nominations for @99pi.org!! There's a fan vote with each category. Please vote for all our docs, like @jeyca97.bsky.social for Best History, @vivianhle.bsky.social for Best Writing + Christopher Johnson in Best Documentary vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

*sad Borat voice* My rights

Speaking of being rich and brave does anyone want to move to beautiful northern Iowa and start a film festival for <$500k www.reddit.com/r/zillowgone...

This is a bad idea for all the obvious reasons of, like, integrity and craft. But it’s also a bad idea because instead of just writing the thing yourself, you are instead letting the Convincing Lie Machine see if it can trick you into getting fired because you didn’t fact check every single word

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be Al, and we are the company that's bringing those people to life” girl WHAT

Hey Beautiful Nerds! @99pi.org is fifteen years old tomorrow! Hard to believe. We used the occasion for me to talk about our editing process, my design hill to die on, and foot measurement devices podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9...

I really want to EQ the floor tom that the Liberty uses to signal the "DE-FENSE" chant

for reasons no one seems to be able to explain, my 10-year-old nephew has gotten hooked on "Car 54, Where Are You?" and it's all he wants to watch. and you know what? he's right, it's really fucking funny

I think about how Leno’s mainly a legacy of O.J. Simpson jokes. It upped his ratings but at what cost? At the same time, when Letterman was asked why he DIDN’T tell O.J. jokes that often, he said “Double homicides don’t crack me up the way they used to.” Leno never had that kind of discernment.

before 28 Years Later I overheard a guy going "how come in zombie movies, like, no one's ever seen a zombie movie before". the most boring joyless what's-the-deal-with-airplane-food-ass take ever

I feel really bad for hyper fixating on this story because he was clearly going through a lot but also I cannot help but love this Brian Wilson story about the movie Seconds. I think about it all the time