Same goes for “doxing,” “doxed,” etc. (like “boxing,” “boxed,” etc.). Still don’t need the extra x!

Spelling tip: Spell “vaxed,” “unvaxed,” “vaxing,” and “anti-vaxer” the same way you spell various forms of both “vex” (“vexed,” “vexing,” etc.) and “fax” (“faxed,” “faxing,” etc.): You don’t need the ugly extra x.

barely satire

Will the world end in drought or in flood? Why not both?

America made a mistake electing the dumbest president in American history who has handed control to an administration of ignorant sociopaths.

when you put it like that, it sounds terrible

e.g. "Last night the front door was left unlocked." = "I don't know who did it, I'm not looking to point fingers, and you are all on notice that if it happens again you're dead."

ICYMI: all about weasels, zombies, and the passive voice

It’s also vexing when people whine about the passive voice as if its use were inherently weaselly and responsibility-cloaking. It is not. This use, however, is weaselly and responsibility-cloaking.

Thread🧵!!

Get. His. Rotting. Ass.

Not a chance in the world Trump wrote this with his own fingers, or crafted that elaborately constructed, polyconditional sentence with his own brain. There are (almost) no typos or grammatical mistakes, no allcaps (until the very end), and relatively restrained use of emphatic Title Caps. Nope.

Will the world end in fire or ice? With a bang or with a whimper? Here are another pair of opposing apocalypses from cartoonists @danpirarobizarro.bsky.social and @tbtoro.bsky.social, based on 21st-century anxieties—in the form of man-stranded-on-a-desert-island comics.

Even though he still doesn’t admit he made a catastrophic mistake that helped Donald Trump gain a vital edge in the final days of a vital election, James Comey is stepping up and staying public now. I’ll give him that much credit. But he’d get more credit by admitting this mistake and owning it.

I firmly believe if you can’t explain something simply, you don’t really understand it—so here’s my attempt to explain as simply as possible how Confirmation “completes” Baptism without making Baptism “incomplete” or Confirmation redundant.

This is good news! And I like that the judge's decision was made on clear-cut First Amendment grounds: The US can't punish her merely for her speech.

I’m all in favor of marching. But what do you do when you pass a law in 1965, and the Supreme Court mostly guts it in 2026? What’s the next step? Sincere question.

“There’s just enough semblance of emotion to make you think you’ve felt something” Well said, @chrisicisms.bsky.social! 😄

For the administration, a 90% loss rate is no rebuke. The same way pick-up artists accept being rejected 9 times out of 10, they’re fine losing 9 times out of 10. They aren’t looking to do things the right way, they’re like the Jurassic Park velociraptors testing the fences looking for weaknesses.

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

They cracked the case! Now I need to know what The Great Mouse Detective doesn't understand about mice, or what Chicken Run doesn't understand about poultry.

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

“Graham Allison, who I’m sure most Americans have read…”

This is now a litmus test movie for me. If you gave it a tepid review, I no longer trust you.

The Sheep Detectives is a work of mad genius. I can’t believe it exists. I can’t wait to write it up.

What exactly is the Sacrament of Confirmation for? What does it do? Why do we need it? Why isn’t Baptism enough? This question isn’t as easy to answer as one might think; there’s a reason Confirmation has been semi-facetiously called “a sacrament in search of a theology.”

Okay, I’ll bite: What did I miss?

May God grant this man justice once and for all.

Okay, I’ll bite: What did I miss?

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?...

RAAAAAAWR

Was just talking about this on Discord with a fragment of the diaspora of a phpBB forum

My kids love stuff like Avatar and Phineas and Ferb, of course, but nothing makes them laugh their butts off like Marx Brothers or Looney Tunes.

We watched some episodes of _I Love Lucy_ and my kids squealed with laughter. Quality holds up.

Kids have better taste than adults give them credit for. It's not their fault studios like to bombard them with MINIONS (but sometimes, we also get a SHEEP DETECTIVES, which my daughter loved).

I raised my kids on Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton.

Steven's extremely correct about the Nolan Batman trilogy, which retroactively rectifies his previous bad opinions about the Alien movies and the James Gunn Superman.

For years, I’ve used the Grid View option on Netflix to browse all of the service’s titles — until last week, when it suddenly vanished. Now there’s no way to scroll through Netflix’s full catalog (at least that I know of). Not ideal.

This is a fun piece, and I agree with most of it. And it strikes a nice balance: it's a brisk read, but I feel exhausted on @decentfilms.bsky.social's behalf because I imagine writing all those footnotes and getting that pace just right was not easy.

This was a labor of love. Love of movies, and love for you! I hope you enjoy it.

One wonderful moment that I've always adored is Spock and Uhura's exchange in The Man Trap. It's so sweet and quotidian: I wish we had seen more of these interactions…

(pause) (clears throat) DON'T GO ON FUCKING CRUISE SHIPS

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

The Sheep Detectives is real, and it’s spectacular.

Great piece about Trump v. Pope: greydanus.substack.com/p/pope-leo-a... "there is a particular loneliness experienced by opponents of Trump who feel isolated in their resistance to the man’s corrosive influence on U.S. culture generally, and on conservative and religious culture particularly."

Cookie Monster, as cookie crumbs fall from his lips: Me worry Americans not understand how me operate, think me just want cookies.

Excellent @decentfilms.bsky.social piece. “There is a particular loneliness experienced by opponents of Trump who feel isolated in their resistance to the man’s corrosive influence on U.S. culture…Over the last year, Pope Leo has made me and others feel less alone.” open.substack.com/pub/greydanu...

It is unfathomable to me how Bishop Barron or Cardinal Dolan can participate in the Rededicate 250 event with the explicitly Christian nationalist speakers. As Steven knows, even though the website doesn’t say “Christian”, this event has a dominionist evangelical Christian emphasis throughout.

There’s no ambiguity here. No wiggle room here for Catholic Trump defenders like Bishop Barron to claim that the pope and the president are not openly contradicting one another.