I think something’s wrong with my tv, there are only four Widow’s Bay episodes available instead of the one to three hundred that should be here?

I should probably stop doing the thing where I say food is on “its last fuckable day” when I mean it’s about to go bad

I had the opportunity this weekend to see a brilliant singer with a live band cover Hot Girl Thunder Road (Fancy by Bobbie Gentry) and it once again drove home how true this is. the best country music is basically peerless and nearly the exact opposite of whatever hideous shit gets mainstreamed

one of my group chats is named “Our Velvets” because this is the single greatest clickhole joke of all time and because, you know, a better world is possible

joining the chorus of people saying this is such a great thread and you should read the whole thing

the computer is too much with us

this is a fantastic thread and reading the replies is a real treat, but I’m confused that no one’s said the correct answer yet? (Antonio Banderas, 1980s/1990s, basically Law of Desire through Mask of Zorro)

Tha fact that we did some very small, mild changes to tax law during lockdown and like halved child poverty and that was never allowed to happen again

watching one Robert Altman movie all way through without their phone would send these people into a full-on dissociative coma

I didn’t actually have a hysterectomy last year as an act of pure spite at these disgusting ghouls, but sometimes it’s fun to retroactively pretend that was the whole reason. I regret that I have but one uterus to give to piss off these assholes, etc

“AI is here so we can’t just ignore it” I’m sorry, just because something’s “here” you have to engage with it and can’t simply ignore it? So you’ve never once been to a party?

NYU has been illegally withholding healthcare from children on the basis of gender identity for months and silence from Gracie and now this escalation. The best time to make a statement was six weeks ago the second best time is today.

At some point there needs to be a *proper* conversation about how cruelty has become a new normal for so many people. And we can't just keep putting it down to structures. Too many people with plenty of agency are actively choosing this.

eternal childhood is how we domesticate animals

honestly I’m having a rough day and I really needed this massive dose of “there are worse things to be than not-rich,” enjoy

an arguably more interesting question is: what was the *last* millennial song

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

it’s Bloodbuzz Ohio and it’s not close

[at the last judgment] JESUS: And the baby prisons? EVANGELICALS: to own the libs, right JESUS: And the libs, who are they EVANGELICALS: uh mostly illegal aliens. if we really hate a pretty girl we call her fatherless. some widows JESUS: Alien, fatherless, widow, got it. So you see these millstones

Can't prove this but maybe the reason for Attenborough's longevity is that whenever Paddington arrives to shepherd his soul on, he fends him off with his powers of nature narration. "The perplexed ursine psychopomp withdraws, his hunt unsuccessful. Perhaps a 1970s bass player will make easier prey."

we shouldn’t have left the sea

we’re watching Widow’s Bay and when Stephen Root said “the fog took him!” I threw my arms in the air and started cheering like the Knicks had just won the playoffs

I am once again recommending with my whole heart & soul that everybody watch Vanya on 42nd Street, the best movie in the My Dinner with Andre cinematic universe

idk I just think maybe “being okay” shouldn’t be a luxury item available only to the ruling class, but what do I know

I tried to read that article everybody got mad about today but I was constitutionally unable to get past the part about “vintage Levi’s for $10” and yes I know that was a quote from a different article from ten years ago, even so, sorry. vintage Levi’s. for $10.

what do you mean you’re mad about the Odyssey trailer, the Cyclops looks cool as hell

I stayed up late last night trying to put together something to honor Tony Stella’s passing, what it meant to work with him, and all he meant to so many of us in the broader film community. A true legend, and an absolutely heartbreaking loss.

I (thankfully) do not work on biothreats anymore, but some of y’all know me from Covid-era twitter and before that (!) from Ebola-era twitter so if it is helpful to you: I don’t think you need to be concerned about hantavirus

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

“it’s absolute horses” sounds like something Tina Brown would say while berating an intern in 1997

the more I think about it, the more I feel like “Odysseus is from Boston” is true in a sort of ecstatic truth way

I am once again here to preach the good word that Thomas Pynchon is a gorgeously readable writer and also probably the greatest american prose stylist of at least the last 50 years and people who tell you his books are calculus tests for boys don’t love you and Vineland is a great place to start

guys come on it’s not funny that Richard Dawkins has faith in a thing unseen and it would NOT be funny if someone hacked his computer girlfriend program to make it force him to watch the Palm Sunday sequence from Last Temptation of Christ on a loop for the rest of his life clockwork orange style

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

unfortunately this meant I had to go look through my photos to find my own favorite version of this sort of thing

I mean personally I wouldn’t throw stones if I’d made my money inventing and marketing a tornado of vore, but what do I know really

I object to Bezos et al as much as the next person with a working heart and even a minimum sense of human decency, but I do think calling the Met Gala the Hunger Games is a little silly at this point when we have like eight to ten real things that are just straightforwardly The Hunger Games

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RFK Jr is the extreme of an idea that’s infected american thinking+rhetoric for decades: if you need it, that proves you shouldn’t have it. there’s a clear line from the denigration of medicare, SNAP, student loan forgiveness, etc, to this “do not allow yourselves to become addicted to water” shit

Secret Service shot a kid today

I’ve been saying this since it was first announced, but “big dumb boy’s adventure story” is one form in which the Odyssey has existed in culture pretty much since it’s existed at all, I feel fine about Nolan continuing in that tradition

tech company: at long last, we have created the dog from Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam

Thomas is telling this story in a way that’s slightly nicer to me than reality, which is that I was very jetlagged and the shop was very small and I walked *smack* into Gwendoline Christie, at which point I had the thrilling experience of looking her directly in the eyes (tall) while apologizing

once again the most terrifying thing that can happen to anyone living in new york city has occurred (had to interact with a Spence student)

I like the part in Star Wars when things get real intense and the pilot guy says "This is one of the worst Star Wars!"

this probably doesn’t even count as controversial but I think it’s hilarious that George Lucas made a movie in the late 70s from the principles of “whee hee hee woo hoo hoo spaceship” and consequently spent the rest of his life as the author of The King James Bible

I am willing to believe this about AI, but I wish someone would, even just one time, explain to me in a few simple sentences, what it is that AI does (what it does today, not in some hazy-yet-inevitable future) that inarguably makes people’s lives better, what it is that makes AI obviously desirable