Ok, I admit that I didn’t see Avatar 3 and won’t. But I kind of feel like after Strange Days bombed Cameron made some kind of deal with the devil that reversed the fate of that movie: after that, every movie he was involved with would be trash, but the worse it was the more money it would make.
with every new Avatar movie there's a chorus of critics saying surely the series has lost its juice NOW and then days later the new Avatar has crossed the $1 billion threshold.
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
December 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Ok, I admit that I didn’t see Avatar 3 and won’t. But I kind of feel like after Strange Days bombed Cameron made some kind of deal with the devil that reversed the fate of that movie: after that, every movie he was involved with would be trash, but the worse it was the more money it would make.
I keep getting podcast ads for a slot machine game named “The Wizard of Oz: The Great and Powerful Oz.”
It’s a machine designed to rob you blind and falsely believe you can win and they named it after American literature and film’s premier fraud, con man, and humbug artist.
It’s a machine designed to rob you blind and falsely believe you can win and they named it after American literature and film’s premier fraud, con man, and humbug artist.
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I keep getting podcast ads for a slot machine game named “The Wizard of Oz: The Great and Powerful Oz.”
It’s a machine designed to rob you blind and falsely believe you can win and they named it after American literature and film’s premier fraud, con man, and humbug artist.
It’s a machine designed to rob you blind and falsely believe you can win and they named it after American literature and film’s premier fraud, con man, and humbug artist.
Someday Madonna will die, become a ghost, and the tabloids will call her the immaterial girl.
December 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Someday Madonna will die, become a ghost, and the tabloids will call her the immaterial girl.
Should I know who these guys are?
(Googles these guys)
Aha. No. Nobody, and I say this as a normative rather than descriptive matter, should know who these guys are.
(Googles these guys)
Aha. No. Nobody, and I say this as a normative rather than descriptive matter, should know who these guys are.
simon bazelon does the same thing that david shor does, which is to sorrowfully say that there is no choice but to adopt the substantive preferences of the people who make him rich
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Should I know who these guys are?
(Googles these guys)
Aha. No. Nobody, and I say this as a normative rather than descriptive matter, should know who these guys are.
(Googles these guys)
Aha. No. Nobody, and I say this as a normative rather than descriptive matter, should know who these guys are.
Oh no, I got wet cat food on my mustache and now the whole world smells like cat food. This is the worst thing that has ever happened.
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oh no, I got wet cat food on my mustache and now the whole world smells like cat food. This is the worst thing that has ever happened.
As divided as the United States is right now, at least we can all agree fuck Courier, new or otherwise.
Also, 15 point? I don’t understand why that would require extra keystrokes, but who in the history of the world has ever used 15 point? Serial killers, maybe.
Also, 15 point? I don’t understand why that would require extra keystrokes, but who in the history of the world has ever used 15 point? Serial killers, maybe.
December 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As divided as the United States is right now, at least we can all agree fuck Courier, new or otherwise.
Also, 15 point? I don’t understand why that would require extra keystrokes, but who in the history of the world has ever used 15 point? Serial killers, maybe.
Also, 15 point? I don’t understand why that would require extra keystrokes, but who in the history of the world has ever used 15 point? Serial killers, maybe.
You know, this headline is all I need from this story.
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
You know, this headline is all I need from this story.
There is verisimilitude in the scam, sure, but they accidentally gave the name of the petty-criminals-gone-big resort where they plan their schemes to one of the characters.
"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.”
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There is verisimilitude in the scam, sure, but they accidentally gave the name of the petty-criminals-gone-big resort where they plan their schemes to one of the characters.
Ok, I stopped paying to the news for the holiday, but things can’t get much more insane over thanksgiving, right?
Ah, crap.
Ah, crap.
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ok, I stopped paying to the news for the holiday, but things can’t get much more insane over thanksgiving, right?
Ah, crap.
Ah, crap.
I like my flakes like I like my tips: frosted.
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I like my flakes like I like my tips: frosted.
The pun makes no sense - not sure it even qualifies as a pun. But it is much worse to me that the fish is in absolutely no way, shape, or form a tuna.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The pun makes no sense - not sure it even qualifies as a pun. But it is much worse to me that the fish is in absolutely no way, shape, or form a tuna.
Who the fuck saw Green Lantern and said, “the problem with this movie is that there isn’t enough of it”?
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Who the fuck saw Green Lantern and said, “the problem with this movie is that there isn’t enough of it”?
I understand that our ruling class consorts with wealthy criminals, and that extreme wealth in fact encourages criminality. And I know wealth doesn’t come with intelligence. But the someone told Epstein that there was video of Trump sucking Bill Clinton’s cock, and he thought, “sounds legit to me.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I understand that our ruling class consorts with wealthy criminals, and that extreme wealth in fact encourages criminality. And I know wealth doesn’t come with intelligence. But the someone told Epstein that there was video of Trump sucking Bill Clinton’s cock, and he thought, “sounds legit to me.”
One of the cultural things we have lost since I was a teenager is television networks with a comprehensible brand. We used to know what each network was about and they were all different: Fox was edgy, NBC was the voice of urban yuppies, ABC was suburban families, CBS was old people.
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
One of the cultural things we have lost since I was a teenager is television networks with a comprehensible brand. We used to know what each network was about and they were all different: Fox was edgy, NBC was the voice of urban yuppies, ABC was suburban families, CBS was old people.
Why are so many Democratic politicians so convinced that the way to win as a Democrat is to unrelentingly talk shit about Democrats? Even if there was any truth in this, and there isn’t, why does Pete think anyone would want to vote for him based on it?
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Why are so many Democratic politicians so convinced that the way to win as a Democrat is to unrelentingly talk shit about Democrats? Even if there was any truth in this, and there isn’t, why does Pete think anyone would want to vote for him based on it?
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Listen, my children, as here is unfurled
The story of the sandwich that was hurled
On the 10th of August in ‘25;
What a moment to be alive!
As many chose to look down and duck,
One man decided he had to stand up,
And so he wound up, and said ‘What the f___’
And gave his sandwich a freedom chuck.
The story of the sandwich that was hurled
On the 10th of August in ‘25;
What a moment to be alive!
As many chose to look down and duck,
One man decided he had to stand up,
And so he wound up, and said ‘What the f___’
And gave his sandwich a freedom chuck.
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Listen, my children, as here is unfurled
The story of the sandwich that was hurled
On the 10th of August in ‘25;
What a moment to be alive!
As many chose to look down and duck,
One man decided he had to stand up,
And so he wound up, and said ‘What the f___’
And gave his sandwich a freedom chuck.
The story of the sandwich that was hurled
On the 10th of August in ‘25;
What a moment to be alive!
As many chose to look down and duck,
One man decided he had to stand up,
And so he wound up, and said ‘What the f___’
And gave his sandwich a freedom chuck.
He was represented by The Grinder.
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
He was represented by The Grinder.
This has been the thing with the Republican Party since the Clinton Administration at least: they behave like complete maniacs because they are confident that there will be no adverse consequences, because Democrats will act responsibly.
like that's the thing, I don't think they're insincere in being shocked that all of a sudden normie dems are baying for their blood. they thought the bounds of society would stop that from happening.
sorta ties into the same sheltered arguments against a lot of the post-war international order imo
sorta ties into the same sheltered arguments against a lot of the post-war international order imo
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This has been the thing with the Republican Party since the Clinton Administration at least: they behave like complete maniacs because they are confident that there will be no adverse consequences, because Democrats will act responsibly.
Just finished reading In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (not the guy who used to draw Spider-Man), and it was notable how the Nazi regime just kept stepping up the cartoonish evil of what it was doing as it learned what people were either unable or unwilling to stop them doing.
Trump limits refugee admissions to 7,500 and gives priority to white South Africans
www.bbc.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just finished reading In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (not the guy who used to draw Spider-Man), and it was notable how the Nazi regime just kept stepping up the cartoonish evil of what it was doing as it learned what people were either unable or unwilling to stop them doing.
Are you trying to tell me that Zohran Mandani uses familial honorifics to indicate the nature of his relationship with a particular person rather than strictly describing the degree and nature of their consanguinity? Bad news for his rep with Hapsburgs and Bourbons.
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Are you trying to tell me that Zohran Mandani uses familial honorifics to indicate the nature of his relationship with a particular person rather than strictly describing the degree and nature of their consanguinity? Bad news for his rep with Hapsburgs and Bourbons.
Yes, of course he is mostly targeting black soldiers. But hating and obsessing over beards has so many other racist implications - antisemitic, islamophobic, orientalist. I strongly suspect he has at least some of all of those in the mix.
Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report
Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report
Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Yes, of course he is mostly targeting black soldiers. But hating and obsessing over beards has so many other racist implications - antisemitic, islamophobic, orientalist. I strongly suspect he has at least some of all of those in the mix.
What would have made you think that? Did you get into this movement somehow hearing about what right wing men think they are but without ever meeting any?
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
What would have made you think that? Did you get into this movement somehow hearing about what right wing men think they are but without ever meeting any?
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recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
Florida just loves hoovering up shitty old white men who used to be something in New York but have long since alienated the entire Empire State.
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Florida just loves hoovering up shitty old white men who used to be something in New York but have long since alienated the entire Empire State.
Is there any act that the Trump administration can take that the New York Times is willing to just call illegal, without these wishy-washy qualifiers?
"Death Squads Round Up Democratic Mayors: Legal Experts Claim Executions on City Hall Steps Could Run Afoul of Federalism Concerns"
"Death Squads Round Up Democratic Mayors: Legal Experts Claim Executions on City Hall Steps Could Run Afoul of Federalism Concerns"
Breaking News: The U.S. military accepted a private donation of $130 million to help pay troops during the shutdown. The move is highly unusual and a potential violation of federal law.
Trump to Use $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops
It is not clear how far the gift will go toward covering the salaries of the nation’s 1.3 million troops.
nyti.ms
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Is there any act that the Trump administration can take that the New York Times is willing to just call illegal, without these wishy-washy qualifiers?
"Death Squads Round Up Democratic Mayors: Legal Experts Claim Executions on City Hall Steps Could Run Afoul of Federalism Concerns"
"Death Squads Round Up Democratic Mayors: Legal Experts Claim Executions on City Hall Steps Could Run Afoul of Federalism Concerns"