Drew McWeeny
@drewmcweeny.com
Caustically optimistic. Potty mouth. FILM NERD 2.0. Netflix's VOIR. MASTERS OF HORROR. '80s ALL OVER. FEAR ITSELF. I helped break the Internet. Sorry about that. Keto for life. Visit drewmcweeny.com for all my shit.
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Drew McWeeny
@drewmcweeny.com
· Sep 20
Support human art. Support the plurality of voices. Trans rights are human rights. We are all in this together.
Resist what you know is wrong.
Resist what you know is wrong.
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the future is cool sometimes… just hotspotted my kindle to my phone to download this at a remote beach in puerto rico
Ah, Bad Bunny left you with questions about power outages, storms, and our hatred of colonialism? Don’t worry, I got you. I’ll show you the aftermath of a storm, take you to the beach, show you what hides under the waves. I’ll show you our magia…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
the future is cool sometimes… just hotspotted my kindle to my phone to download this at a remote beach in puerto rico
I can't imagine still thinking, in 2026, that Elon Musk was anything other than a brain-damaged drug addicted white supremacist con man whose only real product is tax breaks to prop up his largely fraudulent companies.
Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value
Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?
SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon."
arstechnica.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I can't imagine still thinking, in 2026, that Elon Musk was anything other than a brain-damaged drug addicted white supremacist con man whose only real product is tax breaks to prop up his largely fraudulent companies.
We are going to regret having the Olympics in LA. I was at a party last night where folks older than me were looking back at '84 with nostalgia goggles on, completely forgetting what it does to the actual city for people who have to live and work here.
This is also highly relevant to the recent @saje-la.bsky.social report that just dropped. We know city workers are spending time on upcoming megaevents —although we don't know how much — and now they're getting less time to get everything done. I wonder which tasks they'll be told to prioritize!
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
We are going to regret having the Olympics in LA. I was at a party last night where folks older than me were looking back at '84 with nostalgia goggles on, completely forgetting what it does to the actual city for people who have to live and work here.
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So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds.
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds.
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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Since it is Super Bowl Sunday, for this week’s Silent Sundays piece I wrote about Harold Lloyd’s 1925 film The Freshman, and its ties to 1920s football culture.
When Harold Lloyd Came To The Big Game (Go Bears!)
Silent Sundays: Silent Film Streaming Picks
oldfilmsflicker.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Since it is Super Bowl Sunday, for this week’s Silent Sundays piece I wrote about Harold Lloyd’s 1925 film The Freshman, and its ties to 1920s football culture.
Good thread.
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Good thread.
Toshi wants them to choose Tawny Newsome as their Kevin Fiege for STAR TREK moving forward.
Young TREK fans are having a radically different experience with TREK than ancient TREK fans.
Young TREK fans are having a radically different experience with TREK than ancient TREK fans.
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Toshi wants them to choose Tawny Newsome as their Kevin Fiege for STAR TREK moving forward.
Young TREK fans are having a radically different experience with TREK than ancient TREK fans.
Young TREK fans are having a radically different experience with TREK than ancient TREK fans.
I had someone stop me in an airport one time to show me a tattoo they got of Udo Kier in CIGARETTE BURNS. Someone else sent me a picture of a Willowy Being tattoo. You know what won't get tattooed on anyone's body?
"Characters" from AI slop, because they will never connect to a human in any way.
"Characters" from AI slop, because they will never connect to a human in any way.
February 8, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I had someone stop me in an airport one time to show me a tattoo they got of Udo Kier in CIGARETTE BURNS. Someone else sent me a picture of a Willowy Being tattoo. You know what won't get tattooed on anyone's body?
"Characters" from AI slop, because they will never connect to a human in any way.
"Characters" from AI slop, because they will never connect to a human in any way.
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
Holy shit, it is full-on summer in February today. Just took the dog for a walk and I am WARM.
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Holy shit, it is full-on summer in February today. Just took the dog for a walk and I am WARM.
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This loser admits she doesn't use her real name when she uses AI to write books and doesn't reveal they're AI. Which means she knows it's wrong and she knows it's shameful and does it anyway.
The New York Times thinks that's neat though! Unsurprising that this toilet paper rag aligns with hacks
The New York Times thinks that's neat though! Unsurprising that this toilet paper rag aligns with hacks
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
This loser admits she doesn't use her real name when she uses AI to write books and doesn't reveal they're AI. Which means she knows it's wrong and she knows it's shameful and does it anyway.
The New York Times thinks that's neat though! Unsurprising that this toilet paper rag aligns with hacks
The New York Times thinks that's neat though! Unsurprising that this toilet paper rag aligns with hacks
I've had some trouble dialing in my settings on my newsletters (having two different publications via one Ghost account is a weird tech problem), but I think I finally have it all figured out. '80s ROULETTE goes out in the morning and we'll see if I'm right.
February 8, 2026 at 9:33 AM
I've had some trouble dialing in my settings on my newsletters (having two different publications via one Ghost account is a weird tech problem), but I think I finally have it all figured out. '80s ROULETTE goes out in the morning and we'll see if I'm right.
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Did you not get embarrassed enough last year
February 8, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Did you not get embarrassed enough last year
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Before we get started, I just want to say thank you to all of my subscribers. This has been a dream as long as I can remember and I couldn’t have done it without you. It feels surreal to finally say it, but this is the final episode of Nutting In Every Country In The World. Welcome to Vatican City
February 8, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Before we get started, I just want to say thank you to all of my subscribers. This has been a dream as long as I can remember and I couldn’t have done it without you. It feels surreal to finally say it, but this is the final episode of Nutting In Every Country In The World. Welcome to Vatican City
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is supporting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda, boosting a proposed law by Lindsey Graham that would mass deplatform LGBTQ people and censor abortion content from the internet. And he's trying to frame it as progressive!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Capitol Hill Disaster
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Livestreams
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is supporting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda, boosting a proposed law by Lindsey Graham that would mass deplatform LGBTQ people and censor abortion content from the internet. And he's trying to frame it as progressive!
All I could think as I watched the MUPPET SHOW special was "If this goes to series, I will do terrible fucking things to get a chance to sit in the theater audience."
February 8, 2026 at 8:26 AM
All I could think as I watched the MUPPET SHOW special was "If this goes to series, I will do terrible fucking things to get a chance to sit in the theater audience."
No cast listed at all on IMDb.
You say they're SAG actors. Prove it, motherfuckers. Give us their names so we can (A) find out if they knew what their voices were going to be used for and (B) boycott them permanently if they did.
I'm fucking done with all of this shit.
You say they're SAG actors. Prove it, motherfuckers. Give us their names so we can (A) find out if they knew what their voices were going to be used for and (B) boycott them permanently if they did.
I'm fucking done with all of this shit.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
February 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
No cast listed at all on IMDb.
You say they're SAG actors. Prove it, motherfuckers. Give us their names so we can (A) find out if they knew what their voices were going to be used for and (B) boycott them permanently if they did.
I'm fucking done with all of this shit.
You say they're SAG actors. Prove it, motherfuckers. Give us their names so we can (A) find out if they knew what their voices were going to be used for and (B) boycott them permanently if they did.
I'm fucking done with all of this shit.
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Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.
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Yes, it would be a shame if everyone reposted this. 🤷♀️
February 7, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Yes, it would be a shame if everyone reposted this. 🤷♀️
Good rule of thumb: if Joshua Tyler publishes something at whatever his fucking outlet's called, it's going to be some dumb-ass rage bait nerd content that strongly suggests he once again fundamentally misunderstands something or that he's upset because "woke." Stop amplifying his shitty work.
February 8, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Good rule of thumb: if Joshua Tyler publishes something at whatever his fucking outlet's called, it's going to be some dumb-ass rage bait nerd content that strongly suggests he once again fundamentally misunderstands something or that he's upset because "woke." Stop amplifying his shitty work.
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are…uhh…are we the penis?
February 8, 2026 at 3:08 AM
are…uhh…are we the penis?
Anyone read the new DRESDEN FILES yet?
February 7, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Anyone read the new DRESDEN FILES yet?
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Burning Man taking more action than the US government.
February 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Burning Man taking more action than the US government.