luis, the king of crops
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Degenerate ‘Modernistic’ Works ~ senior editorial producer at @newyorker.com ~ opinions are mine, give them back >:/ ~ in “my long and storied Corny Era.” ~ he/they
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Is the “Mission: Impossible” Series Tom Cruise’s “Blank Check”?
The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or “Speed Racer,” anyone?) celebrates its tenth birthday with a trip to a “Mission...
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This week in @newyorker.com: All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.
One ping only motherfuckers
Just watched Hunt for Red October for the 500th time, the boys on the Dallas are such a joy
December 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One ping only motherfuckers
merry knicksmas
Final:
Cavaliers 124
Knicks 126
Cavaliers 124
Knicks 126
December 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
merry knicksmas
“bUt tHE sTaDIuM” truthers that live in my head in absolute shambles
🇺🇸 BREAKING: The LA Galaxy are finalizing a deal to sign free agent center back Justin Haak, per sources.
Haak, 24, was one of the marquee free agents. Had a breakout 2025 season.
Galaxy now reload with Haak and Jakob Glesnes. Big winter.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/691...
Haak, 24, was one of the marquee free agents. Had a breakout 2025 season.
Galaxy now reload with Haak and Jakob Glesnes. Big winter.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/691...
LA Galaxy continue defensive makeover with move for NYCFC’s Justin Haak: Sources
The Galaxy are continuing their offseason resurgence after a title defense that went horribly wrong
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December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“bUt tHE sTaDIuM” truthers that live in my head in absolute shambles
this line about demanding 'respect' that media bosses love to trot out any time anything contentious reaches their office doors really needs to stop.
Bari’s standard for “and do so with respect” appears to be ‘Sharyn Alfonsi should have not emailed her colleagues about me refusing to meet with her after I spiked her story that had already been cleared by the actual editors and standards’
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
this line about demanding 'respect' that media bosses love to trot out any time anything contentious reaches their office doors really needs to stop.
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I’ve been on the internet too long
December 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I’ve been on the internet too long
the duality of man
December 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
the duality of man
one fun part about Death Stranding Directors Cut and its insistence on loading the entire universe in one go is that my computer is five years old and not getting replaced any time soon, so I get a fun little five minute break at the start of every game
December 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
one fun part about Death Stranding Directors Cut and its insistence on loading the entire universe in one go is that my computer is five years old and not getting replaced any time soon, so I get a fun little five minute break at the start of every game
that’s why he’s the goat
December 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
that’s why he’s the goat
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Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
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The nicest thing I have to say about Cardinal Dolan is that I dont have anything nice to say about Cardinal Dolan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Pope Leo Names Illinois Bishop to Replace Cardinal Dolan in New York
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December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The nicest thing I have to say about Cardinal Dolan is that I dont have anything nice to say about Cardinal Dolan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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A) expressing ideas is literally the fucking job
B) if you can’t communicate it with doodles, words, or messy photoshop, the idea isn’t fully baked and you need to explore it more, not use the plagiarizing lie machine that poisons neighborhoods to do the thinking for you.
B) if you can’t communicate it with doodles, words, or messy photoshop, the idea isn’t fully baked and you need to explore it more, not use the plagiarizing lie machine that poisons neighborhoods to do the thinking for you.
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A) expressing ideas is literally the fucking job
B) if you can’t communicate it with doodles, words, or messy photoshop, the idea isn’t fully baked and you need to explore it more, not use the plagiarizing lie machine that poisons neighborhoods to do the thinking for you.
B) if you can’t communicate it with doodles, words, or messy photoshop, the idea isn’t fully baked and you need to explore it more, not use the plagiarizing lie machine that poisons neighborhoods to do the thinking for you.
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I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
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Zohran’s already turned the Knicks into champions, this guy can do anything.
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Zohran’s already turned the Knicks into champions, this guy can do anything.
Hilariously enough Arc already got enshittified by TBC so now I’m using the open-source clone version of that called Zen and then Safari, which is mostly avoiding A.I. features by being made by Apple who are bad at A.I.
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Hilariously enough Arc already got enshittified by TBC so now I’m using the open-source clone version of that called Zen and then Safari, which is mostly avoiding A.I. features by being made by Apple who are bad at A.I.
apparently all you need for a bunch of Dem senators to go mask-off transphobic is to bury the transphobia inside a defense omnibus bill! cool!!
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
apparently all you need for a bunch of Dem senators to go mask-off transphobic is to bury the transphobia inside a defense omnibus bill! cool!!
bold to recreate Avedon's "Mission Council" photo so directly
December 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
bold to recreate Avedon's "Mission Council" photo so directly
The Oracle at Delphi emerging from her cave absolutely dripping in Parmesan:
I can’t explain it but I think Alfredo sauce is about to get fuckin huge
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Oracle at Delphi emerging from her cave absolutely dripping in Parmesan:
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global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom
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repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
come for the exegesis on "The Elephant Man" and stay for the esoteric Catholic theological discussion. incredible piece. please read it!!
I wrote about the best to ever do it and the 45-year-old film that, for me, defined 2025 www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
2025 Was David Lynch
The filmmaker, who died in January, showed us what our world was becoming, and how we should respond.
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
come for the exegesis on "The Elephant Man" and stay for the esoteric Catholic theological discussion. incredible piece. please read it!!
Todd Dunivant with the roster problems he's got:
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Todd Dunivant with the roster problems he's got:
i actually do need my mayor to take the free house and loudly declare "whaddaya want me to do, *not* take the free house?" before an array of microphones
I need people who get elected as mayor to just accept their free mansion on the Upper East Side without making a whole ~thing~ about it nygroove.nyc/why-cant-mod...
Why can't modern mayors just be normal about living in Gracie Mansion?
Just live in a free mansion without making a whole thing out of it for God's sake.
nygroove.nyc
December 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
i actually do need my mayor to take the free house and loudly declare "whaddaya want me to do, *not* take the free house?" before an array of microphones
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December 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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JIMMY FALLON: [set and his suit looks like it’s from the 1970s for some reason] So you’re telling me the reason we are all sad is because of Volcano ghosts? That’s crazy. Haha. That’s nuts. Haha.
L RON: [Grin like someone mashed chiclets into ground beef] That’s entirely correct Jim.
L RON: [Grin like someone mashed chiclets into ground beef] That’s entirely correct Jim.
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
JIMMY FALLON: [set and his suit looks like it’s from the 1970s for some reason] So you’re telling me the reason we are all sad is because of Volcano ghosts? That’s crazy. Haha. That’s nuts. Haha.
L RON: [Grin like someone mashed chiclets into ground beef] That’s entirely correct Jim.
L RON: [Grin like someone mashed chiclets into ground beef] That’s entirely correct Jim.
underrated annoying part of Life As It Is Now is the need to join a subreddit for every single new product or service one encounters, because that subreddit will inevitably contain the only warnings about shit like this (in between petty intra-forum recriminations, of course)
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
underrated annoying part of Life As It Is Now is the need to join a subreddit for every single new product or service one encounters, because that subreddit will inevitably contain the only warnings about shit like this (in between petty intra-forum recriminations, of course)