Robert Lloyd
@robertlloyd.bsky.social
More than full time TV critic, L.A. Times. Sometime sideman. Picture drawer.
If this is what it takes to kill AI I'm all for it.
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
If this is what it takes to kill AI I'm all for it.
I give some sugar to public broadcasting. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Essay: 6 ways public broadcasting will improve your life. And that's a promise
Public broadcasting is your friend. And local stations such as PBS SoCal (a union of KOCE and KCET) and LAUSD's KLCS, KCRW, LAist (KPCC), KUSC, KCSN and KJZZ need your support more than ever.
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I give some sugar to public broadcasting. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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2025 finally gets what it richly observes: “The Year in Rebuke”, today on #leshow. 1st hearing: 10a PT/1p ET wamc.org, kalw.org, wcbe.org. Then throughout the day on select public radio stations, and podcast on most platforms.
WAMC - Homepage | WAMC
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
wamc.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The countdown of our most-read articles of 2025 rolls along! Here's #16:
I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas
Our 16th most-read article of 2025. - - -You’ve probably wondered about me, the independent thinker in your social network. I’m one part libertari...
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December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The countdown of our most-read articles of 2025 rolls along! Here's #16:
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If you’d like to cry, watch one video like this on YouTube and your whole feed is “last day of the newspaper in city X.”
Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you’d like to cry, watch one video like this on YouTube and your whole feed is “last day of the newspaper in city X.”
He was for them.
Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
He was for them.
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It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
Forever renters: For many in Greater Boston, the American dream of homeownership ‘no longer exists’ - The Boston Globe
Home prices in Greater Boston have surged far faster than incomes, pushing ownership out of reach for many.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
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This is what @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social were writing about in the Guardian a few months ago: the world's levers of power have been hijacked by a bizarre coalition of people who reject life and humanity, and want to hasten the world's end.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is what @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social were writing about in the Guardian a few months ago: the world's levers of power have been hijacked by a bizarre coalition of people who reject life and humanity, and want to hasten the world's end.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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I feel like this encapsulates LA’s 2025. A green bin negligently delivered to 70,000 apartment buildings that can’t store them, repurposed as shelter for someone who either can’t afford to live here or was violently displaced from their home, which collapsed in the heavy rain of a warming climate 😑
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I feel like this encapsulates LA’s 2025. A green bin negligently delivered to 70,000 apartment buildings that can’t store them, repurposed as shelter for someone who either can’t afford to live here or was violently displaced from their home, which collapsed in the heavy rain of a warming climate 😑
Bedford Falls. Ten years later this was the tract where I grew up.
December 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Bedford Falls. Ten years later this was the tract where I grew up.
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is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?
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Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
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I'm sharing this because sharing an NYT story about this outweighs my dislike of the publication.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”
Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I'm sharing this because sharing an NYT story about this outweighs my dislike of the publication.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.
It’s a spy thriller with a twist and a half gainer. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: 'The Copenhagen Test' twists itself into knots answering a question: Who can you trust?
Simu Liu stars in Peacock's new sci-fi spy thriller as a man who discovers that his brain has been hacked.
www.latimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It’s a spy thriller with a twist and a half gainer. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.
December 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.
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The Portland Mercury is currently looking for a full time Managing Editor to join our fun ‘n’ smart editorial team. Are YOU the perfect person for this job? Let’s find out…. 🧵
Cool Job Alert: The Mercury Is Hiring a Managing Editor!
Whoopee-doo, great news: The Portland Mercury continues to grow like gang-busters, and we're hiring a MANAGING EDITOR to join our smart, scrappy, kick-ass editorial team. Are YOU an organized person, ...
www.portlandmercury.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Portland Mercury is currently looking for a full time Managing Editor to join our fun ‘n’ smart editorial team. Are YOU the perfect person for this job? Let’s find out…. 🧵
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DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
Every damn day. It’s exhausting.
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1746
December 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1746
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"Robert May never really fit in as a child. He was awkward and experienced bullying due to his religious background. And he had, well, a rather prominent nose - a trait that the bullies used for ethnic slurs. When he created the Rudolph story, he based it in part on his own experience."
RUDOLPH - A JEWISH TALE — Beth Chai
The origin story of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is, in fact, a Jewish story – and a secular humanist one at that. In 1939, Robert L. May created Rudolph for the Montgomery Ward department stor...
www.bethchai.org
December 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Robert May never really fit in as a child. He was awkward and experienced bullying due to his religious background. And he had, well, a rather prominent nose - a trait that the bullies used for ethnic slurs. When he created the Rudolph story, he based it in part on his own experience."
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Report: Nation's Wealthy Cruelly Deprived Of True Meaning Of Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Report: Nation's Wealthy Cruelly Deprived Of True Meaning Of Christmas
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Going into 2025, it wasn't clear how Trump 2.0 would balance resource extract and conservation on public lands. "Almost a year later, it’s clear that the Trump administration has sided with the corporations," @alex-wigglesworth.bsky.social writes: www.latimes.com/environment/...
How the Trump administration sold out public lands in 2025
Almost a year into the Trump presidency, it’s clear his administration has sided with the corporations seeking to mine and drill our nation's public lands.
www.latimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Going into 2025, it wasn't clear how Trump 2.0 would balance resource extract and conservation on public lands. "Almost a year later, it’s clear that the Trump administration has sided with the corporations," @alex-wigglesworth.bsky.social writes: www.latimes.com/environment/...
A Christmas memory of the year I imagined plots of holiday movies from their titles. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
What are these 26 holiday movies about? Wrong answers only
Los Angeles Times TV critic Robert Lloyd imagines the plots of the season's holiday TV movies based on their titles alone.
www.latimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A Christmas memory of the year I imagined plots of holiday movies from their titles. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled, with the host of the longtime annual performance attributing the decision to the addition of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's name to the institution in Washington.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky
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CBS actually had an announcer introduce tonight’s Kennedy Center Honors as The Trump Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, and ran the still on the right at the start of the show. It was labeled a “Donald J. Trump Production.”
Every day is just a parody of reality under this soulless husk of a human
Every day is just a parody of reality under this soulless husk of a human
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
CBS actually had an announcer introduce tonight’s Kennedy Center Honors as The Trump Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, and ran the still on the right at the start of the show. It was labeled a “Donald J. Trump Production.”
Every day is just a parody of reality under this soulless husk of a human
Every day is just a parody of reality under this soulless husk of a human