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What an absolute tragedy that David Letterman is not on the air to riff about Hamnet for at least three weeks.
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
What an absolute tragedy that David Letterman is not on the air to riff about Hamnet for at least three weeks.
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these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
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Battle rapper sending a questionnaire to their opponent re: their mom
I really feel like they could/should have worded it differently?
December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Battle rapper sending a questionnaire to their opponent re: their mom
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All of this money spent on this study and not a single mention of things that might keep people away: disruptive audience behavior, increasingly poor technical presentation, every shrinking theatrical windows (or day and date indies). I love theaters, and go multiple times a week, but it’s grim.
How Can Movie Theaters Fill More Seats Again? A Bain Report Shares Suggestions
"Audiences haven’t abandoned theaters; they need a more compelling reason to go," the consultancy highlights, sharing suggestions for how to bring fans back to the cinema in the post-COVID era.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
All of this money spent on this study and not a single mention of things that might keep people away: disruptive audience behavior, increasingly poor technical presentation, every shrinking theatrical windows (or day and date indies). I love theaters, and go multiple times a week, but it’s grim.
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***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on January 27th on Blu-ray in the US from #WarnerArchive: #TheNarrowMargin (1952)!
Pack your bags for one of movie history's greatest trips, a nifty film noir thriller that Time Magazine deemed "worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers
Coming on January 27th on Blu-ray in the US from #WarnerArchive: #TheNarrowMargin (1952)!
Pack your bags for one of movie history's greatest trips, a nifty film noir thriller that Time Magazine deemed "worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on January 27th on Blu-ray in the US from #WarnerArchive: #TheNarrowMargin (1952)!
Pack your bags for one of movie history's greatest trips, a nifty film noir thriller that Time Magazine deemed "worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers
Coming on January 27th on Blu-ray in the US from #WarnerArchive: #TheNarrowMargin (1952)!
Pack your bags for one of movie history's greatest trips, a nifty film noir thriller that Time Magazine deemed "worthy of being bracketed in the select group of train thrillers
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I know this is very "so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time," but I'm sad that there are no mid-dots in the headwords of the new M-W Collegiate 12th ed. I know only four people in the universe used them, and no one knew what they were really for, but I loved those li'l guys.
October 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I know this is very "so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time," but I'm sad that there are no mid-dots in the headwords of the new M-W Collegiate 12th ed. I know only four people in the universe used them, and no one knew what they were really for, but I loved those li'l guys.
"How right-wing, Maxine wonders, does a person have to be to think of [ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER] as a left-wing [film]?"
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"How right-wing, Maxine wonders, does a person have to be to think of [ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER] as a left-wing [film]?"
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
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There’s a non-zero chance that at some point I simply stop engaging with anything produced after 2019 or so. Spend the rest of my life entirely living in the past.
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There’s a non-zero chance that at some point I simply stop engaging with anything produced after 2019 or so. Spend the rest of my life entirely living in the past.
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yooooooooo
Surprise — Katie and Allison Crutchfield's new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook is called Snocaps, and their debut album is out now:
Katie & Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, & Brad Cook Are Snocaps — Hear Their Surprise Debut Album
We knew something was afoot, we just didn’t know we’d be getting so much of it so quickly.
www.stereogum.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 AM
yooooooooo
Reminder that DEC's minicomputers were fucking gorgeous.
October 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Reminder that DEC's minicomputers were fucking gorgeous.
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MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters
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if you're a person who doesn't see the unalloyed good in Warner Bros spending $150 million on a loose Pynchon adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson, we simply do not occupy the same reality
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you're a person who doesn't see the unalloyed good in Warner Bros spending $150 million on a loose Pynchon adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson, we simply do not occupy the same reality
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truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself
September 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself
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Never forget that a major work of contemporary American cinema — one nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award — rests its climax on someone not knowing how to pronounce Jorma Kaukonen's name.
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Never forget that a major work of contemporary American cinema — one nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award — rests its climax on someone not knowing how to pronounce Jorma Kaukonen's name.
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is that what i think it is
August 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
is that what i think it is
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this shot of columbo walking up a city street is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen
August 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
this shot of columbo walking up a city street is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen
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Tubi (The People's Streamer™) currently has 786 Looney Tunes Shorts
August 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Tubi (The People's Streamer™) currently has 786 Looney Tunes Shorts
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someone else will have to come up with actual numbers, but losing book reviews from the AP means losing them from all the local papers that already aren’t paying critics to write reviews directly for them
August 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
someone else will have to come up with actual numbers, but losing book reviews from the AP means losing them from all the local papers that already aren’t paying critics to write reviews directly for them
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this is part crisis in criticism and crisis in reading. People read book reviews not just to make consumer choices but to stay—or maintain the appearance of being—culturally literate, and there’s less interest in even being able to pretend you read the book everyone’s talking about
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
August 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
this is part crisis in criticism and crisis in reading. People read book reviews not just to make consumer choices but to stay—or maintain the appearance of being—culturally literate, and there’s less interest in even being able to pretend you read the book everyone’s talking about
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So, uh, TIME just named @fitwr.bsky.social one of the 100 Greatest Podcasts OF ALL TIME?!?
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
'Fighting in the War Room' Is on The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time
Here's why "Fighting in the War Room" made TIME's list
time.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So, uh, TIME just named @fitwr.bsky.social one of the 100 Greatest Podcasts OF ALL TIME?!?
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
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It is increasingly clear that western governments are invested in Israel—politically, economically and militarily—because its hypermilitarised culture, murderous border regime and complex latticework of internally segregated citizenship are the model they aspire to as the response to climate crisis.
I don’t think Germany’s staunch support of Israel is merely ideological or rooted in post-WW2 guilt. I think it is largely strategic. I think it is planning for a world where Germany wishes to suppress or expel much of its non-white population. The Nazis are at 25% in the polls, for goodness’ sake.
Germany’s huge cuts to the sectors providing migration services while pumping huge money into its military points to a fundamental reshaping of German society. A hard-edged future where security is valued over community. Migrants (non-white, obviously) are mere threats to be policed and controlled.
July 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It is increasingly clear that western governments are invested in Israel—politically, economically and militarily—because its hypermilitarised culture, murderous border regime and complex latticework of internally segregated citizenship are the model they aspire to as the response to climate crisis.
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