if you can stomach it, THE CHASER (2008) is a masterpiece. your nerves will be shredded. you’ll laugh out loud. and the final act kicks you in the stomach.
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Skeleton with some meat on it. The Audacity, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Electric Lit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Novelizers, a box to be opened in the event of my death. IG: amandamlehr
i’m sure there was a better way for Past Me to remind Present Me that i’m getting labs done next week than scrawling “8 AM: BLOOD” in my calendar in all caps
i swear — every news outlet made the headline cut off at “Mitch McConnell di—“ on purpose
Today's gender is Karen Allen dressing up in Pacino's leather bar togs in Cruising (1980).
I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
CVS added a Signs and Symbols of National Decline aisle
people who’ve seen THE ODYSSEY, i need answers: does stately, plump buck mulligan appear in the post-credits sequence
losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
craving a sitdown with the mind who decided that Scrappy the Compost Creature should have barklike front claws and sexy women’s legs in heels
the thing about credibility is that the most victimized groups are also deemed the least credible. credible is not shorthand for "truthful"
"From our 'first openly g-y character' to our thirteenth 'first openly g-y character,' we’ve been honored to provide the kind of representation you’d expect from a sprawling entertainment conglomerate led by two aggressively gendered mice."
For Pride Month, Disney Proudly Announces Its First Openly Closeted Characters
“From our ‘first openly g-y character’ to our thirteenth ‘first openly g-y character,’ we’ve been honored to provide the kind of representation you’d expect ...
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a few years ago, i had to explain to one of my high school students that AIDS used to be a death sentence. they’d never experienced it as anything but a chronic condition that required medication. mind-boggling.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last mo.45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
now, hang on. You yell “shark,” we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.
The discourse around yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling about girls’ athletics is a reminder that “transgender” is a label applied by fascists to anyone who does not fit the narrow roles prescribed by white patriarchal heterosexuality. It simultaneously discriminates on race, gender, sexuality, and class.
mere feet away from where i was eating some superb Guatemalan food, i saw six separate people stop to greet a bodega cat, including one guy who knelt down to put the cat on FaceTime with whomever he was talking to New York City, baby
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2mo agoSam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
today, my spouse pointed out a row of gaslights in front of an old building. i told him that they were electric, and he believed me for five whole minutes.
i hate when the fridge beeps at me when i’m only halfway through putting away the groceries ma’am, i’m elbow-deep in your crisper rn — be for real
It's always fascinating to look at images like this and think "These are completely superfluous" and "You could get a machine to barf these out and nothing of value would be lost."
Mathew Buck@filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 2mo agoA24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world