Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.
State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.
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Hotel breakfasts should be all day. You don’t know me, you don’t know my life
every pharmaceutical ad does a parody of a pop song now right, so imagine an ad for anti-candida medicine: 🎶 It's just, a little thrush... 🎶
My beloved wife @cari.bsky.social keeps sending me "avengers doomsday trailer react/explain" videos in an attempt to finally kill me
I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.
Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w agoHi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.
just imagined a new type of American guy who has somehow aligned himself with the wildfire smoke
More people could stand to react like Matt Damon upon hearing someone else's lived experience with cinema (or any media for that matter) didn't occur at the same time as their own. youtube.com/shorts/Zg0Sj...
Tom Holland has never seen 'The Matrix' 😱 #GOATTalk
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this is an incredible visualization of Tenochtitlan 😍 tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
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It remains utterly astounding to me how many websites fail to work at all in Firefox. The entire business is built on the app functioning properly for all users, and you couldn't even be bothered to clear that low bar? Did nobody even try it? How does this happen?
how did the second drop of proud tubi gay merch sell out already!? my change detection alert fired and 2 minutes later i checked the site and it was gone. WTF
inventing a drink called "adventure sauce" thats everclear, pineapple juice, 5 hour energy, and 200mg of THC
Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick
From the archives: [At the gay club] HIM: “Dude, what’s in your pocket?” ME: “Oh, I’m just doing the handkerchief code thing.” HIM: “That’s a semaphore flag. Where did you even get this?” [Meanwhile, at sea] SAILOR: “Sir, the merchant frigate has indicated that it’s a bottom into blowjobs.”
california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...
Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED
State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.
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"a goofy movie": a humble title. why it's not even necessarily "the" goofy movie. we simply, respectfully offer you this story for your consideration "doug's 1st movie": the hubris of icarus. the unbridled audacity to imply that this is only the 1st chapter of the Doug Cinematic Universe. pathetic
Ai guys are like “check out this machine that makes you instantly cum!” completely missing the point of the joy of jacking off
There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
eccentric wealthy family dynasties were the backbone of local newspapers and sports teams for a hundred years in this country. were they remotely laudable as humanitarians or community leaders? no. were they better than the bloodless ultrarich freaks in charge now? kinda. what's my point? no idea
