Comedy about a guy having to do housework is a tough sell these days, I will give you that.

Exhibitor Relations Co.@ercboxoffice.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Breadcrumbs. Nate Bargatze's THE BREADWINNER was TOA--Toast On Arrival--debuting with just $7.5M this weekend. Comedy... is the toughest sell in the biz these days.

Trying to earn a living doing anything creative feels like constantly asking what parts of my principles I have to contradict for anyone to see what I'm making.

reader: wow this seems effortless. writer: it took me ten years & 400 drafts to complete this story

I really need NASA to come out with a hat with the Artemis mission patch on it.

Remember how he said Covid would be over by Easter? That’s the “two to three weeks” stuff he was saying last night. Same stuff.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

The new thing is landlords using ai photos for their property listings. Totally legal. Total scam. The whole economy is oil and scams.

If you feel you can speak up, do. Goodyear didn't know about the problem with Myhrvold, because many reporters aren't specialists who'd even know to look. It's not always safe to say something, but, where possible, it's so important to talk about what's happening if we're going to change it.

Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕@restingdinoface.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2y ago

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand that ICE be banned from the use of tactical nuclear weapons without a judge's order.

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

being a writer is amazing because one hour you can have a spiraling existential crisis and the next you can write 500 words like nothing happened 🙃

‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.

Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.

Movies aren’t always meant to be shunted into categories of like and don’t like. If you leave the theater or press “exit” and you’re thinking “Ok I don’t know about some of that, I have thoughts,” congratulations you’re engaging with art! Its own special thing.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I've noticed this. A lot.

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

This group of teenagers behind me is discussing their favorite brands of water and I’m just wondering when this generation became septuagenarians

remember, folks,

It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it Learn more here: www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren... And here: notournativedaughters.org

Absolutely wild. She was 8 when she entered the country. An unjust system is to blame here.

Steve Brusatte@stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 8mo ago

As you're enjoying turkey with your family, think of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza. 19 years old, freshman in college, about to board a flight home to join her family for Thanksgiving. Detained by ICE, then deported in *direct violation* of a judge's order. abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...

Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.

I miss the era of when shows had so many episodes they would have to do holiday episodes.

"Dickensian"

You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.

Okay, so you cannot avoid a Thanksgiving event, and it’s not entirely under your control. You’re home from college, you live with your parents, your spouse isn’t ready to process how awful their natal family is. It happens. THERE ARE STRATEGIES YOU CAN EMPLOY TO YOUR BENEFIT.

Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app