I'll phrase it this way: Kubrick could have made Oppenheimer and chose not to. Nolan will never make anything like Dr. Strangelove. Nolan adapted The Prestige and Batman comics; Kubrick adapted Nabokov and Thackeray and Anthony Burgess. I like Nolan's work a lot, but be real.

Dan Schkade@danschkade.bsky.social · 21h ago

Listen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check

This is a stuffed burrito's worth of bad people making bad takes. JDV showing up to call someone else a fatass is like when they throw a whole fistful of Fire sauce in the bag right before shoving the bag at you.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h ago

for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.

As it turns out, the soulless anti-DSA minions are as obnoxious as the soulless pro-DSA minions.

"Moderates are relishing in their stronger than expected showing."

Funny Football: Goalkeeper Scores Own Goal

ALT: Funny Football: Goalkeeper Scores Own Goal

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Politico@politico.com · 20h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

This one has objectively correct ranges: 1 to 1.5, 3-4, 1.5-3.

Frieren, 🏳️‍⚧️ Tiefling Princess@fes4ever.northsky.social · yesterday

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W--- S----- is an aggressively mediocre person. I started writing a law and economics thread in response to Max Dubler and W. S. and others, but the problem here is that W. S. and Matty Y and whoever just helicopter in and Debate Club every fucking thing instead of understanding how things work.

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · 2d ago

okay now he's gone too far

I read this. Now you have to. Horny Facebook Boomer replies wouldn't seem like a great place to discover poetry but the three-layered wordplay here is the closest Facebook will ever get to Shakespeare.

Jake Hamby@jakehamby.bsky.social · yesterday

“Not me, I’m not scrolling past you,” one older-looking Facebook user thirsted. “I love a gripping taco.” We’re doomed. apple.news/AjumUDyVYTM6...

I, for one, love that AI plagiarism sleuths are building a list of telltale signs that something might be AI that is more or less filling in a bingo card of general composition advice given to high school students from the last 50 years. Real Sherlock Holmes work here.

This guy has surrounded himself with people who have absolutely no qualms bald-facedly lying to their grandparents.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

The Cubs gave this goofball a six-year contract (complimentary).

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 3d ago

just woke up to the Jays are buying at the deadline and Pete Crow-Armstrong thinks Babe Ruth was made-up

Lmao. This is at the Springfield building a monorail level of infrastructure stupidity. My go-to airport has around 3/4 the volume of Dulles and I regularly park like 50 yards from the elevator bank for check-in. Are you building a theme park in the middle of this?

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 3d ago

One part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...

Fear of Music, Remain in Light, Speaking in Tongues Green River, Willy and the Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory The Royal Scam, Aja, Gaucho People's Instinctive Travels..., Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders Good Kid..., to Pimp a Buttrrfly, Damn [Sigh] Kanye's 1st three albums [Heavier sigh] MJ's

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

I don't pretend to understand kids these days and make limited effort to do so, but if they are viewing Charlie Kirk's shooting cynically and as a meme, I feel like criticizing them for doing so is like calling a technical or personal foul only on the guy who punches back.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d ago

sister tells me that the kids these days don't say "low key" they say "lowkirk" or "lowkirkuinely" and I don’t know how to handle this information

"Oh my God, did Lucy just pull the football? But I was going to kick it!" Charlie Brown, while running Paul Weiss

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2

Ah, yes, that well-established assault defense: "she offered to cook me empanadas."

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Imagine being 70 with nine figure wealth but still debasing yourself like this, making Jeanine Pirro look like the adult in the room.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d ago

Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)

With apologies and a bit of scorn to Oliver Wendell Holmes II, frankly, one generstion of these rabid, incompetent idiots is enough.

Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

My 20-page motion to dismiss my own case is raising a lot of questions answered absolutely nowhere in my 20-page motion to dismiss my own case.

Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 5d ago

In other DOJ News: Jeanine Pirro filed a 20-page motion to dismiss the DOJ case against David Hearn, the Olympian who dared to touch the reflecting pool, because she claims the entire DOJ just found out the work was shoddy. (Insert eye roll) I break it all down here: substack.com/@shero/note/...

Perhaps it's the soft bigotry of extremely low expectations, but this papacy is fun.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: Pope Leo XIV received Patti Smith at the Vatican on Friday, a forty-minute private audience between two natives of Chicago. Within hours, the Catholic right was asking why the Godmother of Punk rates a papal audience and the right-wing dissident sect Society of St. Pius X does not.

Here's my proposal for the next admin - totally free, people charge French Laundry prices for this stuff - but on day one task a group of like 100 feds to civil asset forfeiture every dollar from these crooks. Use the resulting Fox News meltdown to vote on massive reform to forfeiture and QI.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

When you take one look at the decor and know that estate sale is a hard pass.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 7d ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

Another reason to elect me King (f/k/a President) is that the only new wars would be against FIFA and the IOC.

Ryan Rosenblatt@ryanrosenblatt.bsky.social · last wk.

Infantino is one of the most corrupt, venal leaders in the history of sports and his newest plan is his most rotten yet. It's so bad that UEFA, which has let Infantino pilfer the sport while privately grumbling, is finally standing up to him. Might this be what finally stops the FIFA president?

As with Wargames, the only winning move with proving your own authenticity vs AI slop is not to play. Be organically engaging. Use em dashes and proper grammar to your foul heart's content. Or don't. If some asshole accuses you of being fake, it's a them problem and they can go to hell and die.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

You all are getting a crash course ("not literally I hope!") on antitrust law and its modern enemies. Every hypothetical will involve the airline industry. There will be crude graphs on napkins, and possibly a rap about how antitrust litigation is often stealth regulatory capture.

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?

Blocked for asking whether God a bigot. Never change, website.

It's telling that the Democrats said nicer things about Lindsey Graham a week ago that the jamokes talking at the man's alleged funeral. "He's as tasteless in death as you are in life, Sir."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."

This is the correct ruling. This is an issue with the current federal government sucking and kneecapping states with bad preemption that under-regulates a grifter space.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last wk.

JUST IN: Kalshi has won a federal court ruling to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that would have banned prediction markets in the state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I wish we had essay reviews like this for every adaptation of a known IP. I also think it speaks to why this should've been a two- or three-part film and why Damon is miscast.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Temu Bond Villain. He's got the economic influence, the wardrobe, the haircut, the ability to tell Mister Rogers to shove the trolley up his ass... but goes limp before we get to anything interesting.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.