If the Dems do a Project 2029 type thing of shovel ready policy papers it's gonna be a lot of shit like "loan forgiveness for pell grant recipients who start business" when it should be "we asked 50 retired OEM dealer relations lawyers how to fuck over car dealers and here's what they said"
There are 326,000 registered republicans in the city of Los Angeles, Pratt got 217,000 votes. In the 2022 jungle primary, Rick Caruso got 232,000 votes. Surprise! I did your journalism for you.
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 2w agoPratt’s surprise mayoral campaign, in which he finished third despite having no political experience and being a registered Republican in deep blue LA, earned him praise from Trump + the MAGA crowd, as I chronicled in this @ms.now profile:
Humiliation kink
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 2w agoSCOOP for @ms.now w/ Akayla Gardner: Trump met with Spencer Pratt in LA this week, a White House official says Republicans have been floating Pratt as a future presidential contender after his relative success in the LA mayoral race. 👀
Men's declining interest in literary fiction is in no small part because Tom Clancy and Micheal Crichton are dead
Joad The Wet Sprocket@joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2w agoI don't have, like, a ranked list of contributing factors to the decline of men's interest in literary fiction, but I'm pretty sure none of the top ones are addressed with a "fellas, try the romantasy" admonishment.
Michel! You scared moi. Here, take one, eet ees still warm, best bread I av ever tasted. I am sorry about ze hotel, I was trying to gather my thoughts before I called you, I just need to make my thoughts a little bit more precise.
stuart@stuartp.bsky.social · last yr.you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing
Is any part of ONE NIGHT ONLY about overthrowing the government?
Whoever wins in Michigan is good. Stevens isn’t my candidate, but if voters are into her, they’re into her. If they’re into El Sayed, they’re into him. The win is the important part. We want winners. We want people who can make their case to the voters and win. That’s all we want.
The reason every giant story involves the giant getting his ass beat isn’t to make all the little guys feel good—it’s to remind you that if you’re a giant, you gotta be a nice giant, because otherwise you’re gonna get your ass beat.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoSen. John Kennedy says his response to Iranian cyberattacks would be to "eat them up and spit the bones on the floor"
An astonishing movie, I saw it in the theater when it was restored and released more than a decade ago, I think at the NuArt. It is a movie that changes you.
priscilla page@priscillapage.bsky.social · 3w agoyeah Until the End of the World doesn't screen often, feels special to be able to see it in a theater with a crowd (be aware it's nearly 5 hours, though)
I am afraid far too many people who stopped paying attention eighteen months ago are where this guy is. I got news, folks—it may not be real AI, but it is real dangerous.
k_the_okayest 👍 👍@ktheokayest.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's not the intelligence level of AI that's killing all of us and this planet. It's AI's existence that's the problem. It's too fucking stupid to be SkyNet because it's not ACTUALLY real AI. It's just a completely unnecessary search engine that drinks all our water and pollutes our home. Fuck AI.
The thirty-four justices we pack onto the court should all be 19 year-olds we find at DSA meet-ups.
Joe Patrice@joepatrice.bsky.social · 3w agoDouthat heading to an outlet where the median age of the consumer is actually older than the NYT’s is honestly a feat. By next year he’s gonna leave CBS for a job writing an opinion piece at Hospice Quarterly.
This 2 and a half hour movie did not fully and accurately encompass all nuances of the 12000 line epic poem I have spent most of my professional life working through.
If it isn’t true… how can it be leaked?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoWELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
Everyone says I killed him when all I did was shoot him in the heart.
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 4w agofascinating to try to imagine a philosophical view such that this would be obvious
The first person who told me about this incorrectly said it was written by Nicole Krauss and while I am sure the Cusk version will be interesting the Krauss version would’ve broken the world.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 4w agolet’s fucking GO
lol the idea that people were cheerful and positive in the 70’s, the whole decade was infamously bad vibes, it’s literally why Carter lost to Reagan
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 4w agoi bet this shit hits so hard if you're stupid
This is like when I took my kids to see PROJECT HAIL MARY and my 13 year-old was angry that the film didn't include nuking Antarctica.
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 4w agovery funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civilization with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies’ in the new movie”
For the last year, I’ve been keeping track of AMC pre shows for all the movies I see there. The shortest was WEAPONS, 24 minutes after scheduled start time. Now I plan to roll into the Burbank 16 parking lot five minutes after the start time. The longest was F1 in IMAX at 47 minutes.
Adam Mallinger@bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 4w agoIf AMC is gonna do almost 30 minutes of preshow before the movie starts there should be some kind of refund for every minute late that preshow begins
I've always suspected that at some point, a talented and experienced storyteller is going to go all in on trying to make an AI film, and it is going to suck absolute shit, and then we're finally going to have our proof this is all playing piano with rhino hands, and now that time has arrived.
The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social · 4w ago‘Nightborne’: Neill Blomkamp Shares Sci-Fi Horror Short Made Entirely With AI
[whispering to date while reading about Neill Blomkamp going all in on generative AI] That's crappie
Too bad it sounds like THE ODYSSEY isn't connecting with reviewers or audiences but I'm still looking forward to it.