Okay! I do not do this often, but I am in sudden possession of a small amount of spending money, and I am looking to invest in some physical media. PLEASE RECOMMEND TO ME: movies, books, music, or television programs from the last 10 years *only* that you think I might enjoy.

Something that is wild to think about is that when the movie version of CABARET came out there was a near universal consensus that Liza Minelli was the hottest woman on the planet

Good morning! It is August 5th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Food & Beverage Workers Day. Support those who keep us fed! We celebrate the black and white warbler, mniotilta varia. John Huston was born today in 1906; Toni Morrison died on this day in 2019.

Always, always, always RABID FASCIST WINS ELECTION BY ONE POINT: The voters have overwhelmingly chosen a new direction MILD PROGRESSIVE WINS ELECTION BY ONE POINT: The voters are deeply divided and long for a return to the center The money does not care what you want

I don’t know anything about Transformers lore because I’m not eight years old, so I’m unsure what the advantage of a giant robot being able to turn into a car is. But whatever it is, I question whether it’s a benefit that transfers to turning into a giant football helmet

It’s so funny to use “Boris Johnson’s neighbor is the child of a millionaire who went to a posh school” as a gotcha. Yes, that’s correct, that’s how they were able to become Boris Johnson’s neighbor Check out Boris Johnson's CV sometime if you really hate upper-class privileged people

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · yesterday

The British press then came down on the neighbour who had reported Johnson’s drunken 2 am plate-smashing row to the police like a ton of bricks

Good morning! It is August 4th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Revolution Day. Remember the heroes who began our struggle! We celebrate the little bluestem, schizachyrium scoparium. Helen Thomas was born today in 1920; Marilyn Monroe died on this day in 1962.

Let them go on strike

Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 2d ago

In a letter to Chicago's deputy mayor of labor relations, a union attorney asked the city to “voluntarily recognize” a collective bargaining unit of commanders and deputy chiefs, pointing to an executive order Mayor Johnson signed.

I was born and raised in Maricopa County and any ideas you may have about how racist, corrupt, and awful the Sheriff’s Department there is are seriously understated

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

I bet this guy’s campaigns are complete dogshit

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

“Bluesky CEO addresses liberal bubble" Fuck off nerd nobody cares what you think

Hey guys what’s goin’ on, anybody got a cool plan to win a war

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

PENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

I’m back from my road trip, and that means IMMORTAL SCIENCE is back, too! It’s Movie Monday on the blog, and really, what else is there to talk about besides Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY? It’s a movie I liked, but fell just short of loving, and I tried to think about why.

Always Meeting Ourselves - IMMORTAL SCIENCE

Christopher Nolan was born to adapt The Odyssey. But that doesn't mean he was the right person to do it, or the best person to do it. But is he a good person...

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Good morning! It is August 3rd in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Athletics Day. Cheer our nation’s athletes to victory! We celebrate the eastern gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis. Ernie Pyle was born today in 1900; Thorstein Veblen died on this day in 1929.

Back home from a road trip, currently enjoying the way an apartment smells after two weeks of being closed up and the weather has alternately been insanely hot and pouring rain

My blocklist was once reserved for genocide deniers and people who blame Gaza on leftists but I've really been expanding it lately and it is vastly improving my BlueSky user experience

Congratulations to Native Americans, sure tens of thousands of you died during an ethnic cleansing but in the end you got a toilet named after you

DSA shocker: people refine their ideology through dialectic instead of just voting for whatever candidate their party barfs up and calling it politics www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

Can Democratic Socialists Agree on Anything? They Say That’s Not the Point. (Gift Article)

At a national summit of the Democratic Socialists of America, nervous energy and a sprawling tableau of sometimes-competing interests were on display.

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Good morning! It is August 2nd in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Design Day. The objects you use should be functional and beautiful! We celebrate pine nuts, pinus edulis. James Baldwin was born today in 1924; William S. Burroughs died on this day in 1997.

My hot take is fuck a post-credit sequence, if you got something to say to me you can say it during the movie It’s like putting the end of a novel on the inside back cover

James Miller@16bitirl.bsky.social · 4d ago

Movie theater innovations.

This is me except it’s Dolph Lundgren in ROCKY IV

Ben Schwartz@benschwartz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

explain to me again why jack palance is considered the villain in "shane."

To you he is Jack Reacher. To me he is the guy from season 3 of AMERICAN IDOL who made Paula Abdul even hornier than usual

Gee I wonder what the difference between these sparkly, life-giving youth and the teen takeover kids you've been siccing the cops on all year might be

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d ago

From the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.

I have been saying for like 40 years that the main goal of Holocaust denial is to rehabilitate fascism. The Gaza genocide and the repurposing of "antisemitism" as a weapon against the left has made that immeasurably easier

John Q. Public@publius24.bsky.social · 5d ago

With this new red scare taking shape ahead of the midterms, expect the GOP to increasingly flirt with this “better dead than red” rhetoric

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

Good morning! It is August 1st in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Great Lakes Day. Enjoy the wonders of our inland oceans! We celebrate the surf clam, spisula solidissima. Chuck D was born today in 1960; Calamity Jane died on this day in 1903.

It's pretty wild that a wrestler as boring and juiceless as Roman Reigns has been getting the push at WWE for over 15 years. At least Hulk Hogan had charisma

Good morning! It is July 31st in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate World Ranger Day. Salute the forces who protect nature! We celebrate the American hornbeam, carpinus caroliniana. Mary Vaux Walcott was born today in 1860; Gore Vidal died on this day in 2012.

I just saw AIR FORCE ONE for the first time and man is this serious, are you fucking kidding me This is the most 1986-ass movie from 1997 I’ve ever seen

So the Heritage Foundation, and by extension the US government, is attacking the role of women as anything but docile breeders. This is not a surprise, although it is hugely depressing. You can read more about it in @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social's excellent article, linked below. But.

Is The Right's Next Project Make Women's Sports Girly Again? | Defector

Within a few weeks of the country’s highest court giving states permission to ban trans girls from nearly all school sports, the influential right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation made clear it...

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