I'm sharing this for #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. It can feel like there's a lot of societal pressure to hide your pain. Resist that if you can, let people know you're suffering, and ask for the support you deserve.

Matt Cohen@mattcohen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Everything is overwhelming. Here's a reminder from myself and @gemmacorrell.bsky.social that it's always okay to admit that you're struggling to hold onto any sense of optimism, hope, or happiness. Speak up because you deserve support.

Every single person who wants you to be OUTRAGED that the mayor of New York City is attending a 9/11 memorial would absolutely want you to be OUTRAGED if the mayor of New York City skipped a 9/11 memorial.

Okay Disney, I have a premise for a season-long arch that's guaranteed to keep viewers tuning in. In the first episode, guest star Daniel Radcliffe and Rowlf The Dog are practicing dangerously fast patter songs backstage... but wait! What's that intriguing thing behind them? It's a message... (1/X)

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 22h ago

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

Rewatching "It's A Wonderful Life" is a Christmas tradition, but this quote is worth remembering year round. #SuicidePreventionDay

Matt Cohen@mattcohen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" #ItsAWonderfulLife If you need help, text #988Lifeline at 988 or connect with @crisistextline.bsky.social by texting SHARE to 741741 . And please be kind to yourself -- you matter.

AI has the same marketing strategy as fascism. It's meant to appeal to people who yearn to be unapologetically mean. The message isn't "AI helps you get ahead." It's "Half of the population will lose their jobs. Using AI will let you mock their pain."

Matt Cohen@mattcohen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

They say that porn helped drive early adapters to emerging technologies like the VCR and the internet. AI is different that that. Sure, there's AI porn out there, but AI is proving most appealing to people who get off on something else: Fascism. (1/X)

Sara Bareilles auditioned for a production of Into The Woods. She didn't get the part. Jessie Mueller did. Bareilles later wrote the musical Waitress which starred... Jessie Mueller! Zero grudges held! That fun fact would be unremarkable if we didn't live in a world run by The Pettiest Man Alive.

I'm proud to say that while *other* media outlets were busy whitewashing Elon Musk's white supremacy, MAD Magazine had the journalistic courage to let me call him a bigot. Twice.

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 4d ago

Every Republican in 2026 election being funded by Elon Musk should be asked if they agree with Musk funding Germany's far right/Nazi inspired AfD party. Do they agree with AfD's whitewashing of Nazis and The Holocaust? Support AfD's pro-Putin views?! I dare corporate media to do their F'ing job!

This is the dominant philosophy in America: Once you disregard the achievements of everyone who is better than you, then you automatically become the best person.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Riley Gaines: "I went to the WNBA game in Minneapolis. It was a bunch of, like, disgruntled lesbians."

It’s not about gatekeeping, it’s not about democratising, it’s about theft, control, and attacking artists. Always has been.

The most important fact about the arch is that Trump is breaking ground BEFORE he has approval to build his new monument to himself. Just like he knocked down the East Wing before he had a finished design for the ballroom. This is how he handles everything. Destroy first, plan second.

This is my new favorite thing written about AI.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last wk.

Do-My-Homework-For-Me-McFly ass society

Once again we find ourselves following a developing story of a mass shooting. Although it's natural to want more details, it might be helpful to instead focus on what it FEELS like to NOT KNOW exactly what happened. In this hazy period where we don't know how many... (1/10)

Everytown for Gun Safety@everytown.org · last wk.

At least one person was killed and multiple others were wounded — including two police officers — in a shooting at an apartment complex in downtown Minneapolis.

The people promoting AI failed to learn a key lesson from School House Rock: The animated educational songs were successful because they were *authentic.* Most of the composers came from jazz and folk backgrounds, so that's what they wrote. They didn't try to imitate a popular "rock" sound...

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Don't watch the Harry Potter trailer. Watching it gives WB "engagement." Don't even visit pages that *post* the video. Page clicks motivate media outlets to give the series more free publicity. These companies will only do the right thing when doing the wrong thing becomes less profitable.

"...He was the village idiot And though it seems a pity, it was so He loved to burn down houses just to watch the glow And nothing could be done Because he was the mayor's son" - Tom Lehrer (The last two lines have been popping into my head a lot for the past 10 years. I wonder why...)

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · last wk.

More destruction to the Kennedy Center

I was completely unaware of this race five minutes ago and now I'm happy about the outcome thanks to this thread.

Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · last wk.

1. Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton just lost his Senate primary in a LANDSLIDE to outspoken trans ally Ed Markey. To Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.

These fitted sheets keep answering a question nobody asked.

Some authors say they didn’t *write* their books with AI, but they needed to use it for the *cover* because they couldn’t afford an artist. To prove that’s not true, I am offering authors FREE cover design by me, a former graphic designer. They probably won’t be great, but they’ll be better than AI.

Texas suspended the voter registration of 1.2 million residents. (That's about the total population of Wyoming and Vermont combined.) SCOTUS ruled to uphold Trump's executive order curtailing mail-in voting. These latest acts of voter suppression remind me of this news item from 1940.

Matt Cohen@mattcohen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The effort to pass the SAVE Act reminds me of this old 1940 newspaper clipping that my dad found. It's about one man's adventures in voter suppression. The headline reads "Democrat Abandoned Atop House--Walter Cook, Roofer, Unable to Get Down to Vote When GOP Employer Takes Ladder." (1/X)

Google and Apple helped change the name of Lake Ontario on their maps *years ago* by funding Trump, by donating to his inauguration, by showing up to his events, by honoring him with gold plaques and by all of their other actions that lent their aura of legitimacy to an insane fascist.

Micah@rincewind.run · 2w ago

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

ICE has robot dogs? The sadists roaming our streets have the minds of children. They need new toys so they can *finally* experience the thrill of unlocking powerful new weapons in a video game. They suck at games so they took a job that gives them weapon upgrades despite their lack of achievements.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nope nope nope nope absolutely not. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/29/b...

In grade school math, you can find the "absolute value" on a number line by measuring the distance from zero and ignoring whether the distance was positive of negative. "Absolute value" is how we got to where we are now. For some people, destroying things FEELS the same as creating things. (1/X)

Tim Curry played a rock star who wanted to reboot his life by getting rid of all of his possessions in this sketch from The Tracey Ullman show. I still remember the ending giving me chills. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VAN...

Tim Curry - Lonely At The Top - The Tracey Ullman Show - 1989

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When the producers of the musical My Favorite Year needed somebody with the dangerous charm to play a lush Errol Flynn type, they called Tim Curry. It was perfect casting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQS...

My Favorite Year (1992) Promo Clips - Musical - Tim Curry - Broadway

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Instead of joining the Broadway cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Rupert Grint should have said “No, and here’s why” in the most public way possible. However much they’re paying him, they’re paying Rowling more. Estimates suggest she gets between 31 to 41 percent of the show’s net profits.

We should begin renaming the worst preventable diseases after the monsters responsible for their resurgence. "My grandma died of Andrew Wakefield and my uncle is quarantined with a bad case of RFK Jr."

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 4w ago

The share of U.S. kindergartners with exemptions from school vaccine requirements for the 2025-2026 school year rose to another record high, as the country battles its worst measles resurgence in 35 years.

Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center was initially dismissed as a distraction, but it wasn't a distraction: It was a declaration of his agenda. Corporate leaders need to realize that he's coming for them next. They can either resist now or doom their organization to a Trump takeover. (1/X)

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Everything Trump touches deteriorates sharply

The Kennedy Center is losing money after Trump took over, which proves the old adage: "Go fascist, go broke." (It doesn't rhyme, but that's what happens when you get rid of artists.) #GoFascistGoBroke

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

"Ticket sales and donations plunged after the Trump-led board of trustees voted in December to rename the center after him and put his name on (the building)... "The documents show that leaders knew both were cratering even as they publicly portrayed Trump’s takeover as a financial rescue."

New Product Concept: An IKEA desk specifically designed for users to bang their head against it.