Hire Barry Keoghan and make Bond an absolute freak. This is the only way to save the franchise.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 13h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
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The Independent@the-independent.com · 13h agoWhen it's tighter than you'd like, but Abdul El-Sayed still won, and you'll take yes for an answer. media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
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This is the worst thing the Madden Brothers have ever done. The second worst is the music that Madden Brothers have made.
@tombreihan.bsky.social · 8h agoThis is some bullshit right here. Brooklyn Vegan has done incredible work for a mind-bogglingly long time. It's never enough for the freaks who own the companies.
Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is spectacular. It features both the most woke scene the franchise has ever had, as well as the most lascivious. Destin Daniel Cretton is an auteur of the highest order. Also, get the check (REDACTED)
Still digesting The Strokes albums. It would have been easy for them to make another New Abnormal (which has quietly become one of the key records of the '20s), but instead they decided to integrate Charli XCX-style Hyperpop into a rock format. So....Hyper Rock?
The best film ever made about male friendship, point blank. consequence.net/2026/07/poin...
The Original Point Break Surfing Back Into Theaters This August
The '90s action classic stars Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.
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Once when I was backstage I saw Max Bemis of Say Anything tell Walter Schreifels that "I've had sex to your music so many times." Walter responded, "Oh wow." Anyway, Walt is the post-hardcore GOAT, and the new Quicksand album is another banger. stereogum.com/2504902/albu...
Album Of The Week: Quicksand 'Bring On The Psychics'
Every once in a while, a little alarm goes off in my head, the “sounds like Turnstile” alert. A band doesn’t have to sound that much like Turnstile to set that trigger off. I just hear a few things — ...
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(Paul Verhoeven throws his latest script in the trash, vows to start over.)
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w agoHegseth now wants taxpayers to pay to give testosterone injections to troops to make them better warfighters.
This is good news, of course, but it would be even better if Julianne Nicholson reprised her Dance Mom character from Hacks. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
‘Task’ Season 2 Becomes ‘Mare of Easttown’ Crossover With Julianne Nicholson Reprising Emmy-Winning Role (EXCLUSIVE)
Julianne Nicholson has joined HBO's 'Task' Season 2, reprising her Emmy-winning 'Mare of Easttown' role as Lori Ross.
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one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4w ago#BrokenTimes: "Republicans have taken a different tack.... It is a question on which the left and right have largely diverged"
A Title Fight reunion would solve the Masculinity Crisis.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · 4w agoTitle Fight reunite (for acoustic wedding performance)
(Reads half the sentence) Oh hell yeah let's go!
Stereogum@stereogum.com · 4w agoTitle Fight reunite (for acoustic wedding performance)
The best time for the dipshit to drop out is before he ran and the second best time is right this second.
Tyler Coates@tylercoates.bsky.social · 4w agohas that dipshit dropped out yet
MeToo went too far = still mad I had to hear about that for a few months
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 4w agoI just saw someone (who I have already blocked) saying "The moral purity of the Left post MeToo makes them shoot themselves in the foot" & buddy I *WISH* there were moral purity around gender violence & also guess what jagoff we're not remotely "post" MeToo.
Listens to Car Seat Headrest Once. stereogum.com/2504235/noah...
Noah Kahan Celebrates Furries At Pittsburgh Show
Noah Kahan is appropriating Will Toledo’s culture. The viral folk star’s eventful Great Divide tour happened to stop by Pittsburgh last night while the furry convention was in town, and he was for som...
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I've seen more people show up for the first band on a five-act punk matinee that starts at 4pm.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.INCREDIBLE SCENES ON FOX as there is LITERALLY NOT A SOUL at Trump's fair, which has now been open for 15 minutes
If Zohran brought back the McCarren Pool Parties, then I would be fine with him being Mayor for Life.
Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · last mo.New York City residents are celebrating the reopening of public pools — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who jumped into the water while wearing a suit at an East Harlem pool on Saturday. Outdoor public pools will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Sept. 13.
(Me last night watching Horsegirl, a band of young twentiesomethings who sound like the entire roster of Matador Records distilled into one band) "Hell yeah, the kids really are going to save us."
My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."