what if I were to tell you that Larry Ellison, a real-life Ebeneezer Scrooge dystopian techbro fascist, greenlit through his Paramount studio a movie where Ebeneezer Scrooge is the *good guy*

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 17h ago

The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...

Local news? Please. There's a better chance that Sinclair dumps KDNL to TCT or convert it to Roar 24/7 by years' end. They're gonna REALLY sting with the loss of ABC especially with no more MVPD eyeballs as YTTV, Hulu, etc. won't give two shits about them now. KDNL? More like K-DNR, amirite?

Monique Sammi Brie@sammi.bsky.social · 7h ago

I stayed a night in a hotel near Forest Park last year and attended a wedding in the downtown Holiday Inn 15 years ago. That gives me more of a commitment than KDNL ever had to St. Louis.

lol the name flickers back and forth for me in real time like Google Maps is embarrassed, and it should be embarrassed I'm surprised anyone is surprised. Google's a shit company that's been playing cuddly lapdog to this regime

Diz Foley@dizfoley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Are you fucking kidding me, Google Maps??? This is the most embarrassing timeline. 🤦‍♂️ Going back to @mapquest.com and Waze. Techbros were a mistake and I will never forgive any of these companies for capitulating. I see where your priorities lie.

*peeks out sheepishly* nobody died today right

(looks at date on signature) wait a minute

Clever Mia@readvesna.com · 4d ago

FUCK YES.... Jacek Malczewski. My man... 😂🤝 now i dont have to go to bed without rubbing my shit to completion

the most annoying part is how the overwhelmingly right-wing controlled US mainstream media will paint this worthless publicity stunt by an addled, deeply unpopular sack of shit—poised to be throttled in the midterms thanks to apathy and buyer's remorse, no less—as some show of "strength"

all this worthless publicity stunt by a dementia-ridden dumbass will do will make apple and google look like the pliable lapdog asses they are and til mapquest still exists. what's next, realplayer?

MapQuest@mapquest.com · 5d ago

We’re not changing it.

Fun fact: I first saw Clue as a four-year-old as my parents recorded the movie on VHS during a Showtime free preview weekend. (Same with Pee-wee's Big Adventure) I thought the movie was honestly hilarious as a kid, seeing it again a few years later, there were so many jokes I completely missed lol

Thomas K. Dye@projectionedge.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sigh... Tim Curry too. I'm probably more the "Clue" fan than the RHPS fan (though the latter was fine) but all in all he was a damn fine actor and comedian.

someone needs to look at the grim reaper and give them a piece of their mind, they got the wrong 80 year old

Technically, "Mark Carney" is an oxymoron

Al Capp was the Scott Adams of the boomer era, change my mind

Thomas K. Dye@projectionedge.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey, it just occurred to me that very few people under the age of 30 know who Al Capp was. It's proof that self-important chuds will be forgotten.

it's almost breathtaking just how much this regime openly desires to have their own party be annihilated at the polls on November 3, they are so hostile at any opportunity to have an off-ramp to save their butts let them cook

Hoshi 🇨🇦@hoshi.pet · last wk.

Taking this picture with a grain of salt since I can’t find the definite source, but many of these do coincide with what we already know. Sad for the industries this impacts, but thank god we walked away from any kind of deal

pretty much all of the supervillains out there have, in fact, been bone-headed stupid at hiding their villainry, to the point they don't deserve to have the "super" part

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last wk.

The biggest mistake that people made about the AI bubble is assuming that the rich and powerful are smart, better-informed or somehow intellectually superior. Yes, they'd absolutely spend all this money without really knowing if it would work! Everyone around them said it would

never thought I'd see a train derail before it even left the station

Poll Tracker 📊@polltracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

How 2028 Democratic Primary Polling Has Shifted Since January 1, 2026 🟢Ossoff: +5 🟢Kelly: +4.1 🟢Harris: +2.4 🟢AOC: +1.5 🟢Buttigieg: +1.3 🟢Shapiro: +1.4 🔴Newsom: -10.8

This is the closest we'll ever get to seeing a Nancy strip in the style of Mark Newgarden and I'm actually okay with that

caroline cash@cashbrowns.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nancy 8/2/26

between this and the dead-in-the-water attempt to illegally merge Paramount into WB that still has a $650M ticking fee every three months, Larry Ellison's become a financial black hole, you just love to see it

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3w ago

Gas pipeline for Stargate New Mexico delayed until 2027. It was meant to be done tomorrow. Oracle is not going to be able to make $30bn from its OpenAI contract let alone $300bn. This is on top of them having to start applications again for Stargate Wisconsin. Oracle's screwed!

and I think I am the King of England

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 3w ago

Anthropic investors thinks it's worth $2 trillion

🐾 1,733 attendees 🎭 878 fursuiters 🦫 Beavertails food truck refilled 24 times on Saturday 🥙Angry Dragonz *closed their restaurant* to fully staff their food truck 💖 over $22,000.00 for charity 🦝 1 raccoon at closing ceremonies overflowing with emotion I love you all ❤️ #canfurence #canfur

tf with a good book ☀️ #art | #sketchbook | #characters

Finally on vacation and prepping for my annual trip to Ottawa for @canfurence.bsky.social ! For all of the changes we’ve had over the past few months, this is going to be an incredibly special weekend and I hope y’all can be a part of it 🦝❤️🇨🇦

bold of anyone to think max newsomroom will not flame out in iowa and south carolina in early 2028 he's jealous that bonta's lawsuit is actually working and bonta is doing stuff instead of trying to mimic trump on social media in pathetic pleas for attention, like hell they'll listen to a lame duck

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · last mo.

dipshit nice sneak peak of the sort of media policies you can expect under his presidency

The funny part is that Audacy did not own the transmitter site, an industrial park does, and they sold the land to a *data center developer* An AM station basically died because of something that may never actually be built or see the light of day lol

RadioInsight - Audacy To Consolidate Las Vegas Talkers; Shut Down 840 KXNT

radioinsight.com

something something google plus

Engadget@engadget.com · last mo.

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

It's honestly funny seeing Larry Ellison getting his glass jaw smashed into oblivion and his idiot son exposed as a dumbass who knows nothing about the movie industry or the politics behind it... and now the media is finally starting to realise this illegal merger never had a chance to begin with

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last mo.

Paramount’s $111-billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, once touted as a sure thing, has been abruptly delayed as California and other states mount an aggressive antitrust challenge.

I was somewhat confused with this question at first, but then it hit me

Tonya Song 🪶@tonyasong.bsky.social · last mo.

If Isaac Newton was a furry, what would his fursona be?

Whatever political future Rob Bonta has will be almost entirely due to the media and punditry prematurely, universally and foolishly proclaiming this illegal merger as a fait accompli, unwittingly turning him into an antitrust dynamo.

Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.

Judge orders Paramount to temporarily pause Warner Bros acquisition reut.rs/4pFleDN

What if @bloomberg.com actually practiced actual business journalism and was not peddling garbage pseudoscience fanfiction devoid of any value

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last mo.

Governments have spent over a century relying on taxes from human labor. What happens when AI starts doing the work instead? Read more: bloom.bg/4fmzEUu 📷️: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

The most pathetic case of Do Something™️ after Carr's illegal greenlight of Nexstar-Tegna by the Media Bureau was decisively halted in federal court. Carr will be sued over this terminally stupid move, and he'll lose. And guess what? He doesn't care that he'll lose, because he's a vapid demagogue.

Savoir FairnessDoctrine@badfcctakes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The exact opposite of what we need. radioinsight.com/headlines/36...

The media has been basically banging the drum that Paramount-WB has been inevitable just like they've been playing along with propping up Altman and his BS, when a cursory look under the hood reveals that it's a flimsy narrative that can be undone with the bare minimum of critical thinking

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo ago

I’m continually shocked how little anyone is discussing OpenAI’s direct risk to the future of Oracle - especially as Oracle stock is so crucial to the paramount/WBD closing in September! Also: this situation is one that’s uniquely resistant to bailouts as Oracle’s stock is valued in vibes.

please look up what a “hot take” is because this indefensible bullshit being spewed solely for social media engagement and making you out to be a twerp is clearly not that

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My hot take is that Lindsey Graham did many contemptible things but if you’re furious that his Senate Democratic colleagues are posting nice things about him today you need to put down your phone, get some fresh air, and remember a time when a colleague you disliked departed this mortal coil.