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@nbcnews.com you need to start including this information in all of your coverage of the administration: “NBC’s parent company, Comcast, donated the median salary of approximately 95 laid-off employees to the president’s unsanctioned White House demolition project” deadline.com/2026/10/comc...

Somewhere, a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds writer read the news and wished they had another season

Drag Me to Hell is an all-timer

Love it when an artist’s origin story includes That One Weird Guy

The only AI I’d be sad to lose is the 2001 Spielberg film

I want to see journalists start asking high-ranking military officers what they would do if they became convinced that the commander in chief had gone insane, I would hope that this might finally disabuse a lot of centrist types that the military is not the backstop of democracy they think it is.

High and housesitting for my cable-having parents, flipping back and forth between Prophecy 3 and Star Trek: Nemesis and dreaming of an abysmally attended American Cinematheque series focused on bad films directed by great editors

The wrong 80-year-old who was in Home Alone 2 died

My least woke take: “I hope they get help” implicitly assumes that just getting treatment for mental illness would make someone a Good and Rational person, when the truth is sone people are just Like That and it is a waste of our time snd energy to care about their well being. She just sucks!

We don’t even have to imagine the Torment Nexus; Steven Spielberg made a movie 25 years ago that introduced “AI” into the lexicon and it ended with human extinction and all the robots being sad and tech bros were like “let’s do it”

A fun bit of Oscar trivia: Alexandre Desplat’s first nom was in 2006; he has since constituted 12% of Best Original Score nominations (winning twice).

RIP to Sam Neill, no one is going to have to scold people not to speak ill of you.

As a suburban kid living in a single family home, I always envied kids who lived in apartments; like my being queer, it was only many years later that I realized I was born an urbanist.

[guy who’s only seen the 1987 film, “Walker”] I’m getting some serious “Walker” vibes from this gubernatorial election

The subtext of Tom Steyer’s campaign is “please, forgive me,” and that should be the default position of any candidate over, say, 55

If you travel travel 30 miles south of Los Angeles the tv ads are pretty much 50/50 between “vote for this MAGA politician who hates trans people” and “buy these unregulated testosterone supplements in order to remain A MAN”

Downtown San Diego is a madhouse on Padres game nights; I need to plan a visit when they’re not playing, like October

As a self-centered American I am so sick of hearing about other countries’ leaders being overthrown

At least we’ll finally get that Batman/Yellowstone crossover we’ve long been craving

NORMAL GUY: hey man how’s it going GAVIN NEWSOM: I’ll tell you how it’s not going: transgenderly. NORMAL GUY: ok

Jerry Goldsmith’s impact on Star Trek cannot be overstated. You cannot do an open fifth in a Star Trek score without evoking Klingons.

Sitting in a train that hasn’t moved for an hour, thinking about how a well-run country would not make passenger trains share rails with freight.

Not feeling vindicated per se because it is a really low bar, but I am pleased that no one I have ever voted for is in the Epstein files

protect this man vigilantly, a very strange and upsetting trend has emerged in recent weeks

Every member of both chambers of congress

not the most important thing going on right now, but ‘american express’ should be a train and ‘amtrak’ should be a credit card

The DS9 writers room presumably had a big dry erase board for story ideas but someone accidentally wrote “Torture Chief O’Brien?” in permanent marker

Was just thinking about how solid blue California voted not to abolish slavery in 2024

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Oh no, Odo is trapped in the turbo lift and needs to get back to his bucket! Such high stakes for the guy who goo’d his way into a closed airlock, like, two episodes ago! (I could no longer stand to be on blusky and not be conversant in DS9)

From a tv production standpoint, all the talk of decisions being made by senior management on Saturday and Sunday has been so weird. That episode was delivered by 5pm EST Friday.

Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.

I’m convinced that Disney has a Phantom of the Opera-esque character stalking their studio; except instead of demanding that they stage his operas on pain of death, he insists that they keep making Tron stuff

Relatively few people get to give such an on-the-nose answer

I got laid off and someone else was hiring for the same hyper-specific job for more money

When you are the only one from your side of the family who is willing to visit grandpa in the home

please convince your friends and loved ones to stop saying “it cannot be understated” when they mean “it cannot be overstated;” we can still nip the next “I could care less” in the bud if we work together.

Homeless people are not more likely to be drug addicts, it just used to be possible to afford both a home and a drug addiction.

Pretty crazy that I am about to interact with slaves* in the year 2025 (*go through airport security)

Stopping to sniff other dogs’ piss is their version of social media

Spitting in the face of the rich White American tradition of completely ignoring your neighbors. The best neighbors I ever had spoke limited English, and frequently brought us, unprompted, some delicious Mexican or Vietnamese food. There’d be a knock at the door, and boom!, dinner.

I love that we’ve normalized using hazard lights to mean “I am breaking the law but I’ll stop breaking the law soon-ish”

A great night for those of us who miss five-hour ballgames! #worldseries

We might get to see Kiké Hernandez pitch in a World Series!

Trying to trick my brain into thinking that House of Dynamite is less terrifyingly relevant because the shots of the White House don’t look like the one in the real world