Valerie

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

Every time you see a “millennials and Gen Z don’t [x thing, like owning a house or going out to dinner or broadway shows]”, go ahead and mentally substitute “can’t afford” for don’t. I have tons of friends who’d love to go to plays or mid-scale restaurants or buy napkins, but we are broke.

22 episodes yearly on a weekly schedule made american tv global and profitable. how's that "disruption" working out for you, streamers? "long waits between seasons, eight-episode runs, or improper marketing, shows are struggling to find an audience, much less maintain it" gizmodo.com/netflix-show...

The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.

If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

I am doom. Defeated. Someone over at Lego really understood the assignment on this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHK...

insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

Who could have guessed that when you gut the CDC and put a quack with no medical expertise in charge of American healthcare, diseases we had eradicated would come back and there would be explosive diarrhea situations happening. Just no way to know.

With each of these killings by ICE, the administration is telling us: they decide who is worthy of citizenship, they decide whose lives have value.

It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight

2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a

Keith David has finally received his well deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Today is his 70th birthday!

“Died of sadness,” according to family. An immeasurable loss.

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

It fascinates me how some people on social media nowadays actively seem to be weirded out when you attempt to actively interact with them, or to reply to their posts - as if they assume it’s a broadcast-first medium.

Absolute masterclass in removing yourself from a camera shot stealthily

This is how you do it

Spirit Halloween has the chance to do the funniest thing.

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes

Welcome back to the Artemis II crew :) Such a huge relief watching them arrive safely!

Ah, the LA experience of trying to determine if something is thunder or a sonic boom.

interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...

Nonchalant animal noises This is what the internet is made for 😭😭🤣🤣

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

[Exit Murderer.]

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

Stop telling workers to get a better job, and start telling greedy CEOs and corporations to stop exploiting workers.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light