Kevin

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Let them eat $5000 Mar-a-Lago hamburger and maybe a small dessert

Clayface is really good. Proof that you don't always need a new idea, sometimes just wheeling out a really good old one and committing to fully exploring the implications with a good cast will do. And the screwed up bits hit a lot harder for how focused, restrained, and low stakes it is.

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

Literally the only person on earth who cares this much about Bill Maher

No he's right I do actually hate cars can we please get some actual trains going

some good local political drama: there's a crowded mayoral race in a nearby town, and one local business owner put out signs opposing a local councilwoman who's running. the signs get stolen, but it turns out he put airtags in them and they were traced to the councilwoman herself.

Forgotten Island is an absolutely delightful film. Continues the modern stylistic push from animated films like Kpop Demon Hunters into new cultural territory while delivering a great madcap adventure with a really strong emotional throughline and anarchic, deliciously morbid streak. Good stuff.

JK Rowling’s transphobia has ruined Harry Potter. That is a shame, there was a real magic in the fantasy of it. As a kid, I always loved imagining going to private coed boarding school. Inheriting a big pile of money. Drinking non alcoholic beer. Owning a little slave guy

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yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive

I swear to god the administration is going down the list of reasons pundits said it wasn’t fascism and doing them all one by one

The James Spader show ft. Paul Bettany as nominal lead is off to a reasonably entertaining start, despite a pretty textbook fridging and some typical Marvel glibness. Cunk turning up was a nice surprise.

"When Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity & appointed her as his new press sec, he called her 'an attorney.' This is also how Zacharia describes herself. But Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus DC, that she was admitted to practice law anywhere — & found none."

The BBC announcing a two part doc on JK Rowling the same week as erasing a “protect the dolls” t-shirt is a pretty clear choice. They’re just full on promoting another network’s show now as long as it’s trans people who pay the price. Good to know, Beeb.

The past week has been very bad for me, and when I get extremely stressed I tend to fuck things up and make them worse. It's not been good.

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

'AI' is a faith position, it's those episodes of Star Trek where foolish one-note aliens don't realise they're praying to a tape recorder.

D+15 Midterm indicator

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

ok i’m kind of miffed that the russian bot farm problem was this easy to mitigate against and i really wish ukraine had done it years ago now

Either this show will be a massive failure, which will have big commercial consequences and therefore terrible creative ones elsewhere in HBO/Skydance, or it will be a success, which will result in new frontiers of padding across every other established property.

That's about one hour per 25 pages of book.

This feels like the most sane industry take so credit due to all the production companies insane enough to pitch Doctor Who anyway

As a San Diegan I'm just relieved this means the Republicans no longer are claiming us as being on their team 🤮

In calling on Teheran to wipe out Los Angeles and San Diego, Trump challenged long-standing norms of presidential comportment.

the tech industry is about to invent books

these are words trans women would use to insult each other

I have to confess I find the style of that new Doctor Who for babies show tragically ugly, but I could see babies liking it. And I'm the grown ass man about to watch the baby Doctor Who show for babies anyway so like does it really matter what I think?

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

My thirtieth birthday is tomorrow and my car just mcfucking died. I would like one dissociation please