Ceda Xiong

If David Zaslav bankrupts Netflix I will reluctantly gotta hand it to him

Best New TV comedy of 2025:

Chad Powers - sports Mrs. Doubtfire? Say less.
Murderbot - TV obsessed android? This was made for me.
Overcompensating - In the closet gay frat comedy. I feel like this show was made for 2015.

Best New TV comedy I've yet to watch:
St. Denis Medical
The Paper

Tonight, me and 25 million women will be watching our Superbowl: The Summer I Turned Pretty series finale

If I predicted that SNL would pick 3 white guys, 1 Black man, 1 white woman every 5 years, I would be 95% accurate.

Was chatting with my friend about how work is going and he said "they're believing my lies."

No notes. 10/10

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

all the youngs are at hee-haw concerts and all the olds are at rock-n-roll shows.

2 months ago, a stunning British blue (no chip) wandered into our yard and we decided to take her in. At her spay appointment, her vet was like "uh, she's pregnant" to which I frantically asked for a birthing center for cats. And it turns out that birthing center is just the outside.

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

Yes! I kept waiting for a bigger culmination. Love the actresses but Meghan Fahey criminally underused.

A chart didn't make it into the piece — ICE has arrested >1,000 toddlers since 2023

Pitch: someone calls an anonymous tip into ICE about a house full of illegal immigrants. ICE starts watching the house and decides to do a night raid. The immigrants are all vampires. The vampires called in the tip.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

Happening now in Camarillo, protesters are desperately facing off against ICE to try to defend America’s farm workers.

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“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..”

@niemanreports.org #Hellsite
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Unfair for Los Angeles, where's our hot leaders in government (jk jk Kenneth Meijia you're still fine)

Politics are about looks and the New York Democratic Mayoral candidate is a smoke show?!

Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials

Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...

overthrow us please

Every single Republican who just voted to rip health care away from 17 million Americans has government-funded health care.

Bet the Marines and National Guard would disperse faster if we asked them to read our spec scripts.

June 10: Huntington Beach, California On libraries: measures A & B

did you know? a wealthy beach town in southern California now has an all-MAGA city board, and they've been going after public libraries and book access

public library advocates have organized two ballot measures to counter: it's on the ballot on JUNE 10.
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Craft in the Real World

Just because we're not use to it doesn't mean it's fake. or AI. Anyways, this is a plug for Matthew Salesses's - really opened my mind to writing for an audience who is only squared to see the world one way. books.catapult.co/books/craft-...

And bc Verticals mostly come most from China, the tradition of gossiping, or rumor spreading i.e. the info dump is actually a literally device that's been used for centuries. So just because we're used to the Hollywood's "Show don't Tell" doesn't mean it's not a stylistic choice to go the other way

humiliation tropes etc. A lawyer on LI immediately said this was the kind of low-bar writing that will pave the way for AI. But I actually push back on this. Vertical dramas come from the tradition of soap operas, one of the most HUMAN forms of writing because it's all about melodrama/emotion

It is funny when writers who see writing styles they don't understand and immediately dub it as AI or "bad." I'm seeing this with critique of vertical dramas, which do come from a completely different writing culture than Hollywood. There's a lot of info dumping, unsubtle writing,

One sign Democratic strategists are too old is that they think Joe Rogan (57) is the figurehead of the youth movement, and not, say, 'Shatner's age when he made Final Frontier' or 'Connery's age when he played Indy's dad'.