John Hatch

A quick question for anybody who wants to answer, just because I'm trying to get my creative juices flowing...

What's your favorite movie or movies that was a box office flop? I'm not talking about like "Man of Steel made $700 million rather than $1 billion," I'm talking about movies that bombed.

Literally the example that kicked off the thought process (currently reading @johnhatch.bsky.social’s book).

This rhetorical strategy is very effective because it’s a huge country and so these extreme edge cases do exist! Yes, if you do anything in a country with millions of people someone, somewhere may be negatively impacted. It can’t be an excuse to do nothing.

the fact that so many people think christopher nolan’s extremely recognizable form of anti-authoritarian pro-institution liberalism is actually evidence of his conservatism is why we are in the mess we are in and no i won’t be taking any questions.

amazingribs.com ribs recipe. Simple, explains why the 3-2-1 method is bunk, and very tasty.

a close up of a person 's face with a red light behind them Alt: GIF of Gary Oldman as Dracula.

People trash him in it but it rules and he wanted to do well so bad and overthought it. I respect it.

I’ve never seen anyone so close to getting it. So you’re telling me commuting by car is really bad for your mental and physical well-being? Damn, we should do something about that!

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the thing to take from Cuomo—a politician who was supposedly invulnerable and had control of every aspect of Albany—having a flailing campaign is that all of these assholes are really paper tigers who only thrive when their opponents are also cowards.

My favorite doctor and companion

There are many things about this era I do not understand, and the Olivia Nuzzi thing is near the top of the list.

Galactus giving off big divorced dad energy.

Frinkiac meme of Drederick Tatum saying he’s going to orphan Homer’s children.

If I’m ever this embarrassing please put me out of my misery because I sure as shit don’t have any friends left taking me aside and knocking some sense into me.

Yeah take the W! It's better than the dipshits with their balls hooked up to a car battery saying, "I regret nothing, the Democrats want let a transgender play golf."

I'm usually team "Don't Make Fun of People's Appearance" but I draw the line at those who can choose how they look while their entire job is to kidnap people based on their physical appearance that they have no choice over, like their brown skin.

Congratulations to James Austin Johnson on his historic presidency.

We live in a time of great cowardice.

Maybe it's always been like this but it feels like the need for clicks has ruined journalism and it sucks because there are so many good individual journalists out there, and they're being laid off so we can have headlines like, "Are Concentration Camps Good? The Answer Might Surprise You."

JK Rowling, horrible bigot, is a case study in how social media fried the brains of people who believe they’re entitled to deference. It’s why we have journalists with takes like, “Yes fascist Republicans are banning books, but a liberal on X was mean to me, so who are the real fascists here?”

People are rightly dunking (pun intended) on this saying Republicans never cared about protecting women. But it’s more that they have an extremely narrow definition of “woman,” and it certainly doesn’t include Black women, athletic women, or women they otherwise deem unfeminine.

Don't do it Tim Apple!

For a long time Utah Republicans were largely immune from the nuttery of the national Republican rot. The nuclear family values of the LDS Church kept them at least semi-decent. That is gone. They are full MAGA, part of the pedophile protection party and gleeful in their joy of hurting people.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Home video aficionados of a certain age will remember that Betamax owned 100% of the market in 1975, and a year later VHS was introduced and completely destroyed Betamax within five years

Things are bad but there are plusses.

Sorry, I didn't realize my kid was at your house.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?