Jon Roberts

Inside Man.

He is maybe the best-at-acting movie star? He is good and has range and yet always feels like Denzel.

Roman J Israel, Esq. is the most constrained in a role i've seen and he fucking RULES in it.

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

Is starvation in Gaza really Israel's fault? The facts are clear Rising starvation in Gaza may have a number of factors. But Israel's wartime policies on humanitarian aid are inarguably among them.

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...

Gulag First Trump's plans to give homeless people the ICE treatment

"I’ve seen a few people refer to this order as an attempt to “criminalize” homelessness, but that’s not quite right. ... This is not criminalization but the attempted erasure of one’s legal and ethical status as a human being." publiccomment.blog/p/gulag-first

The way he says "I will step on them" is really important to me

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

A reminder: since the 1980s, framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to deflect attention from its *actual* causes—rising rents, stagnant wages, gutted social supports—and to justify the removal of unhoused people from public space.

ANDRE THE GIANT "I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face.”

The Democratic Party Remains Committed to Learning Nothing From Its 2024 Defeat The Democratic National Committee’s forthcoming “autopsy” is a cover-up to protect the failed leaders who twice lost to Trump.

The DNC is doing an autopsy of 2024 election that will ignore anything done by Biden, Harris, or their major advisors: the usual game of deflection at the expense of truth. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me

That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?

Seeing mutuals sharing altNPS again, so here’s a reminder of this excellent thread and this truth:

No one is immune to falling for a grift, but anyone can choose to do better once they learn better.

William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...

for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography

Once again, I want the people posting anti-trans stuff about sports to watch this video and tell me with a straight face that this girl shouldn't be allowed to play field hockey with her friends youtu.be/yf9MfYZ-Bl4?...

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

If you don't know much about the debate over transgender athletes and think that Gavin Newsom sounds reasonable, please give this a watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS...

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

"Men whose triggers pull their fingers. Men who would rather fight than win."

A good editor can add so much to the journalism, in ways that require a different perspective! I have lost respect for some (successful) substackers that spun out without that additional focus.

Could rely on network or $$$, which limits entry. Similar for mentorship, i imagine.

This industry gives me a headache sometimes.

I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use

For 6 months, Dem leaders have downplayed or refused to frontally address many of Trump's worst abuses by saying those are "distractions" from the Dems focusing on economic issues. But as Trump's tax bill is being voted on, Jeffries is attacking a Dem ...over a phrase that Dem doesn't even use.

no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”

So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”

It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

A black dog laying in grass, panting while looking at the camera. A fountain is in the background. In the mid-ground is a sign that reads: Sidney and Lois Eskenaz School of Art, Architecture + Design Fine Arts 1201 East 7th Stree

had to take a walk break in the cool grass

screencap of text that reads: Task TV-MA 2m Based on an original idea, the series follows a task force of law enforcement officers and the criminals they are trying to apprehend.

to be fair, maybe this is just a placeholder, a generic description of cop show.

i mean yeah, sad that "this is new IP" being used as a selling point BUT

aren't all shows based on ideas???

A screen capture of woman looking shocked, with text overlaid. It reads: HBO ORIGINAL TASK Coming Soon Based on an original idea, the series follows a task force of law enforcement officers and the criminals they are... Crime Drama

"Based on an original idea..."

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.

So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.

Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

LGBTQ+ Flags Coded in CSS What different LGBTQ flags mean and how to code them with CSS and a single HTML element. A little bit of history and a little bit of tech for this Pride Month. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Persona...

June is Pride Month. In this article, I explore several LGBTQ+ flags, how to recreate them using CSS and a single HTML element (fully responsive so they could double as icons), and share the history behind some of them.
alvaromontoro.com/blog/68009/l...

#css #webDevelopment #PrideMonth #CSSArt

May You Live Forever in Cowboy Heaven by Dialup Ghost on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 12 Songs

Love it. Thanks!!

If ya want some similar indie/alt twang from some trans artists, see my friends band: music.apple.com/us/album/may...