Sean Bell

Make Bombs Rube Goldberg Machines Again

I forgive Jones because my headcanon is that Blown Away takes place in an alternate reality where Jones' character is from a secret 33rd county of Ireland

Brad Pitt in THE DEVIL’S OWN, unfortunately

there was a moment in Hollywood when American movie stars played IRA guys and the accent crimes committed simply can’t be comprehended by the 21st century mind

early on with few studies i very much had an "i do not know how this impacts an economy" take (though mine were less "it will make people lazy" reasons than "infusions of money can have strange outcomes" reasons) but every single study is constantly like "no yeah it's good actually, it works"

Strange Days remains underrated on what adapting an OG 80s cyberpunk short story would look like on screen

[Eating a Nathan's chili bacon cheese dog at Coney Island]: I love the New York art scene

this is every Guy Ritchie film

Whenever someone running a news org talks about representing "all... perspectives" or throws around phrases like "diversity of opinion," ask if they regularly hire and include the viewpoints of abolitionists and socialists.

Bari Weiss should be an inspirational figure to journalism students. You, too, can rise to the top , simply by working hard, publishing a newsletter barely anyone shares sincerely, and having a foreign army at your disposal to get rid of anyone who makes fun of you on twitter.

"Bruh" is closest and probably safest - some Scots pronounce it "buruh", barely noticeably - but definitely never "burrow"

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Having fun with Letterboxd Lists

They are called writers

headline: Elon Musk with a straight face: Tesla Robotaxi will cover half of US population by end of the year by Fred Lambert | Jul 23 2025 - 3:09 pm PT

wonder how this is going

Update:

how insane was it to say “we tortured some folks” and then not only not do anything about it but keep everyone involved in polite society. what did we think was going to happen after that

how many years did the Politics Experts spend lecturing against abolishing ICE and defunding the police and now we’re seeing the long predictable results of two parties building a police state our entire lives. this isn’t new in that it was always going to come to this

If there's one thing we know about Bari, it's her extremely high tolerance for a work environment filled with people who dislike and disagree with her

"Now that the Free Press deal has gone through and Weiss has taken one of the most powerful positions in American news, the richest people in the world will have taken big steps toward ushering in the toothless, acquiescent future of mainstream media they have always wanted."

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

A truly beautiful example of a hit-piece that only succeeds in making its target sound rad as hell

Interesting piece to write as the president sends troops to occupy major blue cities

Scene from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: "What you are suggesting is not only illegal, it is immoral."

When you're about to make hash using tinned haggis instead of corned beef:

Rapunzel

I am no longer saying “I want to eat dinner” because you could replace “dinner” with “children” and that would be v problematic

Credit to whichever photographer captured Murdo preparing to shoot force lightning at Luke Skywalker

Gary Larson's Far Side, 'Cow Tools'

Job ad: Do you have proficiency with CAT tools?
Me: Close.

When I see Bari Weiss all I see is Refaat Alareer’s murderer, so I really wish I didn’t have to hear about her this often. Repulsive person.