Mike Pielocik

Commissioner of Labor Statistics Sean "Diddy" Combs

If there's one episode of TV I wish I could force everyone to watch and internalize, it's the 30 Rock where Liz, who has always seen herself as a bullied nerd underdog, finds out she's actually been hated all her life because she's mean.

I actually did think i was doing hard hitting journalism when i pitched Andy Serkis in a ripoff of Bad Moms called Bitchy Giraffe

Restaurant called PIZZA LORD

I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

Jay Leno is a good example of someone whose opinions I think just do not need to be news. He has gone off to live with his money, and every now and then he says something uninteresting that sounds exactly like what you would say if nothing you saw happening in the world mattered to you.

NYTimes push alert - The genocide charge in Gaza doesn’t hold up, argues the columnist Bret Stephen’s. Here’s why.

Something about this being a push alert finally got me to cancel

Cinema tip: if you stop watching Sinners at the 1 hour 2 minute mark it is a nice movie about the opening of a juke joint where nothing bad happens.

The thing about jokes is that they require a shared base of knowledge. A shared reality. If I tell a joke about a commercial and you've never seen that commercial, the joke isn't going to go over very well. Losing late night shows is one more step toward losing a shared reality, and that to me is terrifying. There's a moment every New Yorker knows. It happens when you're on the subway and someone does something particularly insane: an 83-year-old white lady raps, or a man in a three-piece suit publicly clips his toenails. And then you catch the eye of someone across the train - they raise their eyebrows and you raise your eyebrows back. And then you feel a little better because someone else saw what you saw and they can confirm that it's something. Late night hosts like Stephen Colbert do that on a larger scale. They're our way of saying "Hey this is crazy right? RIGHT?" In this world of algorithmic bubbles and blatant lies and deepfakes, late night television is a place you can gather at night and say: "Yes, this happened and it's fucking weird"

I wrote about Colbert for the Guardian. It started out talking about the politics, but then it just became a sort of love letter for late night television.

it's a fantastic piece, thanks for writing it!

I was a late-night writer. Colbert’s cancellation hurts American comedy – and sanity | Jill Twiss If our overlords can’t handle being joked about on late-night TV, we don’t need new shows. We need new leaders

something @jilltwiss.bsky.social gets exactly right here is that topical late night jokes are a daily check-in on shared consensus reality, one of the many reasons fascists want it gone

1896: Oh no the train is coming right out of the screen!
2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.

2003, dammit

Coming summer 2023... Laurence Fishburne IS Martian Manhunter

truly agonizing about which dumb freak shirt to get

feels like one of the main divides in how people view ai is the reaction to its ingratiating servile tone. when ai is like "ouhhhh i'm so sorry i got that wrong sir, let my try again, you were right my liege" tech guys are like "i like this" instead of "what the fuck is wrong with you"

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Coming to CBS 11:30pm May 2026

YouTube video by Chrysalis Records Go West - King Of Wishful Thinking (Official Music Video)

music used to go so hard

2 minutes 16 seconds

"we will welcome robust debate within the twin pillars" is so funny

Clark refers to Lois as “Cronkite” as a reference to legendary journalist Walter Cronkite

Saw a TikTok about Easter eggs in Superman, anybody else catch this one

Headline - “Dune 3’s official title revealed, and fans aren’t happy”

Dune’t Worry Darling

please pretend I posted this 3 months ago

most offensive thing about Gavin Newsom's podcast is that it's not called "Gabbin' Newsom"

Positive Reinforcement cover art!!! I’m wearing a cardigan with another cardigan draped over my shoulders. My name and the title are kind of styled like the Big Lebowski opening titles!

My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...

Josh!

It's Mira Nair's night

Super long text meme

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