Josh Mockensturm

Cinema!

love beetle moses comics. just fun, weird little stuff.

letterboxd new from friends section showing all superman, but one krypto poster

Opened up Letterboxd and was greeted with this... I appreciate what you did here.

A Scooby Doo point-and-click game that's basically 2 episodes of the show. Amazing stuff.

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress

Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

Have you watched Arrival since having a kid? Oof, it hurts (complimentary).

screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle showing Indy burning a fascist propaganda poster

MAGA vs MAHA, nobody wins… except maybe Will Howard?

A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

This “Carrie & Lowell” 10th anniversary promotion is a little weird.

The Homework Machine

Ten million posts about the state of AI and they’re all just iterations on a Shel Silverstein poem written when the Atari 400 cost half as much as a used car

2 Grift 2 Furious

Who’s heis?

A lot of people don't understand process vs. results. They can only look at a player as the sum of their stats.

Principal skinner lamenting if he’s out of touch or if Mina Kimes is wrong about the bear s3

I’ll give you that it feels like the tension-building character stuff of the front half of a full season instead of a full season, but the characters are all so good! We meet all the Fak brothers!

Mina.

He's got the stuff/repertoire, just not doing what he should with it yet.

I never changed my tag from just 'hbo'

Broken chemex coffee maker

At least it was AFTER the coffee was gone…

Birthdays Are Important Twice a day for two years, Sarah Langs drank a bitter, brown sludge-like concoction that she called “her potion” in the hopes that it would extend her life by at least a few weeks.

Happy birthday to my exceptional friend, Sarah. open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

Clones would have been 2022 (or 2027) and I guess they just weren't trying this yet? A lot of people like ROTS the most of the prequels.

about to drop these screenshots into IG/FB that I normally reserve for sharing kid pictures to see what happens...

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

If you link your Fortnite account with your Disney+ account you can unlock a First Order stormtrooper skin.

Andor S2E1 Review: Andor still good!

Lots of really great moments that catch us up on where everyone is and teases future developments. Really liked how there were several shots in the episode that felt like we the audience were eavesdropping or spying on what was happening.

2024: JACKIE ROBINSON DAY BACKGROUND Robinson played his first Major League game at Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947 as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball has celebrated Jackie Robinson's legacy in an extensive and unified League-wide show of support over the years, including retiring his number throughout the Majors in 1997, dedicating April 15th as Jackie Robinson Day each year since 2004, and requesting that every player and all on-field personnel wear his Number 42 during games scheduled on Jackie Robinson Day since 2009. Major League Baseball aims to educate all fans about Jackie obinson, his life's accomplishments and legacy, while spearheading initiatives that support communities and meaningfully address diversity and inclusion at all levels of our sport. For more information, please visit MLBTogether.com.

2025: JACKIE ROBINSON DAY BACKGROUND Robinson played his first Major League game at Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball has celebrated Jackie Robinson's legacy in an extensive and unified League-wide show of support over the years, including retiring his number throughout the Majors in 1997, dedicating April 15th as Jackie Robinson Day each year since 2004, and requesting that every player and all on-field personnel wear his Number 42 during games scheduled on Jackie Robinson Day since 2009. Major League Baseball aims to educate all fans about Jackie Robinson, his life's accomplishments and legacy, while communicating his message at all levels of the sport. For more information, please visit MLBTogether.com.

2024's press release is identical to 2025's... with one big exception.

Ctrl + F + Replace levels of bootlicking. Their social media posts don’t omit the details, so not sure why the press release does.