lily

It’s already there, Sam, and it’s called THE BIBLE

recapped two SNWs this week!! Come for my contrarian "La'an/Spock is FINE, like whatever it's FINE" take, stay for me slowly going insane at how many opportunities they pass up for Spock to finally break out the good ol TOS eyeshadow

anyway $10 rented me Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and the ultra fancy Criterion blu ray of Seven Samurai, neither of which I've ever seen somehow and neither of which I'd have thought to watch if I was just like mindlessly scrolling Netflix

this reads like an ad for them lol but I really just deeply admire the ethos of this thing. Yearning for a lost era is easy but bringing back the fun parts of it yourself takes work and I want to learn from that!

Sloppy Discs Escape the scroll. Rent curated Blu-ray and DVD for $5. Chat movies with real humans, and bring home something unexpected.

doesn't look like they're on Bluesky but if you're in Minneapolis/St. Paul and are feeling kinda burned out on streaming services check out Sloppy Discs! They're doing pop-ups at the Main Cinema on Tuesday nights and have a great selection :) www.sloppydiscs.com

I believe that America is now ready for an entirely Andrew-centric television show

I have recently been accidentally saying “I have no horse in this fight” as if I am someone who seriously misunderstands how horse racing works

recapped another SNW in this one! honestly I maybe could have been okay with Rhys Darby's character in this one if the soundtrack had just laid off the fuckin oboe for half a second, but

Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a close up of Samuel L. Jackson with a cigarette in his mouth. Text reads "Hold onto your butts"

when the butt thief is in town

thank you to @emilystjams.bsky.social for giving me the space to share my Big Thoughts on SNW!!!

I am so glad Lily is recapping SNW for paid subscribers!

Also: some thoughts on Red Rooms, one of my favorite movies in a bit!

Thank you to @emilystjams.bsky.social for the recapping gig! Excited to be won back over by Strange New Worlds and/or descend into madness covering it

She wasn't always Saoirse Ronan. Once, she served a powerful daimyo.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I genuinely think the safest way to engage with AI is, so far as possible, not to touch it at all. Do not let it into your life. Do not let it digest you

Mystery Man from "Lost Highway" reciting some of the most deeply Lynchian dialogue in recent memory (from Trump's card to Epstein)

Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

As a matter of fact, it was clear to me last time I saw you.

why even HAVE a corn palace if the president's gonna disrespect it like this

Hi! Anyone have suggestions for good places to send short form humor pieces to? I'm starting to write in the genre again and am blanking on places on the modern web to send that sorta work to besides McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Daily Shouts

everything I read about AI tells me that regardless of how it develops I need to avoid using it in order to preserve my ability to think independently

The Bear but it’s about a huge bear on top of someone’s head helping him cook

Four corners political axis with picard, Mike, joel, and kirk

This was revealed to me

to be clear by this I mean "oh David Ellison is like BAD bad, as revealed by this being on the table" not "this would mean Bari Weiss would get to write Star Trek," although I don't think that would be GOOD per se either

I hate that my first reaction to seeing this was "wow this is a dark portent for Star Trek"

only tangentially related but I looked up the town the fat marmot is from on Wikipedia and found this truly incredible quote about it where the guy seems to go from loving Kamloops to absolutely despising it over the course of four sentences

I think earlier today I described this account's whole deal as "anti-woke Tobias Fünke" and I stand by my belief that no account with that central premise can actually be sincere. I just cannot believe it

interrupted my wife while she was writing to say "you have to listen to this goofy snuff audio that kelly link retweeted"

YouTube video by Relaxing ASMR (ASMR) Goofy dies in a car crash while listening to post Malone .mp3 (Re-upload)

if you're stressed out, here's some ASMR that might help you

I actually choked on a sip of water at this

ok has someone done the deep dive on why Trump capitalizes every third Noun like's fucking Ben Franklin

has the staff excitiedly passed you half a dozen books that [camera zooms in, ominous music sting, switches to nasally falsetto] have a biiiiiiiit of a repeating theme? [four second static shot of him making a pouty face with his hands on his hips]

honestly the entire panel description is a treat to read in a tim robinson voice