Homer J. Fong

the short answer is that despite its box office failures, TRON is a recognizable brand, or at least recognizable enough for producers to think it has money-making potential. That begs the obvious question of "why" it's a brand at all, and I think the answer to that is interesting! Thread!

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

Principal Skinner line revealing Lisa’s identity

The Busch Push

Goddamn the Phillies for inflicting the NLCS on the rest of California.

Dudes will say HELL YEAH

David Simon, Creator Of The Wire, On AI, Television and the WGA Strike : Consider This from NPR The Hollywood writers' strike has meant three weeks of late-night comedy and soap opera reruns for television fans. And for some fans, it might feel familiar. 15 years ago a Writers Guild strike laste...

Might be worth mentioning that this is from a piece from May 2023, during the writer's strike...
www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Miss me with this AI slop

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

One last postseason diaper blowout for Clayton Kershaw. A beautiful sendoff for a legend.

Naw. Dodgers out. Then we rest.

Auntie Fa

Perhaps Dabo Sweeney would prefer NC to SC?

@annamerlan.bsky.social

Tired: Who is the leader of DOGE???

Wired: Who is the leader of Antifa???

lol, ur forgiven!

No, they don’t, usually. They do when profession or family status is relevant to the crime reported on. It isn’t here.

I read that. Still not sure why the detail is important enough that it was included in the headline?

Someone please explain how/why it’s relevant that he was an Uber driver?

“I don’t wanna get a vaccine or mask up because shots give me owies and masks make me stuffy.”

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Didn’t a team do this on PBS like 25 yrs ago?

lol wut

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Why not all three!

If you just stretch/move/massage the arm immediately afterwards it distributes the vaccine more efficiently and helps minimize or even eliminates any soreness.