Jason

if you're ever Photoshopping your own face into the smoke of the Twin Towers, Adobe should have a pop-up that says "are you sure that whatever it is you're doing is a good idea"

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Omgggg I was wondering if the music was actually proximity based and what tech was powering all of it

Figured I should add the video here because we had speakers in the costumes and synced the melody too

Going as the trust devices from OBAA this year

it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic

@letterboxd.social are you having technical difficulties on the mobile app, at least with iOS?

For months now we have been hearing Democratic pundits say, "Democrats need to meet voters where they are."

Tonight, New York City voters seem to be telling them pretty clearly.

'I can hear James Carville’s head exploding': Gen Z DNC official claps back at Dem critic Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg escalated the firestorm he created this week when he announced a new multimillion-dollar campaign targeting incumbents in his party – an effort he m...

“frankly, he has not won an election since before I was born”

Lmaooooo

It’s called an invasion. Use normal words for this shit.

Today in Brooklyn: Resign, Chuck

Poster for City Lights

Now playing (04:30 AM PST):
"City Lights" (1931)
By Charlie Chaplin
Runtime: 87 min.

The full text of Governor Mill’s statement: “I have spent my career – as a District Attorney, as Attorney General, and now as Governor – standing up for the rule of law in Maine and America. To me, that is fundamentally what is at stake here: the rule of law in our country. No President – Republican or Democrat – can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws, which I took an oath to uphold. Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your

Side-by-side photos: one of Governor Mills sitting with her lips pursed; the other of Trump standing at a podium

Bravo to Governor Mills of Maine! Proud that my father was a State of Mainer, and wish he were alive to hear her (he’s been gone for 39 years).

Her third paragraph is the crux for me, and echoes Martin Niemöller’s famous “First they came…” maxim.

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

Playbook: Europe’s split-screen moment And mass firings continue across the government.

Please include links to things you’re shitting on, be the change you want to see in the crumbling journalism world.

Today, admitting being a dumbass:
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Yesterday, being a dumbass (final graph):
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Modern Movies: "Okay, so this is an antihero but this is also PG-13, so you can't kill the villain unless he attacks you first, so I need you to turn your back to leave so he can try to stab you."

Silent Movies: "The villain has been disarmed so--"

Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up (Gift Article) Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.

Please read this story, and share. Here is a free link again. With Inspectors General fired, Congress controlled by GOP that is aligned with Trump, top federal ethics lawyers removed, newspaper efforts like this are largely what's left of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up (Gift Article) Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is securing real beneifits as he helps Trump disrupt the federal government. Just how? The NYT takes a deep look today at these benefits: federal investigations targeting Musk companies that have been disrupted or now may die.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

All 29 of us?

Will people #cancelparamountplus if Redstone pays to settle with Trump’s bullshit lawsuit against CBS News?

it ought to be interesting to see who wins the super bowl. at the end of the day you never know

No such thing as obvious anymore :hattip:

Announcing the Journey to Italy blogathon *this page will be updated to archive all the published links as the event goes on… Day 1 links Roundup (here) Day 1 Links roundup (at Gill’s) Day 2 Roundup (here) Day 2 Roundup (at Gil…

I wrote about one of my favorite movies, Il sorpasso, and Italian comedy in the 1960s because I know what the people want!

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It’s part of the #JourneyToItalyBlogathon, too! Read other great essays on Italian cinema: hqofk.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/a...

One of the more uncomfortable morals of Emilia Pérez seems to be something like “people who do horrible things can be trans” and well, life imitates art?

It’s been a long time since I’ve forced myself to write something long form on a deadline, and boy am I out of practice.

amazing that they’ve now had years to come up with a compelling “in your wildest dreams” use case and this is what they’ve gone with. this is psychopath shit; nobody wants this. but it IS the pitch for microsoft copilot!

Okay, here we go. All of you who responded with preening comments about how little you care and how unimportant it is: Nobody's holding you hostage here. Move on!

Lynch’s art wasn’t for me, but he was a force for good and for the importance of creativity in all of movie-making. RIP.