David Faggiani

Re-Watching The Night Flier (1997)!

Who wouldn't want to see the complicated ins/outs & hoops reporters for tabloids have to go through for the stories like the Bat Boy, Bigfoot's Love Slave & the Kitten who murders? My inquiring mind wants to know, but whoever's mind wouldn't is just stoopid!

The route to chaotic authoritarianism Why Reform’s deportation plan would have consequences well beyond asylum

As Reform is pushing another set of insane deportations policies today.... here's my post from last year on what would happen if they actually tried to do this stuff in government.

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Bruce Springsteen — “The Rising” Spotify video

e33 of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S is on bruce springsteen's "THE RISING," a ridiculously heavy song / album that i still get ridiculously emo about open.spotify.com/episode/3VNc...

Screenshot of article on mashable.com: M Home > Life > Sex, Dating & Relationships Adult performer Siri Dahl doxxed by Grok: “Go f*ck yourself you nazi clanker" Grok exposed her legal name and birthdate, putting her security at risk. By Anna lovine on February 19, 2026

I’ve been the subject of a number of pop culture news headlines in my day, but this is now a personal fav

When the hero kicks the villain off a skyscraper in an 80s action movie

Apparently it wasn't even the cops doing the investigation into Andrew. A grasstoots anti-monarchy group did all the trawling through the Epstein files, found the incriminating evidence, and took it to the police, forcing them to act. So once again, when change happens, it comes from below.

Hello darkness my old friend...

Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

Fuck it.

Saying that the ending of Taxi Driver is “all in Travis' head” shows a depressing lack of media literacy. The ending being a dream would undermine the entire movie, which is a story about a broken man being rewarded for violence by a sick society.

Yeah come at me, I don't care. I'm right.

Blu rays of Nosferatu 1922, Nosferatu 1979, Nosferatu 2024

Movie marathon for people who like white guys with pointy ears.

Up Pompeii (not the film)
Braveheart (with some fast forwarding)
Gladiator

First senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Charles I...

The Crown S7 is gonna be lit

Andrew Windsor going down for misconduct in public office is really giving Al Capone being jailed for income tax evasion.

@timescarcass.bsky.social and myself reach the climatic -and very bloody- end of Hannibal series 2! Advanced access to the discussion can be found on Jack's patreon.

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‘If It Isn’t Fun, It Goes’ How Nintendo’s trust in “Miyamoto magic” changed video games forever.

“MacDonald has done something no English-speaking reporter has before her: told the story of Nintendo, in detail... She has gotten inside the mind of Miyamoto, and the intangible miasma that has made video games what they are today”

Thank you @plante.bsky.social🙏

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Pubs are for everyone. Don’t let Reform make them the political property of the boorish hard right | Jonathan Liew Farage and Anderson’s sums aren’t the only thing that doesn’t add up about their plan to save the great British pub, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

i wrote about the pub

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Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (+1)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (=)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 14% (=)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 8-9 Feb.
Changes w/ 1-2 Feb.

I watched 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) for the first time this past week and I've determined we lost our way when men in movies stopped being drenched in sweat.

Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

Wow. I don't know about you, but I just lost a ton of respect for HR Giger. The elaborate, psychosexual, Lovecraftian nightmare he turned in looks NOTHING like the cartoonish outline he was given.

Jeez. The guy had one job....

Scottish Westminster Voting Intention:

SNP: 28% (-3)
RFM: 23% (+2)
LAB: 20% (+3)
LDM: 12% (+1)
CON: 11% (=)
GRN: 6% (=)

Via @moreincommonuk.bsky.social, 24 Jan - 3 Feb.
Changes w/ 21 Aug - 1 Sep.

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Feel like posting these three today, for no reason 🤫 #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek

I Don't Speak German: 140: Doug Wilson talks to Ross Douthat (Bad Faith Discussion, Part 2) Sinister Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson gets interviewed by chunky conservative media lolcow Ross Douthat.  Amazingly, the person who comes out of this horrifying development looking wo...

NEW IDSG: Doug Wilson talks to Ross Douthat (Bad Faith Discussion 2). @danielharper.bsky.social & I listen to sinister Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson chat with chunky conservative media lolcow Ross Douthat. Because we hate ourselves apparently. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/140-doug-wil...

goddammit he's just so good with kids, AUAB (Assigned Uncle At Birth)

Beginning to think Trump is a racist

A cow lying on the ground. Caption: IT'S THE END BUT THE MOOMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR

Logopolis (1980)