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Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)

Of all the things this year that could have done it, it was actually seeing a poster arguing, seemingly seriously, that not liking Jar Jar Binks is racist that convinced me we're done as a civilization.

Stop skeeting and remove Schumer from leadership.

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

ICYMI this what was posted (and later deleted) on Olivia Reingold's Instagram in response to John Oliver piece on Free Press bsky.app/profile/gabe...

Amen

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Hollywood, learn one lesson: we do not like Jared Leto. And yes I speak for America on this. It gave me their proxy

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

legit hate the phillies so fucking much. this core is the biggest bunch of fucking losers on the planet. every october they just shit their fucking pants. harper is washed. kyle is mentally playing somewhere else already. trea got his batting title and doesn't give a shit now. fuck off.

When I was 8, my best friend stole my boomerang and we got into a big fight. The next day his parents died in a car accident and I never saw him again. Jeff, if you’re reading this, I want my boomerang

You can criticize Thomson's management, and you'd be right, and you can question whether or not the bullpen is up to the task, and it'd be valid.

But Turner, Schwarber, and Harper combined to go 1-10 with 1 walk and 6 stikeouts. Everything else is just additional minutia.

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

How many times can you be ratioed before you think maybe you should try a different approach?

Some of the Palace fans have just been singing 'now you’re gonna believe us we’re gonna win the league'. #CPFC

Important 🧵

Sometimes I think about Hulk Hogan always claiming (falsely) that he was in line to play the lead in The Wrestler, and what an absolute dogshit movie that would’ve been.

For the record: you called it “the autism problem.”

“Any reflection on the legacy of [Charlie] Kirk cannot gloss over the pain and suffering that Kirk inflicted on innumerable people through his harsh, divisive and combative rhetoric.” – John Grosso, digital editor for The National Catholic Reporter.

Go Birds, F*ck ICE, Free Palestine!

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)

Receipts:
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I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

The idea that there are people who are interested in the Magnificent Ambersons but like, an AI version of it, is so funny. That's two different groups of people. And their dogs are trained to attack each other