This site is a completely different circle of hell, isn't it?

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Sometimes you get a voice of encouragement at exactly the moment you need it most. So hearing an "I love you" tonight from a filmmaker I've admired for decades meant a ton to me. Thanks, Barry.

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Sometimes it takes gravity a moment to catch up with the coyote.

How much fun does that Spider-Noir trailer look? I can't believe we're actually getting a big budget show with Nic Cage playing unhinged 1930s detective Spider-Man.

Thanks. I put in multiple help requests with their technical support but the only thing I got back was an automated "it looks like you still control your account," which, no.

Having my X/Twitter account hacked and locked has resulted in a forced detox that's turning out to be good for me--both getting rid of the procrastination aid and realizing how much the algorithm was dripping poison into me bit by bit.

If you follow my account at Elon’s hell site please mass report it for spam and phishing. I’m trying to get it nuked because they won’t give me control of it back.

What's its flavor profile like? More on the sour or savory side?

I need to ask...what is the "brown sauce" you see in British supermarkets and does it taste better than it sounds?

Just a heads up to anyone who follows me on Twitter/X that my account there has been hacked and is being used to send crypto scams and send phishing messages over DMs. Oh, and Elon's garbage website won't let me back in to stop it. A lesson there, I'm sure...

Yeah, I'm locked out of my account and they won't let me change my password. I guess this is as good a time as any to take an enforced break from Elon's hell app.

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Project Gutenberg has the entire memoirs of former president U.S. Grant in one place and...yeah, they're even better than described. As a pure writer, Grant might have been the best of any American president. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4...

The Trump people were clearly spoiling for a fight in Minneapolis, but I think they were betting that anyone who might get killed would be a pierced, purple-haired Antifa type. Killing a mom in a Honda Pilot & a VA nurse seems to have really cracked their propaganda machine.

Lebanese excellence.

Sigourney Weaver remembering the last time she talked to Alan Rickman (gone ten years today) broke my heart all over again.

This is astonishingly good news for Los Angeles public transit. Between the Wilshire line and a real connection from the Westside to the Valley, being car free in LA suddenly becomes a lot more viable.

Happy New Year, all!

The piece is explicitly about Generation X and Boomer white men shutting out their younger counterparts. You and I were born the same year, John--that's us it's talking about.

I can't believe there's an actual surviving photo of the Project Orion nuclear space battleship model that they showed JFK and apparently freaked him out.

"Our enemies are cruel and disgusting and are winning" doesn't actually logically suggest that the way to beat them is to become cruel and disgusting in turn. The world doesn't work that way.

Dog of the fog.

It's shameful how much rural poverty is linked to how agriculture is done in the United States-- by not paying the people who raise and harvest the food enough to eat it.

So did everyone just sort of get tired of doing a silly Halloween name on their social media profiles?

Why did NASA’s chief just shake up the agency’s plans to land on the Moon? “The president wants to make sure we beat the Chinese.”…

Eric Berger always words his space articles very cautiously, but the subtext here is terrifying: NASA is gonna very possibly get astronauts killed because Trump wants a moon landing before his term is done. arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

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Congrats, you and Scott! And that needle drop of "Subway of Your Mind?"

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It's even worse than they know. The Stentz surname is from Alsace, which means I am actually...THE PERFIDIOUS GAUL!

Apparently in addition to my other crimes I am also Jewish, which would surprise my Lebanese Maronite mother greatly.

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So MAGA Twitter discovered three years after the fact that there was a same sex kiss on Camp Cretaceous and...hey, how's everyone's day going?

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I am discovering in middle age that I have apparently developed the music taste of a teenage stoner in 1985. I spent an hour today listening to Blue Oyster Cult's "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (co-written by Michael Moorcock!) & muttering "this is deep, man."