Brendan C. Byrne

ah halloween, a time of spooky ghosts and goblins, candy and cheer, the only time anyone has ever pointed a gun at me

this one was so rusted it was ID'd at a distance by my neighbor, who went full Eliot Ness lol

happened to me the first time when i was 8!

isn't this BEFORE SUNRISE

Photo of shirt that says "DC vs Everybody"

This shirt they're selling at the DC airport really does capture our post-democracy political moment.

my friend Alicia, who came to the US from Ukraine at 11 or so, would often remark on this. (At 23, she had never seen a Santa Claus, we went to Rockefeller Center, and she said, "I do not like this man.")

me, every year in my twenties

Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree

i believe it

ok i will finally watch

amazing

lol fuck was that Minority Report?

Farrell had requested not to work on his birthday, 31 May, but instead had been issued with a 6am pickup time. “I got up to all sorts of nonsense the night before,” Farrell told Colbert. “I remember getting into bed, and as soon as I turned off the light, the phone rang and it was the driver outside saying, ‘It’s 10 past six,’ and I went, ‘Oh shit.’” Even after an assistant director told Farrell that he couldn’t work in his condition, the actor remained optimistic, saying: “Just get me six Pacifico Cervezas and a pack of 20 Marlboro Reds.”

Fortified by more beer, Farrell went on set. “But it was terrible. I will never forget the line that I had, but I couldn’t get it out. It was: ‘I’m sure you’ve all grasped the fundamental paradox of precrime methodology.’ That was the line that started the scene.

Genuinely can't stop laughing at this Colin Farrell story

When the same situation has the US congress shut down and the British monarchy doing everything but guillotining one of their own, it’s hard not to go full tin foil hat

If you’re local stop by!

ok if it's a very high traffic area, it works because there's a constant flow, that's the one exception

100% accurate

yep!

Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire

as someone who lives in an area with a lot of traffic circles, i can report this single flaw in this plan: Americans are dogshit drivers www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...

I hate that the Cuomo PAC is called "Fix the City" but in the sense of like "the fix is in" Fix, I suppose it's accurate

it's 100% conscious, or at least it is on the part the upstream folks (i think of them as PDF providers)

endless lol

luv it

A picture of Jeremy Strong superimposed over WTC wreckage

Amazing illo

me but with Coil

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Trumpvilles are shaping up to look a lot worse (involuntary, for one) than Hoovervilles www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Murder House • Articles • EQUATOR The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society

this @equatormag.bsky.social piece is excellent www.equator.org/articles/mur...

i do think there's some crossover with genre and fanfic, but it happens with people who only read a certain strain of genre, like people for who think George RR Martin is just a little too detail-oriented

this seems to be the big split, right? people who read fanfic and people who don't are nearly completely siloed. and the breakage seems to have created, if not accelerated, by Harry Potter