signing up for letterboxd pro was worth it if only for the fact that letterboxd now sends me an email when something in my watchlist shows up on kanopy, where i can watch it with nothing more than my library card
"Neoliberal hegemony catalyzed the shift of how world power is organized, facilitating the fall of an anarchic system of states, and the rise of syndicates of capital. Liberalism effectuated a new world order in which liberalism is obsolete."
excellent explainer on who runs the world now, and why
good lord this is epic mismanagement considering they just came out of beta what, a month or two ago?
adulthood is spending half your life calculating how long you can go between trips to the grocery store
i talk to the kids about this all the time. everyone they know is anxious and depressed and it’s hard for them to wrap their heads around how anomalous that is historically, how an environment can be built for the purpose of perpetuating feelings of never-ending desire, how the struggle is the point
a poisoned food supply, attention extraction and the enclosure of the human psyche, toxic individualism, the lack of third places, consumer culture, healthcare that can bankrupt you, the ever-present threat of homelessness, patriarchy/fascism/sexism
the system works better when you’re miserable
i’ve been fascinated lately with the emergence of a particular type of therapist who specializes in treating the anxiety caused by living in a late capitalist hellscape
we weren’t meant to live like this
You're miserable because of capitalism.
WATCH: youtu.be/X-tr7nx9U4k
i might have hemingway beat with a five-word horror story:
reagan's world, now with ai
not a big times fan but gotta give props to them for this description of how a bomb works
“There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.”
oh i’m gonna
finally watched sentimental value, and my amateur take is i'm not sure a more perfect film exists
this is just dumb basketball, and hard to watch. maybe kenny would like to do some coaching next time around
second quarter was legit some of the worst basketball i've ever seen. no ball movement and atrocious three-point shooting but instead of getting it inside to get some rhythm you just... keep shooting. no one running any offense, just shoot the three and hope for the best
dunno wtf atkinson is doing
just abysmal basketball i'm watching from the cavs
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there
— William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel That Greeny Flower"
"If we have a moral philosophy that moves us away from some abstract capacity to make logical sense of the world and toward imagining the other through personal narrative, are we not saved—at least a little bit—from our loneliness?" ($)
well i'm definitely tuning in for this one
"We are lonely today, not because we are losing contact with other individuals, but because we have lost our friendship with the sky and the moon and the stars that create the canopy beneath which all of our human relationships and friendships flourish and prosper in mutual awe."
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge.
They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership.
We do not have serious people running our country.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
i'm so sick of this country being steered off a cliff by toddlers in man-sized bodies
The public is also relying on leaders to tell them what is possible. Democrats giving up on defending trans people signals to the average person that trans rights are a lost cause; fighting for trans rights signals that it is both good and possible.
In the months ahead we will be talking a lot about this.
CNN + CBS will, I think, become the most heated site in the Orbánization of American media.
On day one of the new boss those still working at CNN should expect to be treated as biased — liberal bias, of course.
That's the signal: it's on.
this might be the most horrifying thing i’ve ever read (from christian wiman in a piece for the december 2025 issue of harper’s)
apparently 20% of republicans say they would likely fight drug cartels themselves. i think dems should introduce a bill to allow them to do that
ice vs drug cartels, tonight at six on cbs news
