✨Cosmic Social Worker✨

a giant ravioli filled with lasagna

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

Spring forward... Fall back... whatever.

Can we just pick ONE & stick with it once & for ALL?!!! ⏰

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

we have saved daylight

but at what cost

please sir, my hour, i have lost it and it was so dear to me

This is the best way to spend a Sunday

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

tuxedo cat laying languorously on a red 1950s club chair

timeline cleanse featuring felix the wonder cat

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

My big baby tuxedo cat lying on a bed all covered in his moulted hair and looking shocked that I would accuse him

But I am INNOCENT I tell you

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Proposed New American Borders - Canada (Red): Occupies the northern half of the continent, including Alaska, all of current Canada, and the Northern/Midwestern United States (extending as far south as Colorado, Missouri, and Pennsylvania). United Mexican States (Green): Occupies the Western and Southwestern United States (including California, Texas, and Arizona) along with all of present-day Mexico and Central America. Republic of Cuba (Yellow): Occupies the Southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama) in addition to the island of Cuba. Kingdom of Denmark (Blue): Maintains Greenland. Independent State of Samoa (Tan): Replaces the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

Finally, free healthcare and polite neighbors, I approve.

Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us.

Arts | From Ornette Coleman to Peter Brötzmann, our critic picks five free jazz records that capture President Trump’s loose, improvisational approach to war with Iran.

inkskinned on tumblr “if you take medication for that, you’ll be taking medication all your life!!” yeah, and?? bud, i already put on my glasses every morning. it’s like. a condition of mine, not a side hobby i’m pursuing irresponsibly. lady-harrowhark and the thrilling sequel: “taking meds for that is the easy way out!” right you are my dude, i’m a huge fan of not making things harder than they have to be

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

Dark-haired white woman in a sequined bathing suit kind of costume and high heels, grinning at us. She’s standing/posing in front of a giant clock, pretending to adjust the minute hand. It looks like it’s a photo from maybe the early 1950s or late 1940s.

Me, approaching my microwave and stove this evening.

Twitter user eoghan: How dare poor people get free medical advice <quote tweet from Twitter user Polymarket: BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.> Twitter user YBrogard79094: JUST MAKE HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBLE Twitter user eoghan: AI is literally free healthcare. Being a communist must be exhausting

hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
www.patreon.com/posts/152399...

Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th.

We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.

OH SO I ALSO LOSE AN HOUR THIS WEEKEND WHAT ELSE DO YOU PLAN TO TAKE FROM ME

it's so nice out, i might frolic

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Missed Opportunity:

If your last name is a Whittaker and you own a flower shop, and you don't call it "Florist Whittaker"

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

A sign reads "Please wait patiently for the failure of the system" with Chinese characters above.

our patience has been rewarded