Mike 🔪🦃

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

That’s Chekhov. In Ibsen you die while trying to impress a young woman. Or die by suicide. Or from syphilis. Or live, but are abandoned by the people you love most.

Do you think he has any idea what happens to most main characters in Ibsen plays

That's my elementary school.

Romona Elementary in Wilmette. Saw it in Uncle Buck just as I was starting 5th grade. Blew my little ten-year-old mind seeing it in a movie. First time I ever saw a place from my life on screen.

Notice the fake sign they put up over the real one, "Winona Elementary."

Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, attended the premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. He spoke to the audience, lauding John Candy for standing up to bullies in many of his roles. Carney said there would be "a scene where John would pivot, having been pushed too far. Don't push a Canadian too far." Carney also said, "We're in a more dangerous, divided and intolerant world. In Canada, our sovereignty, our identity has come under threat. And when Canadians heard those threats, they channeled their inner John Candy. Stood up, elbows up, wrote our own lines."

love this

It feels like if there were more Ghostbuster films in the 1980s and more Ghostbuster, John Candy would've been one of them.

A Gen Alpha President will be in the briefing room, and a journalist is gonna ask something about the six-seven percent unemployment rate, and the President will be dying to address that question with the respect it deserves.

Like an elderly millennial judge in their 60s will read from an order or something in court, and the Gen Alpha prosecutor in their mid-thirties will be dying to hold in their impulsive reactions that have been buried over the decades.

a boy in a crowd holds up his hand with the number 67 on it ALT: a boy in a crowd holds up his hand with the number 67 on it

What I love about the Six Seven trend is that one day these kids are gonna be lawyers, doctors, Presidents, and when that number comes up in the regular course of business, it'll be hilarious to see them suppress their impulsive initial reactions.

Strong evidence it sunk Gore in 2000. (You could argue many things specifically but no doubt the Elian saga swung a lot of possible votes firmly over to Bush.)

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

Sounds about right. Hope the history teachers mention this to break up some of the boring stuff.

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

That new John Candy documentary is pretty good. Seemed like a really good guy.

O Reuters Subscribe US hedge funds trim stakes in 'Magnificent Seven' stocks in third quarter By Anirban Sen November 14, 2025 7:54 PM EST • Updated November 14, 2025 Aa

Friends! It’s happening! 😂

US hedge funds trim stakes in
'Magnificent Seven' stocks in third quarter

www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Billionaire Peter Thiel’s latest 13F didn’t show off a mere trim, but a full-blown exit from AI bellwether Nvidia (NVDA).

Steve Cochran and Ruth Roman in Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

Day 17 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir Duo

STEVE COCHRAN & RUTH ROMAN in Tomorrow Is Another Day. He’s an open-faced heartthrob, full of hurt & hunger; she’s both sex kitten & earth mother. He spent 18 years in the slammer; she’s in a prison of her own making. They’re made for each other.

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.

"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."

Watching a crime show. An adult child murdered both of his parents and smeared his name in blood all over the walls.

And then he asked the detectives if the cats were ok 🥹 🥹 awwww 🥹 🫠 🥰

He looks like a mannequin

Republicans love the filibuster because "it protects the minority from the majority" but would absolutely hate if there was a filibuster in our elections.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom breaks with party on transgender athletes in women's sports, sparking backlash California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, an LGBTQ ally, broke with his party, saying that transgender athletes playing in female sports is "deeply unfair."

Gavin Newsom abandoned us, so why would we love him?
abcnews.go.com/Politics/cal...

Unfuckingreal gaslighting.

It's awful. You can block and mute them, but they can still communicate with you via the name of the list they add you to.

I'm hoping Bluesky will address this soon.

And I learned this because of that one guy. He's like a serial lister

What's going on with MGT is fascinating bc she was one of the most despicable MAGAs in the House.

If Epstein was enough of an offramp for her, it might be for others.

Hopefully, some of her fellow House Republicans wake up too as well as some of her constituents.

“Trump’s budget: We’re cutting your health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researcher.” @emptywheel.bsky.social

“If foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research [as Trump did, we’d] consider it an act of war.” @neildegrassetyson.com

What I love about the epilogues of the first 2 seasons of Stranger Things is that in 1 Jonathan wields an SLR camera and in 2 he graduated to a VHS-C video camera

If that sign offends Allyssa, she definitely wouldn't be offended by signs of the past that said "WHITES ONLY"