The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Recently rewatched the animated 1973 CHARLOTTE'S WEB movie and realized for the first time that Wilbur is whiny and needy because he's coded as a kid facing death, and Charlotte is the adult helping him survive childhood. Yeah, it's an unbalanced dynamic: Kids aren't expected to raise their parents.

Exit 8's director cut this scene because it was too scary for Cannes "If there was ever a director's cut of this film, maybe it'll make a revival.”

Big fan of EXIT 8, the movie, as a theatrical experience and as an efficient expansion/elaboration on a basically plotless video game. Director Genki Kawamura told me some interesting things about editing this movie specifically to "manifest" it getting a Cannes screening slot.

topher fixed it | topher payne Alternate endings to beloved but problematic children's literature.

Anyway, strong ongoing recommendation for Topher Payne's tongue-in-cheek (but still satisfying) rewrite THE TREE WHO SET HEALTHY BOUNDARIES, which has a much happier ending all around without being malicious about it.

US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential elections Virginia signs national popular vote bill into law, joining interstate compact with 17 other states and District of Columbia

I had no idea this movement had gotten so much traction with states. Here's hoping.

As chair of the foreign affairs committee, he fought to protect human rights around the world.

He was a true public servant, wonderful colleague, and great friend who will be missed.

I got to know Eliot Engel when we both served in Congress. He represented the Bronx and Westchester with pride, making material differences in people's lives by expanding health care access and fighting for gun safety.

Land Of The Lost, “Album” Land Of The Lost, “Album”

RIP Sid Krofft. When I wrote about a Land Of The Lost episode for my VSE column, I also wrote at length about the Krofft brothers strange, '70s-specific magic. www.avclub.com/land-of-the-...

I have a whole dyspeptic rant I go on whenever someone like Mel Brooks or the cast of THE BREAKFAST CLUB says "You couldn't make a movie like our movie today."

This post and every gag in the comments is a better, brighter response to that cliché, and I need to remember all of these.

I really think Trump's Iran threat is a breaking point. We just learned that the GOP won't step up even when its leader threatens unthinkable war crimes and even genocide. This realization of powerlessness in the face of this madness will take a deep psychic toll.

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The US ignored compelling evidence that Russia is helping Iran attack American bases in the Middle East because Washington "trusts" Putin — Zelenskyy

Imagine being so stupid and trust someone who always lie🤷‍♀️

Agree with this @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis. And fear that when congress is back we will hear attacks and mockery from GOP about how Democrats are undermining a wartime leader, or are weak (“what did they do to stop Iran?”). And the GOP stranglehold on the national security issue will remain.

Do I get this right?
Trump started his war on Iran to draw away public attention from the Epstein crimes.
Now he sends out Melania to draw away public attention from his failed war on Iran & uses the Epstein affair as bait.
Is Trump supposed to be president?

I think it's telling that the President of the United States has a far more nuanced and informed understanding of the dealings of people he (correctly) refers to as Third- Rate Podcasters than he does of the terms of the cease fire with Iran he agreed to two days ago.

I do not like the POTUS posting spree about Iran given FLOTUS's remarks today.

Trump just posted there are "reports" Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz and threatens Iran to stop.

Two days ago, Trump said the U.S. had had a "total and complete victory" over Iran.

It's unclear why Trump cites "reports" and not actual intel.

Trump wasn't given a heads-up about Melania's public announcement on Epstein.

Trump distracted the nation for 6 weeks w/ a disastrous, unwinnable war in Iran. MAGA is breaking over it & failed promises.

So, Melania decides to bring it back in focus by distancing herself from Epstein.

Love it.

Trump Has a War Crimes Problem. It’s His Mouth. He can’t stop freestyling about plunder and atrocities.

Only a predator and war criminal could turn his humiliation in Iran into a way to take another swipe at Greenland and our own allies.

the Strait of Hormuz is not a new development, mildly intelligent neocons knew this was a risk and Trump II purged them because foresight is Woke

Until 2026, even folks who really, *really* wanted to commit to war with Iran eventually hit a point where they had to look at a map. At which point, they generally sucked their teeth and either changed the subject or retreated to threatening mumbles. You had to be a real fucking idiot to do it.

weve looped around to them trying to use epstein stuff as a distraction from iran lol

Impeachment articles were filed for Trump's illegal Iran war---let's do this. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

An actual guilty verdict in the prosecution of a police officer for killing someone while on the job.

No doubt he will appeal, but for now, he's guilty.

gothamist.com/news/former-...?

Why you shouldn't watch the new trailer for Andy Serkis' Animal Farm The two trailers tell radically different stories about the intentions for this George Orwell adaptation, starring Seth Rogen and Glenn Close.

The gap between these two trailers is deeply odd. So is the idea of ANIMAL FARM as an upbeat, chase-driven, manic kids' comedy.

Zendaya side-eyeing someone off screen and Robert Pattinson looking rumpled and nerdy in THE DRAMA

Say what you want about THE DRAMA, but after our screening, dozens of people were standing out in the lobby in big clumps, VERY ANIMATEDLY discussing what they'd just seen, and I'm in favor of anything that can provoke that kind of reaction.

‘A wow moment’: Democrats’ election hot streak goes scorching — POLITICO Two races in battleground states on Tuesday saw the party make massive gains compared to 2024.

“In Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, the Dem-backed candidate sailed to a nearly 20-point landslide victory Tuesday in a battleground Trump carried less than 2 years ago,” while a Georgia Dem “slashed Trump's margin of victory by 2/3 in the state's reddest district despite losing the election…”

Liberal Chris Taylor clinches Wisconsin Supreme Court seat in a win for voting rights “Wisconsinites showed up in droves to elect Chris Taylor because they know every election is an emergency,” chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, said.

Chris Taylor, a Dane County state appeals judge, has secured a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a major win for Democrats heading into the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A Cereal Mascot Who Likes Being Deprived Of Cereal YouTube video by Make Some Noise

I love Dropout's improv game show MAKE SOME NOISE, and I particularly hoped this prompt would make it to YouTube. The idea of a kids' cereal mascot having a humiliation kink around being denied the cereal is deeply squirmy, but it tracks. And now I see the Trix rabbit et al VERY differently.

What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with AI fact-checking!