Couldn't get rush tickets, but I tried! It's scheduled to open soon where I live, so I've already got my plans.

It was at the film festival last week!

I’ve cried over a lot of surprising shit while feeling fragile/hormonal/down, but I think “weeping at Instagram posts about Patrick Muldoon from the cast of Starship Troopers” might now be the most…something.

A Republican dark money group blankets Virginia with deceptive mailers ahead of redistricting vote Ads targeting Black voters compare Virginia's redistricting referendum to Jim Crow.

A dark money group funded in the past by Peter Thiel has given nearly $9 million to a GOP-led PAC that is blanketing Virginia with mailers comparing the upcoming redistricting referendum to Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I live in such fear that the airline I use to fly direct to visit my family will enshittify that I don’t even want to name it lest I speak its decline into existence.

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

New from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: “It’s not targeting criminals, it’s not targeting dangerous people, it’s targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.”

This is why @deafcrocodile.bsky.social does a legitimate public service

Bluesky before Claude code/Bluesky after Claude code

An underrated Moorhead & Benson. Creepy Covid lockdown time capsule that’s also a celebration of making shit with people you love

So is hiring Gal Gadot when you're already using AI.

Spent a full five minutes waiting for an old woman to pull out of a parking spot (car on, could see rear lights), found another spot, walked past her to see her scrolling on her phone.

Boomers should not have phones.

Made my 79-year old dad watch this. Fun for the whole family.

Huge part of me wants to say Red Rooms because it feels like a guide for future generations as to Why We Were Sick

We discuss a LOT on today’s ep, but the main thing we want you to remember is Sam Altman is a lying sociopath.

Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/7qg7...

w/ @allisonkilkenny.bsky.social & @meredithlclark.bsky.social

This rules

A bag of fresh Wisconsin cheese curds, squeaky as hell

Delicacies of the homeland

Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

A typographic carnival.

Nothing is a better omen for a flight than being seated next to a dog

No one in the house can open the giant Costco jar of Kalamatas and I just. Want. My. Olives.

Live action, obviously.

The only stickers I have saved in my phone are Ben Affleck smoking, The Rock in Moana, and a terrifying Callista Gingrich smile. I don’t really need more.

Dogs with neighborhood fan clubs have owners doing it right. It’s all about bringing joy to the people while also getting stamps and wine and garlic or whatever.

Rosa Luxembark, a corgi, in a blue and white striped scarf, looking at the camera while standing on a sidewalk in summer.

I used to do that with my (recently departed) Rosie, and her love of everyone ended up being the thing that made me most convinced no one would steal her. Everyone across four neighborhoods knew her, you’d never get away!

That might be one of those things that so obvious I'm an idiot for even saying it, but if I can't get an EMP (my preferred solution), I'll listen to the people who say "This is bad because it entrenches these companies' power."

Anyone who says social media isn't a pox is an idiot.

Age verification leads to more data collection, and most bills out there just sort of shrug at the fact that corporations shouldn't have any more data. I think a lot of the concern is looking to the next cure vs. disease discussion.

With nearly all ballots counted in Wisconsin, a startling stat:

Chris Taylor, the liberal candidate, appears to have flipped 29 counties that went for Trump in 2024.

(boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...)

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Someone may already have told you about this, but a writer in Melbourne has translated books 1 and 2 into Bogan and it is sublime.

WI map from NYT

This is the way

Storylords was a perfect television program dedicated to teaching children to read in the 1980s and early 1990s, and kids in Wisconsin watched it in class with shocking frequency. In this still, hero Norbert, in glasses and a collared shirt, and a blond boy with a blue backpack over his right shoulder, confront villain Thorzuul and his sidekick Milkbreath. Thorzuul is the size of a giant, with a black cloak over enormous shoulder pads, and he's wearing silver chain necklaces, black leather gloves, and black sunglasses. He has curly hair and a goatee. Milkbreath is wearing a brown coverall suit, motorcycle glasses, and a motorcycle cap. He also has a mustache. Thorzuul is probably about to issue some challenge to Norbert, which will send him on a quest - via a magical exercycle - to solve a reading comprehension problem.

For me, it's Storylords.

A nation that never has to pay Jeb Lund on war with Iran and war with Iran and war with Iran and Florida

A nation that never has to pay is invincible or at least imperturbable to how anyone else is forced to pick up the check. Every fear can be dissipated by our beautiful weapons, every antagonist smited and every electoral foe thwarted by boldly, decisively and masculinely leveraging a little atrocity