We got a dog because we hate getting a full night's sleep.

Tucker Carlson is misleading people about having misled people. It's good that the MAGA coalition is fracturing, but you don't gotta hand it to any of these folks.

And they want me to revisit Endgame and watch Doomsday, which they're making look like another Endgame? I think I'm good.

That's me as well.

I think this move is intended to draw people like us back, but for me, I'm not nostalgic for Endgame. It was easy enough to fade off after Endgame partly because it was just kind of ok.

Honestly, I haven't been much interested to see Doomsday anyway. Again, no beef. Not really. I think RDJ as Doom is a dumb idea, but I don't care exactly.

I haven't gotten around to the FF movie yet, though, although it seems like I'd like it. I just... don't care.

That's fair. I've assumed, essentially I saw it, that I wouldn't bother with it again. This doesn't tempt me away from that. Probably if my daughter got into the MCU, I'd watch it with her. I don't have a beef with it.

Gonna confess, that sounds more like a reason to pass on Doomsday than it does a reason to watch sn extended version of Endgame.

Don’t know why I’m seeing “the Elon hate has mostly dissipated” posts because no it fucking hasn’t.

I agree. Your argument is the one I've made many times.

I've not come to fully understand why that makes a difference to people. I will never comprehend how one way of making you think a word is better or worse.

I have come to respect that it makes a difference to people who are hurt by certain slurs that censoring them makes some kind of difference, even if I don't really understand it.

But with vulgarities, I still haven't been convinced I'm protecting anyone.

Honestly, this makes sense for a movie that I might argue on some days is my favorite sequel of all time and yet can't say I think any of the big complaints about which are wrong.

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

Falling for this shit is like Elizabeth Warren doing that DNA test: immediate proof that you will lose a presidential race

Conservatives are trying claim boobs and butter sex, though. The world simply doesn't make sense anymore.

Well, yeah. He's been servicing all the CIA folks, and no one else wants to be on the wrong side of the CIA folks.

Yes, in GOTG he's a not-action-hero guy trying to come off like an action hero. He literally works because he's not an action hero.

Happy birthday Kathy Acker. We miss you. (photo and birthday reminder posted this morning on fbook by @richardkadrey.bsky.social

Democrats being urged by politically toxic consultants not to oppose the politically toxic tech so as to not lose donations that are politically radioactive. Absolutely perfect Democrating.

Fascinating phenomena of executives not understanding audiences at all. Same week that theres reports saying gen-z is the number one theater going audience the Aang movie gets leaked and I am seeing its fans all over saying "Id go to the theater, but I refuse to get a paramount plus subscription."

Particularly in comparison to how many movies. Like the '30s and '40s had a lot of remakes in numbers, but they each put out so many more total movies that it's a way smaller percentage of movies.

Not to mention, the originals were not accessible at all.

I'm not even sure Tarantino completely understood how little of it was actually from the verse itself. Although I'm certain he didn't care.

A picture of a man becoming a werewolf MONSTROUSMUSINGS Let Them Cook By Phil Nobile Jr. I had two utterly singular experiences at this year's Overlook Film Festival: I interviewed the great Rick Baker about An American Werewolf in London for a Future Fango Thing; and | moderated a Q&A for Larry Fessenden's "Monster Quadrilogy," which screened his films Habit, Depraved and Blackout before his new one, Trauma or, Monsters All, which ties the aforementioned three films together in an audacious and surprising way. In my interview with Mr. Baker, he talked about a frustration with the industry that led to his retirement a decade ago. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines of how, when you're at the point where you're getting notes from meddling producers about the shape of a monster's eyebrow, or the placement of its nose, you realize you're in a system where art and passion and creativity cannot exist, much less thrive. Mr. Baker decided that's not where he wanted to be, and promptly dipped. Now, he's still happily creating and blowing fans minds on Instagram, but he's following his bliss instead of dopey producer feedback, and the beautiful work on his account emanates pure joy. "I retired from the business, I didn't retire from being me," he told us. Thank goodness for that.

In today’s Terror Teletype: when producers hire artists and second-guess their every move, everyone loses.

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Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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there is a privacy apocalypse coming, and the democrats are just as responsible as the republicans.

Start seeing politicians for what they are: Tools (most of the time, in more ways than one). They are a vote for the type of policies you want to see. They are not thought-leaders, trend setters, taste makers, nor do they dictate the Overton window. WE do that.

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Yeah I’m really getting that “we use AI code” vibe around this app lately

No offense at all to him, his work, his fans, his legacy at all.

He just goes behind Doug Yule, Eric Carr, Chad Channing and a few others in terms of impact and influence.

'I Just Feel So Lucky' - Ex-Iron Maiden Singer Reacts to Rock Hall Induction After His Late Inclusion Blaze Bayley was not on the original list of Iron Maiden nominees.

And now Blaze Bayley is getting in?