and the way these “guilty pleasures” can become beacons when the darkness feels insurmountable, equal parts anchor and balm.

also directed an episode of The Man in the High Castle, which deals with parallel universes and time jumpers etc. So i think i have an idea of what’s going but it’s possible I haven’t connected shit. 😭😭😭.

Dan Fogleman has quite the knack for non linear narrative and misdirection: doling out enough dots to make you *think* you’ve connected them. I’ve also been getting The Man in the High Castle vibes this season, and it turns out Ken Olin who directed A Holy Charge, and other eps

The biggest movie is about science bros and the power of friendship and sacrifice, the biggest TV show is about good people doing their best under impossible circumstances to help suffering people, even under our culture’s institutionalized greed and cynicism, people are desperate for fellowship.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

can’t wait to get home and watch episode 4!!!
Some early reviews were panning the first few episodes but i really love the storytelling this season.

Moon
#moonsky

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Photography teaches you this: linger, let the world reveal itself. Gear sharpens an image, but patience sharpens the eye, turning each moment into something you receive, not chase.

slow light gathers in
the quiet you learn to keep
the world waits, revealed

What do you think?

Rough couple Super Bowls for guys named Drake.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Next thing you know they’ll be saying the same thing about annual, 20 plus episode seasons, and bottle episodes.

I’m the perfect mix of saturday night and the rest of your life

"You want it to be one way, but it's the other way."

My husband just pointed out that this shithead in The Walk in the Wood Job is basically Pete Hegseth, and I'm once again asking Leverage to stop doing prophecy.

trying is not a lost art

you have done it before, squared the smooth circle, navigated the hard corner, slipped through and lived to see another day

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:

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it’s a cloudflare outage affecting a ton of sites, ao3 and twitter included.

The Democrats will accept Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent before they accept Zohran Mamdani.

being a Falcons fan really has one pondering if they do in fact have a humiliation kink

your arch nemesis has returned

soooooo preeetty

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.

The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

break out the guitar!

#birdsky

#birdsky

man I'm so excited to be on the internet with 100k-500k of my favorite emotionally dysregulated neurodivergents as we wait for election results in places we have never visited and freak the fuck out!!!!!!!