you can commit any number of mortal or venal sins with impunity but posting blasphemous AI slop with shitty ringwraith-ass angels in the background is a bridge too far apparently

This is a great illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social's point about how "backlash" framing lets the right play the victim.

Window of a barbershop in Arles, France with an image of Goku from Dragonball Z in an apron and holding a barbershop pole and scissors.

Van Gogh spent a lot of time in Arles, France. There's a restaurant that used to be a hotel where Van Gogh stayed and in a letter he wrote that the food was bad and they overcharged him for wine. Directly next door, sharing a wall, is this Dragonball-themed barbershop.

unbelievable how stupid these people are, in addition to morally bankrupt

The best hope now may sound naïve, but it remains true. Mr. Trump should at long last recognize the ineptitude of his impulsive, go-it-alone approach. He should involve Congress and seek help from America’s allies to minimize the damage from his war.

The NYT editorial board is influential enough that if it called for Trump to be removed from office or — second best — to stop the war, it might actually have a positive effect on the political discourse. Instead we get this weak shit: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

We’re so used to calling the various tech oligarchs and Trump pigs Bond villains but Eric Adams is unique in that he is the only irl Venture Bros villain.

Hegseth mentor Doug Wilson's vision for a Christian nation means married women can't vote MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

Fellow Cowboy Bebop fans:

I went to see Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts last night. Their first ever (!) U.S. performance. Absolutely incredible

If you are in NYC, highly recommend Kanno's Piano One performance tonight!!

EXCALIBUR is emphatically the Good Shit, handily blows every other King Arthur movie out of the water, and not for lack of trying. The Arrow 4K re-release is splendid.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

shoutout to whoever is putting trans flag stickers on the harry potter audiobook ads on the nyc subway

The end of Gunbuster, showing “okaerinasai” in katakana.

Getting ready for the return of Artemis.

Does everyone have their lights ready?

hell yeah new VanderMeer

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

One of the coolest gigs I had was running the Facebook side of the One Perfect Shot Account in the mid 2010s. I thought I lost my entire collection of film stills I shared, but just got a new device that somehow synced up to a really old account & I found them! Let’s kick things off.

1) VERTIGO

Joe Rogan spent the entire election cycle campaigning for the far-right candidate, now he says he wants a "logical centrist government". Bro, Kamala Harris WAS the centrist, which you would have seen if you weren't a racist piece of shit who went out of your way to ratfuck her comms team.

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

“It should be illegal to blame us if the thing we make hurts people” is the kind of opinion that would’ve doomed the airline industry and currently props up the businesses of guns, cars, and oil.

Superimposing a live-action Hanya mask over an animated character rules. Rintaro forever.

An extremely funny thing about retro rereleases that use unlicensed emulators is that you are basically committing the exact same crime (using software outside of the terms of its license) that has you so scared of downloading roms in the first place but now someone has monetized it.

Over the weekend, workers at New York City’s Attaboy went public with a union drive. This is a big deal in part because the cocktail bar itself is a big deal: it is often recognized among the world’s best, and it traces a lineage to the late Sasha Petraske, whose legendary and influential Milk & Honey previously occupied the same storefront on Manhattan’s Eldridge Street from 1999-2013. But Attaboy Local 134—the workers’ independent union, named for the bar’s street address—is also a big deal because there simply aren’t very many unionized bars. Not in relatively pro-labor cities like NYC, Chicago, or San Francisco, and certainly not anywhere else. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 8.8 million workers in the United States’ “Food services and drinking places” sector in 2025, just 1.8% had union representation. With the exception of bars attached to hotels/casinos/stadiums/etc., which are sometimes organized as part of broader organizing drives in those businesses, the union bar is a very rare bird. After half a century of anti-labor legislation, corporate consolidation, media capture, and so forth, it’s not easy to organize any American workplace in 2026. Hospitality operators have the full arsenal of well-honed union-busting tools at their disposal, up to and including summarily shutting down the business where workers are unionizing, like the owner of Brooklyn’s Achilles Heel did in February. But bars and other standalone hospitality businesses like restaurants, coffee shops, and craft breweries also present unique structural and cultural challenges to workers that want to exercise their federally guaranteed right to organize with their coworkers for better pay, working conditions, and a voice on the job.

On Saturday, workers at NYC's Attaboy went public with a union drive. It's a big deal in part because the bar is world-renowned, but also because there just aren't many unionized bars, period. In this week's FREE column at Fingers, I framed up why: www.fingers.email/p/there-are-...

‘60 Minutes’ to Midnight As the future of the CBS News program’s top producer hangs in the balance, Bari Weiss has also privately raised The Free Press during discussions about the show, Status has learned.

“60 Minutes” staffer to Weiss: “Go focus on the ‘Evening News.’ Your changes haven’t exactly landed w/viewers. If that becomes a success, I’d be a lot more open to your ideas about changing the longest-running, most successful, most-watched news program in history.” www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

EUPHORIA S3: "The series’ genre switch is just a theatrical exercise, like Euphoria is putting on another play, this one against a Korine– and Tarantino–aping backdrop. Neither Levinson, nor his characters, have grown up." still not for me. @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/euph...

ICE loves hurting and killing women.

So to recap, Trump:

- Started a war for no reason on the belief that Iran would surrender immediately

- Killed thousands including over 100 elementary schoolgirls

- Threatened genocide up to and including nuclear war

- Then backed down in exchange for a worse position than the US had before

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Synagogue in Tehran ‘completely destroyed’ in US-Israeli attack US-Israeli strikes destroy synagogue in Tehran, prompting outrage amid reports of 15 killed across Iran overnight.

US and Israeli forces “completely destroyed” a Tehran synagogue during Pesach. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.

A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).

Fact-Checkers Anonymous Getting a job at The New Yorker felt like an arbitrary stroke of luck. Getting fired was quite the opposite.

I was always too scared to tweet during its heyday but I'm curious to meet anyone this article might shake out!