Post for Real Genius featuring Val Kilmer in shorts, a “I ❤️ toxic waste” t-shirt, and bunny slippers sitting on a office desk while wearing novelty antenna on his head as he points to a hovering gyroscope. “MEET CHRIS KNIGHT, THE EINSTEIN OF THE 80's. He can turn lasers into light shows, armchairs into aircraft, and high tech into high jinks. But when his professor steals his prize invention he turns revenge into high comedy. REAL GENIUS When he gets mad, he doesn't get even... he gets creative. TRI-STAR PICTURES Presents A BRIAN GRAZER PRODUCTION A MARTHA COOLIDGE FILM "REAL GENIUS™ VAL KILMER GABE JARRET MICHELLE MEYRINK and WILLIAM ATHERTON Music Supervision by BECKY MANUS and MICHAEL PAPALE Music by THOMAS NEWMAN Executive Producer ROBERT DALEY Editor RICHARD CHEW Director of Photograpty VILMOS ZSIGMOND, A.S.C. Story by NEAL ISRAEL & PAT PROFT G|PARENTAL CURSANCE SUGGESTED «ED Screplay by NEAL ISRAEL & PAT PROFT and PETER TOROKE Poduced by BRIAN GRAZER Directed by MARTHA COOLIDGE DO COURY STUMO* PANAVISION*”

Rewatching Real Genius (1985) tonight and I have to say it ages pretty well.

I’ve been noticing how much 80s nostalgia overlooks how much of the media had themes of anti-war/anti-military industrial complex, especially toward the end of the decade.

This movie isn’t even subtle about it.

theofficialdawsonmckie Dear America, I'm Canadian, and even from across the border I can tell your gentlest people are doing the heaviest lifting. They are feeding people, protecting people, defending people, comforting people, organizing people, and carrying a country that keeps calling their pain politics. If America has a soul left, it is living inside the people who refuse to stop caring. Your cruelest people may have the microphone right now, but your best people still have the moral weight.

We're terrible neighbors right now, and it hurts to keep caring. Care anyway. You are needed.

Frog and Toad sit together, doing nothing together. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

sermon on the mount, candy hearts edition

Three days after I was born. I was literally born to be a @stephenking.bsky.social fan. 🤗

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings?

CPAC CROWD: *cheers*

SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

It’s exhausting seeing the worst people on earth getting away with doing truly horrific things on a daily basis.

Trump rejects off-ramp to fund DHS as airport delays worsen Under a proposal pitched to Trump, Republicans would offer to reopen all of DHS except ICE and fund the controversial enforcement agency under a separate party-line budget bill.

Make no mistake. TSA workers could get paid tomorrow, but Trump said no.  

We have a bipartisan solution to pay TSA workers, members of the Coast Guard, and every other DHS employee except ICE. Trump rejected the offer. Let that sink in.

2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute Literacy Statisitics

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.

You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*

www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

All of the study areas being closed are critical for understanding what's happening in 2026z

The stars are in retrograde. The planets in retrograde. Mercury is in retrograde. The oil tankers are in retrograde. America is in retrograde. Capitalism is in retrograde. Monarchy is in retrograde. Retrograde is in retrograde. And the killing part is that nothings being retrograded on a bell curve.

If I have the administration's current argument right, they have achieved a clear and decisive victory in Iran *and* they desperately need other countries to come bail them out of the mess they've made?

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

This experiment of putting the worst people in charge of government should be over.

Fuck this guy.

Trump promises Naval escorts for commercial vessels through the Straight of Hormuz.
US Navy says they don't have the ships.
Trump promises cargo insurance for all vessels through the Straight.
US DFC says we don't have that kind of cash. $20 billion in exposure at a time.
Dementia is evil bitch

"...no stupid rules of engagement."

Thanks for making it easier for the war crimes tribunal, like a sloppy drunk would.

Racism, sexism, hate and stupidity are the reasons why we all aren’t enjoying the benefits of a Kamala Harris Presidency and are instead in fear and horror during the orange felon’s vengeful trashy murderous dictatorship and the American state media is fully complicit in that.

A pedophile.
An adjudicated rapist.
A convicted felon.
A pathological liar.
A sociopath.
A malignant narcissist.
A sadist.
A racist.
A fascist.
A traitor.
An insurrectionist.
A war-monger.
A demagogue.
A despot.
An enemy of the Constitution.
An American nightmare.

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

Speaker Johnson threatens us with a good time

Craig Custance @CraigCustance X.com Look out 2026 Olympics RT @usahockey: USA Hockey's 8 & under membership has reached 100,000 for the first time ever. 10:33 AM • 1/24/11

[checks date of tweet]

Well done @craigcustance.bsky.social

They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic” Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

This is the AI critique I’ve been waiting to read, and WHEW open.substack.com/pub/abiawomo...

I feel a lot of people guilty by Epstein association are going to plead “I’m not that person” now when they are definitely still that person.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

ICE has completely broken our social contract.

They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

Pam Bondi Haiku

Pam-you’re a dumbass
Quit kissing ol’ Donnie’s ring
Evidence exists

You lied under oath
So you want to be disbarred?
The dems owned your ass

Jail? Are you ready?
Have you studied watergate?
You are not immune

Yes I am laughing
You have committed treason
Evil gets its due