It kinda is an in memoriam though? Bond in the hands of Amazon is…well, it’s gonna be a different animal, OK?

It’s been a tough week so I think everyone should cut her some slack, but Gondor did in fact (kinda famously) need a king.

So embarrassing to be a citizen of this train wreck of a country. What a joke.

Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory

Kenneth Branagh making a shot list:

I don’t even like eggs that much…

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

This guy has the vibe of a middle school assistant football coach in like 1998.

The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom With some newsroom usage restrictions.

Yikes!

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

@democrats.org, if you’re still awake, how about it?

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity.

It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated).

30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.

Didn’t think we’d get into “L'État, c'est moi,” territory so quickly but I guess it’s just all-gas-no-breaks from here on in.

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim.

Me, 20 years later: fuck

Tonight’s installment of “they don’t make ’em like this anymore, but they REALLY should” theater: Crossing Delancey. Currently streaming on @criterion.bsky.social in their excellent NY L❤️VE STORIES collection.

What is the coolest shot in movies?

Ok, Hochul has gotta get him the hell out of City Hall. The brazenness of this is almost impossible to believe.

i really like @johnpfaff.bsky.social's idea that the council should pass a resolution calling on Hochul to remove Adams and she should defer to it. it'd set a limited precedent which respects local democracy.

Man, I hope The Pitt runs for like 20 seasons. I’ve missed this kind of television so much.

just fucking do it, kathy!!!!!

These guys must love the taste of boot leather.

a maximalist strategy of opposition against every nominee as unqualified would have stood a better chance of creating the kind of public outrage that might have led to more republican defections, but i'm sure the imaginary family that chuck schumer relies on to guide his decisions disagreed

Schumer's strategy of allowing/encouraging Dems to vote for the "normal" nominees in order to try and peel off Republican defections to block Hegseth/RFK/Gabbard appears to have completely failed.

Capitalist ideology is a virus that has spread everywhere. Everyone having a spoonful of microplastics in their brain is such an apt metaphor and reminder. Once the entire world accepted that one person can own a mountain, a factory, a year or even an hour of another person’s life, we were fucked

There’s no class, book, advice, or warning on Earth that can adequately prepare you for raising an energetic toddler.

Every single democrat, liberal, leftist, and progressive at every level of government should be shouting this message from the rooftops daily for the next two years. Working class Americans will respond to messaging like this.

I see regular folks trying brave things. And I see those w the most protection & most insulation mostly doing everything they can to bend the knee. Media companies, tech companies, most politicians—I did not think the bending of the knee would be this complete & this universal this quickly.