Open letter to the Competition Bureau of Canada: Review of Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery - Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors (NICE) As the industry follows this particular Yellow Brick Road, independent exhibitors, who have seen this journey before, know what tends to be found behind the curtain.

NICE has posted an open-letter to the Competition Bureau of Canada re: the Warner Bros. sale & how it could affect independent exhibitors. www.nicecinema.ca/2026/04/22/o...

The Photonic Effect is out today in print, ebook, and audiobook! Tonight, join me and @annaleen.bsky.social at @booksinc.bsky.social to celebrate! Free RSVP and preorder signed books here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mike-chen-...

And check out this big thread of behind-the-scenes nuggets below!

One day, the fact that A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE was the last major studio film to be released on VHS will leave my brain and will hopefully be replaced by an ability to name all of the world's oceans.

STARRED UP, perhaps?

Toronto has a Vacant Home Tax as well, although I admit I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.

Happy Canadian Film Day/American Tax Day. If you observe one, or both!

Or, "Huh, I guess a block of ice with a dead body inside of it can be used as a weapon?"

Feel like most of the people commenting on this are missing the fact that teen pregnancies historically were often teen mothers and adult fathers, who were immediately married.

They're not *just* sad about the babies; they're sad that they've lost a pipeline for "traditional" marriages.

Boooo!

Very proud of this odd one-shot that looks at a space cult from the POV of those inside it. The Forgotten Divine is about our need to find meaning regardless of whether or not it’s actually there. Please sign up for updates on the Kickstarter for more information. All will be revealed!

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Pass it on.

A drawing of a horse, of course

Of course I can draw a horse, so ridiculously simple anyone can do it

Black coffee mug with silver letters reading Jimmy James Incorporated, along with the logo for the company made up of the initials JJI.

I've gotta get a lucite display case for all my NEWSRADIO prop drinkware.

Oh, boy, do I hear you on that...

The grocery store where I live even locks up the hand soap I use that costs all of $1.50.

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful.

It's not antisemitic to compare the IDF to the Nazis when they keep doing depraved, violent, dehumanizing Nazi shit.

I just — there are no words, my God.

Just one of those nights when I start thinking to myself... Maybe I CAN learn to cut my own hair.

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In my humble opinion, the actual best. ;)

viktor orban gonna lose so bad he has to run for a seat in alberta

Thanks, Liz. :)

White cup and saucer with gold trim on a white table, both reading WNYC 585 AM.

I received some very unexpected gifts from the inimitable @toughsugarcookie.bsky.social, incl. this china from the Titanic episode of NEWSRADIO, a show that means a lot to us both, she as a longtime crew member, me as a kid who watched it on a mini TV hidden under my desk dreaming of working in TV.

I'm the judge in this case and I hereby sentence this gutter racist to get a swift kick in the buttocks down the courthouse steps.

i just submitted my 13th funding application over 21 months for a short film I'm trying to make. Let this be Lucky Number 13!!

Hungary: TISZA now projected to get 137 seats out of 199.
4 seats beyond the needed 133 super majority to amend the Constitution and replace all Orban loyalists in the government.
Orban is done.
Magyar will be the new Prime Minister of Hungary.

Watching it in a theatre felt a little like getting pummeled. Mostly in a good way!

I hope you saw it somewhere with an excellent sound system!

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading.

Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

If you recognize which unnamed woman is talking because you're asked for comment and the comment makes it clear which of the woman's rape stories match your memory of events, and you text that specific woman and say "stop telling people I raped you," that is.... sure an admission of something.