Good job, Virginia.

Yeah, you might also have trouble sleeping and want to eat everything for a couple of days.

Have you tried not being older? (My knee sobs in commiseration.)

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.

CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

Frank Pembleton could not have been anything but a Jesuit-educated Catholic.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

I do not miss being a practicing Catholic (not that I ever really was), but I'm willing to reconsider if the Pope excommunicates Vance. And any of those other weirdos. Bonus if he uses any of the following words.

Did that last week. The process did not work. So now I have to do it again, but longer.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Swalwell staffers stand with accusers as Manhattan DA confirms investigation The California Democratic gubernatorial candidate is facing growing pressure to withdraw from the race after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Eric Swalwell's senior campaign and congressional staff issue a statement saying they support his accusers.

Gift link.

wapo.st/48o7RAs

I should probably be supervised by a professional while setting things on fire.

You know how there are places you can go and throw axes, or beat up old electronics with a baseball bat? There should also be a place you can go to just set things on fire.

editor: you need to rewrite

me: why

editor: because we need plausible characters

me: whats the problem

editor: You're claiming its actually possible to turn the Iranian govt and the Catholic Church into sympathetic figures within 12 months???

Oh, oh, threaten some nuns next. Please. I dare you.

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

There's a little song playing in my head. It goes like this. "Everything is terrible, terrible, terrible. Everything is terrible, oh my fucking god." I think it's pretty catchy. Top 40 for sure.

Same this week. Sigh.

Barker: so joanne you say that this new harry potter series is gonna reflect your true vision
Barker: what exactly is that vision again?
Rowling: well, it's exactly the ssame as the old one
Rowling: except that rupert grint, emma watson and daniel radcliffe don't get royaltiess

Yeah, not sure you could get any more Tumblr than that.

that's...I'm a bit surprised it's not Grace/Stratt, but I guess tumblr fandom isn't the same as wider fandom.

Well, now I know that Liza Minelli recorded a disco version of "Losing My Mind", which I could have lived without.

Keep your space feels going: @destina.bsky.social 's vid: To Touch The Face of God: archiveofourown.org/works/29586609

Whoooo boy, is this a hard show to watch in the present time. And on the day the government is arguing against birthright citizenship.

A picture of an empty stage, with an upright piano on the right side and a white neon sign at the back that lists the name of the musical, Ragtime

I definitely came prepared with kleenex.

Hubbard: that's right, steve, EVERY writer is using it
King: really? well, i know a few writers
King: let me just ask them
Hubbard: NO NO THERE'S NO NEED FOR THAT!
Hubbard: YOU CAN TRUST ME
Hubbard: DON'T FORGET MY NAME!
Hubbard: HONEST RON!
Hubbard: C'MON!

??? No one should make appointments at 1AM for anything.

I usually like to know as little as possible ahead of time, if I'm not familiar with the show, so I'd recommend going in unspoiled.

It's a brilliant moment. You could hear the audience sniffing.

I was not WARNED that the first act of Operation Mincemeat would make me CRY. I would have brought kleenex!