why would anyone want to be alive in a society that produces these outcomes, resting atop a planet that's actively trying to evict us all before we destroy her other, saner lifeforms
it's cool that F1 came up with the sprint format as a way of saying "we can make this cool to watch for up to 5 laps at a time, up to 5 times a year, but our core identity is a science fair for billionaires."
bracketed between this ending and the 'watermelon rubberbands Facebook Live broadcast' moment that helped usher in the "pivot to video" phase of news industry collapse, this company also operated a legitimately killer news operation that repeatedly broke major stories inconvenient to powerful people
pull the other juan
no way, jose
like hell, gabriel
lol no, sergio
seems unlikely, magic mikey
don't think so, jacobo
wanna bet, colette
not the outcome, malcolm
tried to tell ya, esmeralda
are you high, adlai
get real, jaleel
fuck nah, benoit
i'm skeptical, alexia
not a prayer, javier
fuck outta here, jean-pierre
bonus ranking: best movie about what a decent fucking human being might've done with the same type hand JD Vance was dealt as a young person: FIRST REFORMED (2017)
my definitive ranking of movies about JD Vance:
1. BUGONIA (2025)
2-2,167. [misc online depravity where dudes fornicate with their home furniture then post it on the Internet for some reason]
2,168. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MO (2017)
2,169. HILLBILLY ELEGY (2020)
finally watching Bugonia. man, politician biopics are almost always terrible, but what a fascinating treatment of JD Vance this movie turns out to be.
underrated sequel to Howare the Duck
soon as i open my twee weed dispensary called Sense&Sensimilla (yes we have a makers space with a podcast studio, yes we host a weekly knitting club, no we don't sell any strains that weren't already identified by botanists before the internal combination engine was invented) it's over for you hoes
Bloomberg headline "Trump Plots New Trade Course After Supreme Court Quashes Key Tariff Cudgel"
sighing heavily and updating my list of Nouns That Can Be Quashed
the slickness of the writing in the linked piece sure reads gross to me, especially when nothing in the content meaningfully grapples with the fact that choosing to be the audience for that shit meant you yourself were cruel of heart.
plenty of things I enjoy and would defend have a meanness at their core (hello Arrested Development!) but I also think people who participated in certain of these farcical violations of our shared humanity should feel way worse about it than they seem to.
everyone watching knew that throughout every second they chose to spend making these shows hits. of all the weird things to never really have gotten over, I'm not sure I ever got over how angry it made me that people I knew to be otherwise interesting and smart chose to consume that horseshit.
this was obviously true of every single piece of crap they ginned up after the writers strike. every ounce of those shows was putrid with cruelty and intentional stupidity and exploitation of people's simple desire for TV time hotwired into their deepest hopes for a happier life.
audiences have agency and this stuff was so transparently evil in real time that it is really hard not to get angry all over again reading something like this play even hindsight regret for self-exonerating lulz www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
finally we have launched a $100M government competition to build the Torment Nexus from the classic sci fi novel Don't Build the Torment Nexus www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
There’s a sentiment among some locals that eyes on Minnesota are waning. The situation has NOT changed here.
Local resistance is tired, but of course never giving up. Please stay plugged into the news of the Minneapolis ICE occupation and donate where able.
We need endurance in this moment.
(looking at the edible arrangements basket you sent me home with in the Uber Black) yeah joots
listen, by all means enjoy this, but i just hope everyone remembers what happened the last time the Patriots got embarrassed and outclassed in a super bowl they didn't belong in. that's right baby, 3 years of nothing and then 15 years of a nation galvanized to hate one team everything constantly.
the Internet is bad for us and bad for activism and bad for solidarity and bad for organizing. phones and being able to communicate in real time privately is hugely beneficial, and getting video and anecdote out to a mass public is crucial, but everything else is a cancer.
all my rowdy friends are here for Sunday night
(there's been one ad I didn't find a way to hate for either the product or the pitch, and it was the bud light cheese roll wedding one. bud light is the worst beer in its category but still drinkable, and that ad concept was harmless fun that didn't overstay.)
I agree, dunkin's coffee is dogshit
I'm extremely used to being ignored while speaking but none of us have ever had less attention on what we were saying than whoever is trying to do game analysis from the broadcast booth ahead of Bad Bunny's halftime show
it's a crime to pay for the rights to "everybody (backstreets back)" and not include the line "am I sexual"
anecdata: the bar I'm at was all in on the Backstreet's Back karaoke ad that just ran, full voice singing along, until the reveal that it was for a crypto company at which point the bar howled with betrayal and booed the TVs
the useful takeaway from it is that the people behind Claude want to disassociate themselves from the term AI. "ads are coming to AI...but not to Claude" is as close to industry flopsweat as we're likely to see tonight. somebody has realized we hate these fucking liars and their dork tech.
biopic casting idea: will arnett stars as bob odenkirk in a movie about bob odenkirk trying to get cast as the lead in a biopic about will arnett
beff jezos, imo
