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• Post #4472901

  Tonight's viewing: Jonathan Demme's MARRIED TO THE MOB (1988) on the Criterion Channel. It gets off to a great start, with real That Guy™ Charles Napier playing against type in a brief appearance as a hairstylist

• Post #4445379

  "I saw Axios describing a Reuters poll which Mike Allen said showed that independents are 'progressive-curious.' The evidence was that substantial majorities of independents support higher taxes on corporations and billionaires (64%) and government-provided health care for all Americans (60%). But 43% are less likely to vote for a candidate who identifies as 'democratic socialist.' If you study or spend much time thinking about public [opinion] I don’t think either of these...

• Post #4400686

  The New York Times is not exactly beating the charges of elitism today https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/realestate/845000-dollar-homes-new-orleans-lake-arrowhead-stonington.html

• Post #4388127

  Goodreads notified me that an old friend had just rated a book five stars. The notification startled me, because the friend in question died by suicide six years ago

• Post #4387852

  The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear https://theonion.com/about-us/

• Post #4387248

  "A planned production of cult-classic play 'The Rocky Horror Show' was sabotaged by the play's own director, according to police. The Essex Police Department said Kenneth Grenier, who was the musical director for the Essex Community Players' production of the hit '70s film, sent himself threatening text messages from a subscriber-based cell phone app in order to get the show canceled." https://www.mynbc5.com/article/rocky-horror-picture-show-false-threats-grenier/...

• Post #4369882

  Just our big wet president having another extremely normal one https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-launches-into-extraordinary-rant-about-disgusting-blue-cities-their-trees-are-all-gross #USPol

• Post #4369208

  Gruv is having a "pick 3 UHD Movies for $39" sale. Available titles include: JURASSIC PARK (1993) ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) ERIN BROCKOVICH (2000) THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (2025) SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) FULL METAL JACKET (1987) 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) INCEPTION (2010) BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (2007) SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1977) EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014) THE MATRIX (1999) THE SHAW...

• Post #4368598

  Worth reading, just for the embedded Instagram clip of Christopher Nolan pretending to be enthusiastic about a fucking popcorn bucket https://variety.com/2026/film/features/spider-man-popcorn-bucket-scalper-prices-imax-merch-1236817709/

• Post #4341164

  Nothing would annoy Donald Trump more than if you emptied out your bank account and sent it all to me. Ohhh he’d be sooooo madddd

• Post #4338731

  “Affleck: We were so frustrated that Castle Rock wasn’t reading the script, so we felt like we had to develop this test. We started writing in screen direction like, ‘Sean talks to Will and unloads his conscience.’ And then: ‘Will takes a moment and then gives Sean a soulful look and leans in and starts blowing him.’ “Damon: They weren’t reading the script closely anymore. It was literally probably a full paragraph about what these two characters were doing to each other. “Affleck: We would tu...

• Post #4321816

  “At the time that they enacted the Constitution, the [population] ratio between the largest state and the smallest state was something about 13-to-1 or 14-to-1. People like Madison and Hamilton were saying it would be ridiculous to give a resident of Delaware 13 times the political representation of a resident of Virginia, which was then the largest state. Well, today the ratio is about 67-to-1, so what seemed absurd then has gotten dramatically worse.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/...

• Post #4306949

  “‘It was obvious what was happening,’ Gwen Jones, Brown’s girlfriend at the time, told me. ‘They were targeting the Black community, pushing the smoking. And Henry was like, This is not right. It’s not fair.’ So Brown—Mandrake—was going to make the billboards disappear.” https://slate.com/life/2026/07/chicago-superheroes-smoking-cigarettes-black-americans.html

• Post #4302875

  Made it through one more day without becoming the Main Character of Social Media. Thank God

• Post #4267420

  Oh hell yes. Inject this directly into my veins https://youtu.be/nOAsaehfPrk

• Post #4263263

  "The Criterion Channel will continue to expand its anime offerings later this year with the addition of one of the most iconic shows of all time. Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion will debut on the streaming service on Sept. 1." https://www.polygon.com/neon-genesis-evangelion-anime-movies-criterion-channel/ (h/t @therisingtithes@wandering.shop)

• Post #4257466

  "In recent weeks and months, though, another kind of network has taken shape: a coast-to-coast pattern of opposition to the company. The objectors range from public officials to individual vigilantes, spanning metropolitan and rural America alike. In a politically divided country, opposition to Flock cameras is the rare issue that binds people across the ideological spectrum." https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/us/flock-camera-vandalism-protests-cec #USPol

• Post #4256089

  “Mighty Og was a roadside attraction consisting of a 36-foot (11 m) high sculpture of a gorilla from the waist up.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Og

• Post #4249545

  In retrospect, this was the moment when we should have realized computers were a mistake https://youtu.be/Av-gV5HAxXk

• Post #4224189

  80% of Netflix these days is documentaries with titles like “The Dollar General Murders: A Discount Nightmare”

• Post #4220559

  “A lawsuit against Comcast’s cable division alleges that a store manager humiliated the lowest performing salesperson each month with a strange ritual in which a cream pie was smashed into the employee’s face. The lawsuit claims the store manager took videos of the assaults and ordered employees to participate in the assaults and record their own videos.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/comcast-store-punished-low-sales-by-smashing-pies-in-workers-faces-lawsuit-claims/

• Post #4220158

  “During a recent film festival appearance in Rome, McKellen said that while shooting an action scene in ‘Avengers: Doomsday,’ the film’s directors, the Russo Brothers, told him to ‘look more furious’ when acting out Magneto’s magnetic powers. ‘[They told me to] make it look as if you hate what you’re destroying,’ McKellen said. ‘So I stood there and I shouted: ‘Mar-a-Lago!’’” https://variety.com/2026/film/news/ian-mckellen-anthony-mackie-avengers-doomsday-1236823853/

• Post #4207414

  Occasionally I tell myself I should get back into tabletop gaming. Then I look into it and realize my tastes in tabletop gaming are around four generations of trends behind the times

• Post #4180736

  Hey look, one of the biggest disappointments of my childhood is coming back to theaters https://youtu.be/pjZFXw7WIME

• Post #4180307

  “Blanche Blackwell inspired one of Noel Coward’s plays about an upper-crust love triangle. The swashbuckling Hollywood star Errol Flynn wanted to marry her. She was a member of one of Jamaica’s richest families, but she was best known as the mistress and muse of Ian Fleming, the rakish author who was the creator of James Bond. She lived long enough to give business advice to U2’s Bono, whose career was launched by her son Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records. ‘She always says, ‘I love...

• Post #4171038

  Not sure "epic" is the word I would have gone with there https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/epic-diarrhea-outbreak-has-40-of-americans-avoiding-fruits-and-veggies/

• Post #4170977

  "'I am addressing this letter to Senator McConnell under the assumption that he is capable of reading and responding verbally, and not incapacitated by means of consciousness or cognition. If the Senator is unable to respond for either of those or other conditions, consider this letter a demand for his Senate staff to be honest and transparent with the people of Kentucky,' Governor Andy Beshear wrote." https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kentucky-gov-demands-mcconnell-give-verb...

• Post #4170531

  In case you needed another reason to hate Elon https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-cyclospora-lab-doge-downsized-it-last-year/ #USPol

• Post #4151937

  “The AI assistant also cannot turn itself off if you ask it to do so. You have to navigate touchscreen menus until you find the option to turn off ‘Voice barge-in,’ which says a lot about how the AI operates. Barge in, indeed.” https://www.jalopnik.com/2224565/2027-mercedes-benz-c-class-ev-electric-sedan-first-drive-review/

• Post #4148528

  My freezer's ice maker has started making loud howling noises whenever it dispenses ice. And I get it. I know the feeling