Pluribus’s themes and cinematography remind me a bit of the short-lived BBC show Utopia (2013)

I often think of this quote Mike Schur gave me on the picket line during the 2023 strike! jacobin.com/2023/07/hollyw…

I wasted my entire life because nobody told me this as a kid

its the phone.

Happy WAKE UP DEAD MAN week. Here’s a thread about Rian Johnson being really clever in the editing room. Read to the end for the epic conclusion.

Integration went so far that we have Somali hijabi goth in Minnesota.

which leads us to the fanfiction bell curve, exactly 🙂‍↕️

The eagle faces left so the feathers can make an E (which he missed when he sorts logos by number of letters)

having long hair as a guy is so scary because some days i look like the charming lead of a classic film from the 80s and other days i look like a discord mod that runs his magic the gathering group like the navy

I feel like you can sum up every issue with The Rise of Skywalker in this one image

If America were a proper country, we’d have a Midwest rail network as robust as this:

sometimes I see a beautifully detailed small house like this and remember at one time Detroit had the highest paid workers in the world

The single best advice I ever got on conversation is “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering” which sounds insultingly obvious, but almost nobody does it, and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun.

“Vampires going to space to live in eternal night among the stars” is better than anything I could ever hope to write.

Rhea Seehorn on her early role in the Magic the Gathering video game 🧙‍♀️

look I know you all think Bluesky is cringe but the fact that this app has an evil genie any incel can summon and use to sexually assault every woman who posts a photo on here really makes you question how much more shelf life it has.

everyone should have two therapists, a man who tells you to grow up and get your shit together, and a woman who tells you to love yourself the way you are. Ideally they should be married to each other since at least 9 months before you were born

People love to blame Detroit’s decline on the riot, glossing over the intentional movement of department stores, families & auto plants into surrounding whites only suburbs & demolishing thousands of homes & businesses to build highways while blocking investments in mass transit.

The developers of PEAK explain pricing