why The Desolation of Smaug is a FUCKING ripoff of Éric Chahi’s Delphine masterpiece, Another World

I just had to evacuate my office because of a pipe bomb reported outside. Supporters of the President are trying to force their way into the Capitol and I can hear what sounds like multiple gunshots. (1/2)

CNN reports that the decomposing skull of Richard Milhous Nixon has contorted into what eyewitnesses are describing as a “grin”

Kalief Browder allegedly stole a backpack at 16, spent 3 yrs at Riker's Island without trial. Riley Williams stole a laptop from Speaker Pelosi's office and tried selling it the Russians. She was released to her mother There are two justice systems in America #BlackLivesMatter

a classic cosmic indignity is jerry garcia’s dying before the invention of crocs

He's going to be okay.

RIP Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, reggae legend and proud defender of Paul McCartney.

can’t believe this guy’s brother runs a mail-in stool samplery with his wife SARAH SQUIRM

I implore you to watch Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch argue about a certain tiny hole in the floor they noticed ten years prior in Prague. This footage can turn your whole day around if you ever need a pick me up.

I met an alien ghost that asked me for chocolate and hamburgers

at some point, we went outside and clapped for essential workers for the last time, and nobody knew it

How did I just realize that Dock Ellis’ name is also Ellis, D?

A vote for Harris means we get NLYM and then a new theBreeders album this decade, right? Kim Deal Kelley Deal josephine Jim Macpherson

I’m not on good terms with the skeletons

Taylor Swift has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Bob Dylan being suspicious of the moon

When I was a kid I thought the AI dystopia would be 1984-esque with terminators enforcing the heartless dictates of the Biggest Brother, but as usual it’s far more likely to be the consensual descent to a soulless Brave New World

OBAA was my favorite 2025 film, but it’s wild to wonder what would’ve happened without Benicio (or if PTA were less generous). Without Sensei’s display of humble joyous competency, the flaws of the French 75 & the evil of the CAC / MKU have no counter-how could the end be earned?