One more plug for the piece I wrote this week about the escalating climate situation. Feels insane to exist right now!

I don’t understand why entertainment outlets write and re-write that “toxic fandom” article without ever going deep on the fact that 90% of the time, heat isn’t coming from “fandom,” it’s coming from right-wing political groups injecting far-right ideas into highly visible subcultures. It’s an op.

if you’re curious, i averaged this & candidates *for* removing lgbtq & black civil rights books from the library & BUILDING A WINDOW INTO THE SEPARATE BUT EQUAL GENDER DIVERSE BATHROOM won by 829 votes. because no one can be bothered on “off” years; because “voting doesn’t matter.” it mattered.

If you wanna see the power of a real theatrical run vs a streaming release, look at how an $85M thriller with two of the world's biggest movie stars released by a trillion dollar company barely touched the trending line of a $17M body horror flick currently playing in 1,000+ theaters.

Give me money to come up with stupid shit to write, too.

I'm late to stuff as usual. But why did people talk about Hereditary as a serious thing? It's a comedy, right?

I research and teach on the apocalypse and part of that is case studies of disasters and the thing my students learn almost immediately is that the first thing that happens when disaster strikes is that other people look for ways to help the trope of immediate anarchy is historically untenable

The best. People are like, "Maps, right?" And I think, Yes Maps, but all the others, too.

Anybody remember the band Morningwood?

This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already"