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Polish poster for William Friedkin's TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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A James Bond TV show for a streaming service in 2025 is gonna be insufferable. Just 10 episodes of a guy that doesn't call himself either James Bond or 007 yet and then in the final episode, he orders a martini, shaken not stirred, and we all politely clap and Season 2 takes 5 years to come out

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“Israelis gunning each other down in Miami because they’re so hyper racist against Palestinians that they operate on hyperreal conceptions on who is and is not Palestinian” is an apt summary for where the American fascist movement currently stands on the issues of race and reality together.

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 4 days ago • 765 comments

if I were writing stories about the gov "firing thousands of probationary workers" I would probably rewrite as "firing thousands of new hires -- who are often on a status called "probation" --" because I think the general understanding of "probation" is "in trouble for something they did"

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 8 days ago • 1781 comments

you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy

submitted 9 days ago • 109 comments

If you have never seen a pre-Code (right-wing Hollywood censorship apparatus) movie, do yourself a favor and watch one like this. You will not believe what they were up to in movies back then. The cut of Clara Bow's dress in this would have been completely verboten just a few years later.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

"I mean, look: I contain multitudes. My party fucking hates Indians. Thinks they're subhuman. Boom. Indian wife. Got that. I'm a proud Catholic, and the dang Pope thinks I'm a piece of shit who doesn't understand the source material," -JD Vance, unprompted, on the We Shoot Dogs podcast

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

new American Catholic Church is coming soon. adult converts already hate the Pope for being woke and saying they should care about poor people

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments

Movies where John C. Reilly gets a blowjob: 1. We Need to talk about Kevin 2. Boogie Nights (presumably)

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a silicon valley specter haunts the super bowl...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This is the 23 year old who currently has access to the entire Treasury payment system, by the way.

submitted 15 days ago • 240 comments

When you're trying to get people to notice that your country is being taken over by techno-oligarchs

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

most grand viziers loyally support his highness and adore his majesty's princelings while quietly serving as the royal advisor and confidante but you'd never believe it going by what you see in the news

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I know, the @nytimes.com is hopeless and this is pointless. But as someone who writes words for a living and tries to make them meaningful, “opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits” is the most weaselly of suck-up weasel words and really shows what quislings they are.

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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 20 days ago • 817 comments

van helsing, screenshot, game boy advance (2004) www.mobygames.com/game/66012/v...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

FYI, this is straight-up eugenics. There were lots of programs like this proposed in the 1930s that offered incentives and rewards to “good” (i.e. white and economically advantaged) communities to promote population growth among those groups and suppress it in others deemed less desirable.

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

A tale as old as time

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Tom Homan unexpectedly makes the case for why Chicago is the best.

submitted 24 days ago • 29 comments

The Chinese have developed their own open-source Hawk Tuah meme coin and the rug pull only uses one-tenth of the computing power and scams 15x the number of horny victims.

submitted 26 days ago • 44 comments

Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original

submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments

There's no cooler kind of post than "did you see the bad thing that Trump is doing, it's almost like it was obvious he would do this bad thing if you weren't completely stupid" because it is necessarily said by someone too stupid to win an election against Trump

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Fusion. Soon. It's beautiful. Give us more money.

submitted 30 days ago • 33 comments

Reminder that they made a Ghost Dog RPG. There was a licensed tabletop roleplaying game based on the Jim Jarmusch film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

submitted 91 days ago • 41 comments

don’t worry guys executive orders aren’t REALLY legal. but DO worry guys because the law isn’t REALLY real in any real sense. but DONT worry because they’re kind of too incompetent if you remember but also DO worry because maybe this time it’s different. but DONT worry bec

submitted 33 days ago • 68 comments

This is such a satisfying @austincarr.bsky.social story about a niche disaster that has fascinated me for years: The Walgreens video cooler door fiasco. A true retail cautionary tale. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 37 days ago • 62 comments

from the Variety article, Lynch casually explaining every conversation I’ve had with my mom about my transness in a throwaway interview line

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

submitted 36 days ago • 45 comments

LAPD Arrests Everyone Who Lost Home In Fire theonion.com/lapd-ar...

submitted 37 days ago • 102 comments

xenophobe, title screen, excerpt, arcade (1987) www.mobygames.com/game/8255/xe...

submitted 137 days ago • 3 comments

skate or die 2: the search for double trouble, game over screen, nes (1990) www.mobygames.com/game/12457/s...

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

don juan, screenshot, oric (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/57767/d...

submitted 134 days ago • 3 comments

Is Zuckerberg gonna get facial hair implants now?

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I want to see guys in the gym just throwing back these puds right from the can

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nakamoto, amstrad cpc (1987) www.mobygames.com/game/211005/...

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I think it is amazing that stuff like this - and like having ebooks you bought deleted from your readers etc - happens for "copyright" and "IP" and yet LLMs and similar can just... hoover up everything they want and say "oh well that's life" when people complain? Baffling.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments