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“Money doesn’t buy happiness” is both true and not true, because I’m way happier now than when I had less money, but also all the dudes who have way more money than me appear to be the most miserable people alive.

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The number of times someone I first watched on their YouTube channel later showed up in a big TV show isn’t high, but it is 4, and that still seems high (it would be 5 but I didn’t learn about Derrick comedy until after I started Community)

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You ever wonder how the other members of Derrick Comedy feel about Donald Glover’s success?

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Macklemore has established himself as the anti-Kanye (or 2015 Kanye at least): good politics, bad music

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It’s funny when you realize these are all the same character dynamic:

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Wild is watching the 2005 episode of SNL that Ashton Kutcher hosts, have him reference then-gf Demi Moore, jokingly say “oh from The Substance”, and then a minute later she appears in old age makeup (the joke was that she’s older than Ashton and therefore a hideous old hag)

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Yeah I’m into lowering egg prices (making trans healthcare affordable for everyone)

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“You finish that ad copy for the generic concept of beer?” -“Sure did boss, real fuckin depressing just like you asked” “What”

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Caitlyn Jenner must be so excited there’s a second famous problematic trans woman for everyone to be mad at

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New X update per Elon: your likes are now legally endorsements, if you liked any pro-Luigi posts you’re being arrested for terrorism as we speak.

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Sometimes you DM a really good D&D session and just want the world to know

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Just had my own weird Mandela Effect; I just looked up Cobie Smulders and I could swear her name used to be Colbie Smulders

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Emilia Perez getting 13 Oscar nominations the week after David Lynch died feels like Art is trying to tell us “you’re in the wrong universe, something is deeply wrong here”. And I mean, we already knew that, because of politics and everything else, just feels like some extra confirmation.

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I feel like I’ve seen bad years for Oscars winners but rarely this bad just for nominees

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It’s weird how getting famous is still seen as a desirable goal for a lot of people when every story about fame in fiction is like “this is fucked up and will ruin your life”, and almost every public figure in real life is visibly insane

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Living through historical events is weird because on the one hand you can see the forces pushing things (like fascism on the rise), but then how it actually shakes out seems to be random chance -

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The first time I watched Twin Peaks I was pretty sure the character we were supposed to emulate was Dale Cooper. This time around I’m pretty sure it’s Andy

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I’m not normally a grudge holding person but I see every coward bowing to Trump and I promise you I will remember. I don’t know what that’s worth, but I will remember

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It’s funny to think how simple it would be to add sorting features to streaming services (things like making your own playlists besides just one list, hiding things you’ve already seen or aren’t interested in, etc), but that would actually give consumers freedom and control

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God the Lynch news hurts; I didn’t think I could cry for a man I never met but there it is. The world has gotten less beautiful, less strange, less good

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Between Severance and The Substance, it feels like an interesting new trend of art showing how capitalism doesn’t just pit you against others, it pits you against yourself. Also feels a bit like white artists finally caught up to the dual consciousness DuBois was talking about 120 years ago

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Has a big franchise/corporation ever tried to make an “anniversary” movie and had it not be terrible? The big ones I can think of are Wish for Disney and Die Another Day for James Bond

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Seeing someone at the airport with a Museum of Ice Cream sweatshirt and resisting the urge to ask if they’re actually a fan of the Museum of Ice Cream or just a fan of that one video

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Flight attendant just referred to vapes as “personal vaporizers”, and before I processed what they meant lived in a really cool sci-fi movie for a few seconds.

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I’m trying to think of a beloved author who hasn’t turned out to be a piece of shit, and I think at this point the shining exemplar of humanity is the occult wizard

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Shout out to Michael Chernus, unsung hero of being the main character’s brother (or brother in law) in at least 3 different streaming shows (Patriot, Orange is the New Black, and Severance)

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Rewatching Severance season 1 I can’t help but wonder if the team getting radicalized by a bad self help just because they’ve never really read anything else in their ‘lives’, is supposed to be commentary on Jordan Peterson specifically

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Why are crossover ‘vs’ movies always ostensibly about people on the ‘same’ side. Why do Alien vs Predator, Freddy vs Jason, Godzilla vs Kong, Batman v Superman, when you could do, Batman vs Freddy, Hercule Poirot vs Jigsaw, Sherlock vs Alien?

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Having an existential crisis today because a video from my high school class’s prom is going viral as a ‘nostalgic 2000’s video’

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I know we make jokes about it, but in a 5 year period from 2000-2005, Malcolm in the Middle produced 7 seasons and 151 episodes. In a 5 year period from 2020-2025, Stranger Things produced 1 season and 9 episodes.

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Being an American in 2025 is someone asking you if a Friday meeting is still happening and having to respond “theoretically yes but there’s a very real possibility everyone on the call will be either frozen or on fire by then”

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I’m literally not sure how we convince people about climate change when we tell them it’s going to cause disasters, disaster happens, and they reply “this is because they hired a gay fire chief!”

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I don’t generally care about celebrity interactions but I would love to be a fly on the wall of any family get together where one member is a way more famous actor than another. Like “oh Pauline did you know Timothée was in 2 movies last year? Anyway how’s your little sex show going?”

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Alternate version of Community where the Dean was really into LOTR and introduced himself as ‘Dúnedean’ everywhere

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It’s kind of wild how cursed Malcolm in the Middle was for the careers of its entire cast aside from Bryan Cranston

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Can’t work before meetings because I need to prep for meetings. Can’t work during meetings because I’m sharing my screen. Can’t work after meetings because I’m exhausted from all the meetings.

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