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Romance writer. Debut novel: A Christmas for Arbor Day. Romance is love, there's no place for hate here. https://thurstonromance.substack.com
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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

Dollhouse, Altered Carbon, and Severance really is the trilogy of playing characters who aren’t themselves and Dichen Lachman kills it in all three.

12 year old didn’t learn that Taylor Swift was booed at the Super Bowl until today, so now we need to explain Philadelphians to her.

Currently favorite game for the 12 and 4 year old to play together is reenacting their favorite Goes Wrong Show scenes.

This morning I got to work at 7, blinked and it was 11. Blinked again and it was 2. Blinked again and it was 2:00:00.01…

Whenever we go to Costco my four year old is enraptured about the potential of getting “a spinny chicken.”

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

Folk Horror Friday and I’m watching The Dreaming (1988) from Australia. Includes an incredible scene of a doctor reviewing a cranial xray which animates eventually shattering its spine. Really creative shot and not something I’ve seen in another film.

Damnit Severance.

Game pitch: It’s a lovely day in Willy Wonka’s factory and you are a horrible golden goose.

Every bit of the first chunk of Willy Wonka is now how it would actually go, cause you would have people asking ChatGPT for the ticket like the guy with the computer.

Spending some time with everyone’s third favorite Star franchise.

Dick Tracy is a Batman 66 sensibility on Batman 89 sets with a Batman TAS soundtrack.

Man with world’s most famous home office says people can’t work from their homes.

Everyone who sucks is big mad about the halftime show so I assume it slapped hard.

Band geek moment but the Puppy Bowl used the Sousa arrangement of the National Anthem, same my marching band did in college. Very fun arrangement.

Look. Here’s the thing.

In this life most people would be lucky to find a friend as good as Canada is to the United States, and the way we are betraying that friendship sickens me.

McCoy’s wardrobe in Star Trek TMP is the most 70s thing that decade produced. Lapels, plunging v necks, the huge pendant when he beams aboard.

The single most common super power is immunity to the implications of one’s own super powers.

“Dick Tracy walked so that the Joel Schumacher Batman movies could run.” And that’s when my wife decided she was done for the night.

I had a joke about how The Brutalist must be about the guy who thinks everything should be concrete and right angles. But…turns out it is about that guy?

I could write this as a Hallmark-style romance. Just not fast enough to still be relevant.

It’s all a conspiracy by Big Hallmark to ensure KC wins it all right after the released a movie about how cheering for the Chiefs is the true meaning of Christmas.

Who has three thumbs and…wait…oh god…

Picking a movie by the poster art tonight.

The entire Bluey universe must always smell faintly of wet dog.

In 1997 it was perfectly realistic for someone Harrison Ford’s age to play POTUS. In 2025 it is perfectly realistic for someone Harrison Ford’s age to play POTUS.

Misgendering a transphobe is still transphobia. Deadnaming a trans woman who supports a political ideology that will hurt her is transphobia. Just because people are terrible doesn’t mean that you get to have a little transphobia as a treat.

I clearly barely got tickets to @dropouttv.bsky.social Live. But still here and excited!

I will continue to strive to make this a safe space. If I falter, please tell me so I can do better. I will never promise to be perfect but I will promise to listen and learn.

1 hour down. 35,063 to go.

New season of Harley Quinn makes me happy. Though with a bittersweet feeling of missing Green Girl Thursdays during that magical month that Harley Quinn, Lower Decks, and She Hulk were all dropping new episodes.

Moving my physical media collection to a Plex server is a lot of slow long steps for my brain to put up with.

It dropped early! It’s up now! NOW NOW NOW!!!

Just one more sleep…

Finally started Skeleton Crew and the last last LAST thing I ever expected to get a callback was the weird holo circus variety acts from the Holiday Special.

DnD character idea: Mitch The Barbarian. He’s a wizard. The Barbarian is his last name as he’s the grandson of Thrawndor The Barbarian, scourge of the five deserts and ruler of the land of the walking plains.

Post your favorite #DoctorWho. Wrong answers only.