The Lost Boys (1987) My high school favorite endures on this list both for sentimental reasons AND because this gothed-out 80s exploration of familial ties holds up shockingly well.

Pardon my language but what the fuck is happening here?

Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"

October book #2: A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories by Mariana Enriquez - I enjoyed this collection of Argentinian weird tales a lot, especially My Sad Dead, Black Eyes, and (my favorite) A Local Artist 4/5

The Lost Boys (1987) My high school favorite endures on this list both for sentimental reasons AND because this gothed-out 80s exploration of familial ties holds up shockingly well.

Pardon my language but what the fuck is happening here?

Big Tech is targeting vulnerable communities for its data centers. Residents incur a huge cost in water & power and airborne toxic chemicals. Town officials sign NDAs so citizens have no awareness of the threat.

New from me: data centers and their effects.
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This - so many "lonely" men are essentially saying "I want to remain annoying/loathsome/sexist/racist but everyone loves me & thinks I'm great."

There are dozens of studies showing coffee is good for; this is a weird way to frame your "no more coffee for you, peasants!" take.

Like I cannot quite bring myself to say it was better overall, but I do think it was better when novels weren't pitched as "two other already-successful novels smushed together!" with four made-up genre names appended.

Frankenhooker! On the big screen! With a bunch of people who'd never seen it! Was pretty awesome

There are a bunch of caveats here, but the old school approach to publishing, where publishers were all rich dilettantes who didn't particularly care if a book sold well, had some definite upsides.

#14 The Ring (2002) It's a little dated now, but Gore Verbinski's take on J-horror mainstay Ringu is beautifully shot and probably the scariest movie to ever manage a PG-13 rating.

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

One time a friend of mine had a girlfriend I didn't like - she had one of those names with multiple spellings & I would passive-aggressively spell it a different way every time I referenced her in a text & I think this is that rather than just a typo.

working hard on her laptop, hosting that Zoom meeting

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Marcella Hazan! Everyone makes an all-day tomato sauce & homemade pasta to celebrate!

sry I lost control of my tambourine during your eulogy

Gen X vs. Gen Z! I actually found this to be delightful & my kid made us pause so I could explain EXACTLY how to use a rotary phone.

There's this thing where people talk about the evolution of their personal style & it's like "In 2018 I followed 2018 trends and now I follow 2025 trends." Okay?

My takeaway is it's pretty easy to manipulate the old sexist men in your family by blaming everything on witches.

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Like it feels a little deliberate?