Pjörk
@nicoleconlan.bsky.social
writer for @TheDailyShow, personal assistant to my dog
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one thing we need to teach younger generations is that critics need to exist to help unpack the art that was created specifically because a lot of artists don’t always understand what they, themselves, made
December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
one thing we need to teach younger generations is that critics need to exist to help unpack the art that was created specifically because a lot of artists don’t always understand what they, themselves, made
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I saw a tweet about Ben Franklin seeing his first bbl and now I can’t get that notion out of my head
Do you ever think about how George Washington had no idea what a dinosaur was.
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I saw a tweet about Ben Franklin seeing his first bbl and now I can’t get that notion out of my head
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Hey could someone please start a film or tv studio that just wants to make film or tv and earn a ton of money doing it? You can stay privately held and not lose money or creative control to shareholders, which is how this is supposed to and the only way this has ever sustainably worked.
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Hey could someone please start a film or tv studio that just wants to make film or tv and earn a ton of money doing it? You can stay privately held and not lose money or creative control to shareholders, which is how this is supposed to and the only way this has ever sustainably worked.
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More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
December 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
Love to float above the subway tracks
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Love to float above the subway tracks
Haven't been able to read this whole article yet because I keep coming back to this header image and finding new things
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Haven't been able to read this whole article yet because I keep coming back to this header image and finding new things
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Former oil and gas workers in Texas are now fighting to make the industry plug old empty wells, which are exhaling methane and vomiting toxic water (from fracking miles away) all over the state.
Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Former oil and gas workers in Texas are now fighting to make the industry plug old empty wells, which are exhaling methane and vomiting toxic water (from fracking miles away) all over the state.
Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com
www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Definitely getting regular IV infusions of something. I'm gonna guess it's the mutagen from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Definitely getting regular IV infusions of something. I'm gonna guess it's the mutagen from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Left my phone at a friend's and can't get it back until Tuesday, and at first I was like "Wow, a respite from my phone!" until I realized everything has 2 factor authentication
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Left my phone at a friend's and can't get it back until Tuesday, and at first I was like "Wow, a respite from my phone!" until I realized everything has 2 factor authentication
William Mulholland
That’s a new dinner party conversation: Who is someone that you hate so much that, if given the time, energy, and crew, you’d produce a 4-part documentary on them?
December 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
William Mulholland
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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Obama and his justice department are certified bitches for this
Trump voters are fully responsible for their choices but coming from Texas, I saw a lot of people jokerfied by the failure to punish anyone for the 2007 crash, that shit fostered a lot of cynicism for Trump to take advantage of
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Obama and his justice department are certified bitches for this
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Zaslav never championed a single creative project, not a movie, not a tv show, not even something as shallow as a brand, during his time at WB. He added his shitty shows to HBO's streaming platform, killed a few movies, then the studio, and then promptly left.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Zaslav never championed a single creative project, not a movie, not a tv show, not even something as shallow as a brand, during his time at WB. He added his shitty shows to HBO's streaming platform, killed a few movies, then the studio, and then promptly left.
An awesome and cool thing that's happening now is that when I turn on my TV Roku starts autoplaying ads at 8 million decibels and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off :)
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An awesome and cool thing that's happening now is that when I turn on my TV Roku starts autoplaying ads at 8 million decibels and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off :)
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If you show regularly to transportation planning or zoning meetings you will have outsized influence but it will also turn you into Col Kurtz
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you show regularly to transportation planning or zoning meetings you will have outsized influence but it will also turn you into Col Kurtz
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
I worked on Vision Zero at LADOT, and it's hard to convey the level of vitriol from drivers towards ANYTHING with the Vision Zero name attached to it. Just unbelievable hostility even before you started to kind of maybe try to start constructing a street improvement.
What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I worked on Vision Zero at LADOT, and it's hard to convey the level of vitriol from drivers towards ANYTHING with the Vision Zero name attached to it. Just unbelievable hostility even before you started to kind of maybe try to start constructing a street improvement.
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I bought a new mattress and the company wants me to watch an eight minute "mattress success video." I think I'm just gonna risk this one
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I bought a new mattress and the company wants me to watch an eight minute "mattress success video." I think I'm just gonna risk this one
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[don_draper_with_easel.jpg] the vibes are comforting. the vibes are great. and if the viewer misses something, it won't matter .... becuase nothing that happens in this episode will ever be mentioned again
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
[don_draper_with_easel.jpg] the vibes are comforting. the vibes are great. and if the viewer misses something, it won't matter .... becuase nothing that happens in this episode will ever be mentioned again
One bone I have to pick with TV shows these days is that there are so few TRUE monster-of-the-week shows. Even ones that are ostensibly MOTW end up being more about the series or season arc.
I simply don't care about people's personal lives! Show me a fucked up little guy and how to defeat him!!
I simply don't care about people's personal lives! Show me a fucked up little guy and how to defeat him!!
I bet this'd be pretty solid it followed the Smallville formula where pretty teens have a monster-of-the-week adventure, then emotional resolution over a pop song montage, then it goes like eight years longer than it should. Also there's a sex cultist on the cast, and it's not the one you'd guess
🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+
🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One bone I have to pick with TV shows these days is that there are so few TRUE monster-of-the-week shows. Even ones that are ostensibly MOTW end up being more about the series or season arc.
I simply don't care about people's personal lives! Show me a fucked up little guy and how to defeat him!!
I simply don't care about people's personal lives! Show me a fucked up little guy and how to defeat him!!
Nothing but respect for MY grinch
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nothing but respect for MY grinch