Steven Santos
@stevensantos.bsky.social
I probably watch less films on streaming than most, as I decided to surf on LA’s film programming since I moved here. Especially after the pandemic. We all got couped up with the algorithm. We need to detach ourselves from The Matrix.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I probably watch less films on streaming than most, as I decided to surf on LA’s film programming since I moved here. Especially after the pandemic. We all got couped up with the algorithm. We need to detach ourselves from The Matrix.
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The Benoit Blanc trilogy might end up as one of the best artistic statements on the diseased conservatism of our era, and l think Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the trilogy, largely because it’s Rian Johnson trying to understand Christianity and its adherents more than having a definitive take.
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Benoit Blanc trilogy might end up as one of the best artistic statements on the diseased conservatism of our era, and l think Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the trilogy, largely because it’s Rian Johnson trying to understand Christianity and its adherents more than having a definitive take.
Marc Maron cut CK off years ago because he asked him directly if he had done it and CK lied to his face. Why can't others have that basic level of integrity?
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Marc Maron cut CK off years ago because he asked him directly if he had done it and CK lied to his face. Why can't others have that basic level of integrity?
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louis CK was funny, sure, but never SO funny or SO culturally dominant as to reasonably expect to sell out every venue and sell every project for decades. so far, that’s what’s happening for him! what did ‘cancellation’ really do to his career? give him an audience he respects slightly less, maybe?
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
louis CK was funny, sure, but never SO funny or SO culturally dominant as to reasonably expect to sell out every venue and sell every project for decades. so far, that’s what’s happening for him! what did ‘cancellation’ really do to his career? give him an audience he respects slightly less, maybe?
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There are so many funny comedians working right now, man. Profiling Louis CK in 2025 is some intense loser shit. That writer doesn't know ball at all
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
There are so many funny comedians working right now, man. Profiling Louis CK in 2025 is some intense loser shit. That writer doesn't know ball at all
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
This is what a dinner looks like when you never learned about spices.
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is what a dinner looks like when you never learned about spices.
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Here’s one ICE agent hiding super good behind a column in the parking garage to watch the growing smattering of people below.
They’re currently stuck inside their own parking garage.
They’re currently stuck inside their own parking garage.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Here’s one ICE agent hiding super good behind a column in the parking garage to watch the growing smattering of people below.
They’re currently stuck inside their own parking garage.
They’re currently stuck inside their own parking garage.
This is not a party confident about its future.
MAGA Congressman Troy Nehls is the latest House member to announce he’s retiring
Trump ally Troy Nehls joins growing group of lawmakers retiring from Congress
The Texas Republican said he called to give Trump a heads up before making his decision.
www.axios.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is not a party confident about its future.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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tom stoppard: "jesus fuck, that's not what i should be remembered for"
Oscar-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88.
The Czech-born British playwright wrote the screenplay for 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, for which he won an Academy Award jrnl.ie/6889303
The Czech-born British playwright wrote the screenplay for 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, for which he won an Academy Award jrnl.ie/6889303
Oscar-winning UK playwright Tom Stoppard dies aged 88
The Czech-born British playwright wrote the screenplay for 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, for which he won an Academy Award.
jrnl.ie
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
tom stoppard: "jesus fuck, that's not what i should be remembered for"
"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball!"
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball!"
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i want to underline how significant i think it is that people are starting to leak already. that’s a sign, imo, that people are shifting into ass-covering mode, hoping that if they’re among the first to blow the whistle, however belatedly, they’ll get more lenient treatment.
people are starting to leak. republicans who are either planning to retire or don’t have to face voters again until after trump’s term is over are starting to talk about trump in public the way they’ve spent the last decade talking about him in private. 2006 vibes increasing.
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
i want to underline how significant i think it is that people are starting to leak already. that’s a sign, imo, that people are shifting into ass-covering mode, hoping that if they’re among the first to blow the whistle, however belatedly, they’ll get more lenient treatment.
I wanna be a mortality influencer and just go around telling people they should die.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I wanna be a mortality influencer and just go around telling people they should die.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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These videos need to be sent to the administration of every school espousing "AI is the future" to remind them of the kind of future they are helping to solidify where violence, racism, and misogyny are enacted under a veil of fantasy.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
These videos need to be sent to the administration of every school espousing "AI is the future" to remind them of the kind of future they are helping to solidify where violence, racism, and misogyny are enacted under a veil of fantasy.
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Scrooge was woke and waged the original War On Christmas.
Wondering how exactly the MAGAs even attempt to contextualize “A Christmas Carol,” a pretty aggressively anti-MAGA-capitalism tale if there ever was one, for their children
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Scrooge was woke and waged the original War On Christmas.
People should watch this to learn that crooked presidents used to record their racist, unhinged thoughts on tape instead of tweeting them out to the world.
Now playing (08:15 PM PST):
"Secret Honor" (1984)
By Robert Altman
Runtime: 90 min.
"Secret Honor" (1984)
By Robert Altman
Runtime: 90 min.
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
People should watch this to learn that crooked presidents used to record their racist, unhinged thoughts on tape instead of tweeting them out to the world.
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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this dog’s about to kick my ass in a shaw brothers movie
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
this dog’s about to kick my ass in a shaw brothers movie
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Weather it’s Joe Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Donald Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Weather it’s Joe Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Donald Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.
Wasn't that interested in HAMNET, but I've now seen a few pieces so absurdly angered by it that they felt like cries for help.
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Wasn't that interested in HAMNET, but I've now seen a few pieces so absurdly angered by it that they felt like cries for help.
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not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years