Tim Stevens
@ungajje.bsky.social
Writer (Connecticut College), TV Editor (The Spool), Film Critic (Wealth of Geeks). Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critic. Member of the CCA. Therapist on Hiatus. Formerly of Marvel.com, Comics Nexus, ComicsVerse, CBR, and likely more. he/him
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Pro-tip: the only people who should care about Avatar v. MCU shit are the studios. Feel free to like both, hate both, be indifferent to both or any combination therein.
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Pro-tip: the only people who should care about Avatar v. MCU shit are the studios. Feel free to like both, hate both, be indifferent to both or any combination therein.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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COUNTING CROWS: HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY? is a music doc made with skill, but @UnGajje.bsky.social can only mildly recommend it as it never finds the sweet spot where diehards and newbies can enjoy it in equal measure.
Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? reveals a piece of the band but it’s just a little piece
In the spirit of the band chronicled by director Amy Scott’s new documentary Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? here’s a bit of naked vulnerability. I’m a massive Crows fan. Their first album,…
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December 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
COUNTING CROWS: HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY? is a music doc made with skill, but @UnGajje.bsky.social can only mildly recommend it as it never finds the sweet spot where diehards and newbies can enjoy it in equal measure.
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the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
I don't name my cars but I do name buildings in my life. My childhood home is Stately Stevens Manor (an easy one). My home now is Sanctum Sanctorum. The loft where my home office is is Triskelion. My on-site office is The Kingdom. I am, how do you say, whimsical.
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I don't name my cars but I do name buildings in my life. My childhood home is Stately Stevens Manor (an easy one). My home now is Sanctum Sanctorum. The loft where my home office is is Triskelion. My on-site office is The Kingdom. I am, how do you say, whimsical.
The fun thing about working in person today is that there is just two of us in THE KINDGOM (...thecontentsuite...) and we can't stop interrupting one another with just the dumbest distractions.
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The fun thing about working in person today is that there is just two of us in THE KINDGOM (...thecontentsuite...) and we can't stop interrupting one another with just the dumbest distractions.
Gonna gobble down that pill Wegovy. Provided I can convince my weight loss team (A THING I HAVE BECAUS US HEALTH CARE IS WEIRD!) to let me.
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Gonna gobble down that pill Wegovy. Provided I can convince my weight loss team (A THING I HAVE BECAUS US HEALTH CARE IS WEIRD!) to let me.
Remember that weird month where that guy was going on and on about making Canada part of the US. THAT WAS THIS YEAR!
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Remember that weird month where that guy was going on and on about making Canada part of the US. THAT WAS THIS YEAR!
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MJ's TVJawn Senior Editor, @emilymaesar.bsky.social is here to remind us all: MTV used to be cool.
Check out the latest #TVJawn column, Movie: The Series featuring #AeonFlux
Check out the latest #TVJawn column, Movie: The Series featuring #AeonFlux
Series: The Movie—AEON FLUX — Moviejawn
by Emily Maesar, Senior TV Editor What are now considered to be the first two seasons of Aeon Flux are made up of shorts, without dialogue or continuity.
www.moviejawn.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
MJ's TVJawn Senior Editor, @emilymaesar.bsky.social is here to remind us all: MTV used to be cool.
Check out the latest #TVJawn column, Movie: The Series featuring #AeonFlux
Check out the latest #TVJawn column, Movie: The Series featuring #AeonFlux
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
It's been long--too long!--since I've put up a new commission of personal fave #AztektheUltimateMan in the Gallery. This @fareedart.bsky.social's #Aztek rectifies that.
www.instagram.com/p/DSlFbkYiRP...
www.instagram.com/p/DSlFbkYiRP...
December 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It's been long--too long!--since I've put up a new commission of personal fave #AztektheUltimateMan in the Gallery. This @fareedart.bsky.social's #Aztek rectifies that.
www.instagram.com/p/DSlFbkYiRP...
www.instagram.com/p/DSlFbkYiRP...
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EXTRA! EXTRA! Our Winter 2025 print zine is NOW SHIPPING! In glorious color this issue features: CINEMATIC REPORTERS, JOURNOS, & NEWSPAPERS
Each issue includes a limited merit badge adorned with the official MJ Press Hat logo - while supplies last.
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Each issue includes a limited merit badge adorned with the official MJ Press Hat logo - while supplies last.
Order here: www.moviejawn.com/shop/winter-...
December 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
EXTRA! EXTRA! Our Winter 2025 print zine is NOW SHIPPING! In glorious color this issue features: CINEMATIC REPORTERS, JOURNOS, & NEWSPAPERS
Each issue includes a limited merit badge adorned with the official MJ Press Hat logo - while supplies last.
Order here: www.moviejawn.com/shop/winter-...
Each issue includes a limited merit badge adorned with the official MJ Press Hat logo - while supplies last.
Order here: www.moviejawn.com/shop/winter-...
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Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open
Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access."
GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access."
GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open
There are no official statistics on the dangers of electric handles. So Bloomberg did its own analysis.
www.bloomberg.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open
Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access."
GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access."
GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
It took about 16 hours from arrival for my father-in-law to walk in on me in the bathroom. Thankfully I had finished shaving and was picking up, thus fully dressed.
Also I sent him to a car wash that ripped the front license plate off his car so maybe we're even?
Also I sent him to a car wash that ripped the front license plate off his car so maybe we're even?
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It took about 16 hours from arrival for my father-in-law to walk in on me in the bathroom. Thankfully I had finished shaving and was picking up, thus fully dressed.
Also I sent him to a car wash that ripped the front license plate off his car so maybe we're even?
Also I sent him to a car wash that ripped the front license plate off his car so maybe we're even?
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HEY, WRITERS! If you're looking at the new year as a time to revisit or revitalizes your practice, finish that lingering WIP, or learn a new skill, consider tackling those goals with the support of a coach. edidin.wordpress.com/coaching-for...
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
HEY, WRITERS! If you're looking at the new year as a time to revisit or revitalizes your practice, finish that lingering WIP, or learn a new skill, consider tackling those goals with the support of a coach. edidin.wordpress.com/coaching-for...
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
My hometown was chosen as one of the top 10 best towns to live in CT. Someone posted the link on one of those local pages on FB. The comments are filled with residents arguing the town sucks. Just incredible.
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My hometown was chosen as one of the top 10 best towns to live in CT. Someone posted the link on one of those local pages on FB. The comments are filled with residents arguing the town sucks. Just incredible.
We never had to, you just hate the idea of ever thinking about anyone but yourself as human for 30 seconds that you decided it was a crime for people with different skin tones to ask for equality and equity, you fucking ghoul.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We never had to, you just hate the idea of ever thinking about anyone but yourself as human for 30 seconds that you decided it was a crime for people with different skin tones to ask for equality and equity, you fucking ghoul.
This is a very strong piece that does the seemingly impossible: discussing Sydney Sweeney in an even-handed and headed way.
I tried to unpack the enigma that is Sydney Sweeney, who is telling a different story about herself on screen than she is off (and in various endorsements). Don't yell at me lol. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/m...
Is Sydney Sweeney Today’s Most Perplexing Movie Star?
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is a very strong piece that does the seemingly impossible: discussing Sydney Sweeney in an even-handed and headed way.
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Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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despite the headline, if you actually look at the report, it says that power users "are sending 6x more messages" which (come on, now) is not the same as being more productive.
OpenAI report reveals a 6x productivity gap between AI power users and everyone else
The new OpenAI State of Enterprise Report reveals a 6x productivity gap between AI power users and typical employees, exposing a growing workplace divide.
venturebeat.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
despite the headline, if you actually look at the report, it says that power users "are sending 6x more messages" which (come on, now) is not the same as being more productive.
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Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college.
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college.
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
“variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“
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This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.