2025-12-25 02:10:26
This, if true, is damning. Although I do not know whether this is true, it certainly is consistent with many things we know about trump.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/quick-hit-watched-as-girls-newborn-was-murde…
This, if true, is damning. Although I do not know whether this is true, it certainly is consistent with many things we know about trump.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/quick-hit-watched-as-girls-newborn-was-murde…
"A High-Stakes Lawsuit Against a French Oil Giant Is Closely Watched in Africa"
#Africa #FossilFuels
https://
Watched the video from the Minneapolis murder, it's quite unbelievable the person on the ground would be able to draw a gun, if he even had one...
#minneapolis #minnesota #murder
watched the first Jujutsu Kaisen episodes and didn't care for it. Do you think anything changes in the series that would change my mind?
#anime
"if you watched the address, you’ll have noticed that it was not only the Democrats who remained seated but also the members of the Supreme Court and the representatives of the Pentagon."
An Analysis of Trump’s ‘Gotcha’ Moment Fox News Will Replay Endlessly - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/an-analysis-of-trumps-gotcha-moment-fox-news-will-replay-endlessly/
CBS says Broncos-Bills clash was most-watched Saturday NFL playoff game ever https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6989887/2026/01/21/broncos-bills-most-watched-saturday-nfl-playoff-game/
I just watched Palm Springs because I figured that I should. That was pretty good.
2/25/26☀️ AM: ... The State of the Union is typically a well-watched ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/22526-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p11#a260225p11
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
(Just watched Die Hard.)
Just watched the film "Nuremberg" via Amazon last night.
Although set in the context of the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leaders, it was definitely about Trump and Maga and the cult of "American Exceptionalism".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29567915/
Ukrainian hackers infiltrated Russian drone operator systems for six months, exposing how Russia weaponized Belarusian civilian infrastructure to strike Ukraine and test attack routes into NATO countries
https://euromaid…
NBCU says the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5M viewers on its platforms for US afternoon and primetime periods, up 96% from the 2022 Beijing Olympics (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/milan-cortina-2026-olympics…
Well that was the first series of BBC #Traitors that I've watched, and I thoroughly enjoyed it; far more than I expected after hearing the concept described to me.
Very satisfying final and result too.
from my link log —
The perils of ISBN.
https://rygoldstein.com/posts/perils-of-isbn
saved 2026-02-19 https://dotat.at/:/U7VPF.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Trad.:
🎵 While Shepherds Watched
#Trad
I just watched another fun preso by @….
I have seen others before, mostly architectural stuff.
He's talking about lots of fancy modern #CSS features here, including regrets in the spec, nesting,
Watched Star Trek Enterprise again - all Star Trek are leaving Netflix in Jan.
It really is one of the best Trek series imo. Last season a bit all over the place but it was really good.
Paying forward a good recommendation I got: Over the weekend, I watched a couple more episodes of "The Pitt". Holy crap, this series is good! Even though objectively not a lot is happening (in the sense of an overarching, connected storyline), the storytelling is superb, I am glued to the screen and can't wait to keep watching. If you are up for some realistic (as far as I can tell) emergency room drama and don't mind a few fairly graphic depictions of medical procedures (o…
I was confused who is Josh O'Connor and why this guy popped up on SNL, until I finally watched Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 😀 What a role. What a presence all of these actors have in this flick. The best in the series so far.
Just watched Cloverfield again. It’s still a great movie!
#Movie #Cloverfield
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Just in time for the closing ceremony, my essay on the Olympics, Expositions, and the Salon. I write about sports for the first time. Who would have thought?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-salon-and-the-olympics/

The Salon and the Olympics - varnelis.net In short, we just watched the US put a gun to its head and commit the equivalent of hegemonic suicide on the world stage.
Nikolaos Gyzis, winner’s diploma for the 1896 Athens Olympics. Source: Wikimedia CommonsI rarely watch sports. The last Super Bowl I watched was in New Orleans, not the one in 2025, but the one in 1986, when the Bears won. Lately, bingeing Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive has sparked a renewed interest in Formula 1 ...
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-20 19:18:35
Nothing will be the same ever again.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/p
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glnational_mirror/115933718297509985
> “I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful, but they should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the United States,” Trump said. “…
If you watched cartoons in the 90s or early 2000s, you probably heard some of Guy Moon's amazing theme songs and scores. Guy passed away earlier this month after injuries from a car accident- I wrote this short piece over at Animated TV Blog to commemorate his work: https://animatedtvblo…
Watched 12 Angry Men last night and it had me wondering if it was legal in the USA in 1957 for women to serve on a jury — looks like it was state-by-state starting with Wyoming in 1870 all the way up to Mississippi in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_United_States_jur…
Just watched Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium on SBS on Demand (Australian catch up).
Husband and I cried - there were some very very funny bits. Definitely recommended.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/russell-ho…
Watched the first 5 episodes of PLUR1BUS … very well done. Good acting, especially on all the side cast. But boy do I dislike the main character Carol. She’s such an entitled US american character that act like the world is revolving solely around her… and maybe that’s just authentic 🙈
Watched Solar Opposites, a cartoon started by Justin Roiland like Rick and Morty with lots in common.
Including Roiland being kicked out after a couple of seasons for his crimes, and being replaced. This time not with an impersonator but just a new more british actor. Stayed pretty much in vibe with his style though.
Four aliens stuck on earth, plus the adventures of the tiny people that one of the aliens shrunk to keep in his wall like an ant farm. And the Silver Cops.
Pretty good fun. Watched the five seasons on Netflix in a couple of weeks. Apparently there's another if I search or wait.
Interesting how the machine can just keep churning it out even when the lead folks disappear. That's the ideal I suppose. Create the show then let it run on without you.
#watching #tv #solarOpposites
We watched all of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People in the last couple of weeks. These are the Alec Guinness BBC series, and i have to point to them and say what fantastic TV this is even though it is now dated.
You could not make series in this way anymore - it is so calm and laid back but with so much tension. There are many scenes where now they would insist on a 10 minute car chases for dramatical tension.
It's all on BBC Iplayer - Recommended.
Microgravity reshapes bacteriophage–host coevolution aboard the #InternationalSpaceStation: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003568 -> Microbes continue to evolve under microgravity, and they do so in ways that are not always predictable: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-watched-viruses-attack-bacteria-in-space-things-got-weird-2000709619
I've re-watched the BBC's Fortunes of War, for research purposes. I saw it as a kid but it's much tougher to watch as an adult.
Credit to the writer/screen adaptation, it does show characters criticising colonialism, and from a variety of perspectives.
The polite put-downs the British use when jockeying for position in the class system are also painful to watch.
On a long enough timeline I believe all TV shows can get good. And I watched 2 entire seasons of How I Met Your Father to prove that.
#tv
Having watched the first two episodes, the standouts IMO were Nus Braka (Paul Giamatti), SAM (Kerrice Brooks), Lura Thok (Gina Yashere), and Jett Reno (Tig Notaro).
I fear that, like #StarTrekDiscovery, #StarfleetAcademy’s strong, female captain may be its least interesting character. H…
Second-Year WR Named Cowboys’ Most Underrated Impact Player https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/second-year-wr-named-dallas-cowboys-most-underrated-impact-player
watched the overwhelmingly sweet john candy documentary & learned from looking up a photo in the end credits that he recorded duets with bill monroe for the "planes, trains, & automobiles" soundtrack. https://www.mandolincafe.net/home/…
Divisional round ratings up big, nearly a record https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47699810/nfl-divisional-playoffs-average-392m-viewers-2nd-most-ever
Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a US citizen in his Minnesota home
at gunpoint, without a warrant,
then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions,
according to his family and videos reviewed by the Associated Press.
ChongLy “Scott” Thao told the AP that his daughter-in-law woke him up from a nap Sunday afternoon
and said that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were banging at the door of his res…
@… Just watched your 3d print rad shielding video... Have you looked at indium based low melting point alloys used as solders?
Indium is Z=49 so comparable to tin, and alloys as low as 43C melting point exist.
Bi 32.5% / In 51%/ Sn 16.5% is the eutectic mixture (MP=62C) but there's a fair number of other lead-free options that should melt low enough to be c…
So the wife and I watched her favorite Valentines Day movie last night.
It occurred to me that this movie could have been a “Farscape” or “Lexx” episode or at least it reminds me of those shows.
If that description intrigues you, it might be your bag. 😂
https://letterboxd.com/film/lo/
I watched a documentary from PBS about the history of funk last night (We Want the Funk!). It's worth the 1.5 hours if you're interested. Still, it didn't include any music by - or even mention - Curtis Mayfield. Even if he's maybe better understood as a soul/R&B artist, it seems to me funk wouldn't have been the same without him. So naturally, I've dusted off some old albums and have been listening to him all day.
Curtis Mayfield, "Move On Up" (19…
❝On their way to the cells, they saw other detainees who were screaming and wailing for help, though most were dejectedly staring at the ground, they said. In one instance, they observed a woman who was trying to use a toilet while three male agents watched.
…
“Just hearing the visceral pain of the people in this center was awful,” O’Keefe said. “And then you juxtapose that with the laughter we heard from the actual agents….”❞
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protest-arrests-detention-ice-8993bfd5d54b870521ec5b44fc42cd71
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…
Yesterday I watched a few video of peoples trying Linux and hating it.
Basically it roll down to:
The ongoing White House "renovation" continually reminds me of The Residence. Almost didn't finish it, as much as I liked #cordeliacupp. But I'm so glad I did. The last episode elevated the show from a whodunnit to a commentary on wealth and power. I watched the last episode while the East Wing was being demolished and this week? An absurd portrait display.
Some cool ones this week. Wasn't too psyched on My Old Ass. My wife goes 'you don't like heartwarming stuff.' True. I don't. 😂
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Last4Watched
i'm playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance because i watched some youtube clips and it had fun dialogue options, but what i'm getting instead is a _really_ in-depth history lesson about Czech nobility from a thousand years ago
I'm at Union station in DC and I just watched some rando bike right through the open door into the station on a bike share bike and just keep biking through the station.
Like, okay, not great.
Then 20mins later I watched two cops (uscp, capitol police) on bikes bike through the door into the station and do the same thing. So I guess it's just a thing that people do here?
“I know that thousands of gay men in Russia watched Heated Rivalry—on pirate sites, of course, because they have no legal way to watch the series. The Russian authorities would undoubtedly ban the show as LGBTQ propaganda, but most Western platforms don’t function in Russia either. As a result, Russian queer people have to break every possible law simply to live in the same world as members of their own community.”
Amazon says 2025's Thursday Night Football was the most watched in the program's 20-year history, averaging 15.3M viewers/game, up 16% from the previous season (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
On Jan 25, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 Season 3 Episode 4 “𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿” starring #DavidHasselhoff #PamelaAnderson #NicoleEggert
I've never watched a half-time show before, so I thought Green Day was going to be the opening band and then Bad Bunny would be the headliner.
I guess the Super Bowl doesn't work the way most shows I've been to work. 🤷🏻♀️
Watched a talk from #39c3 (the one about right wing dating sites). Was a good talk but it felt weird how casually 'and then I had an AI whip up some shit' was accepted there. I think that wouldn't have been the same a few years ago. Window has shifted.
So I did postpone watching the last two episodes of season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds almost 5 months ago. Something about the premise of the penultimate episode, "Terrarium", felt too derivative, and I forgot about the series. Now that I watched both episodes, I have to say, "New Life and New Civilizations" hit all the right notes on the theremin. SNW is indulging and beautifully crafted Trek.
Watched that new Superman again. Does the movie ever give an explanation why Lex Luthor is apparently arrested at the end?
You watched the clips
I watched the full video at 2x speed
we are not the same.
Gaon Choi. Wow - moment of the games for me so far. I've watched it back three times. She's hard as tungsten carbide. #olympics
Two of my favorite reacters finally watched my favorite 'magical' motion picture. 😁
▶️ We Finally Watched **NOW YOU SEE ME** - The Perfect Mix
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTTiMKwHk5U&si=BxiH05PWjBOQSy0n
Trump is addicted to military force.
Congress should act to curb him
Even before the raid to seize Nicolšs Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 3,
Trump had already attacked as many countries (seven) in 2025 as he did during his entire first term.
After the Maduro operation, which Trump said he watched “like ... a television show,”
he has threatened to take military action in many more places,
including Iran, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland — and no…
I recently watched a Veritasium video that touches on Braess's Paradox[1]: sometimes removing connections (eg roads) makes things faster.
The part that caught my attention was "even though every driver made a rational decision to minimize their own time, collectively it made the situation worse."
IOW, proof that adding up everyone's self interested actions does NOT lead to the best outcome. aka,
Chiefs-Cowboys on Thanksgiving most-watched regular-season game in NFL history with 57.23M viewers https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-cowboys-thanksgiving-most-watched-regular-season-game-nfl-history
Speaking of embarrassing SF politicians, I haven't watched this yet but Lurie-appointed Supervisor Alan Wong reportedly did not come off well here.
(He said he would talk to everyone about Sunset Dunes park/former Great Highway before making a decision, and agreed to this town hall with Sunset Dunes supporters, but then preempted it by announcing he'd try to turn the park back into a highway)
Social media addiction trial: Mark Zuckerberg says increasing engagement on Instagram is not a company goal and that Meta removes underage users it identifies (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-safety-trial.html…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
John Foster, Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments & Peter Holman:
🎵 While shepherds watched their flocks by night
#JohnFoster #Psalmody #TheParleyofInstruments #PeterHolman
https://open.spotify.com/track/431rxXXmwdfcoejx24NCSt
A federal judge Wednesday heard arguments in the Trump administration’s lawsuit
challenging California’s new law prohibiting ICE agents and other police officers from wearing masks on duty.
The judge asked how ICE agents operated without masks in years past,
and questioned why California peace officers were exempted from the law.
A ruling in closely-watched case could come as soon as this week.
I watched a video this morning while I ate my breakfast where they were talking about emulation on the AYN Odin 3. It looked impressive. I'm not sure that it was impressive enough to justify spending $500 but it looked impressive.
#Android #Emulation
Cowboys-Chiefs Thanksgiving matchup on CBS is the most-watched regular-season NFL game ever https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboyschiefs-thanksgiving-matchup-on-cbs-is-the-mostwatched-regularseason-nfl-game-eve…
I had a delightfully relaxed day with a friend today.
We grazed on smoked cheese, prosciutto, and quince paste. And finished off with some Maltesers for dessert. All accompanied with a couple of bottles of Moscato.
We also watched 3 movies:
The Emu War (Brollie)
Shaun of the Dead (ITV)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (hard drive)
#Suburbia
Nielsen: CBS was 2025's most-watched network in primetime despite a 12% YoY drop in average viewers, followed by NBC, ABC, and Fox, up 10% due to the Super Bowl (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/top-rated-cha…
I never saw Godzilla (1998), but #monsterdon watched it tonight. I *still* haven't seen it (I was putting kids to bed at 9pm), but that movie soundtrack included an incredible song by Rage Against The Machine that called out movies like Godzilla for being part of American imperialism.
🎶 Coca-cola is back in the veins of Saigon. And Rambo, too, he [or we?] got a dope pair 'a …
How awesome are public broadcasting productions? Just watched some episodes of BBC Sherlock Holmes forth the hundreds time. It's still magic. Same goes for several productions of the German public broadcasters like "Der Tatortreiniger" or "Doppelhaushälfte". Those are so much better than anything the private producers usually come up with...
I just watched zootopia 2 and it was a spiritual awakening
Broken wrist meant I had to sit on the sofa for a month doing nothing really. I re-watched all 200 or so episodes of Buffy for the first time this decade.
What an achievement in TV production. Amazing show.
I'll watch it again next decade maybe.
Not that I read a huge amount. Hopefully more next year.
"Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, and actually also his "Not Till We Are Lost"
"Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
Think "Severance" was the most remarkable show I watched this year, with "Trek, Strange New Worlds" also being great again.
"Pantheon" was a pretty great cartoon, haven't seen the second season yet.
I watched this entire video. It told me that I am the most insecure translator in the world 😁
Also ->
"As a french speaker, these words are basically the same in french, and people often find it weird when i know all these "complicated" words but that I only learnt the word "lawnmower" yesterday 😭"
If You Know These 12 Words, Your English Is AMAZING
Never been prouder of my Twin Cities than at this moment. ICE is terrorizing our city and all I've seen between neighbors is kindness. This morning at the coffeeshop I watched a man buy a meal for a stranger. There's a group gathering in front of me to knit hats for donation. I didn't choose to live through this moment in history, but if I have to I couldn't pick a better place. For those of you outside MN, please consider calling your senators, representatives, local governm…
Cowboys vs. Chiefs on Thanksgiving on CBS becomes most-watched NFL regular-season game of all time
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-chiefs-tha…
Right, that's all the #StrangerThings that exist so far watched. What next?
I watched a wonderful movie last night with @….
"Nonnas" - Really is a beautiful story with a great cast.
Check out the Synopsis and if it sounds like your kind of thing, do watch it. I don't think you would be disappointed.
#Movie #Recommendation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonnas
"Watched 10 minutes. I found myself with tears streaming down my face.
Watching Trump take the oath to defend the Constitution, as he tears it down. The dissonance of Melania saying her husband would be a 'unifier,' and all the pomp and circumstance for someone so venal. So beneath the great office - and wishing we could turn the clock back.
Journalist gives brutal review of Melania movie: 'Not a single person in the theater' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/melania-2675108961/
Via: https://bsky.app/profile/scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
“Male to New Yorker / Male to Marisa Tomei”
First #LetterboxdFriday and #LastFourWatched of 2026. These are still all things I watched in 2025- nothing this year yet. The short films here are all on YouTube, are all less than 30 minutes each (most around 20 minutes), and are wild watches.
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…
A federal judge in Texas declared a mistrial on Tuesday after a defense lawyer wore a shirt in court with images from the civil rights movement,
delaying a closely watched case in which the Trump administration is accusing a group of protesters of being terrorists and says they are part of a “North-Texas antifa cell”.
US district judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of Donald Trump, declared a mistrial only hours after jury selection began at the federal courthouse in downtown Fort W…
Chiefs-Cowboys draws 57.2 million viewers, most-watched NFL regular season game ever https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6857347/2025/12/03/chiefs-cowboys-nfl-cbs-thanksgiving-ratings/
I've been beaten by the LAPD. I lived in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I've been tear gassed and watched police push people backwards off of highway overpasses. I knew and understood many Black Panthers.
I am sick and tired of Kumbaya songs. I am sick and tired of turn-the-other-cheek reactions to current affairs in the US.
But I am also a lawyer, sworn to peaceful methods.
What do I do?
What strikes me is the age old method of ostracism - prac…
UCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…
Truth of Cowboys Hitting George Pickens With ‘Multiple’ Punishments Revealed https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/fines-on-george-pickens-revealed/
Yesterday I watched both The Fetus (horror, great and gross, has Victoria Heyes from the Terrifier flicks and also Bill Moseley) and also Magpie (thriller/drama, also dark but not gross, with Daisy Ridley) and I enjoyed both. And the similarity here is that both films deal with the responsibilities involved with having kids. 😂
I just re-watched one of the greatest pieces of film making of all time. It's not just video, it is also spectacular music.
And it was made by the US government!!
The Plow That Broke The Plains - worth every one of its 28 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEwGmjhquU…
I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing.
-- Atul Gawande
@agawande.bsky.social
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:qrq3ybgokbsqivyiap7vnin4/post/3lz6ytzkye22k
Week 15 of the NFL was full of season-ending injuries https://insidethestar.com/week-15-of-the-nfl-was-full-of-season-ending-injuries
Analysis: YouTube surpassed the BBC in monthly audience reach in the UK for the first time in Q4 2025, with 51.9M viewers in December, above the BBC's 50.8M (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/youtube-beating-bbc-barb-viewing-ratings-1236…