loom 🕯

I'm the guy in the center lane doing the speed limit.
"It's not the band I hate, it's their fans"

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

https://t.co/MYDHFAloOZ

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

Hot take: In-person meetings will make a dramatic comeback.

https://t.co/KNJl7KhCu0 via @thr

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

Less than 39% of American servicemembers throughout WWII were volunteers. The other 61% were drafted.

These guys were heroes, but can we stop pretending they went off to war out of the goodness of their hearts and start recognizing that they were just dudes, like you and me, trapped in a terrible time?

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

@UNWatch Words mean what I want them to mean because I'm Francesca Albanese, damnit.

But yet another reason to stop sanitizing Jew-hate. Go back to using the original word "antisemitism" is a sterile stand-in for.

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

If we're going to treat the president this way (good and bad reasons), and if it's impossible for the president to show his fellow Americans a bit of common courtesy by staying away, then the president simply shouldn't be allowed to attend these things.

https://t.co/QuRnoOUl4m

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

A simple guide for simpletons: If you think Platner is awful, then you ought to think Trump is awful because they are awful in similar ways.

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

Knock yourself out dead while you ignore Platner’s Nazi tattoo and way with women

[Legal Phil @Legal_Fil]

Saying “I would jail anyone I dislike who might get in the way of my side acquiring power” isn’t really the best way to convince people that you aren’t a, well, you know.

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home.

Have they considered maybe he just doesn’t want to come back?

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

Trump is a drunk man yelling Stop! at a tornado.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP: “I CALL THE SHOTS. I CALL ALL THE SHOTS. HE [NETANYAHU] DOESN’T CALL THE SHOTS.” - FT INTERVIEW

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

Are subatomic particles moving or are atoms moving or are molecules moving or are you moving or is the earth moving or is the solar system moving or is the galaxy moving or is the local group moving or...

(yes. and no.)

[R E M @REM__BEN]

Fizikçiler buna cevap versin.. Drone sabit mi yoksa saate 60 km hızla hareket mi ediyor?

[Local 4 WDIV Detroit @Local4News]

At least 12 people shot at an Ohio street festival and suspects remain at large, police say https://t.co/elSvZFz7yA

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

Uncapping the US House is argued to be a remedy to two of these problems. If these are only problems in our collective political imagination, uncapping the House isn't a solution.

It does solve a problem: The absurd idea that 1 person can represent roughly 750,000 constituents.

[Kite & Key Media @kiteandkeymedia]

Does the power of small states distort institutions like the Senate and the Electoral College?

Here’s the thing: of the nation’s 10 least-populated states, 5 are red and 5 are blue.

[John McCormack @McCormackJohn]

You’ve probably already seen viral clips of @BenSasse teaching us how to die and live well in recent months, but this is the first long read weaving it all together.

It’s not long for the sake of being long, but because what he’s saying is meaningful.

https://t.co/qTBhOjcnHv

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

She the fuck up, she explained.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Rep. Lauren Boebert Unleashes Profane Tirade at Fox News Reporter: “F— You!” Over Affair Allegations with Rep. Thomas Massie​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

This is when King Haggard had the Red Bull chase the last soldiers into the sea.

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

I like movies. Sometimes I even like films. But sometimes I'd like to see, as the sage said, "California fall into the fucking ocean."

Also, "learn to swim."

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

"Art director making $300 a day is a livable wage."

One thing people don't understand about the film business is it's feast or famine. You may not work for weeks or months so that money has to be saved and amortized.

Then the Obsession crew lives in LA, so they're paying the highest rents, highest gas, highest utilities, highest insurance (to be fair they keep voting for it, but that's another story).

A 14 hour day doesn't account for 1 hour of traffic each way. Indies can routinely go 12-18 hours.

Art department is an especially brutal crew. They are the first to get on set, the last to leave. No set, no shoot.

Then crew heads don't really get paid for their time. Reading the script? Free. Thinking about it? Free. Talking with the director? Free. Creative discussion, creative obsessing, detail planning on weekends. Free free free. The time on the clock is not the time on the job.

$300 a day on an 18 hour day, before gas or any other expenses, is $16 an hour. The off the clock work is double that. So $8 an hour. Now save that to survive the next actor/writer strike.

Is it a livable wage? Sure. In Iowa if you're a mid level stripper. Not a film crew in LA.

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

@grahamformaine Local guy with SS tattoo doesn't like Jews who disagree with him. Also an amateur military historian, who chose to get an SS tattoo, he decided to publicly state that dislike on D-Day.

🎶characters an amateur would never dream up🎶

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

Local guy with SS tattoo doesn't like Jews who disagree with him. Also an amateur military historian, who chose to get an SS tattoo, he decided to publicly state that dislike on D-Day.

🎶characters an amateur would never dream up🎶

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

John Fetterman seems to genuinely think that the reason no one likes him is because he refuses to wear a suit.

It's not the hoodie, dude. It's because you've become a stooge for AIPAC and the Republican party.

[loom 🕯 @jrloom]

First it was one free grope. Then it was the normalizing of toxic masculinity and SS tattoos. No one thought the road to The Handmaid's Tale would be so obvious.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch on Graham Platner: “Everyone’s talking about toxic relationships and tattoos and all of this shit. Talk about Susan Collins voting to dismantle protections that keep women safe and keep women free because that is the real story here. She is a MAGA fascist to her core. I don’t give a fuck if somebody had a toxic relationship. I myself have been a toxic girlfriend, I’ve had toxic boyfriends. That’s part of the human experience”

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

People used to say Donald Trump was a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

Graham Platner is a rich person’s idea of a poor person.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

This is why Gen Z craves movies about liminal spaces: They’ve lost the ability to roam a near-abandoned Walmart at 3:37 AM but the inherited impulse remains.