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"All 27 Pixar films, ranked by their likelihood to make you cry"
posted by box at 12:34 PM PST - 132 comments

Clear stylishly monochrome tutorial for SVG How to draw things on webpages instead of sending finished images. [more inside]
posted by clew at 12:03 PM PST - 19 comments

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” - California is notoriously expensive to live in and rife with homlessness, writers are notoriously poorly paid and living precariously (and likely to become more soif the WGA's concerns are not addressed), and thus the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has decided its tactic to settle the current writers strike and finally break the WGA: Wait for the writers to be broke and homeless.
posted by Artw at 11:58 AM PST - 92 comments

Listen to live air traffic control radio mixed with lofi hip hop
posted by thatwhichfalls at 11:07 AM PST - 27 comments

Shockwaves in US Craft Brewing as Sapporo, the current owners of San Francisco's Anchor Brewery, have announced they're closing the industry stalwart. This comes after last month's announcement of reduced distribution footprint and the discontinuation of their traditional holiday beer "Our Special Ale". The brewery was one of America's oldest, founded in 1896 and a staple of San Francisco. [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:04 AM PST - 91 comments

Illustrator, author, and cartoonist Jillian Tamaki writes about Superman III, Calgary, and change for The Walrus. [more inside]
posted by TemporaryTurtle at 10:49 AM PST - 3 comments

A Jew walks into a bar White Nationalist meeting. He emerges with a Broadway hit. Alex Edelman's [Wikipedia] one man show Just For Us [show website] has opened [NYT review, archive] and he's been doing press. Alex in conversation with Josh Grobin at 92Y from late last month [1h14] for a surprisingly vulnerable exchange. He also talked to Tim Miller for The Next Level [56m] in a conversation wide-ranging and insightful. Finally, he appeared on Late Night With Stephen Colbert in 2022 when Just For Us was off-Broadway. [7m31s]
posted by hippybear at 10:30 AM PST - 4 comments

You’re not imagining it: Trader Joe’s employees are all boning each other.
posted by May Kasahara at 8:47 AM PST - 67 comments

Griffin McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Felicia Day host a hilarious panel at the recent AwesomeCon in DC, delving into the delight and challenges of parenting their own new generation of nerds and dorks, and how to foster that love the same weird things that their parents enjoy and create.
posted by FatherDagon at 8:17 AM PST - 9 comments

“The Zone itself undulates between three possible descriptive modes - sublime, spooky and grotesque - and becomes controlled by players after they perish inside. Only one player will make it to The Center, and everyone else who has perished collaboratively decides their final fate, whether that’s evisceration by a plant werewolf or a slow dissolution by way of radiation.” (via) The Zone is a storytelling RPG inspired by horror works like Annihilation, Stalker, Uzumaki, and the SCP Foundation. It’s “play to lose” — players know from the start that their character will almost certainly die, which frees them up to take big risks that fuel exciting stories. [more inside]
posted by ourobouros at 7:49 AM PST - 7 comments

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94 Czech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being and betrayal over half a century in poems, plays, essays and novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94 after a prolonged illness, Anna Mrazova, spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library, has confirmed.
posted by mumimor at 7:43 AM PST - 33 comments

My disability makes my body feel unpredictable A brief and impactful comic about living with a dynamic disability and chronic pain. A lot of disabled people live in the liminal space between health and disability, trying to navigate fluctuating abilities. Making peace with that is hard.
posted by Bottlecap at 7:28 AM PST - 8 comments

"We’re living in scary times. The world hasn’t felt this unsafe and uncertain for at least a generation. Common sense would dictate that in such circumstances, horror stories should fall out of favor. After all, who wants to read about monstrous things when the real world is showing its teeth?" But for those who do, here's Neil McRobert in Esquire: These Are the Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age. May your TBR pile grow ever more Cyclopean.
posted by mittens at 5:39 AM PST - 15 comments

Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard [The Verge] A California judge is allowing Microsoft to close its acquisition of Activision Blizzard after five days of grueling testimony. Microsoft still faces an ongoing antitrust case by the Federal Trade Commission, but Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley has listened to arguments from both the FTC and Microsoft and decided to deny the regulator’s request for a preliminary injunction. [Explainer Video][YouTube] [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 4:59 AM PST - 52 comments

In Thailand, people have been enjoying [1] [2] 'The Real Cheeseburger' (Facebook post), available at Burger King restaurants. This deliciously consists of a standard burger bun, wholesomely engorged with twenty slices of the delicacy 'American Cheese'. Fine dining reviews are surprisingly mixed; on TikTok, a diner described the burger as “greasy” but “pretty delicious”. If not to your palate, then alternative cheeseburgers are available. Bon appétit!
posted by Wordshore at 2:00 AM PST - 50 comments

America’s Most Popular Drug Has a Puzzling Side Effect. We Finally Know Why. -- The reason statins can make your muscles sore or weak was unclear—until scientists accidentally stumbled upon an answer. By Sarah Zhang ~~~ Why So Many of Us Die of Heart Disease -- Evolution doomed us to have vital organs fail. For years, experts failed us, too. by Olga Khazan. It seems that many people are down on statins, and do not want to take them even if they can take them, perhaps the same type of fear as anti-vaccine people.
posted by dancestoblue at 1:04 AM PST - 57 comments

Doing nothing in a world where everybody seemed busy doing something – anything – struck Cioran as the only lifestyle worth pursuing and defending. A life devoid of action and practical ambitions, of distractions and busyness, is a life in which room has been made for meaning: ‘Anything good comes from indolence, from our incapacity of taking action, executing our projects and plans,’ Cioran wrote. And he behaved accordingly. from Learning to be a loser: a philosopher’s case for doing nothing [Psyche]
posted by chavenet at 12:00 AM PST - 16 comments