Figments

Ginni represents the Republican sense of white entitlement and legal double standards.

Clarence Thomas knows his wife tried to overturn the election and gets to play dumb.

That is the Federalist playbook, writ large.

Callum Keith Rennie as Captain Rayner STAR TREK: DISCOVERY — "Red Directive" (5.01)

"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

Sleepy baby

70′s & 80′s Local Television “Technical Difficulties” Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WPTF-TV, Durham/Raleigh/Fayetteville, North Carolina, 80′s 2. WTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 3. WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1986 4. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 70′s 5. WZTV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, 1977 6. WXNE-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986 7. KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977 8. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1983 9. WNEV-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984 10. KMGH-TV, Denver, Colorado, 1981

I wasn't watching much TV in Pittsburgh in '86 (I was in college) but that still cracks me up.

Actually, people are good by nature and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.

When you sneeze in public, strangers will say “bless you”, even though they don’t know you.

When you ask for directions on the street someone will show you the way, even though they have nothing to gain from it.

People squeeze their legs against the chair so you don’t have to hop over them on your way to your seat in the theatre, and make funny faces to make babies laugh, and purposefully step on leaves to hear them scrunch, and hold the door open for someone leaving behind them, and ask what floor you’re heading to when you enter the elevator, and send others photos of things that reminded them of them, and recommend each other songs, and ask if anyone else wants a coffee because they’re getting one, and make videos teaching how to sew a button, and wish on shooting stars, and share fun facts, and listen to others rant about things they don’t even understand, and let you cross the street first, and give a bit of their food to others, and laugh at jokes they don’t find funny to make you feel good, and listen to kids talk for hours about nonsense, and let you know your keys fell from your pocket, and they may be strangers, but with every little gesture they’re saying “I love you, I love you, I love you”.

God, I needed to read this today. Humanity is overwhelmingly full of hope and kindness and it’s very easy to forget that these days.

Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe

Put them all in prison for the rest of their lives, please.

(via wilwheaton)

Soo beng Lim, painter born in Malaysia. *soulmates

Sometimes fiction doesn’t have a moral to the story. Sometimes fiction points at something and goes “Ever thought about THAT???” And you look at what it’s pointing at for a bit.

So I guess whoever runs this account decided sounding like a mafia boss was a good idea.

So what they're saying is I lose nothing by protesting, since I already have no job and probably won't be able to find one anyway.

Listen it wasn’t the most baffling thing in the world when Netflix canceled Lockwood and co even tho it performed well bc let’s be real, Netflix will basically cancel a show if it breathes wrong…

But do you think that Netflix actually canceled Lockwood and co bc around the time it aired they’d aquired the rights to dead boy detectives (a show with a competingly similar premise to Lockwood and co that has Neil Gaiman attached who’s had two very successful shows in the last few years with Netflix and Amazon prime)… because I do.

Like to me that’s the missing puzzle piece of what happened there

I'm seeing and being sent a lot of things like this. So, to remind you, this was what Sandman did in 2022 per Wikipedia:

The Sandman ranked at number one globally on Netflix's Top 10 titles three days after its release with 69.5 million hours viewed.[90] In its first full week of streaming, The Sandman remained the most-watched show on Netflix's weekly Top 10 list of the most-watched TV shows, with 127.5 million hours viewed between August 8–14.[91] The Sandman remained the most-watched English-language TV show on Netflix for the third time in a row between August 15–21.[92] The show had been watched over 393.14 million hours in total by September 18.[93]

The show was the eighth most-watched English language show on Netflix of 2022 spending 7 weeks in the global top 10s.[94]

and we were touch and go on whether Netflix would renew Sandman for three months, because the figure that Netflix cared about was not how much we were being watched but our "completion rate" -- how many people were binge-watching it to the end. And that started out out low, something like 30%, because, it turned out, people liked watching an episode of Sandman and then going away and thinking about it, and then coming back in a week and watching another. So by the end of the 12 weeks we were lucky, enough people had watched all 11 episodes that we were safe, our completion rate (which normally remains consistent and unchanging) had risen to about 70%, and Netflix let us know that we were renewed.

Lockwood and Co, per Wikipedia did:

Lockwood & Co. featured in the Netflix global top 10s for 3 weeks between 22 January and 12 February, picking up 79.91 million hours.[29] It reached Netflix's Global Top #1 Show spot in its second week on the platform,[30] holding the number one spot in 18 countries.[31]

Over the first half of 2023, the show ranked fourth among Netflix UK's original shows, with 113 million hours viewed,[32] and 80th globally among all Netflix titles.[33]

Which is great. But if Sandman wasn't a slam-dunk, that's not a slam-dunk either. It all comes back to people at Netflix looking at all of their algorithms, and deciding whether or not they are going to renew a show. And in this case Lockwood and Co didn't get renewed.

Dead Boy Detectives is a very different kind of show to Lockwood and Co, even if there are superficial similarities. Netflix buying Dead Boy Detectives from HBO Max (who didn't have space on their schedule to release it until late 2025 or early 2026) in February 2022 didn't change Netflix's plans with Lockwood and Co. Netflix doesn't think like that. They release shows, then they look at their algorithms, and completion rate and completion speed is the most important for them (I have no idea why this is). Then they make more or they don't.

Nobody knows whether Netflix will renew Dead Boy Detectives, especially not Netflix. It will come out. It will find an audience or it won't, it will top the charts or it won't, and no matter how well it seems to have done we'll all still be on tenterhooks for two or three months until the final numbers are in, and the mysterious forces at Netflix make their decisions.

If you love it, tell your friends. Encourage them to watch all eight episodes, or to have their computers finish watching all eight episodes even if they don't have the time. That's always going to be the most important number, for Netflix, all over the world: completion rates and binging.

guyyys, who sent my random speculating shit post to Neil Gaiman :/ not cool y'all

Tumblr did, in its "For You" section, because, at a guess, I've been posting Dead Boy Detectives stuff, and it algorithmed it into my feed. This is how Tumblr works, I'm afraid. (And while I mostly mean to be on the Following rather than the For You stream, sometimes it slips.)

this comparison 😭