This November, vote for the man who called Trump a sick fuck, and not for the sick fuck.

I absolutely LOVE this pic 🖤💙

As a kid, when your parents are poor, you're poor. If they don't have money, that means none of you have money. But if someone's parents are rich, that doesn't necessarily mean the kid is. Sometimes rich peoples' kids aren't rich kids, they're just some rich freak's exotic pets that can talk but aren't allowed to.

It's true that Stede could never have been played by anyone other than Rhys, and Ed couldn't have been played by anyone other than Taika, but even more than that, Ed and Stede wouldn't have worked as well without both of them working together.

Yeah, Rhys is amazing at bringing a likeability and emotional weight to Stede, who could've easily been a very unlikable character. He's an amazingly physical actor and hits those dramatic beats so wonderfully. Taika Waititi, too, is honestly very underrated as an actor; his ability to hit those devastating lows of emotion just as well as the goofy silly moments is wonderful to watch. You can tell watching their performances that these are very important roles to both of them and they care about playing their characters.

But a big part of the reason OFMD works so well is because they're playing these roles together. They've been friends for many years, and they're clearly incredibly comfortable with each other and just enjoy being in each other's company. Rhys and Taika have both said that having each other on set made it so much easier for them to hit the really vulnerable beats, because they were there to support each other.

There's just something really fucking beautiful there. Ed and Stede's relationship is so believable because the guys playing them do love each other, even if it's a different kind of love. They just like being around each other and you can tell in everything from the little gestures to the glances to the way you can see sometimes that they're trying to make each other laugh. And, a lot of the time, this show is so fantastic because, as they've said, they made each other feel safe and supported on set.

No one else could've played Stede, and no one else could've played Ed. But, even more than that, nothing about this show would've been the same if it wasn't the two of them playing these roles with each other.

I like to think that at some point Mary Allamby Bonnet will come across some random pirate-turned-artisanal-bread-maker and they'll hear her name and go:

"Oh, any relation to Stede Bonnet? Yeah, he overthrew my old captain. Made him walk the plank. Then he went on a rampage at the Republic of Pirates and fought the Pirate Queen, but they joined forces with Blackbeard and Bonnet's crew slaughtered, like, half the Royal Navy. Him and Blackbeard got married last month. Great guy, always asks about my mum."

Yeah so Our Flag Means Death is one of the best things I've watched in years. I finished it earlier in the week and I'm still fucking obsessed. It's just. I'm not sure how they manage to make it so vulnerable and meaningful and diverse without labouring it, without it being an afterthought or a "quota" (as the boomers say!) but everyone should be taking lessons in how to do it. It's so refreshing to see and so fucking good. Everything should be like this. The whole cast were brilliant (as I'm sure were the crew but obvs don't get to see all the great work they do!) and it was funny and touching and I'm obsessed with Ed and Stede and will be forever. Thank you goodnight.

Reminder:

Collective attacks on/villificaiton of "the media", etc. are Both Sides-ism, they normalize the worst actors, they encourage cynicism and apathy, they encourage people to turn to extremist and conspiracy theorist outlets, and they lay the ground work for justify authoritarian attacks on the freedom of the press.

Be specific in your criticism of bad reporting. Do not engage in sweeping, generalized, stereotypical attacks, as they are worse than pointless, they are actively damaging.

Pretty sure this is an overcount, but still, he's made a lot of money saying motherf**ker.

i don't know how to explain the grief of watching Jewish creators slowly leave online spaces. I finally had the spoons to go on tiktok and realize that 1/3 of the Jewish creators I followed are gone.

There's something so devastating in watching us leave online spaces, let alone physical spaces. So I just want to say I see you all. I see you.

Old couple evacuating from occupied Kherson region in Ukraine.

Hanna is blind, Volodymyr almost can't walk. Volunteer says that woman was the first to cross the border, they put her on an evacuation cart, but she refused to go further until she felt her husband's hand in her hand. So they waited by the border for Volodymyr. They continued the evacuation only when Volodymyr arrived and Hanna made sure by touch that it's the hand of her husband.

This is a message I got today for sharing Amit Soussana's brave testimony about the sexual assault she went through in Hamas's captivity.

I don't really have anything new to say about the state of the world we live in. Just that I'm very tired and very scared and I don't know how to fix any of this.

american life is too ridiculous to be fiction. every editor on earth would call this cringe and tell you to rewrite it

Wow, a pensioner bought a home for the Ukrainian refugees staying with her, that’s just so nice. I hope this headline is 100% true and I can move on with my day. There’s some good people in this world.

THAT IS NOT BUYING SOMEONE A HOUSE. THAT’S BECOMING THEIR LANDLORD.