The Daily Dad — Jan 17, 2025
- Kyle MacLachlan Pens Tribute to David Lynch: ‘I Owe My Career to Him’
❝ Kyle MacLachlan has paid tribute to David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker known for ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Twin Peaks,’ who died at the age of 78.
💬 Lynch’s decades-long collaboration with MacLachlan is up there with Scorsese/Deniro or Wes Anderson/Bill Murray… a pairing where very different people wielding very different artistic tools kept coming together to create magic. - AITA For Ruining Boyfriend With Autism’s Safe Food
❝ “He says I don’t understand his brain; I say he doesn’t understand our budget.”
💬 No sweetie, I’m the asshole. ‘Cause I’m sorry, but I don’t care about his problems: no one should be paying $47 for soup on a regular basis. Let’s just pretend it’s 1985 and tell the little fucker to pull up his big-boy pants and get over it. - The crypto scam behind those weird text messages
❝ In the last couple of years, I’m sure you’ve received texts that start with something like, “Hi! It’s [random name], remember me? How are you?” and try to engage you…
💬 To quote the poet Bobby Hill: “I don’t know you! Let go of my purse!” - Man Caught With Pants Down at Bikini Beans Coffee, Fatally Shoots Himself
❝ A despondent man fatally shot himself after he was caught with his pants down — literally — driving his car at a coffee shop in Arizona, authorities said.
💬 He did a shitty, potentially scary thing. They should have gotten his tags, called the cops, and turned over the evidence they collected. Done and dusted. Instead, some dumb fuck decided to go mob-rule on his ass, now he’s dead, and everyone involved is either going to (a) feel shitty for the rest of their lives or (b) grow increasingly defensive and toxic as the reality of it all eats away at their souls. - Gamers Suspect Elon Musk Is a Charlatan
❝ The X owner is facing accusations of “fraudmaxing” — faking his way to elite status in video games.
💬 It’s not an “accusation”. It’s an obvious fact lacking any reasonable, alternative explanation. Also, c’mon… dude is snorting way too many drugs to focus on a single game long enough to be good at it. - FDA Just Banned Red Dye No. 3 Due to Cancer Risk—See Which Drinks and Snacks Will Be Affected
❝ The ban on Red Dye No. 3 in food goes into effect in January 2027.
- David Lynch’s Box Office History: Biggest Flops Were His Biggest Hits
❝ David Lynch at the box office: The filmmaker’s ‘The Elephant Man’ and ‘Dune’ were his biggest hits before he became a legend. - Comics distributor Diamond is filing for bankruptcy
❝ The world’s biggest English language comics distributor is selling off assets and scaling its business back in order to survive. - Multiple women add detail to Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations
❝ Multiple women add detail to Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations
💬 The truth is always complicated and I’m gonna keep watching The Sandman whatever the case, but I must admit… dude’s ego is so huge that he stupidly assumed he could go from ‘hi, I’m Neil’ to ‘let’s play rape and I’m your master now’ in a half-hour. I mean… wow. Forget Alan Moore— Gaiman clearly thinks he’s a fucking magician. With that said, it also kinda sounds like Amanda had been procuring for him for quite some time, and his spiteful, entitled ass couldn’t imagine that she might send some poor girl over who hadn’t been groomed for the bath-and-bondage treatment. - Tyler Perry Calls Out Insurance Companies For Canceling Policies Before L.A. Fires
❝ Tyler Perry’s sick to his stomach watching coverage of the L.A. fires … and, he finds insurance companies ability to cancel policies on a whim “appalling.” - Florida’s Manatees Are Relative Newcomers, According to Historical Research
❝ These beloved sea cows were barely recorded in the area before the seas warmed in the late 1700s. Now their habitats are at risk. - Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress —
❝ Automattic has always been deeply committed to the success of WordPress, dedicating significant resources and talent to its development for almost two decades. However, we’ve observed an imbalance …
💬 Matt Mullenweg destroyed the marketplace for paid blogging tools by incessantly pitching a free and open WordPress to the world, only to turn around and use his monopoly position to enrich himself and punish anyone who pisses him off. (It goes without saying that Tumblr has become worse since he acquired it.) He’s a typical startup asshole, in other words. - Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?
❝ As Los Angeles burns, President-elect Donald Trump is yelling at a fish.
💬 Why ask such a stupid question? He doesn’t know anything about the fish, and doesn’t care about it in any way. But he knows that someone he likes hates it, and someone he hates wants to protect it, so… fuck that fish! - Former MoviePass CEO, who gave moviegoers the best summer ever, pleads guilty to fraud
❝ Former MoviePass CEO, who gave moviegoers the best summer ever, pleads guilty to fraud
- New videos show off larger Nintendo Switch 2, snap-on Joy-Cons
❝ Accessory maker says 3D mock-up at CES is sourced from an actual console.
💬 I’m waiting to find out three things before I get excited: (1) how do the joycons feel?, (2) how big is that screen?, and (3) how much faster is it? - Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I’m not sure whether using it should be considered cheating…
❝ Will it be the “ultimate gaming copilot” like Razer says, or more like an annoying sibling shouting over your shoulder? - Billy Crystal Lost His Home of 46 Years to Pacific Palisades Fire
❝ Billy Crystal and his wife Janice have lost their home of over four decades to the Pacific Palisades fire.
💬 Two similar stories… - Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag’s LA Home Burns Down
❝ Spencer watched his and Heidi Montag’s house burn down via their security cameras.
💬 …but my empathy has to work a little harder on this one. - Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 86
❝ Peter Yarrow — the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary — died on Tuesday in New York at the age of 86, his publicist said. Yarrow had bladder cancer for the past four years. - The Curious Gems of the River Thames
❝ London’s riverbanks are filled with treasures, including scores of deep red garnets with mysterious origins. - If you’re constantly losing cables, this could be your ideal charger
❝ At CES, Baseus has debuted a new wall charger and car charger that both feature 30-inch-long retractable USB-C cables.
David Lynch — 1946-2025
After he announced his emphysema diagnosis, I didn’t hold out much hope for further movie/TV output from Lynch… I was content to consider him retired. But I hoped we’d have at least a few more years with him.
David Lynch was the most influential person I never met. He changed how I viewed the world and art and the creative process. His work is built into the foundations of mine, and my life is a little more empty in his absence.
My first Lynch film was only partially a Lynch film: The Elephant Man is well-suited to his style and interests, but not nearly as opaque as his more personal work.
I’ve watched Lynch’s Dune at least ten times over the decades, and prefer it to anything Villeneuve’s meandering version has to offer. There was nothing relatable and plenty horrifying about Lynch’s vision of Herbert’s universe, which is exactly the antidote to Star Wars that I needed back in 1984.
I didn’t see much more of Lynch’s stuff until years later, when Twin Peaks debuted on ABC. Like everyone else, I‘d read the reviews and heard the hype, so I jumped in… and was hypnotized. This was television unlike anything I’d ever seen, and the first time I was able to clearly see cinema —even when squeezed into a 4:3 NTSC frame— as an art form. It blew me away with everything it said, and everything it very carefully chose to not say.
With a single act of creative genius —that pilot is amazing— my eyes were opened. I turned into one of those annoying cinephile kids who watched everything he could find on VHS at the local video store, and plowed through copies of American Cinematographer like they were sustenance for a starving soul. Almost as importantly, for a brief time, Twin Peaks gave me a passion to share with my otherwise utterly disconnected dad… we watched every episode of that first season together, and he listened to Angelo Badalementi’s soundtrack almost as much as I did. We’d never shared anything like that before, and never would again.
From TP, I went back to watch DL’s other work.
One of only two Lynchian efforts that I could respect but never love, Eraserhead was something I needed to see but didn’t enjoy. Perhaps I’d feel differently, seeing it now as a middle-aged adult, but as a teen, it was too weird for me to fully embrace.
If Twin Peaks was a match that ignited something inside me, then Blue Velvet was a gallon of gasoline thrown on the fire. It wasn’t as fun or funny as TP, but it was deeper, darker, and more focused. And that opening sequence is still one of the best openings of any film, ever.
Just as the buzz around Twin Peaks was fading —the general viewing public only cared about Laura Palmer’s death— Lynch got everyone excited again with his Palm d’Or and an unhinged Nicholas Cage in 1990’s Wild At Heart. I’ve seen it a half-dozen times over the years —most recently, a year ago— and while it doesn’t stand beside the best of his work, it was a visual and stylistic marvel.
The only one of Lynch’s films that I saw in a theater, FWWM was a movie I couldn’t fully appreciate at the time. Heavy on Laura Palmer and light on Dale Cooper, it wasn’t exactly what I’d hoped to see… but as I’ve rewatched it —and its radically re-edited companion, The Missing Pieces— I’ve fallen in love with it and everything it brings to the tragedy and insanity of Laura’s short life.
Easily the creepiest thing David ever made, and difficult to follow even for the initiated, Lost Highway was still distinctive and fascinating. And say what you will about Robert Blake… he spooked the fuck out of everyone in the audience long before he (allegedly) killed his wife in real life.
Originally intended to be his network TV follow-up to Twin Peaks, Lynch reworked Mulholland Dr. into a cinematic fever dream that would go on to be generally regarded as his best work, and an opportunity for a young Naomi Watts to establish herself as one of the great talents of her generation.
There’s one of his films I’ve never watched at all, and this is it. Which is funny when I think about it, since it’s easily the most “normal” thing he ever made.
I’ll be tracking down a copy of The Straight Story and watching it this weekend.
2006’s Inland Empire was his last feature film, and to be honest, I’ve started it twice and never finished it. Part of that is because it was an early experiment with shooting on digital video, and Lynch never fully found a look that was as satisfying as that of his celluloid-shot work.
And part of it is because I knew on some level that there would never be another feature film from David, and I wanted to preserve it in my mind, more perfect than his limited tools at the time could make it.
I’ll finish it now. It deserves viewing.
Quite simply: 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return —otherwise knows as Season 3– is the best single season of television ever made. There’s not even any competition; neither The Wire nor Deadwood can hold a flickering candle to it. It’s funny, scary, bewildering, exciting, sentimental, bold, and completely uncompromising. I saw things I had never seen before, and will probably never see again.
I will miss you, Mr. Lynch. You were a hero to me.
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The Daily Dad — Jan 7, 2025
- Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster Pictured Holding Hands
❝ Hugh and Deborra split after 27 years of marriage in September 2023, while Sutton filed for divorce from her husband of 10 years in October 2024.
💬 I didn’t realize the “Sutton Foster” that Hugh’s banging was Sutton Foster from Bunheads. I’m surprised he didn’t take a shot at Lauren Graham first… - “Maneater” screwworm that lays eggs in nostrils and open wounds headed towards Texas
❝ Texas warned of “maneater” screwworm that lays eggs in nostrils, eyes, mouth and open wounds
💬 Well, that’s not horrifying at all. - Llawgnychu! It’s ok to Cymru to Welsh fairy porn
❝ Crudely appropriated for the crudest purposes by American authors, the Welshness is wildly popular on Tik Tok. - AI-generated Super Smash Bros. player is an unhinged trash talker
❝ If you’ve been around these parts for a minute, you likely know that one of my guilty pleasures is weird, unhinged Twitter accounts. The sheer level of commitment to the… - Texas Cheerleader Accused of Poisoning Rival’s Show Goat in Shocking FFA Scandal
❝ A disturbing case of competition gone wrong has emerged from Cedar Park, Texas, where a high school cheerleader has been charged with felony animal cruelty…
💬 If you know anything about hyper-competitive southern girls and FFA shit, then there’s nothing shocking about it. - Exclusive: New Orleans’ planned new Bourbon Street barriers only crash-rated to 10 mph
❝ Documents reviewed by Reuters make clear that the system, which is expected to be in place by Super Bowl Sunday, will offer little protection against vehicle attacks at any significant speed. - Mary Steenburgen Reveals Goofy Phrase Ted Danson Said to Her After Sex
❝ Mary Steenburgen says she thought her husband Ted Danson was a cool guy before they met … until he punctuated their first roll in the hay with a lame phrase. - Aubrey Plaza’s Director Husband Jeff Baena Dead at 47
❝ Filmmaker Jeff Baena — best known for directing films like “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours,” and the husband of Aubrey Plaza, has died … TMZ has learned.
💬 When faced with a seemingly inexplicable suicide, we often ask, “Why would someone do that?” But when headlines about your death begin with your wife’s name, I think we have our first clue. - Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
❝ Supreme Court ruling could end Pornhub blackout across US South. - Massive mod is the best new Command & Conquer game in over a decade
❝ Combined Arms is a massive fan project built on the source code of the original Command & Conquer with enough content to be a new game in its own right. - After China, Apple also removing VPN apps from App Store in India
❝ The Chinese government forced Apple to remove VPN apps from the App Store there way back in 2017, and the… - Look out for hyper-personalized phishing attacks, powered by AI
❝ Phishing attacks are about to get a whole lot more convincing. A new report warns that scammers are now using…
- The world’s best pizza place is selling cans of water for $30
❝ It is a truth universally acknowledged that the best pizza in the world comes from New Haven, Connecticut. Yet even among that upper echelon of melty goodness, there is one… - easyJet Flight Makes Emergency Landing Amid Unruly Passenger
❝ EasyJet flight diverts after teen disrupts onboard safety, sparking safety concerns and criticism over crisis handling. - The huge stakes in a new Supreme Court case about pornography
❝ Texas asks the justices to abandon longstanding First Amendment protections for sexual speech. - Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
❝ A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past … - The Creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Wants to Build a True Metaverse
❝ In 2017, Brendan Greene (aka “PlayerUnknown”) pioneered the Battle Royale genre of video games with PUBG. Now, he wants to pioneer something new. He wants to make a metaverse. - Jocelyn Wildenstein, ‘Catwoman’ socialite known for her extreme cosmetic surgery, dies
❝ Jocelyn Wildenstein, the Swiss-born socialite famous for surgery-enhanced feline features, has died. Her partner Lloyd Klein told AFP she died of a pulmonary embolism in Paris.
The Daily Dad — Dec 31, 2024
- Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
2024 was a mostly shitty year, following three shitty years. Hopefully 2025 is better for everyone, everywhere. - Russian propaganda video shows Santa Claus blown out of the sky by Russian missiles
❝ A Russian propaganda video shows Santa Claus blown to bits by the Russian military as he flies over Russia bearing gifts — NATO weapons. From Kevin Rothrock: The Russian military… - The US Treasury Department was hacked
❝ The US Treasury Department suffered a “major” security incident attributed to attackers in China, who remotely accessed workstations and unclassified documents. - Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt reach divorce settlement, ending 8-year dispute
❝ Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement after eight years, according to her lawyer, bringing an end to one of Hollywood’s most contentious and closely followed celebrity splits. - The Largest Walmart in America
❝ The largest Walmart Supercenter in the United States, referred to affectionately as “Mallmart,” has served the residents of Albany, New York, since 1994.
- Obituary: Team17 co-founder Martyn Brown has passed away
❝ ‘Know that he went out on his own terms listening to his favourite music and surrounded by loved ones.’ - Jimmy Carter’s legacy: A disappointing presidency, a remarkable post-presidency, explained
❝ Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived president in US history, dies at 100. - Freeway crash causes concern over Amazon packages and property damage, not people (video)
❝ Several lanes of traffic are closed, a light pole is bent, a truck is leaking fluids, and many Amazon packages will be late, but there is no mention of the people in a four-car pileup. - Elon Musk punishes Laura Loomer and other MAGA loyalists who criticize him: “MAGA wars have begun”
❝ Elon Musk suspends Laura Loomer on X, punishes other MAGA loyalists who criticize him: “MAGA wars have begun” - The quest to save the world’s largest CRT TV from destruction
❝ 440-pound 1980s behemoth rescued from an Osaka restaurant days before demolition.
- Olivia Hussey Dead at 73: Remembering One of the Best Final Girls
❝ Olivia Hussey Dead at 73: Remembering one of the best final girls, an actress who was equally at home in slashers as she was in classic romances. - My favorite holiday tradition is the Weekend Update Christmas Joke Swap
❝ The best part of Saturday Night Live is always Weekend Update – and the best part of Weekend Update is always the Christmas Joke Swap. - Sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel, 78, dies of cancer – ESPN
❝ Greg Gumbel, a veteran of CBS Sports who spent more than 50 years in sports broadcasting, has died of cancer at the age of 78. - Christopher Nolan to adapt The Odyssey with appropriately epic cast
❝ Christopher Nolan’s next epic will be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey with a stacked cast that includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya and Charlize Theron - R.I.P. Linda Lavin, Broadway star and TV’s Alice
❝ R.I.P. Linda Lavin, Broadway star and TV’s Alice
- Kotaku’s 15 Best Games Of 2024, Ranked
❝ This year has been one of the most challenging for the video game industry, so what games managed to stand out among all that turmoil? - Jason Mamoa cast as Lobo
❝ After making a splash as the King of Atlantis, actor Jason Momoa is set to play alien bounty hunter Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. - Honey’s deal-hunting browser extension is accused of ripping off customers and YouTubers
❝ YouTuber MegaLag says in a new video that deal-hunting browser extension Honey obscures the best coupons and replaces affiliate links with its own at checkout.
The Daily Dad — Dec 23, 2024
- ‘Nosferatu’: Lily-Rose Depp on Demonic Sexual Awakening as Her ‘Bible’
❝ ‘Nosferatu’ star Lily-Rose Depp read a book on demonic sexual awakening to prepare for the role in the Robert Eggers feature.
💬 I still haven’t watched The Idol, but I’ll get around to it eventually… same thing with Nosferatu. - Jesse Eisenberg’s still stinging from playing Lex Luthor
💬 I barely remember he was in the DC movies… does that make it better or worse, Jesse? - Bay Area squirrels are killing and decapitating en masse, study finds
❝ It was their post-kill behavior that proved especially unsettling, defying what may be expected of a species just beginning to hunt. - Astonishing 32TB hard drive uses lasers to heat and cool platters
❝ Seagate is finally offering its largest-ever hard drive – a staggering 32TB in a single drive, made possible by laser tech - Your AirTag’s Battery Will Last for Up to 10 Years With Elevation Lab’s New TimeCapsule Enclosure
❝ Elevation Lab today announced the launch of TimeCapsule, an innovative and simple solution for increasing the battery life of Apple’s AirTag.
💬 This is a brilliant idea: you open up an AirTag and screw the “active” bit into this large-ish plastic case that also contains two big ol’ AA batteries, then snap the package shut… at that point, you drop it into your purse or luggage and don’t have to think about it again for a decade.
- ’90 Day Fiancé’ Star David Murphey Dead at 66
❝ ’90 Day Fiancé’ star David Murphey — who was best known for appearing on “90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days” — has died … this according to his family. - Britain’s online safety rules come into force, and sites are already shutting down.
❝ Britain’s online safety act, forced through parliament despite all the usual warnings about hasty “think of the children” legislation, is now in force. The overwhelming compliance requirements are already causing… - The creator of Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus is making a giant robot-piloting game
❝ Fumito Ueda is the august visionary behind ICO (small boy rescues small girl from evil castle), Shadow Of The Colossus … - Hayley Atwell’s coming back for Avengers: Doomsday, too
❝ Hayley Atwell’s coming back for Avengers: Doomsday, too - Campaign board games are shrinking, and it’s for the better
❝ The reality is we all have less time and space - How ‘Babygirl,’ ‘The Substance’ Fight Society’s Standards for Women
❝ Female protagonists in films like ‘Babygirl,’ ‘The Substance’ and ‘The Room Next Door’ fight back against modern society’s standards for women - 17 Reality Show Secrets Directly From Stars
❝ In Season 2 of Vanderpump Rules, Tom Schwartz and Katie Maloney’s fight in Mexico was very real, but Tom pouring beer over Katie’s head had to be recreated. - Play The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in your browser – Abandonware DOS
❝ Play The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy online directly in your browser, by Abandonware DOS - Two mathematicians just solved a centuries-old prime number puzzle that experts thought impossible
❝ Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben Green of Oxford University and Mehtaab Sawhney of Columbia University proved… - Paula Abdul settles sexual assault lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe
❝ Paula Abdul settles sexual assault lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe - Beloved Zelda-Like Okami Is Getting A Sequel 18-Years Later
❝ The Capcom cult-classic puzzle action game is coming back - Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool
❝ Like Viticci, I remain largely skeptical and uncomfortable with AI for purposes of generating original new stuff — writing, imagery, whatever. But as an assistive agent, it’s quite remarkable today and improving at a fast clip. - Frankie Muniz will be Malcolm In The Middle again in a limited revival
❝ Frankie Muniz will be Malcolm In The Middle again in a limited revival - Best Budget GPUs in 2024 – IGN
❝ Graphics cards are expensive, so save some cash and go for one of the best budget graphics cards. - Mouthwashing Review – IGN
❝ A horror game that paints an unsettling picture of who we can be in our worst moments. - Jack Quaid’s feeling no pain in the gruesomely fun Novocaine trailer
❝ Jack Quaid’s feeling no pain in the gruesomely fun Novocaine trailer
The Daily Dad — Dec 13, 2024
- Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Tip: Leave Vatican City ASAP!
❝ Bethesda and Xbox’s latest big game has a lot to see, but you gotta leave the starting map - Game-like ‘task scams’ stole more than $220 million in six months
❝ The FTC warns of a sharp rise in online job scams that convince victims to perform tasks for money but end up paying the scammers. - Halsey to Write Dark Comedy ‘Bloodlust’ and Reunite with Ti West
❝ Halsey will write a dark comedy series called ‘Bloodlust’ for Amazon MGM Studios that will reunite her with ‘MaXXXine’ director Ti West. - Chris Evans is returning to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday
❝ Chris Evans is returning to the MCU for Avengers: Doomsday - Explainer: Hawk Tuah Girl’s crypto token crashes, wiping out $500 million in 24 hours
❝ Hawk Tuah Girl Hailey Welch’s $HAWK shitcoin crashed and burned this week, vaporizing nearly half a billion dollars of investor money in what critics are calling a textbook pump-and-dump scheme.…
- George R. R. Martin Isn’t Sure He’ll Ever Finish The Winds of Winter, ‘but That’s Still a Priority’ – IGN
❝ George R. R. Martin has acknowledged the possibility that he might never finish The Winds of Winter, but says it’s “still a priority.” - The Bear Star Jeremy Allen White Joins The Mandalorian & Grogu as Jabba the Hutt’s Son – Report – IGN
❝ Emmy-winning The Bear star Jeremy Allen White is reportedly joining Star Wars film The Mandalorian & Grogu, providing the voice of Jabba the Hutt’s son. - GOP Lawmakers Are Already Trying to Overturn Missouri’s Right to Abortion
❝ Lawmakers have filed a raft of bills restricting abortion access and proposed raising the bar for future ballot initiatives. - How marijuana legalization played itself
❝ Pricey, legal weed is great news — for the black market. - Air Canada’s cheapest tickets on some routes will no longer include carry-on baggage
❝ Months after WestJet added a controversial ultrabasic ticket that didn’t allow travellers to bring a carry-on bag, Air Canada is following suit by stripping carry-on baggage from its cheapest tickets on some routes.
- Bill Lawrence is getting back into Scrubs
❝ A new iteration of the 2001 sitcom is officially in the works at ABC.
💬 Well, not really. I’m not a purist who rejects Scrubs 2.0 —the one-season evolution of the show starring Kerry Bishé, Dave Franco, and a few hold-overs from the OG Scrubs— so I’m the theoretical target audience for this. But everything I’m reading suggests Lawrence won’t be running the show or in the writer’s room… they’re basically just rebooting the concept of a young doctor daydreaming his way trough his daily struggles. Which means it isn’t Scrubs in the same way that a random show about hospitals isn’t ER. - The South Korean president’s stunning martial law decree, explained
❝ The National Assembly voted down the decree, but the political crisis isn’t over. - What in the world is pink cocaine?
❝ It’s not cocaine, but it can be just about anything else — except a good idea. - FBI suggests use of encrypted messaging apps while US faces huge cyberattack from China
❝ The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say that Americans should use encrypted apps such as iMessage and FaceTime to be safe from foreign hackers. - R.I.P. Debbie Nelson, Eminem’s mother and contentious lyrical muse
❝ R.I.P. Debbie Nelson, Eminem’s mother and contentious lyrical muse
- Sophie Rain Says OnlyFans Success Is Proof Virgins Can Make Money on Platform
❝ Sophie Rain says the $43 million she claims she grossed on OnlyFans is proof women and men don’t have to film themselves having sex to make money on the platform … ’cause she’s still a virgin. - Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number
❝ A new rule proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would require data brokers to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, limiting how they can buy and sell your information. - FTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem
❝ Venntel is a primary provider of location data to the government or other companies that sell to U.S. agencies. The FTC is banning Venntel from selling data related to health clinics, refugee shelters, and much more. - Flexbar is a USB gadget for anyone missing the Touchbar
❝ Flexbar is a MacBook-style horizontal touchbar as a discrete USB gadget, perfect for anyone who wanted one on their PC or who miss their disappearance from Apple’s laptops. They’re 10… - 27 Gross Things Couples Do
❝ “My husband and I weigh ourselves before and after we poop so we can compare who had the biggest poop…”
- R.I.P. Jim Abrahams, director of Airplane! and more
❝ Abrahams, who along with Jerry and David Zucker became the preeminent parodists of their generation, died at age 80.
💬 Airplane and Top Secret are two of my favorite childhood movies… I’ve probably seen Airplane dozens of times. I even saw Airplane II in a theater, and while I’m pretty sure it was a substantial step down from the original, I left the building with a smile on my face. - Supermassive black hole binary emits unexpected flares
❝ Their orbit periodically takes them through a cloud of gas, triggering flares. - Man jumps out of moving roller coaster to save his life — and then gets yelled at by negligent ride operator
❝ Man jumps out of moving roller coaster to save his life — and then gets yelled at by negligent ride operator - ‘The Great British Baking Show’ Needs a New Judge
❝ Early seasons of ‘The Great British Baking Show’ celebrated English tradition with familiar recipes. But as its contestants and challenges have grown more international and creative, the formulaic judging lags behind. - Life is Strange: Double Exposure, As Told By Steam Reviews
❝ Life may be strange, but the reception to the latest story-driven game from Deck Nine Games is even stranger. - Vintage digicams aren’t just a fad. They’re an artistic statement.
❝ In the age of AI images, some photographers are embracing the quirky flaws of vintage digital cameras. - NBC Sports is Latest to Test NFL ‘Alt-Cast’ With EA Sports Madden Game
❝ NBC Sports will jump into the world of sports ‘alt-casts’ with a Madden NFL cast slated for Peacock in December - Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media in World-First Law – IGN
❝ Australia will soon ban under-16s from social media after a world-first law was passed by the Australian Senate. - Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes
❝ The toxin is in more foods than you might think, including carrots, parsley, limes, and lemons.
The Daily Dad — Dec 12, 2024
- Studios Wanted to Recast Peter Dinklage in ‘The Station Agent’
❝ Bobby Cannavale explained how 2003 film ‘The Station Agent’ almost wasn’t made as studios wanted to recast lead actor Peter Dinklage.
💬 One of the best movies of the 2000s… I need to watch it again, ASAP. - TikTok will ban beauty filters by under 18s for mental health
❝ TikTok has announced that it is responding to new legislation in the UK and EU by introducing a ban on… - Learn how to play the mouth trumpet—or have a good laugh failing
❝ Emma Nissen’s a singer/songwriter who plays a mean mouth trumpet—her mouth trumpet is so good, I swear it sounds like an actual trumpet - Affiliate influencer sues competitor who also reviews junk in off-white minimalist bunker
❝ Both women stage their “clean girl” content in similarly pale, austere, sterile environments. Who was first? Does it even matter? - Marvel star accidentally shares first look at MCU’s Galactus
❝ The Marvel Cinematic Universe is welcoming Galactus with a cool leaked design
- The Valley is taking in orphaned Vanderpump Rules SURvers
❝ The Valley is taking in orphaned Vanderpump Rules SURvers - The 2K Launcher Is No More — You Can Now Launch 2K’s PC Games Directly in Steam – IGN
❝ 2K Games has pulled its launcher from all its PC games as part of a “complete sunset” of the software, which means PC gamers can now launch 2K games directly in Steam. - Dwayne Johnson encourages fans to disrupt moviegoing experience for everyone else
❝ Dwayne Johnson encourages fans to disrupt moviegoing experience for everyone else
💬 …says the dude who hasn’t had to sit next to some obnoxious, noisy asshole in a theater in at least 20 years. - New Lana Del Rey album, The Right Person Will Stay, coming May 2025
❝ Lana Del Rey is leaving the swamp and returning to the studio with The Right Person Will Stay - Bluesky filter lists from SkySentry
❝ As BlueSky grows, it’s helpful to have some filters. SkySentry has a fantastic collection of well-maintained block lists. - What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief
❝ Delusions can sometimes turn into strongly held beliefs. - What the Mesopotamians had for dinner
❝ In Ancient Babylonia, soups and stews reigned supreme. Food historians are now using taste-tests to recover their forgotten flavours. - Would you live on a cruise ship for four years to escape the Trump presidency?
❝ If you have lots of money and the ability (and desire) to live on a cruise ship for four years… - Surgeons remove 2.5-inch hairball from teen with rare Rapunzel syndrome
❝ The teen didn’t return for follow-up. Instead, she planned to see a hypnotherapist. - Kids are getting ruder, teachers say. And new research backs that up
❝ Some teachers say kids are just plain ruder these days, with a sharp increase in interruptions and outbursts in the classroom. New research from Brock University backs up those observations. - How gophers and fungi revived Mount St. Helens
❝ In 1980, after months of earthquakes and minor eruptions, Mount St. Helens erupted explosively, with thermal energy equivalent to 26 megatons - The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!)
❝ Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons,…
The Daily Dad — Nov 22, 2024
- Judy Greer: Maggie Gyllenhaal Made ‘Quirky’ Lead Actresses Cool
❝ Judy Greer explained how Maggie Gyllenhaal in ‘Secretary’ made ‘quirky’ lead actresses part of the zeitgeist.
💬 Judy, darling… c’mon. Maggie Gyllenhaal is quirky. You’re cute and funny and charming as fuck, and unless they really de-glammed you for the role, you’d have been way too hot for Secretary. In that role, you’d have intimidated Spader’s character so much he’d have never hired you in the first place. For selfish reasons, I’d love to have seen you try, of course… but that casting went exactly as it should. - Emergent gravity may be a dead idea, but it’s not a bad one
❝ Gravity may not emerge, but some interesting ideas did. - Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
❝ The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
💬 It’s sobering to realize that if Fox News and the Wall Street Journal pulled themselves out of the MAGA nosedive, they could turn into legitimate heroes of the American Experiment. - Chunky business-class all-in-one PC has built-in dot matrix printer
❝ Behold the Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500, correctly identified as a retro-computing dream machine. 50 pounds of dot matrix printer and all-new PC. - Real World: Boston star nominated to lead Department of Transportation
❝ Real World: Boston star nominated to lead Department of Transportation
💬 Next up: Puck to head the Department of the Interior! - Researcher reverse engineers iPhone’s Inactivity Reboot feature
❝ A recent report by 404 Media revealed that law enforcement agents have been concerned about iPhones automatically rebooting themselves…
- Clint Eastwood’s Box-Office History Prove ‘Juror #2’ Worth
❝ Clint Eastwood’s box office history proves that Juror #2 was worthy of a theatrical release and Warner Bros. should have given him one.
💬 When you see the inflation-adjusted numbers of Eastwood’s studio output over the last seventy years, it’s kind of astonishing. He’s a low-key titan of the film industry, taking Woody Allen-sized budgets and semi-regularly turning them into modest blockbusters. And just as an aside: Unforgiven is in my top 10 movies of all time. - Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud
❝ Microsoft has created a Windows 365 Link device that’s designed for cloud PCs. It’s a mini PC that connects to a more powerful cloud PC. - Arthur Frommer, whose travel guidebooks encouraged unique experiences, dead at 95
❝ Arthur Frommer, whose Europe on 5 Dollars a Day guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95. - Kaitlyn Dever is a pseudoscience scammer in Apple Cider Vinegar first look
❝ Kaitlyn Dever is a pseudoscience scammer in Apple Cider Vinegar first look - Dog-sitter films explicit OnlyFans content in client homes, raising privacy concerns
❝ A Nova Scotia woman says she was shocked to discover her bathroom floor and swimming pool were the background of explicit videos posted by her dog-sitter on an adults-only website.
💬 I’ll consider this news when she starts fucking her canine clients. Until then, here’s a thought… quit lurking around OF and maybe you won’t see shit you don’t want to see.
- Flush Toilet Finder | jRustonApps
❝ Flush Toilet Finder is the quickest, simplest way of finding a public bathroom or restroom.
💬 Fuck Yelp… this is the hyper-local, user-generated recommendation database we need. We all need a personal George Costanza, directing us to the best toilet in our cities. - Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.
❝ Intellectual humility could win back much-needed trust in science… - Max tries its hand at procedural in first teaser for medical drama The Pitt
❝ Max tries its hand at procedural in first teaser for medical drama The Pitt
💬 Such is my sentimental love for the first half of ER’s run that I will absolutely give this show a chance. And even if it starts off weak, the show’s structural conceit —all 15 episodes are set during a single hospital shift— is novel enough to keep me hanging around for a bit beyond the pilot. - Former comedian Russell Brand ended up selling “magical amulets” for “EMF protection”
❝ I’ve watched with fascination and disgust as Russell Brand has transformed over the years from actor, to spiritual guru and conspirituality grifter (which includes hawking cryptocurrency), to—immediately following rape allegations—right-wing Jesus loving Christian MAGA darling…
💬 The frustrating thing about Brand is that he’s legitimately talented and smart. Most MAGA figures are knuckle-dragging know- and do-nothings, but Russell can produce everything from the filthiest comedy to melodious recitations of Shakespeare without batting an eye. Which almost makes his turn worse, because it’s so clearly cynical and defensive… he’s hiding among the dipshits and morons to protect himself from the repercussions of a couple decades of substance-addled sex-addiction. And it’s working. - DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
❝ Integrating genetic data with historic and archaeological data can enrich or correct popular narratives.
- Sexual Scene At Sabrina Carpenter’s Show Stirs Debates
❝ “She has such a young fan base and to traumatize them like that is so sad.”
💬 Screw every single one of these haters in the orifice of their choice. I’m hardly a fan of Carpenter’s music, but get over yourselves, you entitled, whining little bitchlets… all the pop and rock music ever made had —and always will have— a young fan base, and who gives a flying, flipping, fantastical fuck? Tipper Gore would love you neo-Puritanical freaks, and that ain’t a compliment. - What you actually got from those comic book ads
❝ X-Ray Specs? Amazing fighting techniques? Magic tricks? A monkey? These videos show off what actually arrived when you ordered something from a comic ad.
💬 As a former kid who spent untold hours staring with wide-eyed curiosity at those ads, I appreciate that someone finally answered all of my unspoken questions. - Tripping on magic mushrooms to treat anorexia nervosa
❝ In another promising study on the medical use of psilocybin, the hallucinogen in magic mushrooms, researchers have shown that psychedelic therapy can help with treatment-resistant eating disorders. - Site collects “Title Drops”—when someone says the name of the film, in the film
❝ The analysis plowed through 73,921 movies released in the last 80 years. Scouring the data for matches was not as easy as you might assume. - Want to make a website look like Windows 98? You’ll be needing 98.css
❝ If you would like to make a website look and feel exactly like Microsoft Windows 98—and whyever not?—you could do far worse than to use Jordan Scales’ 98.css. It’s not… - 23 Wild Porn Sex Acts That Don’t Work
❝ “Stopping and changing positions every three minutes is a good experience.”
💬 Porn is indeed a bad example of good sex. But the people crying the loudest about porn being a bad example are the kind of people no one would ever want to have sex with. Unclutch your pearls, you tedious vanilla dumbasses.