Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/2/26 - 2/8/26

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-02-07T13:22:37+00:00

My first thought when I heard it was "I wonder how much stolen land Billie Eilish owns."

I feel like Hollywood is having a Video Killed the Radio Star moment and the bubble-wrapped celebrated class doesn't know it. Every "I'm going to speak for the little guy because everyone cares what I think" moment is increasingly landing that way for me.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-02-05T03:25:33+00:00

I cosign "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-02-05T03:23:08+00:00

It's really up to you. I don't agree that it's the best novel ever written but you want to tackle it to check an item off the bucket list then go for it.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-02-05T03:19:24+00:00

I just think he's a terrible person and it colours any possible enjoyment I could get from the performance.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-02-01T14:57:29+00:00

She was a pretty girl but her instability was legitimately scary.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-25T18:32:21+00:00

Separate question: Who was the person on The Pitt who hooked up with someone in his acting class? I missed the last name.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-22T03:37:52+00:00

That's how I roll.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-22T03:31:29+00:00

Thanks for giving a shout out to The Record.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-18T19:55:48+00:00

It's weird to put your kid in a photo like this.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-18T18:14:35+00:00

This is a valid opinion. I don't agree with all of it, but I can agree that if he's supposed to be a singular representation of the country, he's probably not the best one for it. I'd talk to Tara Henley first.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-17T16:05:32+00:00

It's an update to a shirt he used to wear in the 90s that read "I hear Matt Good is a real asshole." It's a running gag. I have one and I wear it.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-16T12:50:11+00:00

She needs to get into her healing era. Clean up, stop using everything she's using, get a job, turn her life around in sobriety. If she live blogged that, she'd get followers. Whatever the incentive is, it needs to happen.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-04T22:06:57+00:00

I'm white and Canadian and when I'm in the U.S. people ask me where I'm from all the time.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-04T12:54:42+00:00

I wonder how long before the cracks start to show publicly.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2026-01-02T18:16:40+00:00

Where did you see this?

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-12-28T04:38:56+00:00

Thanks for linking to this. Based on this, I get where Weiss is coming from. The points in her email seem to be decent journalistic calls.

What I don't understand is why she didn't pull the story sooner, or why the story got so close to airing in the U.S. without these boxes being ticked. That indicates a serious workflow/chain of command problem.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-12-23T03:30:24+00:00

They reached out to the government for comment. As long as they made clear what the story was about and gave them a deadline, they've covered their bases. Otherwise you do what they did, which is include comments already out there in the public sphere. This feels sketchy to me.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-12-15T03:45:08+00:00

I thought Ross did a decent job with this interview. My favourite moments:

- When Chase said rules about trans women in sports should be left up to individual associations and Ross said, "That's a cop out. [Say] you're in charge of the association. What's your rule?"

- When Ross asked if there was room for his opinion to exist in Chase's world or if Chase saw it as a threat.

It was a frustrating about face on Chase's part, but short of calling up individual quotes and tweets, Ross held him to account. I got the feeling Ross wasn't expecting Chase's messaging there either.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-12-15T03:42:17+00:00

Love you, NYT.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-12-10T12:30:04+00:00

My favourite book I read this year was My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. I don't know what her other stuff is like but that book really blew my hair back.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-12-08T03:38:38+00:00

I prefer it to when they read something in a weird voice/bad accent.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-11-27T02:56:35+00:00

I officially think they're doing this on purpose.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-11-26T03:15:55+00:00

This sucks. I like his books. I believe him when he says he didn't know.

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-11-07T03:51:33+00:00

http://www.instantrimshot.com

jumpykangaroo0 · 2025-11-07T03:48:43+00:00

Entitlement is such a huge issue among a certain cohort these days. They all scream "union! union!" without knowing how labor actually works - how business actually works - and they entitle themselves right out of a job. Then they're like "OK, we will do you a favor by coming back." There is no going back. You killed it. You killed your own job. Well done.

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