A great newspaper correction

My father once referred to a popular TV show as “Beavis and Buckwheat”. I’d watch that!

That would have been a much more entertaining raid! https://t.co/8LClE0Cf18
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) December 30, 2021

another one:

Glorious recent correction in WSJ:

"The full names of two Belarusian officials charged with aircraft piracy are not known. An article incorrectly identified them as Andrey Anatolievich Lnu and Fnu Lnu. FNU and LNU are acronyms for 'first name unknown' and 'last name unknown.'"
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 1, 2022

Your day wasn’t as bad as you thought pic.twitter.com/D5BSnuiTfs
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) February 5, 2022

Republican governors are supporting the unvaccinated with unemployment

This shows that their old argument that unemployment benefits discouraged people from working was a lie. They just want to give money to their supporters and base it on politics, not need or merit. Disgraceful.

red-state governors are allowing anti-vaxxers to leave their jobs and collect unemployment. Sloth! Dependency! Biden should condemn the notion that taxpayers should foot the bill for vaccine refusers. https://t.co/WsS88oUift
— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 3, 2022

From the Washington Post Editorial Board | Handing out unemployment aid to people who refuse to get vaccinated (as at least five states are doing) is silly https://t.co/nOYZJ2ZvKH
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 2, 2022

Republicans used to complain about excessive unemployment benefits. Now they encourage sloth, @JRubinBlogger writes. https://t.co/hg2Ji8ZzVp
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) December 31, 2021

Iowa cut extended unemployments benefits in the spring, reasoning that they were disouraging people from working and not needed even during the pandemic.

Now they’re extending unemployment benefits to those who refuse vaccine mandates meant to bring an end to the pandemic https://t.co/uPA1zd9wTz
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 29, 2021

As Dave Weigel would say, I've seen enough: the red-state rush to cut off aid to the unemployed did not do much if anything to create jobs, but did create vast, gratuitous hardship for millions of Americans 1/ https://t.co/O4FrE2icsR
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 20, 2021

Covers: YYZ

“YYZ” is a Rush song from 1981. I don’t know much about them but liked the tweet.

Yes, you did 👏👏👏 https://t.co/NNWOjSx3aK
— Rush (@rushtheband) January 2, 2022

More delays on return to office work

New: Staff at @WSJ were told today that the company won't be mandating a broad office return, and instead team leaders will figure out what the "hybrid and flexible" work arrangements should be for their group
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) February 22, 2022

This is the right move. Nonessential workers should work remotely during surges…and employers should do everything in their power to make environments truly safe for essential workers.https://t.co/ymbjwSPEO9
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) January 3, 2022

The omicron variant is forcing many companies to once again change their back-to-office plans, upending expectations for workers. https://t.co/DQm1vNMJnv
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 22, 2021

The New York Times today "strongly encouraged" all employees to work from home as Omicron spreads in the city. Those who do go into the office "must wear a mask at all times unless … eating or drinking," per memo.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 21, 2021

Like other major media companies, CNN is making changes due to the new Covid surge. CNN offices are closing "to all employees who do not have to be in the office to do their jobs," per internal memo tonight. Back to 2020 protocols, essentially.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 19, 2021

Major corporations that had planned to bring all their employees back into offices in early 2022 now have to decide whether those dates make sense in light of further evidence of the pandemic’s unpredictability. https://t.co/NsDx3SgX57
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 7, 2021

Most Republicans don’t believe the truth about the election and insurrection

We did something we don't always do when polling on Jan. 6: broke out responses by media consumption. You will not be surprised to learn how Fox-News-watching Republicans stand out. https://t.co/4XrMG1h7Ox
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 3, 2022

Republicans and Democrats divided over Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump’s culpability, Post-UMD poll finds https://t.co/n36mfuv3Kx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 1, 2022

The Fox/Newsmax/OAN effect: https://t.co/kB7LCBU3AL
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 2, 2022

ABC/@Ipsosus poll: Majority of Americans think Jan. 6 attack threatened democracy: 65% of Americans believe Biden's victory in 2020 was legitimate; among Republicans, 71% side with Trump's false claims that he was the rightful winner (@brittanys ABC News) https://t.co/UBl6x9ZV92 pic.twitter.com/SiEcApJHis
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) January 2, 2022

Tweets on the best James Bond movies

Don Winslow is an excellent novelist. His list of favorite James Bond films inspired some good replies. I added mine. I just finished watching the Bond 50 box set and have now seen all of the official Bond films. I only saw three in theaters: Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, and Spectre. I felt so grown up seeing Thunderball at age 11 or 12.

Right on time. Just watching the last Bond film I hadn’t seen.
1) Goldfinger
2) Casino Royale (2006)
3) GoldenEye
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 2, 2022

Daniel Craig, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson and Cary Joji Fukunaga sit down with Variety’s Adam Vary in the Variety Streaming Room presented by @MGMstudios to discuss the making of “No Time to Die.” Watch the full FYC interview here: https://t.co/X9QvMo1aKV #NoTimeToDieFYC pic.twitter.com/eLZr3Bhy6h
— Variety (@Variety) January 7, 2022

This is great! Thank you. I'm looking forward to reading these.

I've collected screenplays for a long time, and here is my library of James Bond screenplays: https://t.co/XemORrAwLv (with more here: https://t.co/Mbdb6PYmtc)
— LennartGuldbrandsson (@AliasHannibal) June 15, 2022

I may have tweeted this a few times before but I don’t care. This is the greatest celebrity encounter EVER. https://t.co/PqBfSfNpCd
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 14, 2022

James Bond Ranked: Every 007 Movie, From Most To Least Profitable

Director Lee Tamahori joined us to talk all things DIE ANOTHER DAY and we had to ask him about the films infamous tsunami-surfing scene…

But is this the craziest moment in the history of the #JamesBond films?

Hear what he had to say in our interview: https://t.co/ti4MNGRYJJ pic.twitter.com/zgPUgbL0oT
— SpyHards – A Spy Movie Podcast (@SpyHards) December 8, 2023

James Bond actors ranked by how often their 007 films feature an exploding helicopter.
🤵🔫🍸🚁💥
1⃣Pierce Brosnan – 4/4 100%
2⃣Sean Connery* – 3/6 50%
3⃣Roger Moore – 2/7 29%
4⃣Daniel Craig – 1/5 20%
5⃣George Lazenby – 0/1 0%
6⃣Timothy Dalton – 0/2 0%
*EON films only. pic.twitter.com/low96wJ9Xd
— Exploding Helicopter (@chopperfireball) December 8, 2023

Hilarious Pittsburgh newspaper failure

look at the comments for another example

The Post-Gazette today sold its whole Sunday front page as an ad (an honor to Ben Roethlisberger) and then sold an ad sticker that covered up the honoree’s name pic.twitter.com/H3H46Wz3fE
— Charlie Wolfson (@chwolfson) January 2, 2022

Tweets on low royalty rates paid to musicians by streaming services

Seattle musician who once made $16,000 per year selling compact discs at gigs now earns just $150 annually from Spotify. https://t.co/4alGDSv5Qu
— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) January 2, 2022

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That streaming saved the recording industry pic.twitter.com/B98b4AMakl
— Trading Places Research — Non Fungible Account (@LookingGdLouis) December 29, 2021

Just reading down the comments on Kara's retweet. Really amazing how tired and cliched the pro-tech sentiments. Hilarious shit like "Record labels should have licensed Napster." (They tried see Snocap, p2p didn't want to pay) "You make more money on live shows." (We don't)…1/x https://t.co/Mx13uAasKz
— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) December 30, 2021

Happy Anniversary (Spoiler alert: We won) https://t.co/hvvrZBbVAN
— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) December 30, 2021

How much does Spotify pay per stream? What you’ll earn per song, and how to get paid more for your music

Lots of great stuff in this New Yorker convo between Amanda Petrusich, Will Oldham and Bill Callahan. Oldham really nails the malignant larceny of streaming: “As a listener, if you want more good music, then, at some point someone needs to be compensated.” https://t.co/IkNPloxILo
— The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs) January 17, 2022

I know we've all known Spotify is a garbage pile since it took off, but man, this sucks. It's David fucking Crosby. David Crosby should be set for life. It's time to burn this all down https://t.co/vW0ucxRAyj pic.twitter.com/IkGlztHsUv
— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) February 22, 2022

So @georgejohnson is the most important songwriter you've never heard of. Gets his due in this Billboard article. Sort of. The writer tries to portray him as a kook by noting supposedly fringe beliefs that are demonstrable truths. Example see screenshot. https://t.co/LgnDVLAuNm pic.twitter.com/3lqhe003sG
— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) July 29, 2022

Covers: Stand By Your Man

I am posting about “Stand By Your Man” because a bad version of it by Minnie Driver is in the James Bond film GoldenEye. The original version was by Tammy Wynette from 1968. I like the cover by Lyle Lovett (1989) which sounds like a warning.

The Big Lie lives on

Most Republicans will never accept Biden’s 2020 victory. I don’t think they would accept a 2024 Democratic win either. I bet the Big Lie winds up in red-state school textbooks.

% of americans that think the 2020 election was rigged/stolen from trump, as of june 2022:

dem: 7%
ind: 29%
gop: 65% (!)

-yahoo/yougov
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 17, 2022

.@MaddowBlog: As 2021 got underway, polls showed Republican voters embracing former President Trump's Big Lie. As 2021, too little has changed. https://t.co/PWTbPgnJNo
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 1, 2022

One Republican pollster on the idea of acknowledging Biden’s legitimate victory while running in a Republican primary: “You can do that, but understand the consequences. The consequences are probably that you're going to lose.“https://t.co/RNOL5iyVbr pic.twitter.com/91oueE9Y6K
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 21, 2021

Republican candidates across the country refuse to acknowledge that Biden won legitimately | Analysis https://t.co/RkWRfFThX1
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 21, 2021