we're not going back!

"Hey i was fine with transphobia until i saw abunch of nazis and racists standing next to me"🤪

Wouldn’t hate it if Adam Ant joined him onstage either.

this is the most unsurprising development maybe ever

"Nearly the entire department has been let go, with only a skeleton crew of full time production staff remaining in place to coordinate the hiring of resources on a per-project basis" There it is. Freelance: no stability, no union, higher burden on remaining crew. I hate the word "streamlining" now

I can't help but feel like I never want to support anything Disney puts out ever again. A bunch of vile greedy pigs running the place.

Artists have to beg for precarious contract jobs on a per movie basis, but Robert Downey Jr needs a hundred million dollars. Sure. Sure.

just want to point out that @aftermath.site has a dedicated "stupid things" tag that's been getting a real workout today, but which I feel like we've mostly wielded with uncharacteristic restraint. if something receives this tag, you KNOW it's fucking stupid aftermath.site/tag/stupid-t...

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I’m sorry WHAT

the main issue with editing Calvin & Hobbes comic strips as a meme template is that you are probably not as funny as Bill Watterson

This is a good piece. There's a lot of culture "celebrities" for whom we could do well with a quick & dry explanation of why someone is & isn't important/relevant so we can walk off & stop wondering how much attention those (who don't engage with "short-form content" culture) should be paying them.

"Angine De Poitrine is a psyop" listen to yourselves, do you think there is someone out there trying to make you like french canadians come on now

I work for the YWCA. We aren't allowed to talk about WOMEN in our grants.

Everyone on Chaotic Good's roster owes Geese a fruit basket for taking all the heat on this one

but I see a lot of people saying it’s not fundamentally different than going the normal press release/ad campaign route, and I disagree with that, precisely because it IS surreptitious and because it achieves that ubiquity and inevitability by astro-turfing a fan base.

I have never heard a Geese song, so this is not a critique of them, and I can’t place any moral judgment on surreptitiously astro-turfing a fan base via tiktok sock puppet accounts creating ubiquity and a sense of inevitability that achieve their stated goal…

Selling people on Red Rooms (2023) with these screenshots.

FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger. Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.

like girl he made two good songs in 2015. who gives a shit.

god bless everyone arguing on the pop subreddits but i cannot fathom having strong feelings about a justin bieber performance in 2026.

HIGHLY recommend Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" which comes out this week from @haymarketbooks.org. Great blend of research and cultural criticism that gets into how Disney has shaped global policy w/ reach far beyond Hollywood by dissecting the business principles of IP.

it's hard to get retractions to stick because you can't un-have an emotion. a lot of people developed angry feelings for Chappell Roan over this, and now that they know she didn't actually do it they're even MORE angry at her because they resent being told they repeated wrong information

Writing fat characters who are easy to love but *impossible* to desire is not the favor to fat people that many writers seem to think. (It is, in fact, precisely what Shallow Hal set out to do.)

there is no prosocial career that lets you buy a house

Maybe we don’t need next day delivery. Maybe ignoring or stepping over dead bodies to make Amazon warehouse deadlines is in fact, bad.

this is... far more brutal than i would have expected, good lord

*my dead body slumped over the steering wheel, laying on the horn*

⚠️ SWALWELL OUT OF RACE FOR GOVERNOR

and just imagine what someone could do if they were like, a senator or something

This is like watching a liberal dad explain to his incel son why hating women because they're women is wrong

It’s a start.

just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get a job at lockheed martin or rtx helping blow school girls up in other countries for oil barons and you too can afford to spend $4000 to waste part of your vacation stunting on other people.

Influencer furries are so corny like posting a video from a yacht you rented and going "and you thought us being at a villa was bad" like what for man, what's the point here. Trying to antagonize people when you could've just had fun is mad weird. All that money and you're still a fucking loser lol.

critically important toggle; they'll slap this one on stuff that just has, like, queer slogans or pride iconography, because this website's moderation is shit from an ass

The Pearl is one of a handful of lesbian bars in the country, and the only sapphic space in Denver. Operating costs of taking over the Mercury Cafe have caught up with the owners, and this space is so necessary. Consider chipping in if you're able 🙏 www.gofundme.com/save-the-pea...

i never got into Black Midi much and i kinda hated the Greep solo album but i am loving this new My New Band Believe album. Cameron Picton played a few of these songs solo when i saw him open for Lankum but the studio versions are fleshed out in such an exciting way. maximalist prog-folk.

His & His orc mugs :0)

Finished a custom jacket with brand new quilting and lining with fully biased seams.

I'm going to point out that we spent a shit ton of taxpayer money on moderna and he's stealing it from us.

This image circulating is fake. The front porch was much larger than that and held several Navy recovery personnel as well. Real images can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasah...

Picnic! At Hanging Rock

WE SPLASHED DOWN THEY'RE BACK HOME!!!! #artemis

it's a trip seeing someone say they need to go back to twitter because bluesky goes down too often, follow that up a day later saying they were immediately permanently suspended for "being a bot", and still defend their need to be on twitter for their career. how does it help if you get suspended?

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

i like being a werewolf. sorry if this offends