It’s a good day to revisit this Ursula Le Guin quote. In the best possible reality, Earthsea would be the dominant fantasy series for children.

Anecdotally this is my experience locally in a small rural community, I know 30-40 folk who moved up here in the last 5 years They come with small kids, if you talk with them it’s because public services are better, the environment is better, universities are free, it’s for a better life

Was The Emperor’s New Groove the first Disney animation to be an outright comedy? Like, the others had jokes, but they weren’t *led* by them

the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

current update on the "fuck you JK Rowling" trans protest over Aberfeldy on Wplace:

Checked in on Aberfeldy Scotland in WPlace. Great job everyone

thinking I might destroy my life by developing a spiralling obsession with the Franklin Expedition

British posters on here are about to have a very weird week

hopefully this means justice is finally coming for that perverted prawn they kept trying to shove down our throats

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

The trouble started when we abandoned virtuous runes for the idiotic scrawlings of the perfidious Roman

There are three stages to learning Gàidhlig. 1: what the fuck 2: no seriously what the fuck 3: FOOLISH ANGLO. THE SPELLING OF THE CÀNAN IS ACTUALLY EXTREMELY READABLE, MUCH EASIER THAN YOUR SAXON WORDLETS WITH THEIR IDIOTIC SILENT VOWELS. IT FLOWS FROM SCRIPT TO SPEECH LIKE A CLEAR MOUNTAIN SPRING

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Coyote vs Acme level stupidity. Like, actual bath-salts-up-the-nose stuff. How can any human being could turn down this project yet stake the entire franchise on The Mandalorian and Grogu?

I’m not going to say the song lyrics my 7 year old writes are better than the stuff on this new Taylor Swift album, but they’re not really worse, either

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

I edit people’s writing for a living and I’m grieved to report that this excerpt from JK Rowling’s latest “novel” has caused me to suffer a catastrophic stroke

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

he was doing the very act that gave birth to this nation—racism

Kit Harington, Keira Knightley, Iwan Rheon, Ruth Wilson, Ambika Mod, Leo Woodall, Simon Pegg, James McAvoy, Gemma Whelan, Matt Berry. More actors who'd rather take a payday from JK Rowling than give any kind of shit about trans people.

hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

i am a simple man. when cat knock over plant, i smile

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

the fact that the White House literally put “golfing with Gruden” down on Trump’s schedule yesterday and then posted those week-old photos has got me fully on the Happening Express. choo choo

Deadline (and the California Film Commission) have now uploaded an amended table that renames this Muppets project as “Untitled 20th TV project” but the figures remain the same — this is almost certainly the Muppet Show reboot that’s currently listed as “in production” on Production List

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

This is what Aberfeldy, my nearest town and occasional home to JK Rowling, currently looks like on Wplace

David Corenswet and James Gunn on set having a debate over the 'Superman' monologue

extremely jazzed to have just seen a comic book movie that isn’t embarrassed that it’s a comic book movie. solid 8/10, shame they clearly cut 40 mins out of it

Say it loud, say it clear: Donald Trump's not welcome here.

Bony Soldier Diving On Top Of Grenade Only Makes It Deadlier

nobody will ask this though, because a significant percentage of mainstream British journalists will be finding this all rather amusing and a not insignificant percentage will be actively agreeing with the AI hitlerbot

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

Ghastly politics from the SNP. With Green and Labour support, the Scottish Government could easily deliver the progressive vision for land ownership that they promised in their 2021 manifesto. Instead, they’re working with the Tories to preserve the status quo. Nobody will benefit from this!

🧵 3/3 Government has agreed to work with me on this, because regardless of your view of DLC's investment in Perthshire the transparency has been lacking.

🧵 2/3 its chest while buying up more and more of the surrounding community for an exclusive resort for the rich. If the Land Reform Bill is to mean anything for communities then it has to require landowners like DLC to reveal their plans and meaningfully consult on them. I'm pleased the Scottish

🧵1/3 We have seen a total lack of transparency around the plans of Discovery Land Company (DLC) for Taymouth Castle, Glen Lyon, the Moness Resort and Kenmore. It's been impossible to see what their long term vision for the area has been, we just see a large US landowner keeping its cards close to