These folks would have their brains broken by reading Junji Ito

So I've started to maybe need reading glasses for small text and was doing some research on options and stumbled on this product and... how is this a real product name?

@ztul.bsky.social @ckunzelman.bsky.social The question about Roland and his hat - and the upcoming Tolkien unit- reminded me of how Tolkien discovered he never actually mentioned that Gollum was small when Tove Jannson drew him like this in the Finnish version

Googled to find out if there's a new John Oliver episode tonight and was informed by Google's AI that somehow today is Saturday but also today is not the Weekend and so there is no new episode. There is, in fact, a new episode. @lastweektonight.com

It's darkly funny how many seemingly "responsible" politicians will leap at "no one wants to be Neville Chamberlain" when it comes to opposing wars, but also believe you can trust the word of a fascist when it comes to keeping Americans fed and healthy.

@kaine.senate.gov Know that if you give into the fascists I will do everything I can to support anyone who decides to primary you. Read the room and grow a spine.

Chuck Schumer’s decision making this week alone (between Mamdani and this CR debacle) should be absolutely disqualifying to leadership. I dare one rank-and-file Senate Democrat who believes this to say it out loud.

Trying out the new lens I grabbed for my 4x5 with some cheap supermarket sunflowers Graflex Speed Graphic Fujinon W 210mm 5.6 Fomapan 100 #filmphotography #largeformatphotography

I haven't seen a ton of people talking about The Lowdown and, having now seen the finale, it deserves a big audience. A beautiful show that draws you in on the promise of a good mystery (it delivers) but sneaks in a poignant story about the importance of weirdos and misfits in a cynical world.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

hell yeah eugene debs

“We won because we insisted that politics is no longer something that is done to us. Now it is something we do.” Every single word of this Mamdani speech is fucking fire.

"Let the prose we write rhyme" Man, it feels good to feel this way for once

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

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Petition for someone to buy Pizza Hut and solve the American literacy crisis by appealing to millennial nostalgia and bringing back Book It but for adults apnews.com/article/pizz...

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Finally clicked what the hair reminds me of

Halloween 2025 Mamiya C33 Kodak Tri-X 400 #filmphotography #believeinfilm

Really like this photo I shot tonight for some reason.

Wound up picking up Tananarive Due's The Reformatory and while I am only about halfway through, this is one of the best (and most harrowing) books I've read in a very long time

For reasons, I had to look up the X-Men character Dazzler and confirm what her powers are and I enjoy that it took multiple citations to verify her roller skating skills

I was reading about the Louvre heist and I've decided that every museum should designate one heist-able item that they put under the highest security but if you can steal it, you get to keep it.

No Kings Rally - Alexandria, Virginia Mamiya C33 Kodak Tri-X 400 #filmphotography #believeinfilm

Leaves and Such Mamiya C33 Kentmere 200 #filmphotography #believeinfilm

Messing around with some macro-ish studio photography stuff

In what world does it make sense to elect a new Senator who will be 84 at the end of their first term?

Nice clear night for moon photos around these parts

I gotta say, I feel like if somehow the dude from Nine Inch Nails managed to cancel the entire future it would ruin more than a music festival

Been messing around with learning how to draw using Procreate and kind of happy with this Superman I worked on

My 7 year old is watching The Parent Trap for the first time and about 30 minutes in asks: "So, when are they going to put their parents into the traps?"

Thanks Facebook marketplace....

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

EAGLES BLOCK THE FIELD GOAL [AGAIN] TO WIN THE GAME JORDAN DAVIS! MERRILL REESE AND MIKE QUICK ON THE CALL! #FlyEaglesFly

Heard a massive noise and it sounded like a helicopter was about to land on my house. Turns out it was Marine One landing at Mount Vernon - which basically backs up to our neighborhood - to take Trump to some conservative dinner.

A reminder that one of the major reasons Trump ran in the first place was that Obama told jokes about him at a White House Correspondents Dinner. The man has the thinnest skin imaginable.

There are a whole lot of media and television executives currently operating with conviction that the potential consequences of the present will outweigh the accountability of the future. And no matter what happens, they cannot be allowed to be correct.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

People are rightfully trashing this oped but I know I am tired because I read this and thought for a second that it was by Bernie Sanders and he was going by the name "Bernard President"

Andor!!

Watching the Emmys and looked up Katherine LaNasa who won for The Pitt and she has maybe the most incongruous list of people she's been married to I've ever seen:

Cosigned.

Notably this will not be decried as a call for political violence.

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

A thing I think about often is that our brains aren't meant to process :all of this: We are only a few generations removed from people barely knowing what events occured outside of their immediate experience until a newspaper arrived. Now we have a window to every horror of our world in real time.

Ria Czerniak-Lebov via @attackerman.bsky.social’s piece yesterday

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"