Targets (1968) is a weirdly prescient movie about mass shootings before the US got really into mass shootings. It’s also about Boris Karloff.

It's never been topped

"The next Democratic president has to be ruthless... [they] should run on a plan to prosecute Elon Musk... there has to be accountability... the [next] Democratic president has to put the fear of God into their Republican opponents" My advice to the Dems. Full discussion: zeteo.com/p/the-venezu...

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in which we crack open a true rarity from the early 80s - and a request from pal @sanctumblog.bsky.social - a sci-fi collaboration between two artists on different career trajectories, who came together for one issue of indelible work, under the imprimatur of none other than Chris Claremont (?!??)

Ah now these are gorgeous for Fafhrd and the Mouser.

I was joking today that this movie will be dedicated to Charlie Kirk

We're doing a watch party starting next Monday at 9pm. Two episodes a week!

One of the best two man booths.

Absolute masterpiece of microfiction

A character who - I shit you not - looks like he's an Abe's Odyssey villain

Good literary criticism is just as valuable in every respect as a good novel; it's incredibly sad to see it cut out by digital performance metrics and private equity companies. Makes me grateful for places like Ancillary Review of Books & Typebar doing the good work in a hostile media environment.

Idk I think a lot of it comes from the same persistent dismissiveness towards anything related to reproductive rights: media led by cis white men who dgaf

well, that takes care of the fear of getting another good one of these ever again

It's hard not to be angry at Joe Biden for spending a year mumbling through a DOA re-election campaign, only to leave his successor mere months to run. And at Merrick Garland for wasting years not prosecuting the leaders of J6. And at Nancy Pelosi for not pushing impeachment hours after the riot.

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

Timeline cleanse: dogs in snow

The Republicans are kidnappers, terrorists, and pedophiles hellbent on creating a white supremacist fascist hemisphere of total domination, and the Democrats are their best friends.

do y'all have a lit mag that you simply won't (can't??) submit stories to bc you know a decline from them would simply be too devastating? perhaps ineffably so? (I definitely have such a lit mag in my life lolsob)

Walz: "Republicans want to tear this state down. Republicans want to tell you it's too dangerous to talk down the streets. Republicans want to tell you there's nothing good that comes out of Minneapolis/St Paul. Republicans want to tell you everybody with brown skin is stealing money ... "

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Dungeon map fragment, hand-drawn title and gross rooms. #ttrpg #b&wart

LOS ANGELES: The Immanuel Open Mic is back this week, Thursday January 8th at 7! The big church on Wilshire and Berendo in Koreatown, parking available on-site.

Incredible stuff

Anyway, buy the book! www.amazon.com/Owned-Billio...

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DC residents, a group of January 6 insurrectionists will be gathering at the Ellipse today at 11:45AM and marching down to the Capitol. After that, a group of them will go to the Department of Justice and then the National Press Club at 5PM. If you see them, or plan to protest them, please be safe.

Microsoft is so fucking stupid. Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App I'm not joking

It's true but to me "the voters" are farther down on the responsibility scale. At the top are the elites who failed to understand the danger, the necessity for accountability, and kinda just hoped this would all go away. In a healthy political system he'd never be allowed to run again

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse

FYI I have a novella (still) on query that's set in another area of the same world as "As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood" Question: If no one wants it, would it make sense to serialize it and self-pub it via my newsletter?

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's ongoing genocide. Palestinians have been left to die homeless & starving as winter storms flood the camps. Bsky deletes him constantly, & support has fallen steeply since the 'ceasefire':

1. Get your flu shot 2. If you still have masks left over from COVID, break those out and use em

I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.

I'm doing a big re-read of the Zelazny Amber series. Previously, because Zelazny was never one of the Big Names of SFF, I'd read them all out of order. I would just get whatever Zelazny the library I was in at the moment had.

I keep thinking about the Underwood essay in File770, and the Nebula award embracing, and then unembracing, awards for slop. I'm really angry. I'm angry that some people are telling other people to engage in earnest dialogue with something which was written with ChatGPT to defend genAI (of course)

new year, new carabiner:

in hindsight Twitter was indeed something special, was reminded of this tonight when I was trying to use the McDonald’s app - thought, wistfully, sure would be nice to berate the McDonald’s spokesperson for their app being absolute unusable dogshit. the brands know better than to come here.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warns that a U.S. attempt to take over Greenland would spell the end of NATO. "If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops," Frederiksen told the Danish state broadcaster TV 2.

Octopath Traveler 0 is really good! It’s become one of my favorites on the installment! The art, the music, the story! Love it! Also you can input what your character’s favorite food is. As a Puerto Rican I get a giggle every time the fantasy sprites get excited for a famed Puerto Rican fritter lol

RIP Béla Tarr Here he is explaining the reasons for setting up the film.factory, his film school for aspiring young filmmakers. ‘Not anymore this fucking provincial, nationalistic shit.’ Amen to that.

Roses are red, Sunlight is bright

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Hello I've got some portrait sketch comms open for the new year! Quick turnarounds for these, slots open indefinitely. Please boost if you can! #commission #commissionsopen #artist form: forms.gle/AJEnc1E7MJVE...

You know what sucks? Having your holiday overwritten by the US Anyway, Happy Three Kings Day to ask who celebrate!