17 helicoptes/the population of LA 6 helicopters/the population of Columbus, Ohio Hmmmm

It's easy to be an abolitionist for climate reasons, actually, you kind of have to go out of your way not to be tbh

Reminder that Hannah Arendt called statelessness the forced removal by the state of "the right to have rights," leaving only "people who had indeed lost all other qualities and specific relationships except that they were still human."

The Globe featured a pretty funny parody of car-centric policies from 1909 mailchi.mp/bostonglobe/...

First trailer for Coyote vs. ACME, starring John Cena, Lana Condor, and Will Forte. The Looney Tunes movie is in theaters on August 28.

Andrew Ginther is basically every negative stereotype of a Democratic mayor www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

Built by convict labor in 1830, the Ohio State Penitentiary housed nearly 4 times as many people as it was designed for by its centenary. Rather than institute a parole system, the state finally began to expand it, but a fire broke out on the scaffolding on April 21, 1930, this day 95 years ago.

The eastern end of 670 in Columbus was built through poor working class African American neighborhoods over the objections of a coalition from those neighborhoods and Bexley. Court found the homeowners rights had been violated, but what are you gonna do, not build a highway? Meanwhile across town...

Here’s the classic anime Golden Boy riffing on this gag. Honestly one of the best bits of bike media ever.

Bf and I have been watching Pete and Pete and we just discovered that the episode where Steve buscemi plays Ellen’s dad aired the same day reservoir dogs premiered

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

I requested to speak and got back an email saying “unfortunately, we’ve already reached our maximum number of speakers in opposition to the piece of legislation for which you are requesting to speak” 👀

Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music. Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.

Hey, it's Hitler's birthday.

listen sometimes you just want to hang out with someone who has a comparable knowledge of ska, punk, and ska-punk

A testament to how succinct Redes (1936) is in its portrayal of a a fishing community throwing off its shackles and how blatant its Marxism is, is the fact that this is our shortest episode in a long while. Don't need to do tortured leftist readings when the text itself is so anti-capitalist.

People are dunking on this, but personally I have no difficulty believing that Franklin Graham doesn't recognize Jesus.

A new study from UC Santa Barbara shows that watching experimental animation expands creativity and opens new ways of seeing the world. #Animation #ExperimentalAnimation #MentalHealth #BrainRot

After a successful discharge petition, the House approves a bill forcing the Trump Administration to give some 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. a temporary legal immigration status - letting them stay in the country. 10 GOP lawmakers voted Yes.

"I can't believe you know that Disturbia is a rip off of some Alfred Hitchcock movie no one's ever heard of but you've never seen Alien." - a customer at the bar tonight to his friend.

Is the pope catholic? We report, you decide.

Working on this year's Labor History Bike Tour for @columbusdsa.bsky.social and trying to decide if I'm anticapitalist enough to stand outside the patio of an open restaurant during brunch and talk about the multiple times their entire staff walked out.

I say this as a Christian, fwiw, and so I am biased. I am biased in that I, personally, don't think the Trump-as-Jesus image is as offensive to my faith as, say, seeing Liam Ramos being hustled away from his school by ICE.

The more he posts the more I understand “by your own words you will be condemned”

You can watch the six-part BBC miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1979, starring Alec Guinness, for free? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

We kick off Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Project Vol. 1 with the first film from Africa (at least, directed by an African) the Criterion has ever shown us in like 700 movies, Touki Bouki (1971) from Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty.

In 1985, Wendy Carlos spoke about the reaction to her transition: "The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent ... There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life."

Don Ameche the Blind Swordsman

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

I'm sorry but Donald Trump should not be the cause of my learning too much about weird Catholic history. That is Luis Buñuel's job.

I look like Jesus, so they say But Mr. Jesus is very far away

Over Holy Week I listened to Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh. A lot to be said as it relates to our present moment, but I was most struck by a brief passage from Leaflet No. 4 by Sophie Scholl et al. of The White Rose resistance movement. Can't get it out of my head.

Imagining some different worlds and what it might take to get to them.

There's a road in Columbus called Hague Ave which we pronounced like The Hague. But nearby there's a Trabue Road which I've long pronounced with the same vowels as Hague but was recently laughed at and told it is Tray-byu. I love Ohio's insane disregard for pronunciation even when I am its victim.

The antidote to this is community. Check out the 50 Ways to Meet Your Neighbor zine:

Hope someone has an appropriate response today. But I gotta sell hotdogs for health insurance.

A whole nation sits on its ass tweeting “25th amendment” while the people in charge sit on their ass and hope he’s bluffing

If Animal Farm does well, I'm adapting The Lottery as a stoner comedy

The use of four GoPros on the Artemis II ensures a statistical likelihood that we will see at least one cyclist being hit.

Happy Easter! I’m back! The most important thing I want to share today is this new @benwildflower.com icon, an abolitionist anastasis icon showing Jesus harrowing the Hell of imprisonment, which is BREATHTAKING. (I commissioned this piece.) Proclaim resurrection and liberation, friends!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Easter sermon began with a lengthy discussion of how life-giving and holy this image is lmao

Here it is folks, the best Easter meme.

What is the resurrection but the utter destruction of all hells? Alleluia Christ has rejected his death sentence, and so has disarmed the empire of its only power, the power to destroy the body! In conquering the lowest hell of empire, Christ frees all people from all hells May we go and do likewise

"Go and do likewise."

"Oh yeah? Well at least I'm crazy! You suck despite being normies!" - Peter Lorre, M (1931/Fritz "the nazis banned my films but they were such bangers those same nazis offered to make me king of movies if I could tone down the anti-nazi shit so I fled the country and made more anti-nazi films" Lang)

All you need to know is that one day it will be a parking lot.

Pour one out for all the "get on with it" commenters for this one. I don't read your comments anymore, but I know you're still there, and you should know I cut out an additional 20 minutes about political assassinations that I can still put back in if I want to.

The three interviews with Robert Altman on the Criterion Nashville (1975) release are Bilbo Baggins saying "After all, why shouldn't I keep it?" about being called an "Auteur". We still love you Robert, but come on.