Ah fuck. Udo Kier died. He was fucking awesome. RIP

CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy

Some BODY Once told me, this wafer's kind of holy, It ain't a piece of regular bread

INSOC ROCKS

Watching the 1968 adaptation of M.R. James’s “Whistle and I’ll Cone To You,” and, while this is an odd thing to praise, in addition to being terrifically eerie, it it has some of the best “solitary pompous old man” acting and writing I’ve ever seen.

SISTER CHRISTIAN, OH, THE TIME HAS COME AND YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE TO SAY OKAY

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord Well, I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord

A license to love, insurance to hold Melts all your memories and change into gold His eyes are like angels; his heart is cold No need to ask He's a smooth operator Smooth operator Smooth operator Smooth operator

Onwards.

Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome: - Right-click - Unpin Gone!

who is following you dorks that you feel the need to repeatedly post that mtg is not on the side of the angels. it feels like spending a lot of time telling people not to eat hams they find on the ground

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

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I've had quite a lot of new people follow me this week so time for some Romancing the Gothic recs! Romancing the Gothic runs free talks on all things Gothic, horror and the supernatural. We have a backlog of hundreds of classes! Give me a topic you're interested in, and I'll see what we've got :)

How fast can I block and delete challenge

idk how many people here are on LinkedIn- but that platform has also apparently turned on AI scraping by default for US users. Settings>Data Privacy>Data for Generative AI Improvement to shut it off.

Like nature returned to dust. Watch the full performance of 'Disintegrate' on Later… with Jools Holland here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F091... - SuedeHQ

#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy An unearthed video shows Former Defense Secretary Esper saying #Shit4Brains wanted to shoot protesters. “Can’t you just shoot them?” This is why our military needs the reminder about unlawful orders. Share this widely.

GenAI, which is just AI now (sorry, pedants, capitalism means people with more money than you get to decide what words mean) is a scam designed to prop up a scam economy that hasn't had a good idea since "what if we made Harvard Hot or Not the entire internet?" & if you believe anything else...

Link for tonight's #DriveInMob presentation of Kill! (1968), starring Tatsuya Nakadai! vimeo.com/1115681985

Then at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT, the excellent @theasabin.bsky.social hosts tonight's #CineJanes presentation of The Awakening (UK, 2011)! Find the link on Tubi, Kanopy and for rent at the usual places! tubitv.com/movies/60186...

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Tonight at 8 pm ET join #DriveInMob as @driveinmob.com and I continue our salute to Tatsuya Nakadai with no help from Creature from the Haunted Sea. We'll be watching Nakadai in Kill! (1968)--adapted from the same novel as Sanjuro (1962). Creature can't ruin our fun!

What a day to be #crushingoncushing

The way that the entire world is just “Sure, Grandpa” and goes on spinning…

Thanks to the wonderful staff in the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections, today my 2nd-year tutorial groups have been thinking about book history and reading practices from the Middle Ages to the 18thC, including this copy of Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (c.1592)

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

the desire for Endless Franchise is sublimated hunger for God. if the franchise ends the hunger pricks, the dread tide ebbs. the standalone short story exists, in the franchise acolyte's imagination, like the grim reaper a the end of a dark dirt road

Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Do not approach us.

I don’t believe in ghosts but my two-hundred year old New England farmhouse sure does.

It’s exactly like Russiagate, a true story that a bunch of right wing hacks did their best to discredit

"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

wicked cute propaganda for the ✨Concierge Agenda✨

🚨 the #dragonageday panel's been announced!! and WAAAHHH I'M SO EXCITED LOOK AT THIS AMAZING LIST!! #dragonage www.youtube.com/live/K0dqF77...

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Just joined @StreamilyLive - looking forward to meeting some of the #DragonAge fans in the chats on live stream. I have no idea how it all works - hoping to get some pointers along the way!

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Ah, to be as carefree as a duck during turkey season.

Curmudgeonly compaint to ignore: Even as I recognize its necessity, I don't like "we're going to win" rhetoric. I think it implies "norms" can be restored, that there'll come a day when this is "over"--vs. a long struggle in which there're victories but no final victory, because this isn't a movie.

While I am getting loads of attention I wasn't expecting... did you know I run the free education programme 'Romancing the Gothic' which has free online classes from experts around the world every week? Get your tickets here! share.google/tegHFYWn1yp7...

Long, long after I have forgotten their names, I shall remember the bamboo/cancer analogy

I love John Ottman’s Disneyfied take on John Carpenter’s classic Halloween theme. Excellent driving music.

Can this be a thing?

Buster Keaton deleted one of his favorite scenes in the movie The Navigator - that cost a lot to shoot - because he realized it did not suit the urgency of the character’s situation at thst moment. Even the best ideas might not fit a particular point in the story. #kidlitchat