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Still thinking about how I spent the first twenty minutes of Marty Supreme wondering "how are they gonna make this ping pong movie a tense thriller," and then they introduce Marty's ping pong nemesis and a John Carpenter synth stab drops like he's an interdimensional space beast, and I went "*oh*"

Gym playing the Shakira Zootopia song. Lol

Nine Delights 2026

My favorites of last year

I’m currently at the Washington Monument:

The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Just hit me that there is a distinct subtext to taking a guy named Marty obviously straight out of the 80s and dropping him into the middle of the 50s

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

Please enjoy this absolutely incredible coal mining ad from the 1970s (the slogan at the end is just pure magic) (Source: British Film Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILJk...)

This evening, as communities across Washington state are reeling from historic flooding, DOE issued an emergency order directing continued operation of a Washington coal plant that would have closed by the end of the year due to a new state law banning coal-powered electricity generation.

A lot of songs get their hooks in me for a half season, a captured mood, but once a song has taken up residence in my bone marrow for a second internally driven personal reason, it's gonna stick

I love to sing Cypress Hill's "When the Shit Goes Down" to the two small dogs i live with

Love a sci fi war comic that includes grain graphs

As far as we know, these are not yet death camps, but they follow the camp's logics. Zones of exception, where the Law is equally unapplicable to the detainees or the sovereigns who organize the terror. Where political beings are transformed into bodies of bare life.

@evangaylion.bsky.social ahem

One with Mom

My favorite comment on the FT story

Sandwich man leaving court

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

In the span of about 4 minutes Mom just asked me successively to define anarchism, Marxism, and communism, so it's going great

convinced that our society's addiction to extremely didactic YA literature is the blame for this.

Lol. Lmao

A group in San Diego has been patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed.

This evening's update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center on #Melissa is ominous, and explicitly mentions: "catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding...extensive infrastructural damage...and potentially prolonged isolation of communities" in both Jamaica & Haiti.

“And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.” Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘father of English literature’, author of The Canterbury Tales, died #OTD 1400; buried at Westminster Abbey. British Library

Rabbi Arthur Waskow (1933-2025), זכרונו לברכה ("may his memory be for a blessing"). A trailblazer and champion of the religious Jewish left for decades. A thinker and activist who put his body on the line many, many times for other people and for our non-human relatives and the earth.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Obviously there's a perspective that says "build your mass org, not everything needs a reaction" is the only viable action in the face of the fascist cliff, but the sense of national precipice is feeling severe, and to refuse to build on unprecedented mass action strikes me as real folly.

“The indictment brought against the men — Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts — appeared to be the first time that terrorism charges had been filed against anyone said to be associated with antifa…” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

never forget

To-nite

In some ways this is the government now

It's barely past 9:30. Am I about to rewatch Perfect Blue?

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

Last 4. Saving Face was really delightful, living with Mom is introducing me to a whole library of 00s lesbian romcoms and it is truly a gift.

Artwork used internally at DIC Entertainment during the production of the Super Mario World cartoon, replacing Marge Simpson with Mario. According to a former DIC employee, this was made due to an inside joke at the studio, though the exact nature of the joke has been lost.

‪From “THEY’RE VIOLENTLY CAMPING OUT, SEND THE SWAT TEAM” to “where are the young protestors doing peaceful civil disobedience to stop authoritarianism 🥺‬”

barack obama: democracy itself is at stake, can you help us? lin-manuel miranda [dressed as ben franklin, singing to the tune of "i got 5 on it"]: i got bifocals

kaleb was right about damn near everything and not that it’s my business to render judgments but for him to be the one who died and not one of many much dumber and worse people is just hateful to me

Doing great