Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

That this war with Iran is unpopular in a way never before recorded in American history has seen remarkably little attention from the press

“I never want to end up in a position where I’m one of the Ningyōzukai manipulating the arms and legs of this puppet that frankly hasn’t been relevant since the early 17th century,” said the Marty Supreme star

This is one of 2025's best movies. But you won't get to see it compete at the Oscars. It's called Nobody, and it earned almost $250 million on a $10< million budget. A future is coming for small, risky films — with or without the Oscars. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-t...

Japanese fan girl does cosplay of Arale Norimaki, the lead android heroine (menace?) of DR SLUMP, dressed in a Godzilla costume, one of the comedy manga's most enduring images. These photos are from Fanroad Magazine (1981) and originally shared by Kaiju Kingdom

my hot writing take is that playing with POV is neat and you can do what you want. present tense first! close third! first-person-direct-address with bits of omniscient third! anything is legal if you look good doing it!!

@gnarledmonster.bsky.social makes some really lovely an engaging works. Of all the people working with isometric maps at the moment, he's my favorite - and he really knows how to reduce a character image down to an almost DragonQuest-like character token. Good to see Alex is still making things.

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

Peter Thiel can give a series of lectures where he speculates on Greta Thunberg being the anti-Christ and very few people frame it as someone wholly disconnected from regular life, though it clearly is

amichai.

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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

this is good. underrated problem with popularism: it is--openly and explicitly--a pathetic, wimpy school of thought www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Gave this one the usual punched up typesetting wherever possible. Really pleased with the eyecatch logo especially.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

watched this for the first time a couple days ago and it's outstanding, excellent to get a discotek release

I first thought "there aren't words" when I first saw this story. but there are

Warning from Space (1956)

i see people taking this way too seriously and I think it's important to remember anno is one of the most successful trolls in the industry and often self-deprecates in deadpan sarcasm. everyone he namechecks are his bffs/idols.

"an old political order juddering to a stop, the elites of that order unable to navigate the new, uneven terrain; desperate and opportunistic grabs for power in the vacuum; a sense of being swept up into chaos and disorder as subterranean forces brewing for decades erupt to the surface."

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

The WSJ reports that the Trump administration has massed "significant" air power in striking distance of Iran, but hasn't yet decided what the purpose of an attack would be. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.

2026 basically

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Just imagine being the kind of person who would build your personal security detail on the bones of dead women and children around the world.

“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Spectacular reporting by @wired.com

Why did no one tell me there is a new Yuen Woo-ping film coming starring Jet Li, Wu Jing, Nicholas Tse, Yu Shi, and Max Zhang? what the FUCK? how did I miss that this is a thing that exists www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD4v... this looks incredible

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

more of this. don't be the machine. be the cogs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

ethics professor here, can confirm