Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

When trans+ people are discussed in the media, women’s voices are too often represented by a few who want to exclude. But many of us feel differently. We believe trans women have every right to share our spaces and our communities safely. 3/5

Unemployment.

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

People say Barbie is an unrealistic role model, but what about Mr. Potato Head? I’ve never seen a guy who looks likes that

I resent this. Also:

Janeane Garofalo in The Truth About Cats and Dogs.

The studio that made the shitty coca-cola AI ad getting their teeth kicked in on socials bc of how icky bad it is, then the studio CEO coming out insulting and dismissing folks kicking their teeth in, and THEN releasing the worst ever cover up “hey we actually made this by hand” scam vid 🧍‍♀️

Mirroring the video here if you don't want to even humor going onto Twitter, but when it gets into the "process" section, there's so many red flags of them lying about the work they put into the commercial that reveal how much of this video is them trying and lying after the fact.

Frame by frame, pixel by pixel, we worked to create the perfect christmas animals *panda with a samurai sword appears*

Love the sound of this. If there was one in a UK city I'd be there like a shot (with screenshots of companies that don't give out any kind of phone number on their 'Contact Us' pages).

an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

it was love at first sight

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

The ludicrous thing is believing the point of creating and playing music is to end up wildly financially successful rather than entertaining yourself and some friends *looks at my piles of synths and guitars nervously*

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

If any of you doubted that Mamdani would, if he won, become an instantly national figure, I urge you to seek out and watch his speech in full. It is a barn-burner, with a big piece of it aimed right at Trump and another big piece pretty clearly aimed at the Democratic Party establishment.

Full Mamdani victory speech. ✌️❤️💗 www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

This is the real difference between creativee\artist and AI drones - Art is process driven AI outcome driven. Art is supposed to capture the heart mind and soul of the person making it at that time and AI can't replicate those tiny choices.

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

Me and the family rewatched Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves the other night. It is delightful, this generation's Princess Bride. Very funny, charming, and inventive, it deserved to make a billion dollars. Cold comfort for the filmmakers, but I'd say it'll be rediscovered eventually.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

Morning! The love and grief for Diane Keaton was, in many respects, tied to how much we loved her in romantic comedies -- and served as a reminder of what we're losing now that studios have basically shrugged them off to streamers. My latest, for @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link): bit.ly/43gkI58

I look upon the world and can only paraphrase Beckett: “This can’t go on; it goes on.”

I’m dealing with a lot of stress at work so not posting much but the best trend y’all are missing out on is the pizza wars over on Tik Tok. These people are talented!

“The government is going to break copyright to benefit big tech... I dont understand how scraping an Ed Sheeran song is going to improve UK productivity” Find out more about copyright and AI 🤖⬇️ www.ism.org/campaign/cop...

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

Maura Dooley visited Chris Wood's Grimm show at Scarborough Art Gallery for which I have written a series of Mortuary Rhymes, as opposed to nursery rhymes, in keeping with the Grimms' tone. She posted this catalogue last page, a suggestion why Yorkshire people are natural matches for such a project.

"Politically correct sirens", with their pronouns nee/naw

Yes, exactly. Just being able to do it is meaningless. Meaning is derived *from* the process. The “why” for a human artist is working through problems (philosophical and literal) and sometimes seeing something transcendent come out of all that effort.

This. Also, because so much AI-generated “art” is prompted solely by “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?!” there’s no “why” to it. No meaning. It’s entirely outcome-driven. So you had a thought, boom, there it is… then what? (Which gives me vague hope that, like a kid with a toy, people will tire of it.)

A local north london charity called Akwaaba is raising money for a creative art space for refugees, unhoused ppl, and the wider community. Even small donations will make a big difference! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #UKKidlit

NOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MITIGATE THE SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES i am going to lose my entire fucking mind

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.