This is my emotional support goblin Sable

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

pro tip for sharing extremely fucked up climate news: if you don’t include a doable action step, it’s just gonna burn people out I got about a bajillon of em. how bout: find out when your local planning and zoning people meet, show up and support clean energy projects and dense housing

I just learned that de Lauretis passed away two weeks ago. A groundbreaking feminist scholar and, now that I think about it, my introduction to Michael Snow. RIP.

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

This is not yet a law but the quotes in this are something. That Missouri has a few trans/nb pols is encouraging but that vote tally isn't.

This guy's disgusting logic is behind their abortion ban too!

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

In my most important journalism to date, I spoke with Japan's only mainstream transgender filmmaker, Kasho Iizuka, about bringing Japan's hidden history to cinematic light. For @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Neolithic Pig Cauldron floating in the woods

You know I genuinely don't understand why a lot of people seem to think that depicting trans women as "gender-ambiguous" or "effeminate males who long to be seen as Real Women but can't" is like, "breaking stereotypes". That's the dominant narrative on trans women. It's what most people think.

So we get this odd cyclical discourse about how important it is to celebrate non-passing, early-transition, or otherwise "non-stereotypical" depictions of trans women when frankly it's as "non-stereotypical" to depict us as plane jane feminine women as anything us, because there isn't much anyway.

And then it always ends up with arguments between largely early transitioners and closeted trans girls who say they feel represented by such art, set against mostly girls who've been out a while and have noticed how much others are obsessed with finding the man in us, and it's very exhausting.

Through it all I can't help but notice that the truth of how much trans women are placed under a panopticon and fetishized for all the ways in which we're presumed to be inherently or ontologically subversive, deviant, non-conforming and "outside of gender" gets elided.

Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.” “That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

The only thing better than sampling anime on Tubi is petting each of your cats as they're sleeping on their specific perches.

RIP Bud Cort. My favorite movie of all time, hands down forever, is Harold and Maude. I wish we'd gotten more films for him to showcase how wildly funny, sharp, and truly singular he was. But most actors don't even get ONE performance like Harold and Maude, so that counts for 100. I love you Bud.🖤

Beetles and other bugs by G. Baldassini from Volume One of the Italian art portfolio series ‘Modelli D’arte Decorativa,’ published by Bestetti and Tumminelli in the 1910s. UW-Milwaukee Special Collections. #beetleart #insectart #coleoptera

Land Back is not just a possibility. It is happening. Much more than people realize.

It's the party of Pedophiles

i think the most likely scenario for AI in the workplace will be a separation between people who use AI and think it works when it doesn't, and then another group of people who don't use AI who end up picking up the slack for the AI users.

some of the very real, specific harm perpetuated by Grok and Elon Musk’s nonconensual porn machine: www.404media.co/grok-nudify-...

Excalibur.

whatever there is to say about what’s getting thrown in the bucket called AI, I can’t get past how it has been forced on us, breaking things that work. And given the state of things, I need tools that work. There’s no time to waste on something that maybe might work (enrich someone else, poison us).

We hired the manager of The Lying Store and Mr. Steal Your Money to push our new technology and people are still skeptical?

Sort of wild to see that Libs of TikTok content had more hits on Truth Social than the official White House account did last week.

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

WTF NOOOOOOOO!! I just saw him in The Life Aquatic last week and then Brewster McCloud finally last December.

An amazing movie that I recommend to all Dark Crystal fans. The dvd/blu from @secondrun.bsky.social is excellent.

Time to focus on the good Korine - the band from Philly! korine.bandcamp.com

rip james van der beek, deserved better than the hand he got, but honestly i think it's beautiful that everyone is posting about how everyone should watch don't trust the b in apartment 23 :')

all I’ll add is Bondi, as Florida AG, used “fighting sex trafficking” to elevate herself—empowering cops at the expense of survivors. long before Trump she was like this

I wrote about what now looks like the most prescient dystopian vision of the dystopian movie boom years of the '10s.

“Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal said in an interview Tuesday that he and other New York City-area politicians would reraise the flag at the federal monument Thursday.”

every time the numbers drop i want to remind y'all that contractors like me aren't tracked, neither are folks who have run out their unemployment. so the numbers are always HIGHER than posted because of a bunch of invisible workers who are also unemployed.

Is there a Pulitzer Prize for a single sentence? (Author: Josh Tyrangiel)

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

yeah of course the right is terrified of what "the idea of" the city represents even if actual cities are nowhere near that: the intersection points of global supply chains and cultural modes and peoples, "the great and angry masses", the racialized and feminized. scary to them, proletariat to me!

Neocities sites are slowwwwwly popping back up in Bing results, I'm told, but this remains one of the weirdest exchanges I've had with a tech company, where Microsoft admitted there was an issue but wouldn't connect directly to resolve it. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

[leftistly] "trump doesn't care about the law! he can do anything!! we've already lost!!!" meanwhile

some things are actually getting worse here.

you: Both Germany and Japan are re-arming. Like for real. me: is that....bad? @katemac.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

teenagers can't exist in public spaces or use social media but they can get financially destroyed by jimmy donaldson

This is on Musk and he should be held accountable.

I'm running a Larry Fessenden series for my horror column this month, and first up is HABIT. I'm quite excited to dive into more of his movies. I liked this one a lot. It's available on Shudder www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

Notable that basically everyone is NIMBY about these, even jerks like Fetterman, who opposes the one planned for Tremont, Pennsylvania. ICE concentration camps pay no taxes while also making huge demands on local infrastructure, everything from water to sewage to power to hospitals.

my question for guys who drive really loud cars is why do you stop when you get out. why not carry around a little noise device in the grocery store. you know? and the elevator. since everyone loves you in your car, and no one is hoping you wrap it around the nearest street light is what i'd ask

Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus