There were two 1997 TGIF shows that only lasted one season, and they were ludicrous and I LOVED them: -Teen Angel (teen dies after eating an old burger found under bed, comes back to be his BFF's guardian angel) -You Wish (family finds genie in old rug, he becomes kinda their weird magic uncle)

This is a cruel question for someone who has been watching Bryan Fuller shows since Wonderfalls was on TV.

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

Given how many little "big animals on wheels" we've had from all over the world, I think the prehistoric equivalent of "Truck Kid" might be "Ox Kid." (Ukraine, Crete, Maharashtra, Anatolia)

That's what a liberal is; a capitalist, an exploiter, a merchant of death.

My sister was in an extremely grisly WSIB ad 20yrs ago (the retail worker falling off a ladder), and it made me take health and safety protocols SO SERIOUSLY. Health and safety regulations are to be treasured.

"every OSHA regulation is written in blood"

apropos of the thing of the day: just about every construction regulation that you personally find to be annoying overkill is in place because somebody had a grisly, avoidable death. they don’t establish regulations ahead of disaster just to be safe. they do it to clean up horrifying messes

Texting 20 people "hey haven't talked in a while hope you're doing well" then putting my phone on a little wooden ship, pushing it into a lake and shooting it with a flaming arrow

is The Three Musketeers like the only movie where Kiefer Sutherland was ever allowed to play a good guy?

The more I think about this the funnier it is. These dorks think an unwillingness to actively exploit other people means that socialists don't understand that's how you accrue wealth. They think they invent wealth out of thin air by being smarter (read: more cruel and selfish) than other people.

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is genuinely such a funny quote. The average only-moderately-well-read commie has a much more detailed and profound understanding of how wealth is created and gained than any CEO or economist whose idiolect seems to be mysteriously absent of the word "labour."

This is EVIL. Read the whole article-- this is what decades of "vote strategically for the lesser evil, just this once, just this election" every single election has gotten us. Carney is a nasty worm. How different is this really from what we were trying to avoid with Poilievre?

No, the assumption that disabled people require our colleagues’ stolen words and illustrations chopped up and spewed out in order to participate in art is ableist. We have BEEN creating art. Many of the works you love? Made by someone marginalized out of traditional jobs.

Always loved these early Hockney paintings of Bradford

My wife always says our dog Bill looks like a tiktaalik, and this is absolutely some shit he would do

See ya

I love Lilly Wachowski so much, and it made me so happy when both sisters came out. For years after seeing Bound as a teen (too many times, late night on cable, low volume) I'd been like "this feels actually lesbian, not Hollywood Lesbian??" and it suddenly made sense. Made by lesbians after all 🖤

A LOT of professional artists are disabled-- it's one of the only ways we can survive when we can't manage in other jobs. Disabled artists of all kinds have always existed. Everyday people, and some very famous, like outsider art, or Chuck Close strapping a paintbrush to his arm after paralysis.

Since May 24th, I've relistened to: Men At Arms Feet Of Clay Jingo The Fifth Elephant Night Watch Monstrous Regiment Reaper Man Equal Rites Witches Abroad (and accidentally the abridged Moving Pictures 🤢) and every single one has made me tear up repeatedly. Simply the best to ever do it.

Guess what, people used to die from BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS from raw milk. Like, all the time. Pasteurization is up there with modern vaccination as the most miraculous discoveries to ever happen to human health and wellbeing. www.nationwidechildrens.org/family-resou...

Genuinely getting really emotional seeing that the Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services is up-to-date on communicable illnesses and advocates masking. It feels hopeless sometimes seeing how many professionals don't keep up on Covid research, but this gives me hope.

In which the Chair of Canada's new National Advisory Panel on *Preventive* Health Services walks-the-talk in his airborne infection-preventing N95 🤩

I worry about this so fucking much. There are a LOT of remote communities in Canada that for-profit shipping companies don't deliver to because it's not cost effective for them. Canada Post's legal mandate to deliver everywhere is vital, and they need to loudly commit to those guaranteed services.

It is getting dire how inconsistent my lettermail shipments to US customers are. Everything is late now, and like 5% or more go missing entirely. I already don't really make enough to live, how do you think sales are gonna go if I have to charge $15 for shipping&tariffs on every $5 sticker?

Perhaps People With Long Covid Should Talk About Something Else For A While

I'm doing two Terroronto markets next month-- how many Widow's Bay paintings do we think I can finish in that time? Definitely doing Patricia looking in the mirror near the end of Beach Reads, and creepy Dale in What To Expect On Your Trip....

The fact that “is this candidate masculine enough” is still a frequent topic of debate at all shows just how far we have to go to unlearn misogyny

Capitalists want you to trust AI search results because they want to deskill you of the ability to do any due diligence whatsoever! They don’t want you capable of detecting bullshit because: “Tech companies” is a misnomer. They are ad companies.

I love the podcast Good Noticings, but I'm skipping the rest of this ep. They misdefine "blue MAGA," and present Platner as "had no clue his tat was nazi until the smears, was mortified," which has been debunked from so many sources (whether he knew when he got it is unclear, but he knew for years)

Dale Dickey as Rosemary on Widow's Bay is a shining beacon of cigarette smoke in a dark world.

I am prepping a manuscript for a major academic publisher. I have been told to copy and paste hundreds of individual sentences from my doc to their "template" which has the required formatting. I imagine one might do this with AI, but I'm not, b/c I want to make absolutely sure it's accurate.

Rewatching Widow's Bay ep 3 "The Inaugural Swim," and it makes me so happy when Tom walks into the diner and Roxy Music is playing. More shows should use Roxy Music.

"Gender reassignment surgery for minors" is for trans rights what "Late-term abortion" is for reproductive rights. Two non-existent practices that are being maliciously used by fascists to undermine the entire premise of trans rights and reproductive rights.

evergreen

Re: sex in Lake Erie (and Lake Ontario)

trans rights actually aren't extra rights they're just the same rights everybody else has that you're trying to take away from trans people. sorry you have trouble with this, but it means you're a bigot not that we're wrong.

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

I used to get male customers telling me I looked like Scarlett Johansson like twice a week when I was 20, but also my whole family thinks I looked like Zac Hanson for years. Actually, my wife thinks I look exactly like Mot from Merrie Melodies Rocket-Bye Baby, so THAT is absolutely my fave one.

How I feel drawing anything rn

DO IT FOR HER

so I started watching Widow's Bay...

I started watching Buffy as s2 aired when I was 10yrs old, and you better believe I locked all the way in on Giles. Between rewatches, and listening to Limewire-acquired clips of Behind Blue Eyes and Free Bird on my iPod, I've spent hundreds of hours over 30yrs of my life with Anthony Stewart Head 🖤

Hi we're not nervous, we hate it and would like it to fall into an open manhole, hope that helps

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are you just going to do this for every generation

Sam Neill in Peaky Blinders S01E01: "You know what's worse than dads who molest their kids? You corrupt cops taking bribes from those dads. But you know what's even worse than you corrupt cops and rapist dads? COMMUNISTS AND FENIANS!"