How can people hate Avatar when it correctly predicts that hysterically masculine Operator culture is going to last at least another 150 years? My man's marrying a 19 year old space-stripper and buying a hover-Dodge Charger.

the biggest lie the british press tell about trans ppl isn't actually about trans ppl. it's their claim that 'gender critical' is a grass roots movement. it's a ruling class bigotry sparked and spurred on by the american religious right. it's a media and political class bigotry.

It’s been very obvious where Israeli society was going for much of my adult life, and that it was only a matter of time before one of their governments decreed that the moment had come to Do What Must Be Done. This is why we made all that annoying noise about it, for all those years.

"Know thy self, know thy enemy; a thousand battles, a thousand victories." -Sun Tzu www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump wants a 1940s-era Battleship, because he gets that - it's big and has a bunch of big guns on it so it's the winner. This is a modern frigate with a bunch of extra guns that'll never be used because it has guided missiles that can shoot things from two horizons away. He'll hate it.

They’re not beating the ‘everyone’s 12’ allegations

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

The FAQ for a hiking trail I'm looking at is doing Environmental Storytelling.

A violent Neo Nazi organization with close ties to and funding from the Kremlin appears suddenly to get a green light from Kash Patel's FBI.

This, 1000 times this. I loved Clair Obscur too, and the fact that something that was genuinely moving and beautiful has this taint on it hurts all the more.

For the first time in almost a year, I wrote a piece for my personal site (now "relaunched" on beehiv). It is about Clair Obscur and Generative AI and what we are losing. I didn't shop this one around because it is messy and a bit emotional. www.criticalconstruct.com/p/grieving-f...

How would you solve a problem like Avatar? How would you tell a story that says 'colonialism is bad and should be resisted, including by the colonisers themselves' while not reducing the Na'vi to noble savages incapable of anything but a static stone age culture *and* avoid white saviour tropes?

I too have had my free speech cruelly ripped away by Woke - I was due to give my illustrated lecture 'Extreme BDSM Themes in Japanese Noise Music' in King Charles' bedroom at 3am every night for the next month, but because of Cultural Marxism I am 'not allowed in Buckingham Palace'.

These people are clowns.

New -- I spoke to a physician warning that AI industry incentives are a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis: “If we fail to act, we risk letting market forces, rather than public health, define how relational AI influences mental health and well-being at scale.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Terfery looks so much like every other far right derangement because that is exactly what it is, and always was.

Heard a lot of you chatting shit about Newgrange, and I'll admit it's a solid B-tier henge, but Avebury is the thinking man's henge - it encircles a large part of a village. You can live in a henge.

I believe in Newgrange supremacy. 5 millennia, zero bullshit. Older than Stonehenge and has a roof, get fucked. Solstice icon, no choice but to stan, etc. etc. etc.

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

Hell fucken yes

What??

Curtis Yarvin is the Garth Marenghi of Carl Schmitts.

Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State (1998)

Now online: 'Peter Watkins (1935–2025)' by Nicolas Helm-Grovas.

Okay, what movie should I watch tonight while drinking limoncello and eating nachos?

This filled a good half-hour rant I had last night for an upcoming thing. Conservative (and crypto-fascist and fascist--broadly reactionary) work is entirely post hoc justification for resentment. And any analysis of their thought must begin and end there: it's just not that deep, broad or complex

Avatar: Fire and Ash shows that there is nothing that isn't possible when you have a goth gf with bpd

It's never just one thing - it's always racism *and* sexual harassment.

From the CWS ARCHIVE. 20th August 2024.

🤔 Reminder that HC published him for 15 years and seemingly sacked him off due to Telegraph investigation NOT their own >> The publisher said it took employee wellbeing "extremely seriously" with "processes in place for reporting and investigating concerns". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK children's publishing today

Unless it's your job, you don't have to look through the Epstein files. You are not a pundit, and whatever engagement you get will be fleeting. Instead, why not start collecting Lego Bionicle? Bionicle is one of Lego's most iconic series, with a deep lore and dozens of posable figures. Bionicle is s

we're about to see a LOT of weak ass bitches folding for genAI and it's very important that you double down on your stance against it

It's almost time for my Worst Album Art of the year post. Give me some of the worst metal album art of 2025.

One thing people never bring up when there are 'we asked these Trump voters' pieces is their cloying, saccharine, Hallmark card sentimentality. Everything is 'Ed Kemper did what was in his heart because of his belief in the values of truth ❤️'

Truly chilling.

Whenever I see cartoon Americans like this I know I’m going to regret being able to read.

living in the UK for as long as I did gave me a useful concept to describe people like this. We get weird about it in American English, and the Brits win on this one because it is a genuinely helpful term: these people are cunts. They're not motivated by anything other than being cunts. That's it!

Never change, Bluesky.

Very cool!

Well there goes 80% of the UK's children's books.

Really great article on what the future could look like for the US (and UK): open.substack.com/pub/oceandro...

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Not smarter than you, but on it all the same.

DId I ever tell you how much I appreciate Mr. Henderson's ability to create Weird and Fucked Up Guys?

One of the best dreadnought conversions I've ever seen.

Called it.

She got pretty far along the hiring process until they figured out that she didn't write No Logo and The Shock Doctrine.

Normies love AI exhibit ten million billion.

Everyone keeps saying that I've 'just reinvented a coat rack' They don't understand #founder #mindset