Regarding the EA sale: I’ve already agreed/accepted my role as an #EAPartner for the upcoming pack. After I complete those commitments - so by the end of the week - I will be removing myself from the #EACreatorNetwork. I can’t support the new owners with my money, attention, content, or time.

TIL there’s a furry bar in Seattle, by which I mean they have a picture of a wolf in a fursuit on their web page and they’re called Slightly Furry. Cool.

Gen V has flaws but I really like Jordan’s fight scenes; the way the show uses their power/form shifts is creative in a way the average MCU or DCU fight scene doesn’t manage. You can tell the character has trained with their abilities in mind.

I did not feel like I was transcending space and time but I’m very glad to have manic PTA back. Goes on his list of masterpieces. Review tomorrow when I’ve slept. 📽️

Oh yeah let’s do #LastFourFriday! Kind of a haphazard week but that’s life in the #Hooptober fever dream. And 2.5 stars isn’t a bad rating, I found things to like in both of those. 📽️

Wait, so Paul Thomas Anderson has completed his ten movies before Tarantino? Did anyone let Tarantino know? 📽️

The Beacon, working with Mr. Onion, can make it happen! Tickets now on sale: bsky.app/profile/pwna... 🎥

Emailed the Beacon Cinema in #Seattle — they are seeing what they can do about screening @bencollins.bsky.social’s movie! Say thanks by seeing Titane, Touch of Evil, or the sublime overwrought Lovers on the Bridge down there this weekend.

If Sara Jane Moore’s death leaves you wanting to learn more about her, I recommend Suburban Fury, a documentary co-written by Seattle’s own Charles Mudede. Full cooperation from Moore makes this a really interesting character study of a suburban Republican who drifted into radicalism. 🎥

I've spent much of the last year in Columbia County, Oregon with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social investigating why Sarah Zuber was found dead on the side of the road in 2019, and why her family still has no answers. Hush Season Two drops Oct. 8. The trailer is out now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Off the top of my head: The Master Magnolia There Will Be Blood Punch Drunk Love Boogie Nights === the masterpiece line === Phantom Thread Hard Eight Inherent Vice === the pta oh no pta line === Licorice Pizza

Ruin a band with law Fairport Constitutional Convention

Horrifying, insane scoop from @vivmccall.bsky.social . Five beatings of trans women have occurred in Seattle so far this year. The suspects have all been men. In at least one case, random men—strangers—have joined in on the attacks. Depraved shit. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

TIL that Doug Englebart, co-inventor of the mouse and developer behind the “Mother of All Demos,” veered off track and got involved with EST during the 70s. He wound up on the EST board of directors, even.

Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Yo, Seattle — time to call KOMO and plaintively ask why that nice Jimmy Kimmel isn’t showing. No need to get into ideological arguments but being confused about what’s so bad is good.

After the first few chapters of Electric Eden, excellent history of the British folk rock movement, I wanted to turn it into a sequel campaign to Pelgrane’s Fearful Symmetries setting. Then I got to the deaths and remembered how grim that would be. Real tragedy as gaming fodder doesn’t work.

This is Jasper. He hangs out at Jebediah Coffee every morning with his owner.

If you need a Letterboxd list to clone for the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social Psychotronic Challenge, I did a quick one! Suggestions for lists to link for each category are welcome. boxd.it/OS2aw

Coming to you from the depths of Hooptober, a #TTRPG related recommendation: if you are running or playing the Delta Green Impossible Landscapes campaign, you will benefit from renting and watching The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears. Now I know what The Broadalbin feels like. 🎥

Well, fuck stadium traffic.

Best physical media rental library in the world and that’s not hyperbole. 150K titles. Here’s about half of their Westerns section. 🎥

Charles Boyer spends the entire runtime of The Earrings of Madame de… taking snarky potshots at anyone within range and I am absolutely here for it. 📽️

If it is in any way possible for you to, max out your retirement fund contributions (personal IRA, work-provided simple/401k/whatever, HSA account) every year. If you can’t afford that just drop in what you can even if it’s just bits and drabs here and there. It adds up, and the earlier the better.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Launched into Hooptober with a classic James Whale, continued exploring Westerns with Jimmy Stewart, ate comfort food with Jean Gabin, and hit The Beacon for my 1st film in their Destroy Me More program. 📽

Hulu’s a pretty good service but I’ve finished The Bear so… >cancel<

So after listening to half the Ludonarrative Dissonance episode on Vampire, my brain dumped a campaign concept on me: Joan of Arc’s Vampires of Action. Joan of Arc is a human touched by God, no changes needed. However, I posit that she came across a small pack of vampires. 🧵

Appealed; denied. Well, Amazon isn’t gonna miss the three bucks a month I spend on AWS services but I am migrating off them anyhow; this is ludicrous.

Agh, the Seattle @lankumdublin.bsky.social date has been cancelled and it looks like the rest of the North American tour as well? Anyone happen to know what's up? I'm bummed.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

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NW our first Hooptober movie! Gonna be a lot of horror for me and @smichele.bsky.social for the next six weeks. boxd.it/O3kZ6

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Holy Motors (2012) Crash (1996) Titane (2021)

Build a trilogy out of three unrelated films: 8 1/2 All That Jazz Holy Motors I imagine Leos Carax is rarely the most restrained artist in the room, but this time just maybe. 📽️

Good write up on rationalist cults. (Read the article if you’re unfamiliar.) The more I hear about the mind-tech techniques, the more I want to trace potential connections between the EST seminars I experienced as a kid and CFAR. www.aipanic.news/p/the-ration...

For my wrestling pals who are not tabletop RPG folks: I think this would be a good first game. Nathan is a fan and has really written something special here; you can make a local indie, a national powerhouse, a deathmatch promotion, anything. It’s great. 🤼‍♂️

Sorry, AWS, what? You won’t let me use production SES because my little web app sending emails when I manually register someone might have a negative impact on your service? That’s kind of crazy.

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

Nevertheless, it's Friday, and I have a #LastFourWatched. Claire Denis is really really good, dunno if you knew that or not. 📽️

Gavin Newsom appointed seven members of the UC Board of Regents and sits on that Board. What, he was too busy shitposting to do anything about this?

I think the Years of Lead comparisons are bad, because we’re not near as bad off yet and more importantly, why are you looking to Europe? That’s just avoiding our equally violent home-grown history. We all live in Bleeding Kansas now. It has happened here before and it can happen here again.

Welcome to the Black British Folk Revival. Guest curator Angeline Morrison and friends take over Cecil Sharp House with folk sounds, songs, and stories that shine a long overdue light on the African Diaspora's love for, and ongoing conversations with, British folk. Sat 4 Oct bit.ly/4f02wBB

The WSJ story about the birthday letter compares his signature to a pair of validated Trump signatures, both from warm congratulatory letters. One is to George Conway, and the other is to Hillary Clinton. That’s some extremely strong shitposting right there. (Gift link.) www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"Dear inner child," they said. "Wouldn't it be cool to own ALL the Rifts supplements?" "Shut up, www.bundleofholding.com," I said. But it didn't work well.

High alert for all my fellow @danielpinkwater.bsky.social fans. I would not have pegged Benny Safdie for this but sure!

This year: nothing more than once actually All time: I am fairly sure this is Ronin

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