a christmas carol is about scaring a motherfucker so much they begin to fear repercussions actually, that’s why in this essay i’ll explain why we, as a society, should [gunshot]

If you ever want to see where America tests its ass backwards policies before mainland roll out always look at the pending legislation in Puerto Rico.

Four favorites directed by Brian De Palma: Carrie (1976) Dressed to Kill (1980) Blow Out (1981) Body Double (1984)

🥀 11. Byzantium 2012. dir. Neil Jordan. This is a story about motherhood, girlhood, vampirism, the burden of time, memories and attachment. I thought this was about lesbians, so… i was a little lost and kind of disappointed lol. It was a-okay tho

Cheap, minimally online if at all, doesn't spy on you, doesn't have subscriptions or micro transactions, won't be enshittified, you own it, reminds them of simpler times or childhood, modern pop culture is adversarial and alienating

LOTS of people still go to the movies! it's not their fault you spent a quarter of a billion dollars on one film and you need them all to see it three times for it to make a profit. spend less!

In honor of the unjustly banned Link, I invite folks to post their mutual aid below this thread. I will repost need as long as I am able. As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important. Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.

We've got something for EVERYONE! 🎁

Alien (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright and Harry Dean Stanton.

that "Their brains worked less, but they 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.” jumped out at me. and just feels like such a capturing of current times. reminds me of watching a movie or TV show while second-screening — you 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 just as engaged, but are probably missing a similar 47%

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

Gemma Jones, Oliver Reed “THE DEVILS” dir. Ken Russell 🎬 Warner Bros.

We've forgotten the true Spirit of the Season

You will never catch me complaining about "young people nowadays," all my inter-generational resentment flows mightily in the correct direction: up!

Colleen Hoover: anyway i have a fun, sassy little romance for you that i think you'll all love Hoover: it's totally normal and NOT fucked up in any way Poe: ok this is really not assuaging me Barker: let it go, edgar, i'm excited for this fucked, not normal story Barker: this is gonna be a doozy

i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.

I better not see Spotify wrapped

Does this motherfucker watch movies? Like… at all?

Trump's pardon of Honduras' drug trafficker president is raising awareness of Prospera, the weird tech-ruled city he helped to create. Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias. More: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...

𖦹 ´ .---. `𖦹 ♡ 🌸 ///

Sleep (2008) by African-American portrait painter, Kehinde Wiley (born in 1977). Oil on canvas 3.36 x 7.62 m #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

QUITEN EL ESPAÑOL IA ESE TAMBIÉN. ¿QUÉ CARAJO LES PASA?

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Best response I've seen to the University of Oklahoma firing one of their LGBTQ+ teachers over giving a student a bad grade

You ever start writing something so blasphemous you’re concerned it’s illegal to say in the United States of America and decide to delete the post?

Frieren

The Devil (🇵🇱 1972) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

Nora Roberts: ah here we are Poe: nora? aren't you usually at the romance campfire? Roberts: yeah but i wanted to bring you a new member Poe: a new member? Roberts: yeah meet colleen hoover Colleen Hoover: Poe: oh, uh, hi Roberts: yeah she just wasn't fitting in over there

Cuál pinche navidad, seguimos en la spooby season 🫩 Buenos días.

Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott on the set of Alien (1979)

Bat Friday

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde: “But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.” —Part of “Uses of the Erotic”.

Saruman The White

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

Reading against settler colonialism 📚🌱: mailchi.mp/haymarketboo...

Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social

Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky? elmc.at/mapping-the-... To check out the graph directly follow this link: graph.elmc.at

👋 I've released a blogging template. ✏️ Meant for writers who don't want complicated setups ✊ Open source alternative to big platforms = you own your blog ❤️ It adheres to principles of resilient web design It's a WIP and I'd love to hear how I could make it better github.com/the-coded-ty...

On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.

Happy Thanksgiving, America!

escapism through channeling a medieval manuscript illustrator

Candace Hiligoss in Carnival of Souls

Finally got it up youtu.be/-gMAHm8LBes?...

the other half here is that it would be very fruitful for "american" to mean all of the americas because decentering the us illuminates its many commonalities with countries across the western hemisphere due to their shared history of settler colonialism, racial slavery, cultural admixture, etc

A Witch — Edgar Bundy, 1896

I’m 27 already, i cannot (and will not) fall for rage bait, it’s enough, you have no power over me anymore

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List

*Just sets this down gently at your feet, as to not jostle the angry fairy, as if I were trying to transport a bundle of sleepy bees that I didn't want to disturb* *runs away* #BookBazaar25 #Fairies #BookSky #Crowfunding #IndieAuthors #Writing #Amwriting www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.