This @kickstarter.com to restore classic silent cartoons is about 2/3 of the way to its goal with 13 days left! If you've got a few bucks, kick in!

Pride month gets a bitter aftertaste when you see so many brands try to market to the they’s and gays as if they actually are such *friendly lil guys* when in actuality they all undermine all efforts or maybe they just ditch the queer community as soon as is convenient

these account wide tags are awful, this is all text

Good morning

found a sticker

That's four of ten identified so far between @thudfactor.com, @frodiscaper.bsky.social, and @unrealfred.bsky.social -- anybody care to take a crack at the remaining six?

Last week's Friday 10 went to @thudfactor.com who was the only one to identify a lyric! This time around, how many of the 10 will be identified? Any of them ring a bell for you?

didn't think I'd be saying this in 2026 but: the eyes of the country are now fixed firmly on Flo Rida bsky.app/profile/alex...

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

BREAKING: Crash and the Boys have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration.

We live in a time of great evil and stupidity. One day, future generations will refuse to believe it could have been this bad. Be prepared to say, "No, I lived through it. It was stupidly, cartoonishly evil. As absurd as it sounds to you, it was actually worse than that."

Grabbed @titanomachyrpg.com's #CaltropCore on a whim earlier today. I've always loved the idea of creating RPGs, and it really looks like a fun base system! Also, it uses D4 - which are hella fun to roll.

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

Oh, man. I was in a summer theatre program, and my family came to visit for the one family day. And they were talking about this movie they *had* to take me to see during right away, called--

If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like Freedom 250 is claiming concerts in the DC area that have nothing to do with their event in order to pad the number of popular names on their posters, and also booked at least one act for a concert without disclosing what their event *actually was.*

Kane Parsons jokes about fake rumors that claimed someone ghost-directed the ‘BACKROOMS’ movie for him. “They don't tell you this, but 96% of all movies released in North America and Europe are actually directed by the same person… They call him ‘The Older Gentleman’.”

People who say, "Stop lying -- you HAVE to be using AI because it's just so easy and tempting" are HELLA telling on themselves.

As it turns out, dark chocolate hazelnut butter will work in a peanut butter cookie recipe. #ComicBookBakingClub

Hi! Here's a new Topato comic about Time.

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

Hot take: American media has argued soap operas and late night talk shows died/are dying because audiences abandoned them. Other nations still produce tons of them, and USA audiences WOULD still support them. Their disappearance is a symptom of late-stage capitalism, not shifting audience tastes. 📺

I'm just a single customer, but any retailer who sends me something in a Uline package and asks for feedback is going to get back a list of competitors they can get their packing materials from who don't fund fascism and hatred.

All totally fair points. But also: Funding afterschool programs and the library system wouldn't hoit.

Backrooms Director Trutherism just seems like a really bizarre row to hoe. Like, there have always been directors that people debated whether or not they actually did the work, but suddenly you want to just pick a movie and build a brand new conspiracy theory around that one example?

Conservatives are terrified of Dems finally understanding that the people yearn to tell Republicans to shut the fuck up

I've been seeing this making the rounds a lot, and I'm really excited too! But there's a really important note here: This is PRECLINICAL research, meaning we haven't done the basic science to be sure it's, like, yanno, *safe*. Just that it WORKS. Probably.

Boycott Uline.

You know, I don't think this AI stuff is as popular as they're telling us it is.

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The waits between seasons doubled in last 10 yrs — & this piece doesn’t get into it, but when execs also demand shorter seasons, in some cases way too short, the end result = audiences that just don’t engage with shows/characters the same way. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

It’s a good joke but it’s also way too “when they go low we go high.” The correct response to “Talarico is vegan” isn’t “no I’m not.” The correct response is “Ken Paxton is a criminal adulterer who protects child molesters.”

There's a lot of people out there who argue "the intent of the creator" or "the magic of cinema." My take is: If you enjoy the way you watch it, then you're not doing it wrong. If you prefer to marathon every Star Wars movie at once -or- split Oppenheimer into a 3-episode miniseries, g'wan ahead.

Reminder!

Did simmering rage and frustration on par with Gene Wilder, imo

Extraordinary Popular Delusions AND The Madness of Crowds? In THIS economy?

I have no mouth AND I must scream? In this economy?

It honestly took me a moment to realize "Possible Oval Office Walkout" was referring to an actual part of the program, and not "Members of the staff have threatened to stage a walkout in advance of the event."

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

I went looking for fun books on writing, and most of the results tossed at me were about how to prompt ChatGPT to write "novels that sell." I feel insulted. Like, are you suggesting that I can't become a hack under my own power?

I had this issue as a kid, and it's 100% the reason I want a Blue Devil movie.

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

I mean, in the old days, having remarks on the Pope's new encyclical was more easily referred to as "heresy," but whatevs.

verhoeven-ass chyron

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