Your New Hobby! Which will it be?

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This is a great account to follow. And it does excellent alt texts for the images it posts.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Oddly the San Diego Air & Space Museum had no descriptive placard about this jetpack. But I believe that it was flown at the 1984 Olympics. Sadly they didn't have any for sale at the gift shop.

⏱️ Here's a time-lapse taste of our after-hours #livestream: when the microfiche scan teams log off, the feed rolls on with #InternetArchive gems—silent films, home movies, NASA images & more. This clip is sped up 45x so you can sample the vibe. 📡 Watch ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music

This is very awkward, but someone is impersonating me using the email [email protected], contacting artists and asking them for money. Several artists have forwarded examples of the emails.

Also the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (HDSF) is a marvel.

In this house we enjoy the music of DEVO

If you're ever struggling with imposter syndrome, just know that so is John Williams for some fucking reason. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Grace just sent this me this tok of a woman accidentally recording her cat in slow motions, and I am SOBBING from laughing so hard

they brought back the pepsi generation to brag about how much they ruined their children’s future

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

Uh, guys. Bad news. Impersonation accounts are happening here. A reminder that if I message or respond to you and it seems weird, check for my verification. This ain’t me. And it looks like they are asking for DMs from women, soooo…be careful out there.

Making my IndieWire debut for their 1970s Week with a look at some of the earliest cultural boots on the ground that saw just how bad things were about to get. Thank god none of these are relevant now www.indiewire.com/features/com...

We put on the damn sunglasses and dug into the props, posters, politics & philosophy that made John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE immortal. Read the new Unspooled Substack.

After a long hiatus… Animus long-form essays are back! John Kidwell writes about cinema’s response to the unfolding climate crisis over the last 30 years: animus-magazine.ghost.io/be-scientifi...

In honor of the anniversary, here's Joan Jett turning Science Fiction Double Feature into a Joan Jett song: tidal.com/browse/track...

May I refer you to my show, where we’ve talked about dozens of movies unloved on release? SORCERER, SPEED RACER, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, RETURN TO OZ, HEAD, RAVENOUS, KRULL, VAMPIRE’S KISS, NOTHING BUT TROUBLE… patreon.com/haveyouseenthis

For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured? Last week, we finally found the answer. www.instagram.com/p/DID43LBNPD...

A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

A good question! Can others assist?

Somewhere in Heavy Metal Valhalla, Lemmy realises he's going to have to share his stash.

Facebook’s AI suggestions are some of the most aggressively stupid things I’ve seen a corporation push on consumers

"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."

OMG.

The first long interview with the mysterious Clair Noto, one of the 1st women comics writers, who wrote the cult fave Red Sonja series in the late 1970s, and about whom little is known. She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!

TODAY: oh my god oh my god oh my god @zachrabiroff.com interviews Billy Bragg!!! “Print the legend, mate, print the legend.” flaminghydra.com/r/5f5cd803?m...

Apple TV+ has ordered a series adaptation of the William Gibson 1984 novel Neuromancer. Not only Neuromancer is a sci-fi masterpiece, but it ALSO has spaceships and space stations. In other words, I've got plenty of reasons to talk about it for years to come. 😁

"Pg. 12: Turns out there is no God. Though the Catholic priests pray for you, their prayers fail to relieve the cramping in your gut. You die of dysentery. Two days later, the very small clown dies of grief."

Nothing will ever be as beautifully stupid as Cold War nuke planning.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Why did no one tell me Weekend at Bernie's (1989) is the social commentary I desperately needed in the age of ass-backwards valuations of human worth, huh? You're all chumps. open.substack.com/pub/vaughnjo...

And regardless of what Lucas said, I can't believe Lucasfilm is going to celebrate this film's 50th anniversary in two years without investing in a restoration of the original version and releasing it on Disney+ and BR4K. That's what I would do to earn easily the goodwill of the fandom.

“From day one, George Lucas has been making changes to these films,” he said. “It hasn’t just been here’s one big scene change there. It’s been the little nuance. It’s been the sound effects, it’s been the smallest details — which you do not notice until now you don’t see it.” I want it 🫡

People don't want to see the original print of Star Wars, that thing must look awful by now. They want someone to restore it like they did with Lawrence of Arabia. Not *fuck with it*, preserve it. Restore it to its original glory. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

Just to be clear: I reclaimed my rights back when Unbound missed the first payment, over a year ago. Unbound owe me a lot of money, but I am finalizing my direct contract with my US publisher, and current royalties WILL be paid to me. I didn't ask anyone to stop buying my books. Don't spread this.

Every klaxon should be powered by a baby hemi

the last page of a book is to be torn out and swallowed for powers

the military discovers a cursed video game that kills anyone who plays it. then they ask the important question: how exactly do you weaponize something like that? www.otherstrangeness.com/2023/07/17/s...

How the Chicago Sun-Times wound up distributing an AI-generated summer reading list that contained made-up books written by real authors: www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen... Generative AI mishaps keep happening because the 'humans in the loop' don't realize they need to be in the loop.

Oh, man. I know some of you out there worked with and knew him - he was popular on the horror scene and EVERYONE spoke super well of him. Much love to all of you, today. This sucks. www.tmz.com/2025/05/20/c...

It sounds better in the original Japanese.