The way you know this is correct is that a major criticism of 2004's TROY was that Pitt didn't lock that Generic British Accent down enough. 😅

Repeating this for the daywalkers: The new Ghost in the Shell anime is really, really, good.

Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

Damn

What I am arguing is that this is a critical moment for Canadians to reflect on two decades of flaccid climate change policy when our country is burning and the current PM wants to shitcan everything for a buck. And please, don’t let the moment go simply because Americans are calling us out.

This week's film features the unlikely combination of sorcery, astronomy, and science fiction! It's EL BARON DEL TERROR (1962) aka THE BRAINIAC from director Chano Urueta! Will the film's producer and star, Abel Salazar, be enough to carry this picture through this genre mix? #filmsky #horrorsky

Your hosts cover EL VAMPIRO SANGRIENTO aka THE BLOODY VAMPIRE (1962)! Written and directed by Miguel Morayta, with its own unique vampire mythology, we find the film interesting, spooky, experimental... but lacking in actually engaging with its own themes. #horrorsky #filmsky #MexicanHorror

Maine Gov. Janet Mills “was met with anger from residents who said they had asked their elected leaders to do more to stop ICE from operating in the state, but felt as if no one had listened to them”

I am so excited for this book, you guys.

Or catch up on my newer, non-tie-in work, the Books of the Usurper, which has trickier mysteries, as much magical nerdery, and several very charismatic villains. Starts with EMPIRE OF EXILES. tinyurl.com/2xajw882

In the meantime, you can find out more about Farideh in the Brimstone Angels Saga, the series everyone who played BG3 and asks "where are books like this?" has been recommended. Available in ebook and audiobook or as wildly expensive used physical books. www.amazon.com/Brimstone-An...

FIENDS & FOES is available for pre-order now. It comes out 11/24/26. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796944...

And the nice thing about doing this in character is that while the hard official lore may be the same, the theorizing and extrapolating and opinion-having can be as wild as it might be at your table! (This includes some of my most passionately-held, bonkers lore theories, posited by D&D personages.)

cb cebulski living in japan is like a guy kiryu accepts a sidestory from and then has to beat the shit out of at the end of it to each him a lesson

I was having a similar thought the other day about why AI gets the "it's the future and we all have to embrace it" line whereas renewable energy, which obviously IS the future and we're well on the way there already, is subject to "are we going too fast on Net Zero" nonsense.

This book is: 😈 a Brimstone Angels sequel 💘 A love letter to my new favorite D&D troublemaker  🎨 Chock full of gorgeous art of the most iconic D&D villains. 🤔 An answer to the question: what is the structure of a book about people? (1/n)

Not gonna lie, y'all. The new Ghost in the Shell is pretty fucking incredible. It is also, like, *exactly* the original manga down to tone and pacing so if you aren't familiar just be ready for something way faster and more high energy and episodic than the 1995 movie. But the animation and music? 😍

Thinking about how Backrooms fans got mad that the movie didn't include stuff from fandom wikis And about how a cartoonist had to apologize for not making audio chars the races fandom had headcanoned About how Invincible fans are going to be mad the grandson char they made up isn't in the show

I shouldn’t have to enter a life-ruining amount of easily hackable personal information to visit a website, and neither should anyone else of ANY age.

Sorry that your Mad King keeps threatening to invade my country, I also find this all terribly distressing but between the two of us you're the US Senator with actual powers of office.

Science Saru uses ZERO ai The Ghost In The Shell is what you want to be when you grow up

I cannot tell you how much fun I had writing this book. (Literally, in this moment because I gotta get Ned to camp, BUT LATER I will try). www.polygon.com/dungeons-dra...

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

Had to do a lot of work-related Google Image Searching today and my god does it suck now. A full half of the time, if you click on an image, it doesn't go to a page that contains that image anymore

My Spelljammer players intercepted a nautiloid and took it, thanks to the artificer PC making OP weapons for everyone. Aboard they found a version of the Sun Slayer from the Astromundi Cluster, on its way to be delivered to the illithids of Pyrespace (the Paizo 3E Spelljammer setting).

This kinda reiterates why physical media is so important. Because if all our history books become digital, they can change records of the truth on a whim.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

I don't think the mainstream necessarily is aware of the deep wellspring of anger that's among voters right now imho people's lives aren't better, the government couldn't give any less of a fuck, and they're not shy about showing us that

People are facing felony prosecutions on the thinnest of claims that they vandalized the Reflecting Pool.

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

PSA for everyone reading The Odyssey right now from an English major: please, I implore you to read the Emily Wilson translation. It is the superior version for me. The most direct, literal, and accurate to the source material. I rec the audiobook too that helps you hear the rhythms of the language.

What if I told you they are STILL GOING OFF, now, at 12:38 AM, and the smoke is so thick you can't even see them?

Now friends, this has been a post full of schadenfreude We've all had a good time here What if I told you the best was yet to come What if I told you that after waiting for HOURS--miserable, soaking wet, desperate and disappointing hours--our view of the fireworks was.......this

There is exactly one thing that needs to happen on Independence Day. One tradition The only thing that absolutely had to happen was fireworks, and Trump fucked it up because he couldn't stop talking

The most important thing you need to know is that, by my watch, the fireworks began after midnight There were no fireworks in Washington DC for our 250th Independence Day

they are not afraid of him being a bad mayor, they are afraid of him being a good mayor

7. Oh! And! The email I sent to Facebook after they told me that they didn't think I had standing to file a DMCA notice. Because it's fun. My Actual Human Lawyer made them change their position, quickly.

I think Cannibal Holocaust is more fascinating than good, but I'm very intrigued by this! www.indiewire.com/features/int...

More than this, even. Facts don't come out of nowhere; they are made, and the work of making robust facts is very hard. Historians don't just get primary sources and write down what they say; they have to interpret them. This is where historical facts come from.

The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

Via Micah Ulrich: At the Annecy animation festival, Danse Macabre was advertised as traditionally oil-painted but was very evidently AI slop in its final form. The filmmaker gave the middle finger to the booing audience. One speaker called it "The end of art" and said the filmmaker should be ashamed

Alt text becoming increasingly important as the internet continues to vibe code to a point where images don't work

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

It's too hot and my brain is melted so I'm going to say something I'll probably regret. The bar to have a "bad attitude" as a woman is so low. You don't even actually have to have a bad attitude, it just someone else has to be in a bad mood and you don't soothe them adequately.

AAAAAHHHHHHH AAAAAHHHHHHH AAAAAHHHHHHH VINDICATION!!!!!!!! XX

The board that governs it was concerned that homeless people were keeping themselves alive

Couldn't be prouder of the five we made, but I had at least two seasons more in me. Wanted to hit up the Delta and Gamma quadrants. One more Vindicta holodeck movie. Meet a weirdly nice leftover Weyoun, more stories with the whales and Kayshon, T'Lyn and Ensign Olly. Lots of stuff.

Can you imagine doing something as dangerous as scaling the Empire State Building and then the statement you have to make is some anodyne gruel like "peace and love, wow"