There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.

If you’re in the mood for something Potter-like, but more modern for your kid, there’s always Owl House: gizmodo.com/the-owl-hous...

what good would the extra gunpowder have done? when would they have used it? against naval frigates? but the marmalade, and what it symbolizes - the conviction that joy is worth prioritizing and the ship should be a community where everyone's happiness matters - the marmalade saved all of them

i always come back to this dialogue as a little microcosm of the show's thesis. it sounds like stede is saying something ridiculously naive and stupid that's going to get everyone killed and by the end you see he was 100% right. getting rid of gunpowder to make room for marmalade was the right call.

The first rule of Omelas is have fun and be yourself

the isabel fall thing is bleak in a million ways. here are two: 1. it was personal. this was a person these new-guard SF authors were acquainted with personally & wanted to ensure they would not need to coexist with, pretty much exclusively for awful reasons 2. it didn't really do anything for them

"is it ok to love art by bad people" and "is it ok to engage with harry potter" are different questions jkr is a billionaire who uses her money to actively campaign for bigoted law and publicly cites engagement with her work as evidence people love bigotry. this is a unique situation.

never going back to land #ofmd #ofmdfanart

i always come back to this dialogue as a little microcosm of the show's thesis. it sounds like stede is saying something ridiculously naive and stupid that's going to get everyone killed and by the end you see he was 100% right. getting rid of gunpowder to make room for marmalade was the right call.

With ICE's public approval in the toilet, the agency is quietly paying off local police to act as bounty hunters carrying out its immigration mission www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

i was watching 1x9 and the cut from Ed saying to Chauncey, "I'm a life-is-cheap kinda guy" to Stede immediately saying "That's not true"... chef's kiss. Ed might believe he is, but Stede has always seen him for who he really is.

CEOs should be required by law to take a reduction to their compensation package equivalent to the percentage of employees laid off.

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

“The charity World Central Kitchen, more accustomed to feeding those in war zones and disaster areas, started providing meals to Washington, D.C.-area airports after many TSA officers missed their first full paycheck.” apnews.com/article/tsa-...

every obstacle. every failure. every folly brings me joy 😌 movieweb.com/warner-bros-...

Time to sign a petition again! Do it for Jay-den and his healer's heart, do it for SAM and her adopted dad, do it for Tarima and her neurodiversity! Do it for our lesbian aunties Reno and Lura and for a captain who doesn't need to sit pretty to have dignity! c.org/Zw9XhhZs4j

stede proving he knows ed better than izzy without really trying or even making it clear if he knows he's doing it. izzy lying that he couldn't have participated in ed's murder when he knows it's not true but there's no actual reason to lie about that except an emotional need for stede to believe it

When you wake up in the morning tell yourself: the people whose posts I see today will have awful takes about the character. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good takes & the ugliness of bad ones so none of them can hurt me.

yuuup. Not to mention, I've noticed a lot of talk of The Working Class defines it as aggressively white, and white young men aren't exactly reliable left wing voters.

This is so absolutely devastating

"Content" is something to fill an empty vessel: it repositions your view of the world to align with corporations. Art becomes something disposable, fungible, serving a financial interest and nothing more. The word "artist" is right there; I beg you to claim it and leave "content creator" to molder

this is still so incredible

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 #HeatedRivalry’s Jacob Tierney talks season two, stigma and happy endings: ‘Our stories don’t have to be traumatic’ https://bit.ly/4m75TKF

Today I got to talk to the lovely @veeagainsttheday.bsky.social about their incredible fics! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

My local industrial gas supplier also wanted people to know this recently

(deep breath) HI PIRATES I LOVE ALL OF YOU, PLEASE STICK AROUND FOR ME PERSONALLY

i don’t think i ever posted my @crewforlife.bsky.social embroidery i made?? i was really proud of this one—the sparkle is AMAZING live.

If you’re unable to schedule an MRI later this year, blame Trump. 😡

jim's little flirty tone when they call zheng "pirate queen" gets me every time 🫠

Make this corgi President of the United States NOW

he just got fucked and made breakfast in bed for his boyfriend, if you even care

i would have loved to see him do a little happy dance 😭

Look at him, standing there, slutty scarf on show... who does he think he is?!?!

I also have a bag of shame.... people who WOULD be having their packages dropped off but are missing either payment, address, or both. DON'T BE IN THE BAG OF SHAME)

forty of you have paid AND provided addresses AND bought stuff that's already at my house... so you lucky folks get some of your delights quick!! First round of packages are leaving my house now. Watch your mail!! #fandommarket

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

don't end up in the bag of shame make your donation and enter your address!!

Get these. They're cool. 😘

Airport bound? ICE is assisting TSA, and border checks are up. Don't wipe your phone—it's a red flag 🚩 1️⃣ Android: Power off, boot up, don't unlock, switch to Guest Mode. 2️⃣ iOS: Disable Face ID to force Passcode (5th Amdt protected). Step-by-step guides attached 👇🏾

All of us sending our best thoughts out to Pirate Nana @amladydragonfly.bsky.social (it is true most of us are naked😬)

This is frustrating for so many reasons, not the least of which being that it essentially validates the worst people in the world who made shitting on this show their entire personality before it ever aired a single episode.

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

thinking about Ed's thought processes and bravery leading up to that kiss is the mental equivalent for me of drinking the panera lemonade that kills you

tiresome decision from cbs/paramount because my main takeaway from season 1 was (like many star trek shows!!), "this needs at least another season to find its feet."

match my $20 donation and I will draw you a strange little medieval creature!! let's help out our beloved pirate nana!!

Tomorrow, actually tomorrow, Trace Elements will be released! And here's one of the essays in it, one Ada and I wrote together. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Game devs share silly and ugly human-created temp art after Crimson Desert was recently caught using AI-generated placeholder assets.

GET THEM TO LIS SO I CAN GET MY GRUBBY HANDS* ON THEM TO PUT THEM INTO MAILERS!!! *MY HANDS WILL BE SO CLEAN ACTUALLY

Hi all, Nana could use our support right now - whether that’s funds, a boost, or some extra love.