what, you mean the government usually has a reason for doing things and a bunch of dipshit crypto bros looking at a spreadsheet and going "lol that sounds stupid" is not a viable way to run the country?

Genuinely one of the most influential graphic novelists of all time and her passing is so heartbreaking. Please read Persepolis if you haven’t, it’s a poignant story of resistance that deserves all the love

This bill is legitimately the thing we've been waiting for. Forcing AI to reveal it's sources would cripple it, because it literally can't comply with the law, because all of it is stolen- they didn't record it Please sign to hasten the bubble popping

Depressingly, this has been exploited to convince people that trans rights are the causal element, that this is somehow our fault. But that misses that these graphs could just as easily be about racial diversity or abortion access, both of which show significant drops in support this year in polls.

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

The discourse about trans care for teens is a lot of adults shouting. So Grace Byron talked to the teens instead, and they were thoughtful, nuanced, and tired of being silenced.

The way people behave on the internet is so deranged I’ve begun to think a lot of human beings have lost access to empathy and courtesy. It is just expected that if you exist online, if you leave the house, if you breathe a word…you are inviting someone to scream at you.

Storyboarding is the first step of transforming a story/script into a coherent, consistent, and easily digestible visual narrative, from first scene to the last. It is also the last easiest step in the process to revamp and rework scenes before we move on to the more expensive parts of production.

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

This death still makes me livid to this day; an indigenous, queer person of color and their pet were murdered just because of hate...during Pride Month. This is why we have to remember why Pride exists to begin with.

Oh, I did, and it was not for you, motherfucker.

the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

My biggest requirement for a 2028 candidate is that they promise to pack this court and make it a liberal majority for the first time in 60 years.

If the 60 Minutes thing is proving anything it’s that a lot of people in positions of power think there is no crime greater, no injustice more profound, than being called out for being incompetent when you’re clearly fucking incompetent

Baffled, disappointed, angered by Scorcese falling for the AI snake oil. The cinematic intelligence and planning he describes is far better executed by the storyboard artists of IATSE L800. The cost of these illustrators is a fraction of his salary, to say nothing of the film's entire budget.

YELLING STILL WORKS

Breaking—Today Lambda Legal, ACLU and NYCLU filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Attorney General’s and DOJ's efforts to compel NYU Langone to hand over the identities/sensitive health info of trans youth who received gender-affirming care from 2020-2026. Complaint: www.nyclu.org/uploads/2026...

this fucking sucks, also tell everyone

Pretty telling that it’s all 70 to 80 year old directors who are “just experimenting” with AI to automate their workflows while a 20-year-old director blew up all box office expectations by building 30,000 square feet of rooms to wander through.

"Hollywood" is going to learn all the wrong lessons from 'BACKROOMS' and the worst one is going to be continuing to think The Internet is real and Internet Opinions matter because "It's a YouTube Movie;" when what they *should* take note of is that it's so deliberately SEPARATED from its YT origins

... ...oh thank Jeebus. The kid is SMART 🙏

When we say they are coming for everyone's rights, we mean it. This was not hyperbole. The systems you think protect everyone only exist until we are inconvenient.

langone and mt sinai still haven’t resumed care and that $65,000,000 trans healthcare fund you promised is yet to materialize but thanks for the text post a staffer probably wrote 👍

I will be on this, please come support!

You can also drop off your completed ballot at any voting center!

This political and cultural moment is crying out for people to plainly tell our ruling class of liars, thieves, and charlatans to eat shit. It's the fastest track to superstardom

I am here for all the stories of people pointing out that the shitty people working for Bari Weiss are shitty.

There is still institutional memory from the places Bari Weiss used to work, about how much she sucked. I would think this is true if a blow by blow account of a tense meeting about 60 Minutes runs in the NYT within 3 hours of the confrontation, CBS News staff on speed dial

The only downside to a story about Scott Pelley eviscerating his philistine boss is that my brain couldn't help but read all the dialogue in that crisp baritone of his.

Bluesky built an excellent compromise that allowed peoples' preferences on NSFW content to be reflected in a pretty granular, non-punitive system. Now, in a time of rising fascism, where 'anti-obscenity' politics very often mask misogyny and queerphobia, they *are* punishing NSFW creators.

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

“Oh so you’re always saying the Democrats need to get younger and are a gerontocracy but suddenly you’ll reverse that if the old person kicks ass and the younger candidate sucks?” Yeah I guess, that seems to make sense to me

It’s too soon to know what the success of these movies mean. Hollywood operates on fear. You can’t put movies like OBSESSION and BACKROOMS in a number cruncher algorithm. They’re made by real people with unique perspectives and it makes them angry that they can’t easily duplicate that.

The YouTube-to-Horror Feature Filmmaker pipeline is very real, but we must acknowledge who has access to it in the first place. YouTube is not a democratized platform, and we're doing the next generation of creatives a disservice by pretending it is www.slashfilm.com/2181604/back...

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

Folks need to be prepared to push themselves in to the danger zone if they see shit like this and absolutely just start beating the shit out of people who do this while loudly calling them rapists. Most states have self defense and defense of a third party laws in cases of sexual assault like this.

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

This is great and I won’t trust any politician who doesn’t articulate some version of it.

Movie theater etiquette needs to be drilled into people's skulls at this point THE MOVIE THEATER IS NOT YOUR LIVING ROOM!!!!!! PLEASE KINDLY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET PEOPLE WATCH THE MOVIE IN PIECE!!!!!!!!!

me when scrolling my besties feed

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.