Sid Dale - The Syndicate [USA, Library] (1967) https://redd.it/32fy6w https://youtu.be/ZmELHtvFu5o

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Hingross - Wolfe [Italy - Library, Jazz] (1981) https://redd.it/smy4j0 https://youtu.be/T8bsGckVT8g

Testify at a Senate hearing today, Todd Blanche told Senator Chris Van Hollen he's met with Epstein survivors and their lawyers. Within hours, 18 Epstein survivors released a joint statement contradicting AAG Todd Blanche's testimony, directly accusing him of making false claims. I believe them.

Much writing on #cosplay #history focusses mainly on the US. So I did a presentation at the 2022 #FANS Conference in Texas setting out evidence for SFF and chara cosplay in the 1890s in the UK, with records of anime and chara cosplay at Japan's Miyacon in 1974. fansconference.org/dRuZ33A/wp-c...

Monika Linges Quartett -- Running [Germany, Bossa Vocal Jazz Groove] (1982) https://redd.it/4ffxwd https://youtu.be/j0BPDmsawe0

Santa Fe - La Playa [France, Jazz Funk/Easy] 1976 Engineered by Bernard Estardy https://redd.it/usifz1 https://youtu.be/5fxiFDtOS9Y

Complete ban on torturing queer and trans people. No exemptions. No religious pish. It's not a nuanced argument. Don't fucking torture people for their innate characteristics. It's that simple.

No surprise The man who told us he can't do anything about dereliction because owners come crying to him when properties are publicly registered & who said “Any normal person, like you or me, to be landed in this on top of your daily life, it’s a tall order.” Is same man who👇

UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"In YouTube Shorts, a new “Remix” option will let users write a prompt to remix a creator’s video by changing its style or even adding themselves into the video, without changing the basic context of the video." Only fascists will use this feature and only fascists will enjoy watching.

Whoah - shots fired in the Nobel laureate community! Bob Dylan on Olga Tokarczuk: "We all know I never used AI in my songs because it would likely have made them listenable, even tolerable."

Retro Showa/Heisei collection welcomes visitors, who can even read the old magazines on display: a must-visit in #Osaka The life's work of the city's most unusual salaryman, Yuya Nakao, is above the Nakaoya candy shop. ¥500 admission. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Quthlhu rises!

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It seems that objectification of women and people of colour on every level is still 100% OK with the Oxbridge set. I am disappointed.

I am appalled that #Britain would put summer flights abroad and filling up the car ahead of the undeniable fact that giving money to Vladimir #Putin is a Very Bad Idea. Some people absolutely need a car because they can't walk or get public transport; for the rest of us, funding tyranny is naff.

Massive strategic error by the UK government in loosening sanctions on Russian oil, resulting in massive finger-pointing internally about who was responsible for the decision. The EU isn’t going to waive sanctions which has now caused a policy split.

A story of oil leaks, corporate and civic inefficiency and hazard to agriculture and water with no benefit to the local population or the nation: Japan's 17th-century oilfield seemingly can't be exploited or properly shut down. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

Randy Jackson - How Can I Be Sure [USA, R&B/Soul] (1978) https://redd.it/624lt9 https://youtu.be/2_YTRPkzgoE

Now, who on Earth would instruct an #AI transcribing microfilm records from the 1700s to exclude references to race and enslavement?

The animated short "Pokémon: Dragonite and the Special Delivery" is now available to watch on the Pokémon YouTube Channel. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBbA... #pokemonㅤㅤㅤ

"I'm evolving a grand unified theory of culture: a culture is healthiest when most of its favorite stories are either A) brand new or B) controlled by no one." My latest newsletter! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Read and reflect, my fellow fans.

Very much looking forward to this event on June 18th. The venue is AMAZING, the musicians will no doubt be great, and I'll try not to be totally appalling. Tickets available here: bridportandwestbay.co.uk/product/cloc...

Grump - Heartbreak Hotel [USA ; Psychedelic Rock] (1969) "Heavy fuzzed-up stomping psych cover that is unrecognizable from Elvis' version." https://redd.it/1stkpv0 https://youtu.be/VAWIZcqi7Bs

East Coast Mainline, my old friend.

It’s very hard to digest how the explicit antimuslim racism on display in the streets of London on Saturday is passing by with no consequences. Very hard not to feel like we’re regarded as second class citizens and fair game to be sacrificed on the alter of pacifying angry voters. Very hard & scary.

Don't miss this chance to catch up with Britain's longest-lasting manga collective. I can't be there but you can!

And just to clarify the staggering obviousness of this stance, do bears still defecate in the woods?

The word "might" is doing *a lot* of lifting here.

Meanwhile, Russian Z-bloggers have begun suggesting that Putin be removed and replaced by Kiriyenko. Statements like these never appear out of nowhere. Remeslo, Bonya, Girkin, and other Z-bloggers generally say exactly what they are told to say.

One major drone assault on Moscow of the type every city in Ukraine has had hundreds of times and the people "who can endure any sacrifice for the motherland" are talking about giving up.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 633: If you intend to write for a specific genre or sector, please, PLEASE make sure you know what’s popular with readers right now. That goes double for children’s books: an area that many inexperienced writers consider to be an easy place to start.

Quite the read

Finland: it gets cold. But one district got through a very harsh winter with a sand battery. #ShareGoodNews

I don’t believe that censoring myself is the right thing to do, and that by doing so, I am proving that we no longer live in a free and open society. I don’t think you can have it both ways. You’re either free to say whatever you want to say, or you are not. The trade-off is non-existent.

Netflix has just acquired the French animated film "In Waves" by Phuong Mai Nguyen (global rights outside France). variety.com/2026/film/ne...

The Doors at 8171 Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles as a giant billboard - the first of its kind for a rock band - for their newly released debut album is assembled, 1967, by Bobby Klein.

"If you introduce an infinite paper-writing machine to a system that defines productivity by the number of papers written, people will use it to write a lot of papers."

EP-4 - dB [Japan, Experimental] (1984) https://redd.it/8fdcny https://youtu.be/fT6yc3-ILyE

"Australia has surpassed 400,000 home battery storage installations under the federal government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program, reaching 11.2GWh of cumulative storage capacity in less than a year since the scheme launched." www.energy-storage.news/australia-hi... via George Heynes 🔌💡

At least one of the supervillains lost this round.

Art like this blurs the boundaries between sculpture, landscape and poetry. Penny Hardy has created #SomethingBeautiful and I think everyone who sees it will be affected. #ripples #womenmakingart

Reading a book that argues we all have a moral duty to use AI in order to 'humanise' it, which feels a bit like saying we all have a duty to offer our blood to vampires to endow them with as much life force as possible

Masataka Matsutoya - Tobacco wo Keshite/Put Out Your Cigarette [Japan, Latin Jazz/AM Pop - "New Music"] (1977) https://redd.it/ay3muu https://youtu.be/aSD_Qqwxk70

43 years ago today - May 19, 1983 - Jaws 3-D premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, earning a 10-minute standing ovation but losing the Palme d’Or, in a now-infamous decision, to Flashdance.

You should hear this. I want to.

So the latest run of "In Another World Where I'm The Hero And My Literal Slave Girls Love Me Because I'm One Of The Good Ones Despite My Open Misogyny And Creepy Sexual Antics" didn't do well?