The Blackbird is a simple, masterful gem of stop motion. Only Norman McLaren could've made it. But the film took him a decade to figure out. We explore the story, and the personal struggles, behind the work: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-little-p...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

scala loquats, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1909

bilona plums, painted by elsie e. lower, 1908

I've said this before: this is what Carl Schmitt meant. The friend/enemy-distinction is not generalisable political philosophy, it's a recipe grounded in eschatological political theology for how they understand politics: you're either with them or against them, the rest doesn't matter.

Figured out how to duplicate part of a clip in Ableton Live’s session view to its own clip. @mskiles.com’s post inspired me to try it out. Anybody want to make a UI for this #maxforlive device? Right now it’s just one big bang

important to remember that apocalypse is a fantasy that absolves you of your responsibilities

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SIX OF CUPs

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

Acolyte walking through Chili’s swinging a plate of fajitas like a thurible

ranma 1/2: datou, ganso musabetsu kakutou-ryuu! / pc engine cd klon, 1992

This isn’t the point, but a recent long read piece on researchers going through Cormac McCarthy’s books noted that he seemed to read a lot of Wittgenstein very closely, and that factoid made me think immediately of this exact scene

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

love her

Nancy BY Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1955

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

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My roadmap for the American dictatorship of the proletariat runs through the Post Office

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i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

I’m putting Hamiltonians in a wave table synth :)

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i separate the art from the artist all the time, it’s called torrenting

bitwig lets you configure how isolated plugins are from each other and the main audio process. That way, the rest of your audio can continue uninterrupted if one sandbox of plugins crashes. Interesting feature

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Loading screen: Oblivion/Alpha-Omega Software (1986) https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3481/ #zxspectrum #retrogaming

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.

[WALTON GOGGINS as VEGETA]: kakarot

behold our fascist regime

More posters designed by Walter Ballmer via www.emuseum.ch/themes/20294...

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

time for me to man up and fill this out

Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)

This makes a lot of good points I agree with, but like a lot of framing questions is about audience It's absolutely true that AI is a political project to centralize power and critical work needs to recognize that. But I think the picture changes if we think of hype/scam framing as an entry point

rip Redford. Three Days of the Condor is a good movie.

“New Sickos Yes…hahaha…yes” just dropped

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

Draw your sona in the Jarf

relevant life lesson from comics on this one