insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I don't need a list of 'ethical' fiction. I need fiction to be allowed to exist in an environment where it isn't shamed or attacked when it is open with it's potential triggers and themes so people can curate what they can or cannot engage with because that's better for everybody.

MotherFucker! We need more Luigis. The world is so on fire and I am so very tired from it. AI is fucking up getting a job, being a creative who can afford to eat, people's 'hoods and the availability of water & electricity, and on and on. All because some tech-bro assholes need to own *everything*.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

The answer to "why does everything suck now" almost ALWAYS goes back to "venture capital." Which goes back to "a lot of people have too much money and don't know what to do with it." Which goes back to: "We need to tax rich people more." It's like it's the solution to 99% of our problems!!

Saying a version of "I don't know" and then outlining the steps you would take *to* know is a nearly-universal requirement for passing your qualifying exams as a PhD student. It was also a requirement for getting hired as a Supplemental Instructor when/where I was an undergrad.

Lots of the UK’s rising fascism problems are causing by bored well off 60 year olds in villages with too much Facebook screen time

What does The Odyssey's giant opening tell us (also Obsession and Backrooms)? That what Hollywood creatives have been saying for years is true: If you give people something they can get excited about—that isn't endless IP retread bullshit—they will pack the theaters.

Oooh, I'm about to go off on a tangent because the quoted post brings up something that is super interesting about superheroes, artists, men, and women. Male action heroes DO look like bodybuilders now. And they shouldn't. They should look like professional athletes.

One of our favourite nature facts is that a group of ladybirds is called a 'loveliness'. 📷 Rob Coleman

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Ahem

Someone needs to lock Matt Damon in his fucking house. You know how much money we've spent bringing his ass back home???

FYI: Boycotting HP merch/books/etc isn’t “censorship” it is *boycotting* because of what the receipts are used for, in the same way boycotting Starbucks over Gaza is boycotting not censorship.

IT IS TIME The man looked up from his beach chair. "Really?" He said. "I've only just retired." Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't. CURIOUS Vetinari shrugged. "I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17

"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."

For real. #noai #art

Anti-Ai, But make it holiday

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

i first met sam neill in the late 80's on the set of jeremy brett's sherlock holmes. i think it was manchester studios. he and jeremy were pals. i was moving a light wi'out gloves cause i'm a tosser. i burned my hand. yelled "FUCK!" jeremy came right over, sam (who was visiting) in tow. (1/4)

there is a whole running bit where Rabbi bar bar Hana will just be like 'one time I saw this gigantic frog'

Everytime Sam psychologically tortures contestants in the new Game Changer 😂

happy Nolan’s The Odyssey release day for all who celebrate. here’s my favorite Odyssey-related contemporary poem, “Telemachus’ Detachment” by Louise Glück.

Did not expect this from the Church of Wales, but I am glad for this courage.

People really do not appreciate the importance of the "do nothing" phase in the creative process. We are all about the kinetic energy, and forget its duality with potential energy.

ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate

also this is the finest song and scene Disney ever animated. crazy to look at the live action and infinte-sequel slop they churn out today, and then back on what they used to do. youtu.be/wTqQrRZi66Q?...

Many “gender critical” groups are funded by right-wing actors who are pushing legal attacks on abortion, drag queens in public, sex education, etc. This is why it’s painfully ridiculous that such groups claim they aim to protect women’s or gay rights — GC groups are fuelled by those opposed to both.

Great piece from @hetanshah.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com on the future of the Humanities. Hope the new Cabinet will read this! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

My latest for @theguardian.com: I got to dive into the impressive and passionate resistance movement within the D&D and TTRPG community, featuring THE @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social @dsa.la @criticalrole.bsky.social @9thlevelgames.bsky.social @roughmagicrpg.bsky.social @twicerolledtales.bsky.social

Time Change xkcd.com/3272/

#AICouldNever blend gagaku and Joe Hisaishi www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfz...

thank you @rbreich.bsky.social

Games Not (Only) By Cis-Dudes 🧵 (list in progress I keep on my phone & pasting here) * Apocalypse World * For the queen * The quiet year * Yazeba’s bed and breakfast * Seven part pact * Kagematsu & A single man * Tales of the Fisherman’s Wife * Steal Away Jordan * A Mending * Field guide to memory

THIS! ...And read outside your home time period, too. Every period's writing has its own strengths and its own typical errors. Read widely and learn as many of these as possible so that you can (where useful) adopt their strengths and avoid their errors.

listen, y’all, we need more reading courses and fewer writing courses. aeon.co/essays/silic...

New world. New characters. Same Intrepid Heroes. The next season of Dimension 20 is coming to Dropout soon... #dimension20newseason

zine friends: zines are back articles are back and maybe so is punk www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day! "I've never thought of myself as a man, Mistress Tiffany. I don't think I'm anything. I'm just me," Sir Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown #GNUTerryPratchett

Y'all don't want teens to go to the beach, ride the bus, or go to the mall. But y'all also don't want them staying home and playing video games or being on their phones or social media. So what do y'all expect teens to do? Sit silently and stare at the wall? Come the fuck on.

"Dumb fucks" definitely has a different meaning from "dumbfucks." The former emphasizes the fuckness of the people in question (spoken, it is "dumb FUCKS"), whereas the latter places their dumbness and fuckness in equipoise (spoken, it is "dumbfucks").

THREAD: Listen to @danaiwrites.bsky.social and to other Greek authors who continue to face unfair reactions from gatekeepers in publishing and film/tv. Instead of seeing the Anglo-washed 'Odyssey' film, buy books from Greek authors writing Greek myths! Elevate them! Here are some recs (1/15)