always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

Today’s @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social is about, uh, metal? Maybe swords?? “NOW THAT’S BRASS: Skewer the end of week one with a thrust of metal - be it precious or, better yet, base.” Anyway, I’m going with the Shaw Bros wuxia mystery/horror thriller hybrid BAT WITHOUT WINGS (1980).

It's. About. F****ing. Time.

The center of the thing is Nirvana and their supposed bringing punk to the masses. The question of whether that was true or not - it's mostly not - or whether it was inevitable - it probably was - as whether it was good for punk or the mainstream - I suspect it wasn't.

It's only briefly discussed here, but I think there's a case that the '80s trend of musicians "selling out" is part of the path to our current economy in which musicians "need" to sell out, so the musicians, and others, criticizing it were actually more right than they knew from this perspective.

It's only briefly discussed here, but I think there's a case that the '80s trend of musicians "selling out" is part of the path to our current economy in which musicians "need" to sell out, so the musicians, and others, criticizing it were actually more right than they knew from this perspective.

Explain your user name: So, I saw this movie with some friends. There is a bleeding tree in it. We all had mixed feelings, but I was struck by the image and said I'd write a poem about it. I did, although it was actually in the form of a letter to a list friend, merely signed by the bleeding tree.

Many are not susceptible to dicknotherapy, but some are

Some day perhaps I'll find a way to express this that doesn't immediately make most people reject it, but also expresses what I mean.

Here’s some Jarosław Jaśnikowski art to make your Monday a little better.

I can't help remembering that lack of sex was one of the reasons Mimi Rogers divorced Tom Cruise and what one might extrapolate here. The answer is, of course, nothing really, but it tries anyway

My father was supposedly one of the smartest people in the world, and he hated that elitist nonsense. He loathed the idea that intelligence is something you're born with, a single trait that can be measured. It leads to eugenics and bad policy. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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I've more than once seen people who know this stuff saying that we don't actually know what the diagnostic criteria for "autistic person without cPTSD" would be, because as far as can be determined we don't know of any.

This is why lost his fortune, down and out Ollie is always best. And probably why comics keep giving him his fortune back.

Constantly monitor yourself for signs of fogeyness, it seems to sneak up on people in this decade. Do you find yourself thinking "Kids these days don't want to work" and "I am still cool and hip!" and "The music today is awful, just noise!"? You are in danger of fogeyhood! Take care!

ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN have left the building.

every town, has its ups and downs some towns ups outnumbers the downs but death to tyrants

i believe raw meat cures everything and that it's a good idea to quit benzos cold turkey by going into a medically induced coma. why is everyone i love always sick and dying?

There used to be a lot of sequels and American action movies from a certain period, but I've caught up with a lot of those by now, for better or worse... mostly worse. Now, it's more often a comedy that will surprise people a bit younger. HOME ALONE or SCARY MOVIE.

Every capitalist I've dealt with almost always mistake money for proof that they’ve done/said something meaningful when really they’re boring insecure people trying to fill the void with status. When that fails, they use their power to make others around them feel small so they can feel important.

This is also true of mainstream arts and entertainment. I have no hope for the existing ecosystems, new ones need to be built. That is arguably less important, but one I'm similarly fixated on.

I’ve been a part of groups for 30 years trying to do this. The DNC wields billions in Corporate money. You may win a few elections but never enough to reform. It’s just math. The Dems are a dead party.

Something something the pursuit of photorealism in videogames led a direct path to LLM-driven slop content send fleep

the fascists are coming for free expression, bodily autonomy and self determination laser-targeted at racial and gender minorities. time to move some damn copies of Lord of the Flies

I suspect a party platform of 1) turning back every Trump action and policy, 2) arresting every employee of ICE for involvement in or abetting of crimes against humanity, would do very well.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

I found it really illuminating when @juliusgoat.bsky.social pointed out that “it’s always been this way” is permission to take no action, and of course whataboutism serves the same function.

It’s astonishing how few people arguing politics can even fathom the idea that two wrongs don’t make a right.

Every generation from at least the boomers on (I don’t have enough evidence to be certain before that) were called lazy by anyone ten or more years older than they were, then immediately they rewrite history to pretend they were always hard working and respectful when they get old enough.

A third thing: I don't think Kirk was actually beloved in the way they insist. They liked him. They found him entertaining, but I don't think they even love Trump himself enough to make him a martyr if he were to be killed. These people are all really just TV characters to them.

George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was released on this day in 1968 #filmsky

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A splendid Alex Toth character sheet featuring Green Arrow for “Super Friends” from July 22nd 1972.

silcon valley brain is something else ive seen it so many times and it never stops being disappointing

I fundamentally do not understand people who want AI actors like Tilly Norwood. I adore working with actors as a director - and I love watching actors make choices that are specific to them, their techniques and histories as people. Weird empty facsimiles of that is so depressing an idea to me.

Thats why they think Charlie Kirk's racism was just "difference of opinion" because he was racist in a calm voice

Another world is possible. We can make this happen again.

This is a great catalogue of Who Goes MAGA. I propose an additional category, possibly a subcategory of the Contrarian Intellectual: The Bring Back Meritocracy Guy. He succeeded in his field thanks to his first wife's uncredited editing & other help (1/n) www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/w...

Selling out isn't when you get signed and start selling your work in a professional capacity. THIS is selling out. Completely ignoring any and all morals you might have held because someone paid you to.

I’m a little bit worried about some of y’all’s brains when you say stuff like “Ted Cruz saying ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ was not a Freudian slip,” yes it was. It’s the definition of a Freudian slip

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

I haven't heard a single Democrat suggest a path beyond voting them in. If they're voted in what keeps this from happening again in 4 years, 8 years, etc. We don't need a break from these policies, we need a solution.

Honestly think anyone considering coming to the US for future international sports events should really consider it carefully. These people do not give due process. They don't care about your ID. They grab you if they don't like the look of you and then there's no telling where you'll end up.