I guess it's Prime Day(s) again, so here are some options if you'd rather not help Jeff Bezos grow even richer. 🧵 First, a couple of Starter Packs of Indie Bookstores to support. (If you are or know of an indie bookstore w/ a Bluesky account that's not listed, let me know.) go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

ICYMI: After hearing yesterday that FX legend & Oscar winner Michele Burke had passed away, I decided to publish her book chapter in its entirety (I also have some pics she shared that never went into the book in there too): from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/celebrating-... Cheers!

The #InternetArchive microfiche digitization #livestream is now at a new address. Tune in at the link below & enjoy real-time preservation work with mellow lo-fi vibes in the background. 📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY... #DigitalPreservation #LiveNow

I have been steadily infecting each department in my office with this livestream in anticipation of fat bear week (which is happening now fwiw)

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

Billiards player, Masako Katsura, 1950s Katsura was the first woman to compete in a world billiards competition in 1952.She is often referred to as the “First Lady of Billiards”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_...

Included among 1931 Dracula's Children of the Night: armadillos, opossums, a bee with a little bee coffin. Dracula is adorable.

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

emotionally confessing to my baffled priest how disturbed I am that I keep hitting play on random Tubi movies that star former-child-preacher-turned-genre-film-d-lister Marjoe Gortner.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

I fear @priscillapage.bsky.social 's tweet from the old hellsite will be getting a lot of play this fall

Everyone go watch CLEARCUT (‘91). RIP to the great Graham Greene.

have pretty much finalized my October watchlist and I’m buzzing — planning to only watch non-English titles and really looking forward to watching some goopy goofy shit.

to misquote a very bad, unwise man: you have no real enemies, you’re afraid of a sunflower.

Happy pride

happy “oops my volunteer tomato plants are actually growing tomatoes” season to all who celebrate

the five words every girl wants to hear

www.thenation.com/article/soci... Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab

CARING CABIN, a pilot for an (ultimately unmade) kids’ tv show, is streaming on Criterion. It stars trans, Atlantic Canadian icon Beverly Glenn-Copeland, of Mr. Dressup fame and it completely destroyed me. Not sure what’s in the water but man alive, please seek out this gem.

Transgender people under 21 in Puerto Rico can’t get care. What happened to it being about the children? www.advocate.com/news/puerto-...

it’s backpacking gear replacement szn babbbbby

🚨🚨🚨🚨 ALL DADS PLEASE REPORT FOR DUTY IMMEDIATELY 🚨🚨🚨🚨

Koiya koi nasuna koi (The Mad Fox), Tomu Uchida (1962)

the way Herzog says “jungle” needs to be studied in a lab. jun-g-leugh joon-geh-luuuuuh Jen-gi-les

the way you know THE CHEAP DETECTIVE’s good, actually, is that the first crew member credited is the casting director (Jennifer Shull, a hero)

On the latest episode, Meg Shields (@theworstnun.bsky.social) returns to discuss Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE, a high-budget, overstimulated tribute to Hammer sci-fi horror, in particular 1967's QUATERMASS AND THE PIT! open.spotify.com/episode/247E...

On the new @junkfilterpod.bsky.social, Meg Shields (@theworstnun.bsky.social) returns for a show about the 40th anniversary of Tobe Hooper's cocaine-and-Dr Pepper-fueled schlock masterpiece LIFEFORCE (with a sidebar on the debt it owes to QUATERMASS AND THE PIT) podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/j...

Ancient Greek healers and apothecaries high fiving in hell

the monkey’s paw I’m currently dealing with is that high-me is a MUCH worse chef than sober me. The other night my whole wheat pizza crust fused with the pan because my faded ass forgot to oil it first.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Good morning! I've started a new series on the craft of writing, using John Boorman's EXCALIBUR (1981) to walk you through the concepts found in John Truby's Anatomy of Story. The first post is free to read + includes a spreadsheet for writing your own stories: www.patreon.com/posts/130659...

its very important to live in a city where going outside means saying yes to avian pvp

Watching the Pee Wee Herman doc on HBO Max. Filmgoers in 1985 had it good

the only strong contender here is the water tower shooter in Larry Cohen’s GOD TOLD ME TO who says “I'll be 22 the seventh of July.” Today, this guy could only JUST buy a beer.

fyi, for any cis folks w/ cash to burn who want to state their support for trans kids, teens, and adults in no uncertain terms, Transfigure Print Co. are good folks making really cool shit. transfigureprintco.com

Ebenezer Scrooge bursting out of his window to ask a passing child to buy him a Christmas goose but it’s me leaning out of my Kia Soul to beg a mother of three to push the pedestrian call button so I can turn left on a busy street

With THE LONG WALK and THE RUNNING MAN getting movies in 2025, this felt like the exact discovery I needed. PUNISHMENT PARK needs a 4K restoration/collector's edition. This is important cinema that still plays as brutal today as it did over half a century ago. 📽️🎬

I voted early and am going to spend the day manifesting 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 poilievre 🕯 looses his seat 🕯 & gets IBS 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

One of the most controversial movies ever made is quietly streaming for free on Tubi in Canada & US: 1971’s PUNISHMENT PARK. A film crew watches as detained civil rights and antiwar activists are given a choice: time in federal prison … or being hunted for sport by cops in a barren wasteland.

thinking (respectfully) about rutger hauer’s slutty little knit muscle shirt in THE BLOOD OF HEROES.

baby’s first backcountry ski ✨

I outline why police union president Ralph Kaisers is such a controversial candidate for ABC to choose for Vancouver's upcoming byelection, starting with his alleged role in the investigation of the death of Myles Gray... #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...