Kane Parsons knocked it out of the park with Backrooms. What an unsettling and dread inducing exploration of anxiety manifested as liminal space.

“Born This Way” kicked on whilst I was making my iced coffee at the gas station and reminded me why I love being a June Gemini. I hope Pride month is treating all my friends amazing! However, I hope it’s extra amazing to the ones who took “be gay and do crime” literally. XOXO, Your Alibi Girl

If a bisexual cis woman never talks about it online, does it even count? Me. I’m talking about me. Happy Pride. Buy a bleepin’ Fango shirt from Fright-Rags for a good cause. @philnobilejr.bsky.social fought real hard to bring you glitter! Bless. www.fright-rags.com/collections/...

'Hup na mná #COYGIG

Do any of my Toronto based friends/followers have membership to the Revue cinema? I'm very tempted because they have a lot of events which seem really cool

When even someone as confident and talented as CMAT is affected by the level of body-shaming vitriol aimed at her, what hope do the rest of us have. Body positivity is worthwhile, but it can only go so far when society still treats commenting on people's bodies as acceptable. We've so, so far to go.

Tragedy As Blue Horizon Rocket Explodes Without Jeff Bezos Onboard

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

Shoutout to everyone who choose to create in spite of everything

Today is the day, y’all!

The best part of nice weather days in Ireland is getting to watch the birds that come into the garden

The two best things for an author is you telling them that you love their work and you telling others that you love their work. It's something that never gets old and is always a boost, both for the author's mental health and their actual career. So never think they won't want to hear it.

Kindness to wildlife is essential, as the biosphere comes under more and more stress. But also as more people seem to view animals as annoyances or just there to be a photographed or even to be insensate, inanimate. (Wildlife rescues are under extraordinary strain and deserve your support.)

im disappointed kat didnt win her race but a few months ago she moved the entire primary to the left and is now poised to put a spotlight on the dojs misconduct and malfeasance under trump and make these attorneys think twice before doing what their boss demands

Two years ago I had my agents ask authors seeking blurbs if they had used LLMs in the writing or research for their novels. If yes, then I won’t read their books. I know I could be lied to. If I am lied to, I will LOUDLY retract my endorsement. I hope more writers might adopt a similar policy.

A reminder that not everyone wants to have their own kids! Some of us are luring other people's offspring into confectionery-based cottages in woodland clearings to cook and eat them and that's just as valid

I wrote something about how to dress for your body type. I disagree with guides that approach this from a corrective POV (e.g. clothes that make fat people look slim, short people look tall). Instead, I think it's about learning how to express yourself in a language www.mrporter.com/en-us/journa...

happy 10th birthday to The Nice Guys, one of the best movies ever made

While I’m here, if you’re invited to a world premiere and you text in the theater the whole time, I actually hate you and I hope any articles you publish or content you make FLOPS.

Towa Bird asked Katy to be in the music video for her hot new song “Dog” and everyone should say Thank you, Towa and Katy for this insane gift we don’t deserve

We call this design 'Kicking Random Man Up The Arse.' €5 from every sale goes directly to the World Food Programme's Palestine appeal >>> waterfordwhispers.shop/products/ars...

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

This Robin has become a frequent visitor to the garden and they're beautiful ❤️ There is Irish folklore that a robin represents the spirit of a loved one watching over you and seeing the same one coming back routinely really helps make that feel somewhat true

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Adding to my horror themed tattoos with this new cunty Xenomorph

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Protecting kids matters. How we do it matters too. Read more here: https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online

I've got 10,000 words in me on how calling AI a tool is a fundamental misunderstanding of the funtion and purpose of a tool

I love libraries and BorrowBox allowing access to e-books, audiobooks, and then Comics Plus for digital comics are quickly becoming my most used apps 💖 Currently devouring @tananarivedue.bsky.social amazing book The Between and absolutely know I'll be seeking out a physical copy of my own soon

The official poster for the 4K restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils 👀 In theaters October 16 from Warner Bros. Clockwork.

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

I would love to see a cinematic take on The Odyssey by the co-directors of "Le Comte de Monte Cristo" Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte. Their adaptation of Dumas' epic tale was exquisite. I have no little interest in whatever Nolan will do.

The 1997 film Cupid is so perfectly 90s and gives us one of the best unhinged line readings: "You're Insane!" "No, I'm in love" Zach Galligan and Ashley Laurence are both so out of place and perfectly cast in this dumb as rocks film

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

If you're wondering what's the point in writing that thing, drawing that thing, making that music and so on given the state of everything, can I just reassure you that we need your art more than ever right now. In the face of all this, making art is a powerful act of resistance and revolution.

Here's your good mood boost for the day 💖

With the impending move to Canada on the horizon I am picking up the intensity on job applications and I honestly believe that if a human is not looking at all CVs submitted then it is an unethical hiring system.

Entering that annoying phase of Irish weather where it is heavily raining but not cold. A proper rain coat is too warm but anything other than a proper rain coat is not protective. I will not miss this weather when I move to Toronto

I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️

It's #transdayofvisibility and I would not presume that my opinion *matters* -- but it appears we're in a time where everybody should make this clear: trans rights are human rights, I support my trans friends and fellow creators. Everyone deserves the right to flourish as human beings.

Read this thread and avoid supporting Terror Vision

On the hunt for a new video conferencing software for recording the podcast and hosting my virtual D&D sessions. Discovered that the platform I was using Riverside is an Israel based company and that is not a company I want my money going towards

Unsure if the ennui I am feeling today is because Irish weather refuses to improve or because of the crushing World Cup play-off semi-final against Czechia last night. Tá bron orm

Personal gripe of mine is that most horror films only ever have late night screenings. I want more horror films to be on just when I finish work so I can still be home at an reasonable hour

It was a privilege getting to review @psycstar.bsky.social book Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema for my website www.fishnetsandphilosophy.com/reviews/mary...

I am on my way home after a D&D session with my friends and every time I leave this table my soul feels enriched. Creating stories with people you love? That's what this whole life thing is for

Starting to really toy with the idea of starting an actual play D&D or maybe Daggerheart podcast