I feel like my timeline isn’t talking enough about the guy protesting low wages by setting an entire paper products factory on fire.

without disco there’d be no house music, and without that no Detroit techno and no raves. raving and techno are both Black creations, and it all traces back to disco.

The Paramount+ logo really ties the room together.

The fact they made this travesty and didn't even call it Your Own Personal Jesus is the worst crime of all.

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Steven Seagal is 75. Here’s my favourite story about the great man c/o @willharrisinva.bsky.social & Tom Arnold: open.substack.com/pub/willharr...

This is a great photo.

We sent people to THE FUCKING MOON and they’re like “splashdown will be at 8:07 eastern” and it fucking WAS that is genuinely insane to me like they had parachutes there were probably wind speed variables involved and they got it to the goddamn minute?! SCIENCE

“Oh but Republicans would…” Lemme stop you right there. I know that Republicans are okay voting for men accused of sexual assault. Republicans are also okay with voting for racists, child rapists, genocidal maniacs, and whatever the fuck pathology is a “Ted Cruz.” So miss me with that argument.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

Forcing the Artemis crew to speak with Donald Trump was part of a NASA training exercise to prepare future astronauts for encounters with less intelligent life forms.

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Ever single gentile needs to read each and every one of these. A Jewish woman on Instagram made a post about how matzo is made and why we eat it on Passover. Every reply was violent, vile, and hateful. I need you to understand how even the most innocuous part of Jewish existence is reviled.

The most tragic cautionary tale in Star Wars is General Grievance He started out with a highly specific grievance and then just got more and more aggrieved until he was just generally aggrieved

Oh no anything but that

Like. Come on. Science is cool, and scientists are cool

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

did you know that you can visit the Internet Archive’s building that looks like their logo for a free public tour every Friday at 1pm? everyone there is so nice and thrilled that you’re interested in and using the archive

a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever

Sad news but I'm really glad he's found happiness in what he does. I empathize with a lot of his thoughts on creative burnout too. Thanks for everything you added to the gaming discourse @gaminghistorian.bsky.social and best of luck in your new adventures.

Once again, "Andor" delivers the goods. Bondi, finding out she's being tossed aside.

Trump just cut a midterm ad for every Democrat in America. bsky.app/profile/fact...

The 90's Super Mario Brothers movie is a spectacular, bizarre artifact and genuinely one of my top 10 fav films of all time. The semi-restored director's cut is even wilder. If you've never seen it, empty yourself of all expectations and clear an evening. archive.org/details/supe...

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Increases to $599 on Thursday

It wasn't easy youtu.be/66yH8RZSwUc?...

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

I mean not for nothing but she’s the host and executive producer of a major new CBS competition cooking show that got a series premier after Survivor with an intro from Jeff Probst. Being out front on this given who her new bosses are is pretty cool.

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

94's a good run. And I know he was doing conventions as recently as a couple years ago. Great charaacter actor. Always was a kick to see him show up in something, from BTTF, to TOP GUN, to MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE

@grubb.wtf I did the "Moosa Dirty Fate" thing as well when I first saw that title.

I think Mavis would be proud that I can shitpost without looking at the keyboard

NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu

Eight accounts, and an investor is Donny Jr. We could probably deduce the names of the other seven 🤣

I was never a "Dynasty" fan, but had I known Carrington Manor was a death trap I would've probably watched this show.

Theater/opera person, here: this is likely due to "bleed," which is a phenomenon we're literally trained for. When acting (or in this case, role-playing) a character for a good while and there are intense situations (such as an RPG finale), the emotions of the character can literally become yours!

Criterion flash sale tomorrow.

“This is the exact kind of cycle every authoritarian regime has ever followed, but I’m sure there’s something different about America and this time around.” Really. Are you fucking listening to yourself? How hard are you coping to not face up to what’s happening and recognizing the need to fight?

The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.

Again I would like to reiterate, as something of an expert on the man and his work: there is actually nothing funnier or less film-literate than accusing someone of *ripping off Quentin Tarantino*

Donnie Yen breakdancing in the title credits of Mismatched Couples to solve my brain problems.

Your life isn't shitty because of Trans people. Your life is shitty because of billionaires and republican legislation.

I'm old enough to remember living in a time when the adults were in charge. Now we we're living in the Age of Ignorance & Dumbfuckery...

Translation is a form of creation. The translator has to make decisions about preserving style over direct content, about cultural equivalence, about how to preserve a sense of pun or sentence structure from one language to the next. People who assume an LLM can do it are not understanding the task.