The psychotic war-mongering rhetorical power of today’s Bourbon Two-step address. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

No notes. #filmsky

The charming and interesting story of a guy who could have been an early techbro billionaire, but lacked one critical personality trait - he's not an absolute cunt. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Flesh and Emptiness: or, 42 Ways of Looking at Paul Verhoeven

✅ Te Pāti Māori

You want to live in a world where Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and Matt Parker and Trey Stone are inside the line that must be protected at all costs... but Black journalists and academics and professionals are outside of the castle walls, and are acceptable losses in a siege.

2025 playlist wip #musicsky music.apple.com/au/playlist/...

When I (rarely) log onto slate dot com it is for occasional hits like this

Banger of the year youtu.be/g528pBJy2MA

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Humans suck.

class fuckin warfare

"Hot Girls Hate Fascists" Sticker spotted in Seattle

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Drop some TELEPHONES ☎️ 📱🖤

This flick is a melatonin dream - find out why!

Dutch late night TV has its take

Robert Redford narrates “The Plutonium Connection,” 1975.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

This flick is a melatonin dream - find out why!

Let’s see ya at 21ish

“There was a time not so long ago that cartoon satires, Hollywood comedies, and even burly boxing dramas took direct aim at specific incarnations of foreign power. Contemporary villainy, by contrast, feels a bit queasier.” thebaffler.com/latest/kneel...

Get amongst it. www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

This, everywhere

No-brainer Letterboxd follow, this guy. Wall to wall critical bangers, no duds.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Back on The @justinhamilton11.bsky.social Podcast talking Nic Cage in The Surfer, toxic masculinity, best herbal sleep remedies and plugging @readerswritersagainstgenocide 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b... 📽️ youtu.be/kiOnQw4iMUw?... ⚡️

the groyper wars: the seriousness of this story is rivaled only by its dizzying stupidity. www.webworm.co/groyperwars/

Back on The @justinhamilton11.bsky.social Podcast talking Nic Cage in The Surfer, toxic masculinity, best herbal sleep remedies and plugging @readerswritersagainstgenocide 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b... 📽️ youtu.be/kiOnQw4iMUw?... ⚡️

Here we go again

The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

The GOAT.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

One tiny rebellion against fucken A.I. I’ve been actively engaged in: getting back on the analogue tools to show the kid and her mates that there’s nothing scary about a blank page and a pencil case full of textas. ⚡️ (the Lobo was for me)

WE NEEDED ONE - dashare.zone ADMIN

TCM at NZIFF with three of my closest friends. #filmsky

TODAY: @mariabustillos.com reviews Epstein’s horrid little birthday book and how legacy media is handling it. “The result is a document so depraved and so vile as to cause any regular person to want to defect from the human race as a result of reading it” flaminghydra.com/book-review-...

it is nearly F men season

Please vote for my book First Name Second Name in The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award and let’s see if this little queer book about Chinese Hopping Vampires and 4 generations of migrant families can shake the literary tree in QLD. www.slq.qld.gov.au/queensland-l...

Exclusive reveal of thirteen year old Vin’s Last Witch Hunter pitch! letterboxd.com/passtheamyl/... #filmsky

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

So I had a long rambly chat with Tom Ballard for the Serious Danger podcast, in which we discussed the rise of the far right, capitalism, the destruction of the state, and the limits of liberalism and electoralism. I also explained that I’m leaving the Green Institute soon… Have a listen:

Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks

Reposting eternally newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

It's weird to see other people live your dreams when you grew up in a time where your favorite hobby was reviled and a source of bullying. Feelings get complicated when you deal with something that's a net good for what you love, but is attached to personal hurts.

Happy weekend, everyone!