Well, it seems I've watched my last Olympics. Oh well, no big loss. 🤷‍♀️ apnews.com/article/ioc-...

its interesting how the original Silent Hill games were actually very good takes on making a game feel movie-like without just turning the video game into a movie interspliced with gameplay, instead working with the strengths and limitations of a video game to present something that flows well.

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

You’d think expensive oil would make our government focus on solar and wind energy, you would of course be wrong

That's because the Mad King's regime is cooking the books.

Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse, 27 August 1962. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin

Never give up hope. Earlier this week, we flipped the Florida House seat that includes Mar-a-Lago. It happened there and it can happen here. #BlueWave

*puts on tinfoil hat* They’re putting ICE in the airports to do nothing so we eventually forget that they kill people and think of them as the friendly armed paramilitaries who chill at the airport with their bros

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

New local pizza place has a radically different ordering system: you call them, order a pizza, and then they bring it to you. No app, no subcontractors, just a teen who smells vaguely of weed bringing you a pizza. Innovative!

Thanks for all the love on the Catwoman & Batman Cover, I've been busy with work but also getting the flu, a cold and food poisoning so... Enjoy a lot of HAIR!

Perhaps there's a silver lining to the current war. The US has been living off Hollywood-fuelled exceptionalism since WWII - "Go, go, USA", "America is Number 1", etc. - but thanks to a failed reality TV star, its citizens are now catching a glimpse of reality: the American dream is not universal.

Sussie #art

Curiosity in Trees by Hope Doe

I still do not understand why things like "targeting civilians with violence is always wrong, no matter who's doing it or the cause" is such a hard sell. Genuinely. What isn't that something everyone at least pretends to agree on?

you ever fuck up so hard that your kid becomes the immortal worm emperor and despotically rules over humanity for a fucktillion years in order to breed a humanity that on a genetic level is unshackled by fate itself?

Frank Herbert's Dune

Happy 78th birthday to legendary artist José Luis García-López, born March 26, 1948.

Beloveds of if I have even a lil pull with you imma ask you to become aware how of in the next two years DEI LGBTQ rights Etc are repackaged just to put very specific kinds of people at the forefront

Casablanca was famously apolitical!

Goes to my theory we need to adopt the conservative line that “x isn’t political it’s just common sense”. Taxing billionaires out of existence isn’t political, it’s just common sense

Fantastic piece of both cultural commentary and TV reviewing. Recommended highly.

Most LLMs have a really hard time reading cursive. It’s kind of a sweet move to bring it back

I wish we still taught shorthand in school bc that would have been invaluable to me

kids should be able to read cursive because it enables them to read old documents among other things. When done consistently it’s also a more economical form of writing. I don’t know why people are so mad about this.

This is gonna be like when they put Marth in Super Smash Bros. Melee and an entire generation of kids was like “who the fuck is that” because they had never heard of Fire Emblem before.

Each of the people I photographed scoffed at the idea that they were paid agitators, or led in their efforts by state or city officials. Here’s my full story about my neighbors, in their city, in their own words.

Nasrieen Habib founded Amanah Recreational Project, an organization that promotes outdoor activities for Muslim women. She redirected her organization to provide food and rent assistance because, she said, “this is what it means to be Minnesotan.”

Jianeth Riera Lazo, a chef at a Minneapolis cafe, helps connect friends and family with food and rental assistance. But she confided: “I call [my friends] and I say: ‘Please think positive. This is going away very soon.’ … And then I turn off the phone, and I start crying.”

Norman Alston, a high school wrestling coach who watches for ICE outside the school, said this is not political for him: “Legal immigration, illegal immigration? That’s not my call… By the time you’re my neighbor, you’re my neighbor."

Elizabeth Anderson works in performing arts. She also arranges for drivers to take kids to school and coordinates food delivery for 100+ families. She didn’t think what she was doing was out of the ordinary. “It just seems so simple. My neighbors need help,” she said.

Barber Adan Tepozteco Gavilan started a food drive with his sister, Anai, that has provided food to hundreds of families. “We’re going to continue to support as many families as we can, especially kids,” he said.

Libby Blyth is an accountant driving people to work who are afraid of being spotted by ICE. She described them crouching fearfully in her backseat. “I don’t want to be one of those people that sat,” she told me. “I don’t want to be somebody’s history lesson.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

The only people who say "biological sex" in this context are transphobes.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Was bad enough when Sinners came out and someone was planting stories about how it was going to be a flop and Ryan Coogler’s not unprecedented deal to regain copyright to Sinners in 25 years would ‘destroy the biz’. Now the Ellisons are buying Warner Bros, Coogler looks like a 4 dimensional genius.

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

I have lived like this for years on end.

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The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

American journalists in 2036

I really appreciate Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones’ evocative Puerto Rican lovers on the run drama ESTA ISLA, which rebels against genre conventions to discover something organic and mesmerizing. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social

This is both how stupid (in execution) and how racist this country is. I, for one, am for tearing it down and starting again, but what does that look like, in real terms? Especially since we really can't, in a real sense, we can only comtinue while trying to fix the train we are on.

A graphic gem from the great age of mass market covers -- the sixties of course. I believe this was a Bantam edition.

Giddy & dizzy that Publishers Weekly calls Cool Machine “the greatest New York City novel in years.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780385550505

Simple as.

I have a lot to say on the positives of these mass scale peaceful protests. They can not be the only action, but they're important pillars. They're high visibility, can give us all an energy boost, can foster new connections, and are excellent entry points for people who want to start taking action.