genuinely lost my mind writing this week

This is still available and I just got mine. They were right - this box is huge. 30 bucks for 440 masks is obscenely cheap. Great as it’s getting colder out and flu and covid inevitably peak

It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you. And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.

There will come a time when we don't need a day of remembrance.

Julia Serano remains absolutely essential reading for anyone forced to engage with "well-meaning liberals just asking questions"

No need to fix the slide. It knew what it was doing and it was right to do it.

okay.

WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY

Sméagol is like Frodo's Monkeybone

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Night of the Living Dead was released 57 years ago today🧟‍♂️

This is who Charlie Kirk was: defector.com/this-is-who-...

Kirk's shooting is, as far as the American political situation is concerned, symptomatic, but completely irrelevant. Nothing that happens next was not already going to happen anyway.

When politicians come out to express their sympathy with Charlie Kirk, and they never expressed their sympathy with Palestinians, or Haitian refugees, it's because they see themselves in Charlie Kirk and don't see themselves in Palestinians or Haitian refugees

Women fear political violence. BIPOC fear political violence. Queer people fear political violence. Homeless people fear political violence. Left-wing activists and organizers fear political violence. The working class fears political violence. That violence comes from somewhere.

New prime directive. Text from pics in ALT.

it’s possible to 1) note that the shooting of charlie kirk is the direct result of a culture and politics that he spent every single day of his adult life cultivating, without 2) celebrating the act of violence itself. but some people are going to do 2, and also anyone doing 1 will be accused of 2.

"We must reject political violence in EVERY form" Anyway, back to using State violence to clear homeless camps out of the park, because rich people were complaining they had to look at them.

Fascinating country we have here.

What an expertly called shot

JOANNA NEWSOM: *playing the harp while hooting and growling* ANDY SAMBERG: that's great hon

Happy Silksong to all who celebrate

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

Happy Dorsal Fin Day to all my dorsal daddies and marine mommies (who have dorsal fins). Sea cucumbers, narwhals, lobsters, sailors, right whales of ANY kind (including right whale dolphins!!!), and all other seafaring posers, go about your day as normal. Today isn't for you. It isn't about you.

Harm Reduction is a Threat to Fascism 🧵

Can't even make Boondock Saints anymore, because of woke

I like this graphic because it implies that the opposite of violence is Irishness

AI memey slop: ugly, unfunny, bad for everyone ✖️ Incredibly shitty photoshop gags: beautifully imperfect, hilarious, full of joie de vivre ✅

If you're in the Boston area, here's a 🧵 of local mutual aid groups you can plug in with. Building local mutual aid infrastructure now, before the next climate disaster hits, is crucial - and it's a great way to meet people and do hands-on, meaningful work.

Feeling indescribably vindicated rn

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Matthew 6:2 is a coded message to artists about the perils of sharing in-progress work before it’s had the privacy and secrecy it needs to grow

Newest Taylor Lorenz post makes me think of a short thing I wrote on letterboxd about The Matrix (but mostly about a presenter who spoke before The Matrix, and his uhhhhh "interesting" ideas on AI)

Go Sox, go labor, fuck Aramark, don't cross picket lines.

Ayyy NH ain't all bad!!!!!

anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify

More then ever, if you love a film and have the means, try and get a physical copy. Streaming your favourite films neans you don't own them, and some asshole might decide to do this to them. Or censor them. Or just remove them from netflix or whatever forever.

Liberalism as it exists now is defined by a complete refusal to engage with subtext, material conditions, or even events unfolding in real time. "These people don't call themselves Nazis, so we can't say they're Nazis." "They aren't explicitly calling for death camps, so it must not be true."

When you make it harder for people to file their taxes, there will be more (primarily poor) people who cannot do so. Suddenly, it's a lot easier to baselessly throw people in jail, bc you can bank on them having fucked up their taxes somehow.

Just wanna say for the millionth time, fuck Pete Buttigieg.

Soup is great when you have a thirst for hunger

If you have ever met me, you have probably heard me complain about this issue, a mindset that I still struggle to overcome in my own life. You cannot lifehack your way to happiness!!!!! Savor what you choose to do!!!!!

i hate the game politicians play where they back israel 100% until it starts killing too many people too fast, then they start calling for peace until the killing slows to levels acceptable for them. they're not opposing genocide, they're negotiating how quickly it should proceed

If you have ever met me, you have probably heard me complain about this issue, a mindset that I still struggle to overcome in my own life. You cannot lifehack your way to happiness!!!!! Savor what you choose to do!!!!!

It is a miracle Ozzy survived as long as he did. It is a tragedy Hogan survived as long as he did.

July 18th will always be a holiday to me. Three years ago, my coworkers and I went on strike to push back against the egregious unfair labor practices that Starbucks was using to punish us for organizing. None of us thought it'd go on as long as it did, but after 64 days of picketing 24/7, we won.

The cool thing about physical media is that it's not (generally) connected to the internet, so you can watch a movie or whatever without being bombarded with ads and notifications and temptations to do something other than the thing you've actually set out to do, would recommend

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

My 1000th review on letterboxd. They haven't all been great, but there's a thousand of them! I love The People's Joker. boxd.it/amZeYz