Happy first day of Autumn from Jean Rollin's La rose de Fer (1973)...

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

Benefit Tuesday for beloved Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Darryl Montana, who is facing the costs of a cancer crisis

we rewatched MY COUSIN VINNY last night and seeing Fred Gwynne reminded me of this Tom Waits interview and one of the rawest things anyone ever said

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

dirty three's cinder, john fahey's the dance of death

dude on the corner playing a football game on a portable radio as loud as he can while smoking a black n mild, guess it's autumn now

1990s elementary and middle school class lists:

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

A good horror movie thing is when a guy has to shove his hand into a hole. You never know what that hole has in store for him!

if you've ever read about how tolkien's own romantic life went this also scans, it's kind of a wild story

trump pulling a hardboiled egg out of charlie kirks corpse on stage and shows it to the audience as they scream. he is asking them if he should take a bite of it and they are cheering

Heard the jerk store was just bought by private equity. Guess I better purchase more of you before they declare bankruptcy in 6 months

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

RETVRN

finally saw weapons

I'm just gonna keep this one handy in the drawer for the day he dies.

This lovely lady flew past my head and landed on a metal fence post which she tried to slurp. Gave me time to get right into her business to snap her delightfully frosted ventral details 🔬

the methodist church I was raised in was chill for most of my time there (big part of why i lasted as long as i did) but occasionally we would encounter other churches at events and the stuff some of them were into was just fucking insane. saw a lady reenact the crucifixion in full clown getup

you guys

don't you just want to go ape shitt

bring back the geocities websites from a guy whose special interest is keeping track of all the fake Raptures so zoomers don't think this is new, we don't have time for this

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Portugal announces it has officially recognized the State of Palestine

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

No he didn't, he made it all about him, said Jimmy Kimmel "has the right to be wrong", and then at the end of the show he called Javier Bardem and Meg Stalter antisemites.

one thing nobody mentions about living in new york is how daniel day-lewis could be lurking anywhere at any time and you'd never know it. that polish grandmother reading a newspaper? actually ddl

Good news, better shamefully late than never. Everything is far far far too slow but the once solid wall of western support for Israel by default is eroding brick by brick for many months now.

Anecdotal but as someone who spends a lot of time driving within a 3.5 hour radius of Pittsburgh there has been a marked decrease in Trump Yards over the past month or so. The really wacky ones are still going though. You know the ones.

when I was maybe 12 or 13, my parents and I saw Phillip Seymour Hoffman in an off-bway play, afterwards he was walking the same route to get on the same subway as us and we ended up chatting until our stop, he was extremely chill and incredibly, vividly kind

In Defiance of Death

Maggie Cheung - BOTD in 1964

Colonel Sanders redesign just to see what the right does. Give him gen z broccoli hair

I guess it’s good to know that inside the panopticon tower, it’s also hell.

if you are gonna be charlie go outside its gonna make a mess

Relatedly, a leading recession indicator is that public libraries were already seeing a spike in DVD and Blu-Ray circulation as people are already cutting back on streaming subscriptions. People are making decisions about where their money goes. Disney made that choice easier for a lot of people.

It’s pretty funny that Eminem became a guy who would be really excited to vote for Mayor Pete. It’s like he received the exact opposite energy Kanye got. He’s probably at home in a comfy chair reading a John le Carre novel right now.

With this the United Kingdom will technically become the first G7 country do so, although it only actually made the decision to recognize Palestine after France announced its intention to do so first.

ebay is trying to sell me a serving tray with what appears to be a monstrously large swift straddling a fence and so instead of thinking about the horrors here in the now i am contemplating what's going to happen next in this tableau

It would be fucking amazing if folks gave their cancelled Disney+, WaPo, etc money to worker owned media! Those couple of dollars would make a genuinely huge difference to us. www.coyotemedia.org

they speak openly about uploading this video because they're unsure if they are going to make it

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

Our new movement offers bold, popular ideas from across the political spectrum, except one part

stadium blaring roundball rock as a casket is pushed out of the c-130 overhead; a big bullseye painted on the field with “free 10 oz black rifle coffee” in the center

The Democratic tent already had many, many anti-abortion democrats, who got wiped out because — and this is the crucial point! — independents and republicans *did not vote for them*

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

things are dire but it is one of those perfect autumn days in new york that makes you remember that living free and easy on the earth is something worth fighting for, at least

IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM PORNOGRAPHERS HAVE YOUR BACK DO YOU HAVE THEIRS?