The principal of my kids' elementary school just celebrated her birthday and dispensed temporary tattoos of her face making a silly expression to every student. I then ran into her on Saturday at the farmer's market with her face on both my (face) cheeks per my kids' wishes. 😅

I always forget I have a letterboxd profile, but I do like the stats, so I took the time to log (I think) all my movies since February during munchkin's karate class boxd.it/bgiu1

"...perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence—a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?" —Omar El Akkad, American War

idk but it actually feels like an intensification of degree rather than a difference in kind that after one president arms a genocide while disavowing it the next would just go ahead and explicitly threaten to use our weapons for another one

Hey if you're a young adult in the US pay very close attention to the moment because in shockingly few years the popular account of who did or said or supported what right now will be at times unrecognizable. Don't let that break your brain or just you, as a person.

The so-called Leader of the Free World is proudly signalling his intent to commit open-and-shut defintional genocide against one of the world's oldest civilisations. There is no equivocation to disguise how disgustingly evil this is, and any politician who remains silent before it is irredeemable.

Thrift store haul today. So glad to now live in an area where you can expect to see more than a dozen copies each of 300, Argo and The Force Awakens and nothing else.

Seems to me if you think you have divine sanction for your warmongering when it goes badly you have to consider the opposite proposition but they never seem to!

Susan Sontag in 2003

Okay, I admit I didn't realize Andrei Rublev would be the peak of taste

a thought on something I see mentioned sometimes, for many years: I don't really see a "backlog" as some shameful or stressful thing. I kind of love having an entire library of games and movies and books to engage with at my leisure!! it's cool!!

Side by Side: ‘Inferno’ (1980, Dario Argento) / ‘The Great Muppet Caper’ (1981, Jim Henson)

How does Samuel Alito even dress himself in the morning? I bet his internet history is an actual horror show.

video game movie reviews are a fun time because gamers end up being forcefully exposed to critics they can't bully into submission

Grateful to have the opportunity to watch older movies at a local independent theater

This brilliant article by @materialistjew.bsky.social lives rent-free (ha ha) in my head during discussions like this. Living within American borders does not necessarily mean you're not part of the colony. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-e...

If you hate ICE you should hate cops. What we are seeing currently is an expansion of the prison industrial complex, modern slavery, that has been ongoing under cops the entire time. That is how the frameworks for these abuses are so easy to expand quickly. It's the same monster.

New box, who dis?

majoras mask is a game about impressing an older girl with red hair by doing what she tells you. A lot of you could stand to learn a lesson.

Outclassed by Shirley Bassey covering P!nk's "Get the Party Started" which was used for Cats and Dogs 2 youtu.be/vqNcyFNMfLM?...

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.

It's called a sleepover

Learning videotelephony actually existed in 1936 Germany (called Gegensehn-Fernsprechanlagen) was a pivotal fact that broke me away from an unexamined technofetishist outlook and toward an understanding that society is not just shaped by the tools we use, but that we make tools to be who we want

Tonight's movie is Baby Ruby, 2023

Girlcave

Neoliberalism's veil of ignorance has been burned to ashes by the flames of raw fascism Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Colin Stetson is my muse right now

commodities traders: fenrir howls rabid at the gate. we are reskilling to become cannibals. science, knowledge - all soon gone. will our children even know how to make fire? if so then by its light in the ruins they will weep and curse us as demons me: gruk,, is this true??

Liberals believe that since Trump is pursuing war, Harris would not have, like finding the position of two electrons in a valence shell, perfectly opposite, means you need only track one to know the other's trajectory. The politics of hypothetical correctness, useless and alienating

This too is copaganda

My only Chuck Norris movie has him playing a villain named Chuck Slaughter

Meanwhile, in my town

A silly sonnet

A cop crying makes me think of a moose licking its lips: Funny to imagine, but if you see it in real life you are in tremendous danger

Frederick Jameson said that it was easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism; I would add that it’s easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of rape.

"Become"

Feels like clever bait to me, invites you to engage with either popular text depending on your outrage at the insinuation, while loftily declaring all such analysis to be "the wrong thing." How come it's never "let people enjoy things" when the thing being enjoyed is criticism?

We used to designate beginners in the Tang Soo Do classes I taught (a lifetime ago) as either unconsciously incompetent or consciously incompetent, and it was an important distinction because those who are unaware, (cont.)

Counterpoint: you need to dismiss "human nature", in the sense being referred to, as reactionary mind-slavery, and you need to be able to question "traditional human wisdom" in order to effect any genuine liberation or practice any genuinely free thought.

L O L Kanaka Maoli, Black people, AIDS Pts/dead, COVID Pts/dead, Native Americans, entire other countries would like a word.

Constantly going the gym and getting really hot once again might be the key to my happiness

Playing video games while having tics adds a whole new level of difficulty 😭