Didn't realize that Dr. Bronner's soap was cool like that, but I'll take it

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Still remember arguing endlessly w my housemate Jim about whether this or Crazy In Love was the best song of summer 2003

based unabashed lefty Sam Neill

Annoyed that I've been waiting on a specialist booking to remove my wisdom teeth, and now it's scheduled in the middle of MIFF. Wondering how many days of recovery it'll take before I'm ready for a Bela Tarr protege or an experimental doco about bridges miff.com.au/program/film...

RPG folks: Sera is a voracious player and reader of games, with strong, smart opinions and a heroically open mind. I can’t imagine a better Ennies judge

Getup is working on shame-facing Coles to dump their contract with Palantir

Rae Nedjadi is a brilliant designer and a dear friend. Help him recover! Grab this bundle on DriveThru. $25 gives you over $280 worth of games—including Defy the Gods and Raccoon Sky Pirates! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Divine didn’t eat a real dog turd so you could term me that AI is “inevitable”

Really like the blank, dead-eyed quality of my expression in this photo

I thought I would be so into an account just posting quotes from movie I love, and yet

The new McCarthyist era of the Australian press has completely hamstrung its ability to react to Hanson. The Gaza war and journalists' inability to hold their organisations to journalistic principles since 2023 cost newsrooms the lived experience and perspectives needed by silencing the oppressed.

Please let her include all the parts about hating Guy Debord

Book I finished/book I started

I genuinely think peanut butter is the most disgusting substance in the world

This is how I learned there’s a new third season of The Comeback?!

I don’t understand how I got invested in this when I’ve literally never seen a basketball game, but go Knicks!

Harpo Marx spoke at his final public performance in 1964. And 60 years later, the tape was found. If you've been a Marx Bros. fan your whole life, as I have, hearing Harpo speak is extraordinarily powerful. www.wshu.org/arts-culture... #FilmSky

ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share! m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...

For the first Silent Sundays of Pride Month, some queer silent films for your viewing pleasure. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/five-queer...

We've been quiet but busy. Last year we heard that a rich backer had bought the NSN a compound and set about finding where it was. This story we worked on with Sherryn Groch is the result of that investigation. www.theage.com.au/national/ric... (now unpaywalled)

Made a cake for my friend's birthday tomorrow but now I just really wanna eat the cake

What’s your favourite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 80s - Sweetie 90s - Irma Vep 00s - Werckmeister Harmonies 10s - Certain Women 20s - It Was Just An Accident

Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:

Such a vile combination of union busting and transphobia from WotC

This is BY FAR the biggest heart-breaking betrayal of the entire AI scourge and says so much about how Scorsese views work on film that he isn't directly involved with (ie the Production and Writing) because he clearly thinks AI should never touch those but STORYBOARD ARTISTS? That's not real work!

Hi! My name's Helena (she/her) and I'm Chilean trans lesbian fleeing a fascistic government to Canada. Can you help pay my immigration lawyer and cover basic expenses until I can find a job? If you can't donate, please share🙏 gofund.me/a4c2addd8 #mutualaid #ma #pride #trans #lgbtq

The best reason to see a movie by yourself is so you can sit in the front row like god intended

A relief

Want to do this but it’s basically Destiny’s Child and Bikini Kill and then eight early 00s local punk bands nobody’s heard of

Extremely on brand for Paul Schrader/the first good AI story

My therapist trying to convince me to meditate, luckily I think I have negotiated her down to taking up cross stitch

Had a shitty day at work so bought myself a leather jacket on my way home. Not my worst coping strategy

Tele having a normal one I see.

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played! Homebrew gumshoe game Good Society Zhenya's Wonder Tales Necronautilus

Devastating that I have to kick this guy off my lap to go run a game

Without stating your age post your favourite film released the year you turned 18. Honourable mentions to First Wives Club, When We Were Kings and Bound

Herculine by Grace Byron and Persona by Aoife Josie Clements, both really fun horror novels. Perverts by Kay Gabriel is my favourite poetry collection in years

Apart from supporting Rae, these are some great games. The Patreon esp is a fantastic deal, including the fantastic wip fitd game The Twilight Throne, which I should really run again

Victorian voters are being urged to look out for "misleading" party names, as right-wing activists seek to redirect progressive votes to conservative parties.

My 10 favourite films without thinking twice, one per director The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant Sunset Boulevard Werckmeister Harmonies Inland Empire In The Mood For Love Daisies Umbrellas of Cherbourg Irma Vep The Wizard of Oz Manhunter

WE'RE LIVE!! 🔥🎉💃🏼 Learn more about #LyricalLudology, check out the pledge levels, and let's get Season 2 in the road! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

TTRPG about me First game: 5e Last game: Homebrew gumshoe thing Longest game: 😮‍💨 5e Favourite game: Good Society Favourite mechanics: Monsterhearts Favourite art: Zhenya’s Wonder Tales

I know this isn’t the worst thing about capitalism, but sucks to have one of your all-time greatest career successes and people tell you how well you did and the next day you’re back to the same old shit as always. We should get holidays for like really smashing it

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

"It is indeed a beautiful, hopeful day in the United States"

Just a reminder that Criterion Channel currently hosts 23 films from Iran, including masterpieces from Jafar Panahi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Forugh Farrokhzad's incomparable The House is Black (1963), as well as others. Any of these will be time well spent.