It would be more upsetting if I had not pretty much assumed this was the case in the first place.

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

not only did they know, the venn diagram of "people invited into all the journalism groupchats and mailing lists to coordinate their hatred of the trannies for corrupting the youth" and "people delighting in their abuse of children in epstein's emails" is staggeringly close to resembling a circle

ANGOULÊME: Enraged publishers seek removal of Bondoux, Mayor gets involved: With a growing boycott, Assocation FIBD has until November 17 to come up with an acceptable alternative to Franck Bondoux

“if you can't improve a dish with garlic, it's because it's a dessert" an important life lesson, embroidered on a tea towel 🪡

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Following from our announcement that Quindrie Press will be closing at the end of 2026, I want to make people aware that in Spring 2026 we will be opening a one-off comic fund for UK creators. More details will be released next year. Sign up to our newsletter: quindriepress.com/newsletter

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

Japanese VHS covers for each of the Female Prisoner Scorpion films starring Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子). 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm

one benefit of taking forever to get around to games you want to play is it gives the devs time to come out as homophobic edgelords before you give them money

Someone at my job made and brought in a cake to commemorate the time 55 years ago that a whale washed up on an Oregon beach and the hwy department exploded it

I do think this is a real distinction

There is a very good reason why the thing I say most consistently about situations like this is "the violent rhetoric policy is my least favorite policy to write and enforce, and the policy that creates the most upheaval among the userbase when it is applied"!

thanks to these dogshit contracts I'm no longer submitting to Analog, Asimov's, or F&SF; it's infuriating that as opportunities for short fiction writers contract, the Big Three are helping make it happen

For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae: “this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Forgot to post this outright! From my collab with @skstarlight.bsky.social 'This Peony Cannot Grow in Shanglin Garden' Also, did a bit of a process/thought write-up for the site design on DW if thats your thing: skuzzybunny.dreamwidth.org/1501.html #guolduart #LostYouForever

tldr, one of the owners of this convention raped a woman, and when she came forward, they fired HER for "gross misconduct". fucking unacceptable. the entire convention is being boycotted and several publishers are withdrawing but until this fuckhead and his org are ruined, all of it is a wash

Look up! Angels above ! The spectacular roof beams in Cathedral Close, Exeter. Part of a complex of buildings probably originally used by the cathedral canons. #woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday

ATTN GLUTTONS: Please savor this mouth-watering review of The Solitary Gourmet, a comic about eating in the age of loneliness (1994-present) by Jirō Taniguchi & Masayuki Kusumi, up today at TCJ (The Chowbell Jouissance)

I am so sick of rattling the can. But I have until Friday. One last spiked hurdle, and then it's just... treading water until things can settle.

UPDATE — Here are the at least 11 congressional Democrats, 11 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

博麗霊夢 hakurei_reimu

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

#dailyart 67 : study

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

people need to start viewing politicians the way they currently view retail and food service workers

An English fan translation of the PC-98 version of "True Love" [NSFW 18+] has been released by "BabaJeanmel": gbatemp.net/download/pc-...

1.5 hr study

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days Episode 5 The SV2's Longest Day: Part 1

The Next Generation: Patlabor Episode 4 Stray Dogs' Afternoon

Raven on the Colonial Fleet, 2010 (feathered headdress, painted corset, dance robe, sequinned robe & boots) by Skeena Reece. Part of ‘We Who Have Known Tides’ @vanartgallery.bsky.social

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

Sukeban Deka II (1985) Episode 25

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More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.

Sukeban Deka II celebrates its 40th anniversary today.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Frame stitch of Kyoko Otawa during her match against Hiromi. From Episode 4 of Aim for the Ace (エースをねらえ!)

Kyoko's final serve in her match against Hiromi from episode 4 of Aim for the Ace (1973) is one of my very favorite sequences in all anime. The rapid cuts, the remarkable use of hatching this early in the show, and that absolutely incredible cut of Kyoko chasing the ball before it hits the court.

there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins

Come on in — the door is open . The chapel at Buckland Abbey. The former chancel of the Abbey church was remodelled as a chapel in the 1920s. The font dates from 1855 #AdoorableThursday A day early for #FontsonFriday

Corto (…ish).

7th ボルト No.2

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion