Guy Maddin's Moby Dick.

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'we just should have been more brutal' can't ever be empirically disproven, and appeals very strongly to people who are already kind of brutish and cruel by nature

Urging some enterprising indie devs to replicate this look with hi-def digitized sprites.

I can't laugh at them because I have strong opinions about how much better the stakes in Her Interactive Nancy Drew games were when Nancy 'died' instead of phoning Bess and George about how she got bonked on the head too hard and had to bail on the mystery.

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

This guy gets it.

The first thing I put in my PC's blu-ray player was a Swedish film and I think it imprinted on region 2 like a baby duck, cause it refuses to read anything local. Whoops

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

I enjoy the sea shanty Eliza Lee for being bold enough to say, 'The finest ship you'll ever find? It's a train. Trains are great. Clear the track so it can go choo choo.'

Every year, I make elementary school style Valentines cards for movies I enjoy now that I'm an adult. Here's Last Year at Marienbad.

WHAT TIME IS IT? IT'S VALENTIMES!

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

You can buy David Mattingly prints! I have 9 framed in my apartment! davidmattingly.com

[sigh] turn the salience generator down again

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

I looked at the debunking of the AI generated fakes of the new Pokemon pinball machine and I'm surprised I didn't see inserts mentioned. It had like half to a third of the number of inserts I'd expect and nothing between the slings.

it's superbowl sunday and the winter olympics so of course we're watching MY DINNER WITH ANDRE

No Kings includes Draft Kings

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

message from MN

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

I'm happy to announce a new and improved version of my quarto revealjs extension that interfaces with roughnotation More annotation types, fragment support, works with flourish extension to allow for annotations of code chunks, and reverse animations are all here github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

I'm watching Dawn Wall again and I still think it's much better than Free Solo. I can't help but mess with pinball layouts while I'm watching movies too. I can't decide if my fantasy White Water sequel about rock climbing would benefit from a Banzai Run upper pf or if it's too gimmicky.

I'm having a hard time with Benito Cereno. Melville will write something like "His manner upon such occasions was, in its degree, not unlike that which might be supposed to have been his imperial countrymen's" and I'm like damn, are you being paid by how long it takes me to read this?

Pixel art not made with AI

In 20-goddamn-18. She cares SO much about young girls.

little guys

think i'm gonna go ahead and scoop the second half of this game into some tupperware. does stidham go bad in the fridge? does anyone know

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump eventually tells Minnesota that ICE will stay until we return Virginia's battle flag.

Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...

And their motivation here is to keep harassing and detaining our immigrant neighbors. Anyone who shows solidarity is a target. But everyone I know is just digging in deeper. I volunteer weekly, but I asked 3 plugged-in people more ways I can help in my St. Paul neighborhood. We are going to win.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Schools in Saint Paul were closed Tuesday and Wednesday as teachers prepared to do online and in-person teaching simultaneously due to safety concerns about ICE. Kids in my daughter’s school refer to those two days off as Evil Break. As in, “So what did you do over Evil Break?”

that 'johnny cocktails' thing vinesauce played is really something. the 90s cd-rom boom is a good example of the kinda thing i'm talking about in how much experimentation in games is tied to disposable income being aplenty. 'a claymation standup comedy simulator based in the real Carolines, why not'

If you are only now learning about THE WESTING GAME, written by Ellen Raskin in 1979 & winner of a Newbery Medal, find it and read it NOW. It's the best puzzle mystery novel ever, and is illustrated and typeset by Raskin herself (who started as an illustrator and book cover designer)