"A considered decision to delay, omit, remove, or discontinue use of a product is an affirmative professional choice grounded in library values, not a failure of adoption." www.ala.org/tools/standa...

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

may I indulge my pet kvetch people rightly condemning Serkis's comments about Middle Earth (and by extension his understanding of that place & its lore) are still gonna watch the fucking movie because no one can bear not having a take to make this shit stop you have to stop giving it the oxygen

What's fucked up is times aren't even interesting, just unrelenting

I think Andy Burnham should only wear t-shirts, blazers and jeans so he has a distinctive "look", they should go back to multi-parters, and there should be no returning monsters in the first season

Today marks 4 years without nicotine Which means also that just over 4 years ago I decided to leave Western KY/Southern IN (I knew I couldn't afford an addiction and a move) Very glad about all of these things today

gayyyyy

there's a ton of precedent for replacing politicians with their relatives when they die. for example, this is usually what monarchies do

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

just do the writing you want to do man. people are going to tell you all kinds of bullshit about why you should do this other thing that makes more money instead and some of those people have the power to deny you a living but that doesn't mean you shouldn't just do the writing you want to do

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

How will culture cure you? [...] Give me your living hand yalereview.org/article/in-m...

If you don't have a date, celebrate

Mark Z Danielewski's dedication in House of Leaves be like

Dress for the job you want.

My Favorite Bonnie Tyler moment was in 1984, when she performed "Holding Out for a Hero" while David Copperfield levitated across the Grand Canyon.

Yes, you were correct. But you were correct TOO EARLY. I was incorrect until the proper moment - right now, long after you - so really I’m the one who got it right. You still suck! ⬆️ From supporting the Iraq War to championing Platner, this has always been a particularly obnoxious form of cope.

"If you start by ignoring everything that we already know, the best you can ever hope for is to accidentally rediscover the already-known." - Rusty Foster, Over Leveraged www.todayintabs.com/p/over-lever...

Pixel Skylines - cityscapes in old video games. pixelskylines.tumblr.com So good

“If we want rugged, square jawed, muscled… I mean uhhh blue collar people in office we have to put up with their coarse proletarian sensibilities” - man who has never even gardened

Dunno if you've ever worked in retail but there's a kind of dude who's deliberately crude. Not like crude language but like absent of all grace. The kind of guy who walks into stuff and knocks things over then looks to staff to rectify it for him. The kind who physically strikes technology

people are laughing at this but they're going to rebrand "Windows" as Xbox. the rebrand will cost 0.8 trillion dollars. astronomical Xbox growth, much investor value. that's how being a CEO works

Listening to Feldman's "For Phillip Guston" this morning and reminded of this

My apologies to great questions for small answers www.best-poems.net/poem/under-o...

whomst amongst us

Ian Gibson

Totally true that people can learn and grow and ought to be allowed to but it's also true that being disqualified from having a place of prominence has nothing to do with that

The fact the Democrats are scrambling to push back against the will of the electorate like this means they do not serve the electorate. We knew, but now? We KNOW.

pls amplify I wanna learn sandwich history

On this special 4th of July I want to remind everyone that the ambrosial 90's era beverage Fruitopia was around for nine years, thats five years longer than the Confederate States of America.

Oh is the sportsball on? I was just reading 𝔗𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔱𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

{guy who has only seen anime, watching his first piece of fiction that isn't anime} I fuckin' love this, it's basically an anime

Music for dog and cat snoring on opposite ends of the living room by steve reich

"For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

Come on! Maman!

David Lynch is once again proved right and the modern trend for filmmakers and studios to answer (or even pre-answer!) every bad faith question from every dweeb on a vlogging app is a scourge on present day cinema.

Minions director “My ‘Minions weren’t Nazis because they lacked opportunity to join’ T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt”

Sitting my son down to talk about Burt's Bees

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Real talk I hope Vince Gilligan and David Duchovny know how many suicides they prevented with these two lines of dialogue

Idk man it seems to me having "thinking out loud" as your first dance is a kind of illness

Corporate marketing departments at midnight tonight:

LIVE TO SEE THEM DIE