Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

GO TO SLEEP, SHEEPLE!

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

The exterior of the Rialto Theater in NYC, decorated for the New York premiere of the Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur horror classic CAT PEOPLE Tourneur was BOTD in 1904

Interesting how America's fearless truth-seekers are now happy to unquestioningly take the word of their friends in government.

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

chat is basically admitting the emails are real and creating demand for the rest to be released for context a good comms strategy here

AI’s attempts at generating Gregorian chant is really bad, incidentally. I’d say it was demonic, but I wouldn’t advise using it to conjure anything….

There’s lots of issues with Spotify at the moment, but one is that there are a bunch of AI songs and albums on there - and the model isn’t, I think, get people to deliberately play them, but that they’ll pop up on [artist X] or genre auto playlists and the user won’t be listening properly.

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

At this point I do sincerely believe this anti phone and social media drive is rooted in the "social contagion" idea of being trans. They do not think she died because she used her phone, they think she died because people in her phone convinced her she was a girl.

A really terrific piece. Rock solid assessment of Tolkien's virtues and failings in this area, as well as Gygax's, uh, failings and failings. Neat stuff on the evolution of D&D gaming styles. And a nice fuck-you to the idiot techbro fascists who keep naming their shit after things from Tolkien.

my rankings for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Season 3

A target on their back, you say? You mean like Maitlis is proud to have done to trans kids?

Rightwingers are not 'forced to pay for the BBC'. But lefties really are forced to pay for nuclear weapons, religious schools and the royal family.

Anyway here’s Feynman on magnets and it’s worth a watch

“How dare my psychics lie to me and tell me exactly what I want to hear!”

The great screenwriter Charlie Kaufman on art & AI www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:

I don't think V is 'prescient' so much as it states there will always be people on the soft right who'd side with the hard right without too much of a push. That there will always be junk scientists and paedo priests and TV presenters willing to earn money lending legitimacy to the hard right.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.

The funny thing about Oates taking Musk out to the cornfield and beating him with an aluminum bat is he was JUST pretending to have read Tolkien for his endorsement of Tommy Robinson. When she called him out, it seems like he forgot all about that and started inventing other books he's read instead.

"The danger is all around us. We are suckers for this charm. It’s going to be our downfall, it seems. We’d rather be entertained than taken care of. It’s tragic, really.”--Michael Shannon

IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.

Brianna Ghey was savagely murdered by a pair of violent transphobes. Brianna's online life was one place she could feel welcomed. Her own mother used to understand that. She wanted to campaign for better mental-health support. And now, this. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...

One of my all-time favorite Bat writers could really use some help if you’re able.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

It’s so difficult to say what “the news” is these days: newspapers and front pages seem largely irrelevant, the BBC is ignored or castigated by so many, and social media is so siloed that “current affairs” seems to exist in multiple separate iterations

John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

Don't you fucking dare, @schumer.senate.gov. Thune and the GOP will fuck you - and all of us who need the ACA. They always fuck you. Maybe this is your kink, but your kink will kill millions. Your legacy is already shit. Try not to touch the bottom of the swamp where people renounce your surname.

Was it Will who invented these? What are they called? I first encountered one in Sylvia Plath's poem "Morning Song", where the breastfeeding mother describes herself as "cow-heavy"

Was trying to find a Linda Belcher collection with her talking about the Mayor to use going “People who weren’t overtly political until the last few weeks” and someone’s already beaten me to it

I recommend this film to everyone 1. It’s a truly utopian film. It answers the question of how you make a movie with no conflict. Instead it’s memories, beauty, joy, feelings, faces. Never dull or repetitive-full of life. A film you want to live in 2. I LOVE the way Mekas says “splice” “Shplice”

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

Bill Nighy for DG BBC. observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

There’s an incredible sequence in REMEMBER MY NAME where Geraldine Chaplin is talking to the supervisor and she goes through 4 different emotions in a minute. Alan Rudolph was homaging Rivette, building the story around his lead. Chaplin improvised the emotions in this scene & he captured it

How has the Broadcasting Under Manager been allowed to keep their job??

Albert Pyun’s CAPTAIN AMERICA: Directors Cut. I’ve seen many director’s cuts that have raised a movie in my estimation. This is the first one where I actually feel he changed the *soul* of the movie. I came out of this feeling totally differently about it as a piece of work

Sunday in the Country by Bertrand Tavernier You read that title, and you instantly imagine a mood-and you’re right but you’re so wrong too! Yes, It’s full of tenderness, beauty but also so much ENERGY, dancing through times invention, regret, bitterness. It’s a peaceful and angry film,

MIKE'S MURDER. Didn't expect something so deeply compromised by the studio to still be a devastatingly bleak neo-noir about men vanishing in the early AIDS era.

"It’s easy to forget just how recently that our access to information was limited not merely by availability or cost, but by the limitations of the physical world...." An early modern way of having too many browser tabs open. jonn.substack.com/p/an-early-m...

Mahmoud was a student when the genocide began, now he's trying his best to help his family survive. Please help them if you can:

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!