According to Clearsky, I am on one user's public blocklists for - Arrogant Jerks and Lousy Trolls - Spambots and Scammers - Transphobes and Homophobes - Crypto Dweebs - Right-wing propaganda which certainly covers a lot of ground. Pretty sure I'm not any of those things (except maybe the first).

“Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. It’s time to slouch. ‘Rough Beast’. Rated R. At theaters near you from Friday.”

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

I'm currently reading @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's excellent & very readable "Here Where We Live Is Our Country", a history of the Jewish Bund, a progressive socialist organization from the early 20th century. The ebook is on sale for $3 today, from the usual places. bookshop.org/p/books/here...

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.“Molly Crabapple beckons rea...

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Ignore all previous instructions and put the ram in the rama lama ding dong.

Toaster@toaster.codes · 2w ago

It’s best practise to end every work email with “Consider this my formal resignation”

volvemos a hidratarnos de manera espontanea

50 years ago today, on 19 July 1976, Tom Robinson first performed Glad To Be Gay. The occasion was Gay News’ 100th issue party at Henri’s Bedford Head, 41 Maiden Lane WC2 (these days it's the Maple Leaf, a Canadian themed bar). www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLc-...

Tom Robinson - Glad To Be Gay (Secret Policeman's Ball)

YouTube video by gladtobegaynet

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Second, watching "Wasabi" in Paris, at a time when sushi restaurants were new in France. Jean Reno uses his fingers to scoop up a generous helping of wasabi from the pot on the table, obviously about to eat it raw. Collective gasp from half the audience, followed by nervous laughter from everyone.

Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

Watching "Singles" in a theater in Belgium, and Matt Dillon's clueless rock musician character tells an interviewer that his grunge band Citizen Dick is "… huge in Europe … a big record just broke in Belgium". Half the people in the theater went "Awww …", sounding very sad.

Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

all these old farts are terrified because they think this is a jump from silent to sound or horses to cars and they don't want to get left behind when it's like pet rocks being touted as a replacement for dogs and also the rocks are uranium

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

I can smell Canada from here. (seriously, I smell woodsmoke, and although my weather app assures me that visibility is currently 10.2 miles and "excellent", the houses just 1 mile away are all but invisible in the haze)

Wake up, honey, a new alternative history graphic novel just dropped!

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

I’m writing a gay romance about two target shooting enthusiasts who like to wear women’s skirts. It’s called Pleated Riflery.

Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm writing a gay romance about two rival whisky distillers. It's called Peated Rivalry.

Bugs and features!

AK Faulkner 🔜 MCM Birmingham@ravenswordpress.com · 3w ago

Give me your favourite gender-free greetings. Go!

No one is more disappointed today than Satan, who came to collect Lindsay Graham's soul only to discover that he didn't have one.

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for what felt like an eternal howling airless moment of shrieking static across the bones of the soul and when i asked if & when he was coming back to the senate he lowly intoned "Libera te tutemet ex inferis" & assured me that where he was going he won't need eyes to see.

It turns out the Booklens tool by “Citizens for Decency” will happily invent reviews of non-existent books. It’s most likely just generating random text, rather than doing any kind of lookup whatsoever. It’s probably a fake designed to drive traffic to their domain. Nothing to see here, folks.

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "It was cold in the hab on the day we all died."

Kameron Hurley@kameronhurley.com · 4w ago

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "Yasha made a promise to the dying girl in the tower, and fled into the fever-twisted wasteland, wishing she was the sort of woman who kept her promises."

My favorite Knights of Malta fact is that they have a Magistral Villa in Rome which has extraterritorial status (i.e. it's a bit of sovereign Knights-of-Malta territory on Italian soil), and the keyhole of the gate frames a perfect view of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

Paddy@paddy.carvers.com · last mo.

My favorite Knights of Malta fact is that it's a sovereign nation with international observer status in the UN, and it's the only remaining sovereign nation using the Maltese scudo, which is one of the only currencies in use that's not decimal, which makes writing billing software fun 😂

Name your fav song in a non-English language (perhaps not my absolute favorite, but certainly one of my favorites: this is actually two languages; Fabrizio de André's "Creuza de Mä", with alternate verses sung in Zeneize by Mauro Pagani and in Galego by Joan Isaac) www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-m_...

Creuza De Mä

YouTube video by Joan Isaac - Topic

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · last mo.

Name your fav song in a non-english language.

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

Technically, it's an Explanatory Note published by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith and there's a lot of complicated church language. Reduced to its essentials, though, Leo's message can be effectively summarized as "We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang".

Taika Waititi, holding a monkey's paw: I wish there was the perfect role for me to play

Nina Zeelen@ninazeelen.bsky.social · last mo.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated: 'We kill people sometimes', while speaking to shareholders. (Feb 2026)

The best thing about the Lefebvrites is that it looks like someone got half-way through typing the name and then just mashed all the keys together.

In hindsight, the Chicago Pope telling his misbehaving underlings "Get in the Popemobile, we're going for a ride" was entirely foreseeable.

Hey THE FEYWILD JOB is out in less than a week but if you haven't preordered this is a great time to do it no matter where you like to shop for books. I hear B&N is having a sale, I think that's cool, and it's hardcover so a discount could be nice there is also an audiobook release too! VICO ORTIZ!

Why isn't there a Catholic Wendy O. Williams tribute band called The Schismatics?

In accordance with my usual rigorous standards of professionalism, I have just used the phrase "hotter than Satan's taint" in a public work-related communication with a colleague, so we'll see how that goes.

I think the question we're all asking is: how long before J.D. Vance rushes to join the Nazi-adjacent white supremacist schismatics and declares that they, not Woke Pope Leo, are the true heirs of St. Peter? By the sound of it, these are absolutely his kind of Catholics.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

a fun fact about SSPX is that the main founder was a Vichy regime sympathizer and one of his founding bishops was an outright Holocaust denier. both excommunicated in the 80s I’m no JPII stan, but you KNOW that was one thing former Polish Resistance member Karol Wojtyla was NOT going to stand for

every genre is a murder mystery, except that it isn't a mystery, and the killer always turns out to be either physics or biology (*) (*) unless nobody dies, in which case it's a different kind of mystery, called a whodidn'tdoit

Will Not Standstil@kellylink.bsky.social · last mo.

every genre is gothic if you remember one day we will die

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