In New Mexico we had hundreds of decedents in refrigerated trucks for *years*. It took a DMORT deployment to clear the backlog. We were on the verge of carboard boxes in a mass grave because when FEMA funding ended they demanded the trucks back. I know bc I was the state's Mass Fatality manager.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoThis story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...
Does "embracing a Mediterranean lifestyle" include constructing thousands of large gun turrets on the south coat of England to greet those unable to adapt to "a Saharan lifestyle?"
I for one am glad Ann Widdecombe is not alive to see this
🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️🌈@rigg.lgbt · 7d agoMy brain: everybody deserves civility in death, even horrible people Also my brain: 🎵 Your love is like Ann Widdecombe Ann Widdecombe is what i need Woah-oh-oh Shake it up just like Ann Widdecombe... 🎶 I'll never forgive @thasceles.bsky.social for pointing out to me that her name works for this.
I will go a step further and posit they absolutely knew and *they believe sex workers deserve to be abused by Tate*
Maggie McNeill@maggiemcneill.bsky.social · last wk.Sex workers always warn y'all about predators, and y'all never listen.
Sex workers always warn y'all about predators, and y'all never listen.
Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · last wk.When asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."
Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Nope, still salty about the slide rule scene.
yellowstoneten@yellowstoneten.bsky.social · last wk.*Apollo 13* being the most notable exception, of course.
I hated, HATED, The Northman. Gorgeous setting. Great cast. Such potential. What a waste.
Ethan Kocak@ethankocak.com · last wk.I have a personal belief that the more a person is a nerd for something: dinosaurs, The Odyssey, etc, the less likely they are to enjoy a popular entertainment version of that thing.
I stand by this, but even I wasn't expecting the Spectator to publish a hatchet job on Anthony Bourdain, written by a far-right influencer, which opens by *approvingly quoting the Unabomber*
Sean Bell@seancmbell.bsky.social · 7mo agoY'know, in between all the apologies for fascism, British nationalism, gleeful transphobia and general anti-woke psychosis, it's easy to forget that the Spectator consistently features some of the *worst* fucking food writing on the planet
jesus christ people will not shut the fuck up about it even in death
This is 12 years old and has aged not one bit, and you should read it. modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-m...
The Male Gazed
Surveillance, Power, and Gender
modelviewculture.com
Who cares, I want to know who's his favourite George Smiley
Max Weiss@maxthegirl.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat are we gonna do with the knowledge that Christopher Nolan’s favorite James Bond is Timothy Dalton?
*Actual "cyberpunk media" is some text that's xeroxed and stapled to a telephone pole, but yeah, there's kind of a lot of the gold-plated stuff lately
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w agoWe're getting Neuromancer and Blade Runner 2099 tv shows in 2027. It's truly the golden age of cyberpunk media.
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
Rufus Sewell in basically anything - he is, frankly, blessed - but especially his turn as Charles II
Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w agothere is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11
Sometimes you cut someone out of your life and then a few years later you see them doing some deeply deranged shit and you just feel so goddamn validated
Sarah kicked off a whole oral history here for the motivated excavators
Sarah has a suggestion@goatsarah.org · 2w agoI want to watch whatever social event it was in 2013 that caused the uk media lot to embrace transphobia en masse, like a flock of birds turning in lockstep.
Foly huck. Just when you think you’ve seen everything film can do. youtu.be/1SZNV3LxWBM?...
BUCKING FASTARD (2026) - Official First Look Clip - HanWay Films
YouTube video by HanWay Films
youtu.be
Medea, loved Antigone, loathed Jane Eyre, loathed Macbeth, loved Hamlet, loved A Tale of Two Cities, didn't care Ivanhoe, LOVED All Quiet on the Western Front, so-so The Old Man and the Sea, okayish Hiroshima, wtf
Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 2y agoUS and UK friends, I'm curious: What books were part of your required reading for highschool literature class? Which of them do you remember loving, and which did you loathe?
Been an awesome week in my job for crossing the FDA and the CDC off my list of sources of truth.
Alicia Ault@aliciaault.bsky.social · 2w agoCDC has updated its vaccine safety pages. Now says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." Whoa #EpiSky #pediatrics #NeuroSky #PsychSky
Next year's version will have integrated camera, facial recognition capability, and security backdoor for ICE
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 2w agoLowe’s just released a holiday-décor collection that includes a life-size Elf on the Shelf, which sold out quickly last year, so get yours now.
