No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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It’s not a slogan. It’s a cause. Abolishing slavery was a cause, and everything that’s written below about prison abolition was written about abolition of slavery. It’s good to have causes, if they are just.
@takethepith.bsky.social · last wk."Abolish Prisons" is a slogan that will immediately turn off 95% of people, regardless of the nuances in the literature. Far more harmful than helpful. The right clearly always wanted to make abortion illegal and punish women who got them. But they didn't make that their slogan! They knew better!
I just want everyone here to be able to buy a cup of coffee and a little pastry for themselves everyday without feeling like they're committing a grave financial sin
F1 drivers should be allowed to have a little switch on the wheel they can flip to switch their drink tube over to 1 beer stashed in the cockpit. you get 90 mins into a race that shit is gonna hit so good
firestorm are doing a print run of the fifteen zines to raise money for the defendants, already sold out of its first run but gearing up for a reprint: firestorm.coop/products/253...
The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines
We sold out of the first print run! Please expect a short delay for reprinting. These packets of zines are a fundraiser for the Prairieland Defendants! Each packet comes...
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the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
I want you to think about the vocal response from the democrats over a portion of their party winning and succeeding and compare it to how they reacted to people getting thirty year jail sentences for handing out zines at a concentration camp
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · last mo.“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.” - Tish James on Mamdani 👀😳
I adore Witch Hat Atelier. The anime has adapted the manga so beautifully. It's reignited a love for not only creating art but studying it and its history, so I was so happy when @crunchyroll.com reached out to partner on a commission. Please watch WHA! #crunchyrollpartner #witchhatatelier
"Is it time already?" The MARIELDA SOUNDTRACK comes to vinyl in a special 10th anniversary edition. We are impossibly excited to share more information when preorders open on June 25th.
Lost In Cult@lostincult.co.uk · 2mo ago“...an obsessive academic sends an unusual artifact to a friend: an unfolding carousel containing a collection of objects and ephemera from the City of First Light” Sign up below to hear about the musical project between @friends-table.bsky.social x @LostInCult.co.uk dropping on June 25th... 🔗⤵️
this week's post is about yesterday's indictment and how it focuses on the alleged anarchism of the indictees. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/criminal-a...
“...an obsessive academic sends an unusual artifact to a friend: an unfolding carousel containing a collection of objects and ephemera from the City of First Light” Sign up below to hear about the musical project between @friends-table.bsky.social x @LostInCult.co.uk dropping on June 25th... 🔗⤵️
lots of talk about AI music production on the timeline today. i would rather cut my fingers off with a chef’s knife