Colin J. Mason

@colinjmason.bsky.social

Catholic atheist. Father. Partner. Filmmaker. Scribbler. Occasional musician. I bow to no king. https://linktr.ee/colinjmason

The biggest coup that American capitalists ever pulled off was convincing everyone that they were obligated to pay for things like healthcare and education but that they were entitled to art for free.

I stood looking over the damage Trying to remember the sweetness of life on earth But there is no before Only now. I was late You were early And adrift in a stranger's galaxy For a long, long time I have found you nine times before Maybe ten And I will find you again - Station Eleven

I am so fucking sick of seeing that faux-punchy "not X, not Y—Z" ChatGPT slop-writing everywhere I look. It's EVERYWHERE, and it's rapidly teaching my brain that written words on the internet are just "visual noise" and should automatically be ignored. (1/3)

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.