My new journal article on TV adaptations of Watership Down is now live in Children's Literature Association Quarterly! If you want to read it but don't have library access, contact me for a PDF 🐰📑

We should really work together, hand and hand, to focus all of our community’s poorly-suppressed and totally ruthless bullying energy on the single demographic we all agree actually deserves it: Harry Potter Adults in the year of our lord 2026

Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

This is a great story

Drew McWeeny@drewmcweeny.com · 5d ago

Dunno. I mean, I've told it to people, but I'm not sure I've told it in a public forum. It's a good one. Makes me cackle. I heard it from one of the people Lynch leaned on the hardest on that film, the guy who tracked down the warehouse space in Northridge that Lynch rented as a "soundstage." (1/10)

we're just normal men

*hikes up pants old man style* Back in my day, you’d go to the movies and for $5 you would see full-frontal Harvey Keitel unprovoked and without any warning whatsoever. It didn’t take you outta the movie, it WAS the movie. And that’s the way we liked it.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yes, that’s the problem 

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I honestly would love to know what policymakers think will happen to social mobility, regional growth, employment, and educational attainment, when all these provincial universities are gone or shrink to almost non existence? Isn’t avoiding that disaster alone worth a billion quid right now??

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last wk.

Yeah well, maybe you shouldn't take an axe to its biggest university then, you stupid idiots. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh, THIS is what's wrong with me

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

“I’m a really lazy bitch, but I have a punitive superego. The two go together.” — Colson Whitehead

An absolutely fascinating, eye-opening and somewhat alarming read about how the drinking culture of my student days was socially engineered by alcohol companies

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · last wk.

"vertical drinking" is an industry term refering to a design of venue which is socially engineered to encourage faster (& thus more) drinking. it's not some council nimby conspiracy, it's a thing. Might be misused in this case but it's a real technical term invented by the businesses in question

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Accurate drawing of Simba sitting in front of my air conditioner

🎱 Kelly Pringle 🎱@kellypringle.com · 2w ago

Cooling off 🧊

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

those who work in University writing programs should pay close attention—developing AI-friendly teaching doesn't make you safe from layoff www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

babushcats say destroy capitalism

SINNERS (2025, dir. Ryan Coogler) #OnePerfectShot #Filmsky 📽️🧛🎸

It's extremely rude of Rose to release some of her amazing tentacle pots in shades of pink AFTER I'd already bought one in blue, but the good news is that leaves more tentacle pots available for the potless.

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 2w ago

I should revisit that episode of You're Wrong About on why older people are generally more susceptible to misinformation, because I suspect that the venn diagram overlap between them and Boomers who use these AI tools is massive.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.

I can't help but think of 'Kes'

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, but the whole problem is that the opportunities presented by regional job markets outside of a handful of major cities are fucking shit.

Publisher in this piece says “If an author has used AI to help support their research for a nonfiction book, that’s fine. But… that means that we now need together to apply another layer of human research to make sure that the facts are actually true.” So it’s not fine really, is it?

The new premium product: books written by people

Some publishers think AI could not only help authors but replace them

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The Mummy (1999)

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 3w ago

How does one become indoctrinated into bisexuality?

Typical of UK gov that, if a uni goes bust, their only concern is what happens to current students and not any of the thousands of staff who will lose jobs, not to mention small local businesses reliant on universities for custom, or future working class students who will be robbed of opportunity.

Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · 3w ago

For real though.

UK HE needs to understand this as well

Matt Goldberg@mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 3w ago

If the solution is always “layoffs” regardless of how anything performs, then there’s no reason for any employee to try. Clock in, clock out, do as little as possible.

I saw the poster for OTHER MOMMY and I genuinely thought it was Bryce Dallas Howard. Time to study up again youtu.be/ipObSiFHpyY?...

I AM NOT JESSICA CHASTAIN (Bryce Dallas Howard)

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Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

The IMAX cinema where I saw The Odyssey gave me a free collectable film still, but I'd have preferred a collectable film sparkling.

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