Webberly Rattenkraft

@factrat.bsky.social

Erstwhile lab rat, current bon vivant. Insisting on persisting in this relentlessly roiling morass of madness. Love is real, Love is the Answer, Love is the fulfillment of the Law. We will fix our hearts or die. Fun Fact: I love you. Yes, even *you*.

Director George P. Cosmatos' OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN is a wicked man-versus-rat thriller starring Peter Weller in his first lead role. VS is scratching and gnawing to deliver you this fast-moving chiller in 4K UHD, newly scanned from its original camera negative. 🐀 Order link in comments 🐀

Great Substack about UPA, the animation studio that revolutionized cartoons in the 1950s. Founded by the leftist animators who were purged by Walt Disney during the infamous 1941 strike, it was UPA that dragged animation into midcentury mod. Mr. Magoo was their big hit.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The book Inside UPA is a visual tour of one of the greatest animation studios of all time. With its author's permission, we've shared the whole thing online for free. Our latest issue dives into the book and UPA's place in animation history: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/stepping-i...

Somehow ended up¹ re-re-watching THE MONKEY (2025), and I think this time I'm finally kinda grooving with its unique sort of freaky-deakyness, maybe? Also, I never woulda guessed they weren't twins! _______ 1. I wanted to watch Adam Scott wielding a flamethrower, but then got caught up in it all.

This is a factual sentence: Amid an outbreak of explosive diarrhea and with measles cases at a 35-year high, America’s top health official, who has an affinity for roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. My column, tragically: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Move over, cyclosporiasis. RFK Jr. is hosting a cooking show. | Opinion

America's top health official, who has an affinity for picking up roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. Barf.

usatoday.com

I guess now is the time in the Lair when we watch MORTAL KOMBAT II, which I'm OK with despite its egregious offense against the Spelling Arts, because Karl Urban. Bones, Dredd, Éomer... what can't he do, amirite?

I’m a card carrying socialist & union member & all that and/but this book fucking torpedoed for me the myth that Democrats & Republicans are “the same.” The massive, fundamental differences btwn D & R administrations in regard to disabled ppl’s lives is INSANE.👩🏻‍🦼‍➡️❤️ judithheumann.com/being-heumann/

Being Heumann | Personal Story & Fighting Education | Judithheumann

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive education

judithheumann.com

I just now discovered that my beloved Fdot has never seen David Lynch’s delirious tribute to the darkest undertummy of Wholesome Americana, the Meisterwerk called BLUE VELVET, so that's up next after “football” here.

Thanks to the good folks at Santa Rosa's The Sweet Spot¹, Growlix has a new pal² to hang out with. He seems pretty cool so far, plus w00t, pretty face colors! _______ 1. Lovely staff, great stock, I always stop by when I'm passing through town. 2. Name pending discovery; he shares only reluctantly.

Growlix the Lookah Bear is hanging out with his new pal, an upright bovine figure with delightful pink cow-patches contrasting with an overall white, and a colorful LCD display for a face. His tummy prominently features the Ooze logo, for it is they who created him, and why should they not boast of such? He's got wee black pierced horns, or maybe ears, with two gold rings through the rightmost thereof. 

Fun Feet Fact: His hooves harbor a sneaky secret!

Clawing my way up from the murky, muddy darky-deeps of the Gloom Swamp to gasp out, ”You can't go wrong with @badhandbooks.bsky.social, go impulse-buy with reckless abandon but especially CRANBERRY COVE and KILL YOUR DARLING and ALL THE STARS DIE why are you still reading go buy!!” #GlubGlub #Squish

Bad Hand Books@badhandbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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