nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch

My theory: survival stories and true crime are actually photo negatives of each other, because in true crime, someone's dead who should be alive, and in survival, someone's alive who should be dead, and in both cases you're trying to figure out why

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · yesterday

One more thing on What to Carry, What to Burn: Podcasting's devolution into chat /true crime has depressed me as listener & writer. It's labeled--wrongly--as latter, & at first seems to be @blairbraverman.bsky.social "just" talking. But it's so arfully structured! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Today is the 449th Anniversary of Black Shuck crashing into the service at St. Mary's Bungay, killing some people and then leaving to scratch the door of Holy Trinity Church Blythburgh.

RAIN!!!! THANK THE GODS RAIN!!!!!!

*The actors in this 1930s movies are "bohemians," and it's quite hard to figure that out. They just seem to be magazine writers, fashion people, and specialty publishers *But they are period-scandalous, and very out-there, with-it and "alternative" youtu.be/1SZb1FtA7dc?...

The Animal Kingdom - Full Movie | Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, William Gargan

YouTube video by The Film Detective

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Your regular reminder that this is how all skeletons should move in your #ttrpg campaigns. I don't make the rules, it's just The Law.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

"The Prestige: You’re in a committed relationship, and this is the Nolan film you’ve seen most often. It has something for everyone: period piece, magic, a David Bowie cameo—the perfect compromise for two people sharing one life."

What Your Favorite Christopher Nolan Film Says About You

“Tenet: You have great taste and tremendous intellectual acumen. That’s what it takes to appreciate the misunderstood brilliance that is Tenet, a work that p...

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Be seeing you! Seeing you there, I hope!

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 3d ago

Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha

Oh no. My GP has just emailed me to let me know their phone calls are going to be handled by a chatbot from now on. Interestingly, not one mention of AI or chatbots or the like in the whole email. Just that "Emma" is not perfect and is still learning. Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it!

Just because

Weird Brits can be a bigger problem than you’d expect. Wakefield, sure, but there’s also the utter black horror of O9A. (That’s evil Weird Brits naturally. Us good Weird Brits are not the issue here. Just be aware that Weird Brits come in multiple varieties, some Evil)

lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 3d ago

i believe her on this, hollywood obviously has tons of woo doofuses. hollywood, crunchy suburban seattle and of course weirdly brits (all of this shit originates with wakefield)

Seems like 2026 is the year the "Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" post lands for everyone.

Truth is always a defence in such cases, I understand

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d ago

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/oZwZMR9

In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate

Thanks to @kehaar.bsky.social I have been pretty much exclusively listening to funky spy music for the last few weeks. This is an unambiguously good thing. Tempted to write the Agents of D.U.K.E. theme tune now

it's alan moore getting a cake

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

And what the fuck use does this serve in education? Fuck off

Dartmouth Arts and Sciences@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 5d ago

Students in the Foundations of Digital Design and Music and Artificial Intelligence classes teamed up this spring to make animation set to a music track, using AI to expand creativity rather than replace it.

One thing i think we need to be clear on is that the “nine years” is almost entirely getting Drs to take us seriously. These tests need to be cheap and easily available enough that Drs are incentivised to use them very widely, or else the actual issue will continue.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

You wouldn't know it from how some people talk, but it is incredibly easy to not use AI for anything.

Ah, yes, nothing can go wrong with this at all

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 5d ago

Google Earth has launched a new AI tool which allows users to create fake satellite images. A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza and Russian tanks in Kyiv were among the fake images BBC Verify created when testing the feature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the code of practice is exactly as clear as it was intended to be - that is, vague enough that any organisation can be targeted for not doing enough to exclude trans people no matter their policies

After witnessing Grand Theft Auto: Royal Leamington Spa earlier, I am greatly relieved to be sipping on a rather delicious yuzu and elderflower margarita (lovingly pre-mixed by M&S). I'm detecting faint traces of elderflower and significant traces of yuzu but mostly lime and tequila tbh. Still nice

Girl! I wanna take you to a Games Barn! I wanna take you to a Games Barn! Games Barn! Games Barn! Games Barn!

Bloody hell. Just saw a police chase in Leamington. White van turned into a one way street to evade cop car, failed, and them reversed at speed INTO the cop car and razzed off! I moved out of LA for a reason…

👇 "The vast majority of people who work in film and television are not studio executives, nor are they famous actors. They are, overwhelmingly, blue-collar workers, freelancers, and small businesses. And they are in free fall." Yes.

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Hard agree with this. Every small business I see using AI for their ads can go fuck themselves, they will not have my cash. Loads of “cool and hip” bars doing it for their band flyers as well. Just dipshit behaviour

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yes, I’m seeing a lot of this around. These are the kinds of jobs new artists build careers on and experienced ones use to stay afloat between bigger projects. It’s death by a thousand cuts.

Chemist or cotton mill foreman. Mind you, the chemist was still in school at that point

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

This was intentional. First drones, now missiles. Russia is gauging NATO’s (specifically the US) response to these violations. Every time they strike far Western Ukraine, they get data on Polish operating procedures - alerts, jets scrambled, communications with allies, etc.