SpOoKy 👻 Luke Griffin
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Puppies! Who doesn’t love puppies? he/him PDX
For World Octopus Day🐙, let's learn a weird fact about the three hearts of our eight-legged friend. The SYSTEMIC HEART of an octopus STOPS BEATING while they swim / jet. Seems like a design flaw, doesn't it? Let's talk about it.
National Geographic: Swimming Octopuses101
Alt: National Geographic: Swimming Octopuses101: it's a red-tinted octopus on a short loop moving slightly to the viewer's right as it turns to face the camera.
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Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate. “The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us." [kottke.org]
Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism. Before WWII,
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Goodnight. May we sail the river of night gently until we reach the safe harbour of morning. 🖼️ Mandy Tsung
daniel kachamba demonstrating his "putugizi" style of guitar playing..
Daniel Kachamba showing the Putugizi technique (Göttingen, 1972)
YouTube video by parmigian
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The purpose of awards is not to reward excellence. The purpose is to consolidate power & uphold the status quo. I say this as an Emmy winner, Grammy nominee, and person who's name and work was highlighted in PR to fuel an Oscar campaign I was not nominated for (Best Sound on The Abyss).
”It’s a war between the stars you hairy bastard!”
batkaren@batkaren.bsky.social · last wk.“JOIN MY FIGHT CLUB!”
This administration is so incompetent they're incapable of "legally" killing someone on death row but perfectly capable of executing innocent civilians in the street. Also, abolish the death penalty.
time for the annual re-upping of my thread of latam horror in Translation for the two week overlap of spooky season & hispanic heritage month 👻
PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo@pazsays.bsky.social · 2y agoOKAY FOLKS FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT* MY THREAD OF LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTHS *nobody asked but I KNOW WHAT YOU SECRETLY WANT 1/
It doesn’t just “seem to win many awards”, it HAS. But more importantly, it’s a fantastic read.
NickPheas@nickpheas.bsky.social · last wk.Death of The Author by @nnedi.bsky.social is on offer for £3.99. I have not read it. It seems to be winning many awards, so I probably should. www.audible.co.uk/pd/Death-of-...
I would love to see some of the cable news presenters call out the credulous dupes at axios who did this, but it would make their friends sad and also shine light on their own credulous tendencies.
🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃@golikehellmachine.com · 2w agoimagine being the fucking clown at axios who assisted in this horseshit
in another decade or two, we're gonna start to see some severely diverging vibes between cities based on choices made today, and guess where people are going to want to go
Alistair Davidson@moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 2mo agoBefore and after, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow
Man, I just watched Terminator and it’s really fucking good and also realized about ten minutes into it that that fucking pud yudkowski thinks he is Kyle Reece. Like the whole paperclip bit is lifted from the scene where Reece explains to Sarah how the machines activated.
Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:
There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping a woman than there are trans athletes competing in NCAA sports, but sure, let’s have a moral panic about trans athletes.
And to be honest, though the systems are so complex you can never prove causation, the fact that our descent into the dumbest politics follows on four decades of systematic, institutional disinvestment from the liberal arts seems almost too on the nose and yet here we are.
"Hate all you like. This is the love of my life"- me to my friends when they're trying to stop me from eating an opened candy bar I found in the women's bathroom
think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 2w ago“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
I’ve seen several stories of young women describing rape and sexual assault on college campuses in the last week which strikes me not as a rise in assaults but, given the violence of some of the examples, I fear we’re back in an era of headlines about group assaults, for the Tate/Clavicular era
If you want to read more about just how much worse schools handle sexual violence than you ever imagined, I wrote a book about it:
On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...
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A Starbucks store in Eugene, which was the first to unionize in Oregon, is among hundreds of stores closing nationwide.
First Starbucks in Oregon to unionize is being shuttered
More than four years since it became the very first Starbucks in Oregon to join a union, Eugene’s store at 2830 Willamette St. is among several hundred shutting down this week.
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A sacred site that predates Stonehenge has been damaged by Trump's border wall ➡️ bit.ly/47f01bl
