Alex

@vlxcat.bsky.social

Minor cryptid.

List of double features a couple of friends and I made. Only requirements were a snappy title, and they have to make some kind of sense as a double feature ("same vibes" is 100% acceptable here) that you'd actually want to sit through.

In this Victorian-era post-apocalypse, the world is shrouded by a creeping fog that magically twists whatever it seeps into. Delve into the unknown, but don’t let the mist mutate you – or if it does, use your new gifts to your advantage.

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This is, incidentally, why it's so important to have creative grants and support programs for the arts. Not everyone can afford to wait for luck to find them; without support, we lose these voices and are left only with art made by the comfortable. And what's that saying about good art, again?

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last mo.

I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.

I'm sick of opting out adjusting my settings updating my device opting out adjusting my settings downloading the app opting out adjusting my settings cancelling my subscription opting out adjusting my settings push notifications opting out adjusting my setting precise location opting out adjusting-

By all means, though, use AI to make all your shit and think all your thoughts. Keep it up. Atrophy the hell out of those abilities. Slide back on down that bell curve, pal, you really won't be missed; slop is just a state of mind and plenty of us still have minds that work.

A meme featuring The Simpsons "makeup gun" scene with the text "gen-ai writing compound sentences" over Homer with the makeup gun, and "linked clauses" over Marge's incredibly chopped makeup look.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

alright the odyssey is really fucking good. nolan still does that dialogue mixing thing where peoples voices are at volume 7 and the concurrent music is a 7.2 but who cares honestly when the rest is SO solid. beautifully shot, unbelievable sound design, and the structure makes 3hrs feel like 90mins.

You ever take a sip of tea when it's at the most perfect possible temperature and feel like you've been cured of just about everything.

Went to a very cool projection mapping thingy inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons and I posit that nobody hates the "Spring" movements more than someone who played violin in school. Yes I still know it and yes I could go another 20 years without hearing it again, thanks.

Wonder if anyone else on the Mernda line hits That Part just after Clifton Hill and thinks "ah yep this is where the train derailed last year" as we're all bouncing around kind of erratically.