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good god I had forgotten how much my belief in the 'average person is good' shattered in 2020. Fuck.

Is there a movie that kind of ruined other movies for you

The OG cinematic universe.

Using AI is fine as long as you check its work. But that can be tedious and time consuming. That's where my AI tool "Work Checker" comes in

Happy birthday to the great Sigmund Freud, who would have been 169 years penis today.

My illustration of Troubadour's ability for Draw Steel. I am extremely excited for this book! 😊 #mcdm #fantasyart

Tomorrow

Some covers to 'Golden Hours' ("an up-to-date weekly for boys") from 1891-1901. Couldn't identify the artists. "Roy Rockwood" was a House Name and has an SFE entry: sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rockwo...

Frank Kelly Freas, 1958

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." kfoundation.org/it-is-no-mea...

It’s a difficult time for young men, growing up in a culture that no longer provides them with strong role models like Robert Wadlow, the fat biker twins, or the Indian guy with the long fingernails

On the subject of the “crisis of masculinity” I’m hearing so much about: I think there is one, I think it’s very real, and I think it’s built and driven by the very right wing grifters who are peddling remedies for it. They’re the crisis. They profit by making their marks feel hopeless and angry.

This is a great new feature for this app actually

In the infinite variety of human existence there’s gotta be someone out there who doesn’t get music stuck in their head, has no clue what an ear-worm is, and finds the concept completely alien when people talk about it. It’s maybe not even uncommon!

Girls sheep racing on farm, UK, 1969, photo by John Drysdale

It's #MesozoicThe4th. Happy #TarWars Day.

Alex Colville - Cattle Show, 1955 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'1926 Gladys Ingle of Hollywood’s infamous ‘13 Black Cats’ stunt team. Gladys would perform wing walks, midair archery and her party piece, changing planes wing to wing in midair without any safety measures. She lived to the age of 82 and died in 1981.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...

Me and Anubis are laughing at how heavy your heart is, man. He’s doing bits. Like acting like he can’t even lift it with both hands haha. Acting like he’s doing bicep curls with it. I’m like, damn, Anubis is in his bag

If you’re happy and you know it, go to bed. Quit while you’re ahead.

Really enjoying this informative debate on Israel/Palestine between these YouTubers (Rich Evans and The Rizzler)

Some artwork from "The Electrical Experimenter", Hugo Gernsback's predecessor to "Science & Invention'. All from early 1916: the February, February, January & March issues respectively. 3rd & 4th from Gernsbeck's "Baron Münchhausen's New Scientific Adventures" (couldn't identify the artists):

UFO themed art by Bruce Pennington x 2, Angus McKie, Tim White

The more skilled you are at a given task, the less useful you’re likely to find LLMs for said task. It’s not that every LLM detractor has never used a LLM before, it’s more likely you’re just bad enough that the LLM seems good in comparison.

He experienced something extraordinary: the feeling of being crushed by a snowplow

🎶YOU LET ME VIOLATE YOU YOU LET ME DESECRATE YOU YOU LET ME PENETRATE YOU THE ADDAMS FAMILY🎶

🎶 DONT WANT TO BE AN AMERICAN IDIOT 🎶

I want to do art. But sales have been 0 this week (& something didn’t arrive to the US, so, loss!) so I need to promote some art before I start! So, let’s go with #MERMAY! I have so much mermaid stuff, cos I’m a ginger sea-lovin’ maid myself. Pls RP All here dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #mermaid

The cantina band from Star Wars seems even weirder now we know from Andor that the bar could’ve just been playing normal techno

1924 edition of the St. Paul Daily News. www.mnopedia.org/event/smallp...

There is a lot to unpack here...

1978 Danish edition of Dune. Cover art by John Schoenherr

In the 90s, I genuinely thought the Internet would cure loneliness. But it turns out that for me anyway the Internet addresses loneliness the way alcohol addresses anxiety.

If you’re too young to remember 9/11, one of the things about the subsequent 3-4 years if if you lived by The World’s Biggest Fork, people would be like “we need to be careful, that fork could be a target, terrorists hate our fork”

We were in a meeting and people were complaining how cold it was and Jason said "I like a little chilly." And I, who looked absorbed with my phone, suddenly blurted out "Jalapenos!" Which caused everyone to suddenly turn and stare at me. "Jalapenos are a little chili."

Who would win a fight between one gorilla and one man named Gary O’Rilla

'Austro-Hungarian morse code station in transit, Italy, 1917.' From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

really good book that everyone should read right now ᵇᵃᶜᵏ ᶜᵒᵛᵉʳ⬇️

Love Matt's energy, and I'm so grateful to have him in my corner. This whole conversation was great.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_ar...

I’ve had some of my favourite blackouts in Spain.

The Canadian election result shows that the 2024 US election might have gone very differently if American voters could somehow have known in advance what it would be like to have Donald Trump as president

It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually that your mom died.

logging on

Thought I’d crash on the sofa and read a book. Apparently I won’t be doing that.