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Love's Haunted Twin, by Zac Bentz 8 track album

Happy Valentine’s Day. This album is the other side of that.

zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/loves-...

(Free to stream, nice to share.)

The Mads Are Back: Bride of the Gorilla — Dumb Industries The Mads Are BACK! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu ("Dr. Clayton Forrester" and "Crow T. Robot") and Frank Conniff ("TV's Frank") as they live-riff the 1951 B-movie BRIDE OF THE GOR...

TUESDAY, FEB 11 | 8PM ET

@tracebeaulieu.bsky.social & @frankconniff.bsky.social return with an all-new live-riff on BRIDE OF THE GORILLA! Plus a Q&A w/ the brilliant @rachellichtman.bsky.social!

Like this post and comment below and we'll pick 5 people to be added to the guest list! #TheMadsAreBack

today | 3pm et | jackey neyman jones: paint your pet | painting done by jackey of her dog shanka | sign up at dumb-industries.com/jackey | open to all ages and skill level

TODAY | 3PM ET

Join @jackeyneymanjones.bsky.social as she guides students in PAINTING THEIR PETS!! Grab a photo of your favorite fur baby and join us.

Your first 30 days are FREE and you can cancel at any time. Come hang out!!

dumb-industries.com/jackey-neyma...

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

proves nothing

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.

I’ll take it.

Sign the petition against book bans at http://www.bookbanpetition.us

Billionaires love the “Community Notes” approach to fact-checking because it involves people working for them for free

Zac Bentz Stuff relating to Dirty Knobs, The Electric Witch, The Surfactants, Xero Music, Zac Bentz and more.

Tidied up my YouTube "channel." Check it out if you want to watch mostly still images while listening to my music!

www.youtube.com/@zac-bentz

Mitch Benn reads A Christmas Carol, by Mitch Benn 6 track album

If you didn’t make it to my live performances of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, my audiobook of the complete and unabridged novel is available FREE/pay what you want HERE: mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/album/mitch-...

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies TCM Remembers 2024 | TCM

TCM does this so much better than the Oscarcast every single year. Prepare for a sigh and a cry.

youtu.be/GxJqSLcVFUI?...

YouTube video by Josh Way Fun With Shorts: The Christmas Visitor

Fun With Shorts: The Christmas Visitor
youtu.be/Bzo1aPJJ6r0

Remembering Tony Todd: The Legacy Of Candyman In His Own Words Honoring Tony Todd: The legacy of CANDYMAN in his own words. Tananarive Due unearths a rare interview with the late legend.

My tribute to the late, great Tony Todd just went up on @fangoria.bsky.social online! It features an interview @kundalinisteve.bsky.social & I did with him.

You can also hear the full interview I excerpt here on our podcast at www.lifewritingpodcast.com (Ep 149)

www.fangoria.com/tony-todd-ca...

hey not to be all corny but please understand and internalize that your creative work is vital and beautiful whether others see/hear it or not and that your creative expression enriches the world just by your having done it

Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.

Health insurance claim denied? See what insurers said behind the scenes.

Published May 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social

A soda machine from the 90s

Font is such an underrated sense memory

YouTube video by closetfan Starships - a multifandom space vid by bironic

Whenever I have a bad pain day, I rewatch my favorite fanvid ever made (Starships, a multifandom fanvid by bironic) and it cheers me up.

Since I've shared it a billion times on The Site That Shall Not Be Named, it's past time I share the glory of this vid here, too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTGd...

For anyone who may need it

Watch a funny video or meme to make yourself laugh. 😂

Two out of three Twitter accounts emptied and locked down. Waiting on automatic tweet deletion to finish for the third, then I’ll be unshackled fully. Sad it came to this, because Twitter had been such a part of my social media use, but here we are.

A hamster in a cardboard tube with the opening facing the camera. The hamster is crawling forward with one front paw raised.

"Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."

The Associated Press has officially joined Bluesky. Follow us at @apnews.com.

The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – including humans – a supercharged ability to evolve

Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – including humans – a supercharged ability to evolve.
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

This Tues, Dec 10, 8pm, Trace Beaulieu perform what I think will be one of our most fun MST3K-style THE MADS ARE BACK shows yet: A NIGHT OF TOONS, our first all-cartoon riff, curated by Q&A guest, animation historian Jerry Beck. A Happy Holiday treat! Tix: dumb-industries.com/anightoftoons.

I believe so. That would be a fun item!

I didn’t start play Fortnite until Chapter 2, Season 7, so I’ll be giving Fortnite OG a whirl.

Applications are open for Mary Robinette Kowal's Short Story Cohort. Apply at maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-cohort

Info about MRK's Short Story Cohort: * Three months (Jan 29-Apr 30) * Small group experience * Access to "Make Me Write" sessions and Short Stories Explained class * Get personalized feedback * Participate in critique * Polish one story per month so you have three stories to submit at the end. Apply at maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-cohort

If you dream about leveling up your writing skills and having three polished short stories to submit by May, I encourage you to apply for my Short Story Cohort (January 29 - April 30). Applications are due December 31. maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...

Do a quick meditation to clear your mind. 🧘