Len Bogan

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘jazz hands’ at Oscar lunch a recreation of Shining photo, director says The picture, taken with Paul Thomas Anderson at this year’s Oscar nominee lunch, recalls the eerie image that closes Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic

Guillermo del Toro is such a huge fuckin' nerd (he said, 100% admiringly):

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

"Yes, children were abused, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Best wishes on health and technology issues both.

Hookland caused an enthusiastic stir in my writing groups, truly a singular home for mind-wandering and dreams. It's a treasure. Eager to help support if at all feasible.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

the actual Republican parents who support the politicians pushing for this think the effort and money they spent parenting are wasted if their kids turn out different from them.

You eliminate that possibility by eliminating the public existence of other kinds of people.

Texans LGBTQ figure skater taking social media break after 'threats' "I will never stop using my voice for what I believe in."

"I will never stop using my voice for what I believe in."

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

Yes, Mister Bunny’s performance was obviously political. But I think everything short of gargling a meth addicted klansman’s truck nuts comes across as an implicit denunciation of the president nowadays.

You're not ready, I promise.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Comic page, two feral wolves starting to loose their shape

Comic page, paws Turing into hands. A werewolf. Text says ‘there’s a change in their blood’

Pages 4 and 5

Happy Werewolf Wednesday all

JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i jussst wanted to sstop by to asssure you
Rowling: that i did NOT invite jeffrey epssstein to the world premiere of the monsterss of pottermania sstage sshow extravaganza ssupersshow sspectacular live from the acropolisss in sstereo where available

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

Panel 1: A young ADHD Alien character looks up at a pointing adult hand, holding her chest. Text reads: “I’ve always felt different. Instead of being understood, I got dismissed and criticized.” Below: “So I made sense of it the only way I could: ‘There must be something wrong with me.’”

Panel 2: The character talks to another person, smiling nervously. Text: “So I’ve spent my whole life hiding my true self (not that I even know who my true self is), showing only what I thought was an acceptable amount of myself.”

Panel 3: A calm, wise character speaks gently. Caption: “But a very wise person recently told me:” Speech bubbles say: “Healthy adults accept each other when they first meet,” “and set boundaries when given reason,” “so you don’t start off by having to prove yourself.”

Panel 4: Final scene shows the character smiling brightly, holding hands with others in a glowing, rainbow-like light. Text reads: “I deserve to have witnesses to my full life who see, understand and love me. Not because I’m so special, but because everyone deserves that, just by existing.”

I carry so much internalized shame and guilt from not understanding why I couldn’t do anything right as a kid.

(Not only an ADHD thing, but a common experience with it.)

Prints / Comic archive adhd-alien.com

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After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

One problem with billionaires is that they're so rich they no longer have rational incentives. To someone like Bezos, the financial performance of WaPo is wholly irrelevant, and so the only "incentive" is to satisfy emotional urges, such as breaking something just to show he can.

Chuck. Can I call you Chuck?

This isn't what we want. We want you to hard delete the government sponsored terror organization breaking the law and ignoring constitutional protections, and prosecute the will to live out of them all.

As a BASELINE. As in, bare minimum. Can you do bare minimum?

Canadian Company Cancels Sale of Virginia Warehouse to ICE

This is a fascinating story. ICE tried to buy a warehouse in VA from a Canadian company, to turn into a detention center. One of the company’s advertising partners basically told them that if they sold, they could kiss their ads goodbye.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:

When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

The so-called "party of free speech" sure does hate free speech.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed?

CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer

AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Print history fam— ICE is terrorizing & threatening this small business print shop in Minneapolis: Smart Set Community Printing.

If you’re in the area and need some printing (fine prints, business cards, stickers, saddle-stitched booklets, posters, etc) please consider supporting them! smartset.com

The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

This is a huge crisis that we must do our part on by rejecting generative AI. The more it infiltrates our systems, the more fucked we are over time.

I've been saying for months that I am a single-issue voter, and that issue is retribution. I don't want to hear the word "bipartisan" from any 2028 candidate. I want to hear their plans for deporting Elon Musk, holding everyone in this administration accountable, and dismantling the Supreme Court.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Yes