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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

This is so good and evocative!

Attacked him for filming them. Disarmed him. Continued to attack him. Executed him with twelve gunshots. Clapped.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Good piece on the false promises of tech titans, some of the ways we can fight back against them, and the real value that can be extracted from their inevitable collapse.

Trump is openly waging war on the entire constitution and these fucking losers are still whining about a slogan people chanted for six months 6 years ago.

Liberal use of A + B + START + SELECT.

"if was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice vou would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth - he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all he thinks he's been tricked - he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turr around. "if i was orpheus i would simply -" you wouldn't be orpheus. vou wouldn't be brave enough tc walk into the underworld and save the person you love

I think about this post all the time

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

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Let’s gooooooooooooooo

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Hell yeah, 19th century Russian doorstoppers stay winning.

As a kid I remember House MD being one of the first shows that had a contemplative, abstract, musically stylized opening instead of the usual 90s “montage of scenes from the show with the lead actors’ faces” model.

Yeah, I feel like most of the services have been leaning on that same style since the Game of Thrones era. The sand thing especially for epics—Shogun, The Wheel of Time, Rings of Power. Or they do a bunch of mannequins/statues/masks like Hannibal, Daredevil, Westworld, The Crown, Black Sails.

Aw, I like the Foundation intro with that Bear McCreary theme quite a bit—even if it is doing that now-ubiquitous “representational sand particles” thing.

They’re straight-up murdering people in broad daylight in full view of spectators. Still think we can “reform” this?

That includes the classics, of course, but entirely new children and YA books as well. It’s beautifully done, prepared entirely by Latin teachers and scholars, great narration, no AI. I wish there were natural method apps like this for every target language.

Legentibus: Learn Latin App - App Store Download Legentibus: Learn Latin by Handelsbolaget Latinitium on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Legentibus:…

For anyone looking to learn or brush up on your Latin, the Legentibus app rules. It’s a reading-immersion course including the Lingua Latina books anyone who took Latin in high school will remember, plus a host of other more exciting and gradually more difficult reads to build vocabulary as you go.

Book cover collage: 1. Life’s Work: A Memoir (David Milch) 2. Burning Chrome (William Gibson) 3. Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard) 4. Shogun (James Clavell) 5. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Thomas Ligotti) 6. The Summer Book (Tove Jansson) 7. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Vladislav M. Zubok) 8. Master and Commander (Patrick O’Brian) 9. Dooku: Jedi Lost 10. Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe) 11. Fluent Forever 12. Worn: A People’s History of Clothing (Sofi Thanhauser) 13. The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples 14. The Bible Says So (Dan McClellan) 15. Hard to Be a God (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky) 16. Yoga Body (Mark Singleton) 17. Modern Occultism: History, Theory, and Practice (Mitch Horowitz) 18. Old Path, White Clouds (Thich Nhat Hanh) 19. Brown Girl in the Ring (Nalo Hopkinson) 20. The Darkness That Comes Before (R. Scott Bakker) 21. The Warrior-Prophet (R. Scott Bakker) 22. The Thousandfold Thought 23. The Judging Eye 24. The White-Luck Warrior 25. The Great Ordeal 26. The Unholy Consult 27. The Long Walk (Stephen King) 28. City of Quartz (Mike Davis) 29. The Iron King (Maurice Druon) 30. The Strangled Queen (Maurice Druon) 31. The Poisoned Crown (Maurice Druon) 32. Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) 33. From Hell (Alan Moore) 34. Kwaidan (Lafcaido Hearn / Yakumo Koizumi) 35. Flesh (David Szalay) 36. Phantoms (Dean Koontz) 37. The Royal Succession (Maurice Druon) 38. The She-Wolf (Maurice Druon) 39. Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson) 40. Sátántangó (László Krasznahorkai) 41. Stoner (John Williams) 42. The Lily and the Lion (Maurice Druon)

Read some excellent books in 2025, a lot of thought-provoking ones, some entertaining page-turners, and very few I regret spending the time with.

Not to defend this pointless type of TikTok video, but it is at least better than the kind that makes you sit there reading a text post word by word in caption sequence. Just a bad medium for ideas in general.

Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant The court’s ruling suggests that using the internet now means agreeing to be searched.

Gotta love the classic court maneuver of “we have repeatedly allowed police to violate this privacy right” therefore “people don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy here anymore.”

A ★★★★ review of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) I have to say I’m surprised that, despite spending nearly half his career planning and obsessing over his grand plans for the Avatar movies, James Cameron is apparently content to keep remaking the sa...

It’s more Avatar all right. The poster really could’ve been three Pandoran eggs labeled BIGGER THAN BEFORE.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Sadly this means we’ll all be subject to the time delay censorship whenever anything interesting happens at the ceremony 😏

Wow, one of only three or four events a year I watch on live TV. Seems like a real death knell moment for the broadcast medium.

Sounds about right.

screenshot of a blogpost that reads: "Ten More Tangible Tips for Editing Your RPG Manuscript "1. Remove instances of here from location descriptions—it’s obvious you’re describing the location already. Instead of 'A hobgoblin hammers iron here,' write 'A hobgoblin hammers iron on an anvil.' "2. For the same reason, remove instances of this in description entries. If you must reference the entry’s subject, use 'the.' Instead of 'Smoke fills this room,' write 'Smoke fills the room,' or better yet 'Smoke fills the air.' "3. When writing entries for monsters, magic items, and so on, skip repeating the name of the subject with [X] is or [X] are in the first sentence. Instead of 'VODYANOY: Vodyanoy are froggy, pot-bellied water spirits,' write 'VODYANOY: Froggy, pot-bellied water spirits.'"

what's up gamers, I'm back with ten more tangible tips for editing your tabletop RPG manuscript: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-more-tan...

The movie rights are being optioned as we speak.

The kids are all right!