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It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand.

All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front.

He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you.

Fuck 'em.

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YouTube video by FGTHVEVO Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes

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Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

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Hoping we are!

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

Descendants of immigrants crapping on the most recent immigrants is as old as settler colonialism. It’s as though the accidental latitude & longitude of one’s birth imbues special unearned qualities upon the individual. Cuomo embodies the racism depicted in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York:

I feel like Dominic Monaghan will also be upset about them using his face.

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

Excellent.

And Telly Savalus having a great ol' munch of the scenery, if memory serves.

Grim!

3 Echo & the Bunnymen
2 Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1 Lloyd Cole & the Commotions

HM to Bronski Beat and Alison Moyet. Not too shabby, '84.

Dame Emma is going to beat Microsoft Copilot to death with her screenwriting Oscar

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Even more relevant now than it was 30 years ago...

A lot of people on social media like to point out that when people die the tributes are often accompanied by photos of them when they were young and beautiful (as opposed to old and beautiful). So let me just say that I’m posting this because it’s one of my favourite portraits full stop by one of the greatest ever British portrait photographers. And fuck off.

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

10/10 headline.

Some sub-editor just earned their Christmas bonus.

YouTube video by SparkyMarky Big Train - George Martin

This always amuses me - perhaps more so now that I know that at least some of GM’s oft repeated anecdotes weren’t … entirely accurate

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Sky are actually attempting a culture war over the band name of Joy Division. There is nowhere ever too stupid for these people to go.

The Australian Cartoonist Association, such a niche group, has more backbone, strength and resilience than the Media and Entertainment Arts 'Alliance', the whole-of-industry "union".

Ads for ABC McTWee's new show... yeah, I'm interested in some of those people talking about Australia's body politick. But honestly the thing on that ad that gives me the biggest joy is PATERNOSTER LIFTS omgggggg!!!

And it's still reel-to-reel!!

Did Not Miss the Rancid gig. What a night.

These artists built a light installation that activates at high tide, showing future sea levels and demonstrating the climate brittleness of the art center that commissioned it, currently sited in a building near the...

I assume it's from pre-78. :)

Saw this great one on tumblr recently: