weird menace and excessive bloodletting

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

You can still get in on this before Christmas, just about. Intervals of Darkness even has a Christmas story in it, about a sinister 'winter wonderland' experience on a muddy farm.

With Trump distracted and disinterested, Republicans can't get their act together to extend the enhanced ACA tax credits, knowing voters will (deservedly) deal them a punishing blow if they don't.
This is a preview of the moral and political mess that will be the post-Trump GOP.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?

TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded


BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

Fanart of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) by Nagifry. It portrays The Creature in the snow field with Victor. Below them is a portrayal of the tower in fire and thunder.

"... From this day forward, I will be your master."

#Frankenstein

From the editor's mouth the contract theoretical launched the ended contract possible

The WGA is not a fan of Netflix "swallowing" WBD The WGA is not a fan of Netflix "swallowing" WBD

The Writers Guild Of America West and East released a joint statement denouncing Netflix's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:

@mjpcuervo.bsky.social @reblambert.bsky.social APROPOS OF NOTHING PETER CUSHING BOMB. You don't have to thank me.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

It has been said that Peter Cushing was so devastated by his wife's recent death by the time this movie was shot that he would suffer from night panic. In order to make his nights easier, so he would not be alone when the attacks happened, Christopher Lee used to sleep in his same bed.

Just watched HORROR EXPRESS (1972) and I’m not crying, you’re crying

same for me but other way around

A Whole Lot of History - Friday edition!

AWLOH for Friday 5th Dec. is out NOW, history and archaeology fans!

It features:

⚫️ Roman sun hats ☀️👒

⚫️ Henry VIII 🤴

⚫️ Viking decapitation 🪓

⚫️ Prohibition 🍺🚫

...and more!

open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

The scale of the terror going on in Sudan right now has completely broken my ability to comprehend it tbh

Jugendstil postcard with Saint Nick and a long-tongued Demon.

In honor of Saint Nicholas Eve, here's a 1911 postcard from Vienna (now at the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)

It has a Krampus on it and everything.

Art is an act of friendship.

We make it because we must.

We share it because we can.

We sell it because...well, to be honest, the bills don't pay themselves.

Pope Leo gets it.

there is this idea that we've accepted in modern liberalism that we have to accept all viewpoints and give them their permitted space to compete, and that nothing is truly evil, nothing can demand genuine punishment.

we are learning this is quite wrong.

Someone mentioned that FRANKENSTEIN (2025) hits harder with a POC Victor and [mixed] white Creation when you’re a 2nd generation immigrant kid whose parents molded you to exceed white expectations but then get angry with you for not inheriting culture/losing ability to speak home language

“Oh hey, a woman likes science! I feel affinity that might make getting married palatable!” “Honey, I think maybe that might be friendship and also you are WAY too much for me. Your giant son, otoh—“ “I didn’t make him for you!”

Yes to all of this but particularly when you as the nd mother of an nd son can’t help but read Victor as not exactly unqueer or unneurodivergent himself

this is, uh. bad.

enjoying the discussion around this, even the disagree-y parts. This is obvious if you read, but since some haven't: this is not a "separate the art from the artist" piece so much as an argument that there is more than one artist, and not all should suffers because of the behavior of one.

Trump has pardoned:
(1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
(2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold
(3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/

Victor Frankenstein: I gave you life! Life!!!

The Creature: Thanks. I hate it.

Thanks to @mattpolprof.bsky.social for his engaged and thoughtful review of both my own and @pjthinker.bsky.social new books on post-liberalism.

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

The Trump Administration finds new ways to pull the rug out from under Americans every day.

And now they're putting babies in danger.

Illinois just enacted a law to provide our own science-based recommendations to protect access to vaccines so families get the care they need.

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