Daniel Dockery

"AI eliminates the need for much of the work formerly done by people" will never be a victory until there's a stable way to support all of the people that formerly did that work

The Boneyard The latest from bestselling, award-winning author Riley Black. Expect strange dinosaurs, amazing invertebrates, and other prehistoric wonders, exhibited right in your inbox.

I’ll have a new newsletter going out this morning, all about how an abundance of tasty little sauropods allowed iconic Jurassic carnivores to live large. Get subscribed and it’ll come right to your inbox. 🦕

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結果は8位でした！昨年から長い期間みなさん応援本当にありがとうございました。いつかアニメ化される日を願って！

Dinosaur Sanctuary was ranked 8th! Thank you for your support! I really appreciate it!!

YouTube video by 90’s Batcave 2000 Toonami Batman the Animated Series Commercial

It's also no surprise that one of the best BTAS promos of all time came from the show's run on Toonami, the undisputed king of hyping a series up
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Batman: The Animated Series certainly had psychological depth, but this Cartoon Network promo makes it look like a full-on nightmare. It's awesome.

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Finally, something to celebrate Godzilla's greatest foe

You need to understand, the military is currently being run by people who don’t understand how or why food comes to them when they order uber eats. We are led by the softest babies alive. Donald trump only knows “order burger, more burger come”. He does not understand “out of burger”

How I arrived on Bluesky

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#ポケモン30周年

#iamthenightclub my favorite quote from the animaniacs episode I watched. Id forgotten the even split between the warners and the other segments

I'm endlessly fascinated by The Haunting of Hill House because every time I re-read it, I interpret its horror in a different way.

And this lines up with the characters in the book, all of which seem to be experiencing the "haunting" in their own singular fashion.

Thank you! There's ALWAYS more to say about Pokemon.

pikachu shocks

machamp strikes a cool pose

dragonite grapples with a charizard

sylveon is cute

This piece would likely not exist without @dandock.bsky.social's Monster Kids, so give that a read. I thought, "I have things I want to say about Pokémon too." So I did! Even so, this piece barely scratches the surface of Pokémon

polywag

team rocket stares at a snorlax

ash says goodbye to a butterfree

gligar poses with a man wearing a gligar outfit

Q: So you wrote about their strengths and weaknesses?
A: I wrote a mini-essay for every Pokémon type.
Q: Why would you do that?
A: Because I like Pokémon.

Novels & Stories - Library of America “The very welcome Library of America edition of Jackson’s work, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, contains, in addition to Hill House, 46 of her short stories. . . . Jackson wrote wonderfully at every stag...

Anyway, if you want a great introduction to Shirley Jackson, pick up Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories from the Library of America set.

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If you can, read it back to back with We Have Always Lived In The Castle, a masterpiece of isolation and warped perspective. Sometimes I feel like reading Jackson is like being a Blackwood sister, just peering through the vines into the night.

Get to it! I'm gonna start another soon.

Same! Shirley Jackson is among the best ever.

Hill House might be the ultimate "it's actually about trauma" story, but rather than fumble for metaphor, it deftly toys with your perspective. You're not meant to safely couch yourself in one particular reading. You're meant to feel like the lone dissenter in the room, begging for understanding.

It makes the moments of absolute physicality, like the ending of The Lottery or the scattered paranormal actions of Hill House, far more powerful. All of the doors slam shut at once as if to say "No, you are here. And you are trapped. And whatever questions you may have are trapped with you."

Jackson was a master at making you question the literality of events. Is this person seeing the world the same way as everyone else? It turns a slight faux pas into a nightmare spiral.

I'm endlessly fascinated by The Haunting of Hill House because every time I re-read it, I interpret its horror in a different way.

And this lines up with the characters in the book, all of which seem to be experiencing the "haunting" in their own singular fashion.

Alright, y'all! It's time to get started. This is the watch list for March in the #iamthenightclub

For this month, I picked early episodes that stand out as particularly representative of what a certain show was going for. Let's watch and discuss!

I loved this. I can't wait to read your BTAS thread!

Before rewatching the show, I was surprised how many I remembered and how many were, like, half memories. Like I knew the Warners, Pinky, Brain, the Goodfeathers and then...girl and dog?

I think the Pinky and the Brain segments have the most interesting animation of the entire show. They get a lot out of the "little dudes in a big world" thing.

There is a specific lobe of my brain dedicated to remembering most of this song.

animator draws animaniacs on piece of paper

rough day, let's do #iamthenightclub

Gonna give an A+ to Tubi's thumbnail for King Kong for not actually being a still from the movie but instead being a silly promo shot with Peter Jackson in it