Frankie: tired retail gremlin

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

This instrument from the early cinema is disappearing. But not on Joe's watch Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, outlives him even as interest in the instrument has waned for a long time, wi...

The guy from the "Hit it, Joe!" photoplayer meme is starting his own nonprofit to preserve silent cinema technology:

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

A digital illustration of Godzilla silhouetted against a red and orange fire-colored background with his back spines all glowing blue as he blasts nuclear fire at whomever you would most like to have nuclear fire blasted at. Go ahead and make a wish. Jagged lettering on Godzilla’s back and shoulder, also glowing blue, reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’

#webcomic #bettersafecomics #halloween

Chilling! This autistic person’s Halloween costume is neurotypical man An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”.  Gavin Monks, 26, reportedly eschewed traditional Halloween…

An autistic man has raised the terror stakes this Halloween with a costume that friends have described as “genuinely horrifying”.

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

A graph of a giraffe. The x axis is length, the y axis is height, the head is obviously top right of the graph as it is the apex of both stats

Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Using ChatGPT

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Alternative poster for the Jaws movie, depicting a giant mythical sea creature devouring the poor souls lost in the waves.

"𝖄𝖔𝖚'𝖗𝖊 𝖌𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖆 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖆 𝖇𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 𝖇𝖔𝖆𝖙."
Finally revealing my illustration featured in the #Jaws 50th anniversary artbook by @printedinblood .
I wanted to create an illustration that replicated the mythical sea monsters featured in acient maps.

#jawsartbook #stevenspielberg #ilustration #movieposter

Who Gave Cis People Their Gender Identities? Cis people reading this: you don’t have to be trans to opt out.

I published this piece today, on how the binary gender model and enforced gender roles are a model of hierarchical child abuse that punishes everyone but the capitalists who run the system.

It would mean a lot if you read it. This link is unpaywalled.

Thank you. 💜

medium.com/prismnpen/wh...

"Who would have predicted this?"

- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.

"Well why didn't I hear them."

You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

The truth is there are three kinds of people: the disabled, the pre-disabled, and the doomed to die suddenly. Most of us will be disabled at some point.

Forgot to post the final product #knitsky 🧶

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

This explains it better than I can

TUC calls for new legal protections for trans people following Supreme Court ruling The motion passed unanimously

Read more: leftfootforward.org/2025/09/tuc-...

Here's one for those who call it "experimental".

Trans medicine is OLDER THAN ANTIBIOTICS.

That really puts it in perspective.

Speaking of, if anyone is looking to give bookbinding a try I’ve made a simple guide to getting started with typesetting which you can find on my ko-fi. It’s free, because fandom should be, but obvs any pennies you can spare… etc. ♥️

ko-fi.com/s/509a472eab

this is why coverage of Linehan is always generic. “Silenced for gender critical views”. “Demonized for disagreeing about trans”. if you wrote “he thinks police are secretly controlled by trans women & the gov’t lets 30 year trans people claim to be 17, everyone would immediately know he’s a nut.

Honestly everytime some cis person comes out suggesting its reasonable and there’s any dignity in segregating trans people as long as the separate space is provided i get so filled with rage

‘The Toxic Avenger’ Partners With Undue Medical Debt to Erase at Least $5 Million in Medical Debt It’s the final week of marketing and promotion for The Toxic Avenger, and the teams here at Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have decided to do something a little different. Rather than spending the re...

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most.

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