Erik Schuckers

i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.

can the drone deliver midair after my flight gets t-boned? at least we'll have nuclear moon power. wtf are we doing?

Unspeakably bleak, and an utter abrogation of journalistic ethics.

"I suspect that with the rise of A.I., people will seek out more real things. A concert. A play. An open mic. A shadow puppet show. Something made with hands and voices."

100% this

A ★★★★½ review of The Substance (2024) Fargeat's smart, ruthless script (exploring addiction, body image, and aging) and compelling direction, combined with powerhouse performances by Moore and Qualley, make this one of the finest horror s...

I'd still try it, though.
boxd.it/aA1tiJ

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Thank you for reading & sharing!

So grateful to have these poems out in the world being read ❤️

How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.

Sinclair Broadcast pushes right-wing propaganda into 40% of local news markets.

Fox News is in 70M homes.

The WaPo and Politico owners are Trump donors.

CBS has a political bias monitor

Our news is carefully curated by conservative billionaires.
open.substack.com/pub/populari...

what haunts me is that in all likelihood he will go smug to his gilded grave having never faced a consequence for the atrocities he's committed & the foulness he's unleashed

A ★★★★ review of Dr. Giggles (1992) Horror comedies are tough to get right. Too much of one can easily derail the other. But "Dr. Giggles" manages to ride the line successfully, largely thanks to Larry Drake's performance. If this film ...

avoiding the world, rewatched Dr. Giggles tonight: letterboxd.com/erik_schucke...

Yet another example of why ICE must be abolished. Why would any sensible country keep around a security force like this? It doesn't even matter what your views are on immigration, this entire agency and all of its staff needs to go.

Craig Sheffer as Nightbreed's Boone, snarling and transformed with sigils on his face

rewatch of Nightbreed (1990) for a dose of queer catharsis & it does not disappoint

nonzero chance Trump thinks appending THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! to posts has binding legal force. real "I do not give Facebook permission" energy

Teachers Are Not OK AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

The way to understand this is Donald Trump targeted a single teenager in Gavin Newsom's state and Gavin Newsom's response was to agree with Trump that this child's existence was an unfortunate inconvenience to his own ability to come in fourth in the 2028 Iowa caucus

sounds a lot like "due process is too hard." real efficiency cult bullshit

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

There are so many things I loathe about AI but chief among them is that it deprives people of understanding that creativity and making art is messy and inefficient, and there is *no* getting around that. But the reward is that one turn of phrase, that original idea, that novel insight.

i'm annoyed that i have to live through these dumb times.

i have shit to work on personal growth wise, but all my energy is being sucked up by trying to just open my eyes every day and not have a menty b.

so annoying

The kids are (not quite) all right?
* 18–21-year-olds favored Republicans by 11.7
* "Our results found that a human rights framing reduced support for the progressive position by 22 percentage points."
youthpoll.yale.edu/spring-2025-...

Trump Says He Was the First to Buy a $5 Million Gold Card Visa. What? The president showed off a shiny new visa card but Congress needs to change immigration and tax laws to allow for it.

jesus christ along with being cruel, stupid, and unfathomably petty, does the end of days (America version) also have to be so fucking tacky?

www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

Model of concision. "Belligerence addict" is perfect.

Checked MSNBC hoping to see some live Booker. Smacked in the face w Melber & Carville yukking it up. What, and I can not ask this strongly enough, the fuck?

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

"At the Division for HIV Prevention, where the stated mission is 'to promote health and quality of life by preventing HIV infection and reducing HIV-related illness and death in the United States,' at least half of the employees received RIF notices."

www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

literally every time I talk to friends

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector

openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist

it’s not an accident

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know