Timosaurus Wrecks

Do not give up. We need you. 🐀 #graffiti #CambridgeMA

Looking at our current political situation with the Felon, I often think of this quote by Glen Bateman from The Stand miniseries:

"His world is crumbling, and we both know it. I think we also both know he can do a lot of damage on his way down. You could change that."

I remember putting together the jigsaw puzzle with this image in elementary school.

Me too! One of my all-time favorites! I still have fond memories of how much it scared me watching it the first time at 3 a.m.

Almost went with this one!

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Post an iconic horror movie image.

YouTube video by Alexei Djalagonia In the Loop (2009) - The mountain of conflict

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I want RFK Jr. to prove having to hear his gravely, sickly warble spouting pure brainworm bullshit is safe.

Betcha he can't.

God has willed it.

We had the same thing!

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Actor Bruce Campbell announces cancer diagnoses.

Take care of yourselves. Get checked. 💔

Psychology says people who constantly apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't being polite. They grew up in an environment where someone else's bad mood was always their responsibility to ... That reflexive 'sorry' you can't stop saying was never about politeness — it was a survival strategy you learned before you had the language to name what was happening in your home.

"Psychology says people who constantly apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't being polite. They grew up in an environment where someone else's bad mood was always their responsibility to fix." share.google/LxDa6ftaoJmN...

We quite often look back to the 70s and 80s to say "Wow, that Director had such an unprecedented run of great films. You don't get that now." Ryan Coogler is currently on a run of five. We don't talk about that enough. He might be the most consistently brilliant writer/director working today.

a black and white cartoon of three people standing next to each other . Alt: A gif from the animated film Persepolis showing three women walking along next to each other wearing black veils, one in the center wearing a shirt that says "Punk is not ded."

Persepolis

In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

Yay! The Vast of Night was a gorgeous movie that more people need to see!

Get 'em!

Happy #Letterboxd Friday What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? #filmsky

My recent ones included a suspenseful clash of classic horror and modern violence, a nonsensical slasher that feels written by AI, a triumphant return for a horror auteur, and a gruesome New French Extremity thriller short on logic.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking to a camera . Alt: A GIF of David Lynch from Twin Peaks saying, "I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die!"

Trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die.

The cover of Keith David's jazz album Between Takes, showing David in a light gray suit seated at a piano smiling as he fingers rhe keys.

Enjoying the hell out of Keith David's jazz album Between Takes. Can this guy get any cooler?

Corporations are not people and Citizens United needs to be overturned.

Gah! Hope you're 100% soon and can stay as comfortable as possible in the meantime!

Political cartoon by David Whamond depicting Donald Trump as the sociopathic "god-child" from the Twilight Zone movie surrounded by placating elephants. Donnie boy is saying "I hate anybody that doesn't like me! And if they don't do what I say, I'll send them to the cornfields! We like the cornfields, don't we folks?" The elephants respond "Whatever you say Donnie!" and "That's right Donie!" and a Jack-in-the-box with an elephants head says "Genius Donnie!"

Dave Whamond perfectly captures the true state of the Union

#SOTU