Plotloser

Neon Alley, Pueblo, Colorado.

Love this.

Just verified my age by picking up a back pass

Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt You can now Venmo the government to try to reduce the massive national debt.

Or we could fucking tax the rich. How about that?

How to dismantle a democracy in just six months: part 1 The first of two articles looks at the rise of the populist NSDAP party and the end of German democracy; what are the lessons for today?

“At the start of 1933, Germany was a liberal democracy with a president, a parliament including an upper and lower house, an independent judiciary and all the inbuilt checks and balances of a functioning democracy.

By July of that year, it was a dictatorship”

This is Carl Hiaasen’s world. We’re just living in it.

The only thing about this that surprises me is that figure of 40%. I'd have expected it to be higher. That 60% of Republicans have a grasp on reality on this subject is downright shocking to me.

Raymond Chandler reading a paperback book in a cameo appearance in #FilmNoir Double Indemnity (1944)...

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

YouTube video by TED-Ed The secret formula to Agatha Christie's murder mysteries - Jamie Bernthal

Dig into #AgathaChristie’s #writing style to find out how she crafted her #mystery #novels and how to employ these strategies in your own work www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pN...

We publish pretty, good books.

In 2027, with One Eye Press, we'll publish a lot more, only smaller.

Most sewage discharges aren’t classified as pollution incidents Huge numbers of chemical discharges into our waterways are not being classified as a pollution incidents

They’re not reducing pollution – they’re redefining it.

The Environment Agency’s own rules mean most sewage dumps don’t count.

This isn’t regulation. It’s cover.

Prof Alex Ford writes. From _The conversation_ -- thanks!

Countries officially accusing Israel of Genocide.

🇧🇷 Brazil 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇧🇿 Belize
🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇱 Chile 🇹🇷 Türkiye
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇪🇸 Spain 🇲🇽 Mexico
🇱🇾 Libya 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇸 Palestine

If your country is not on there, why not?

It should be, lets make them act.

A dam good year: those fascinating beavers breed again A third year of beaver births at Sculthorpe Moor highlights the vital role these ecosystem engineers play in restoring biodiversity

By felling trees and damming streams, beavers turn woods into wetlands – creating space for amphibians, invertebrates, and even raptors.

Read how nature’s engineers are rewilding Britain & cleansing waters. 🛠🌿🦫

Inside the Days, Hours and Minutes Leading Up to the Hiroshima Bombing “Right after we dropped the bomb, I felt much the same as I do now except that I hadn’t drunk as much coffee that morning.” –Commander Paul Tibbets Jr. * General Curtis LeMay had now been with the …

@iainmacgregor1.bsky.social looks inside the final moments before the bombing of Hiroshima and the beginning of the Atomic Age.

📢 ARTIST OPPORTUNITY | Culture House Sunderland 📢 ARTIST OPPORTUNITY Culture House Sunderland seeks to commission an artist or artistic collective to deliver Timepiece, an audiovisual installation that will be exhibited digitally on screens in the...

🕘 Exciting opportunity for an artist (or artist collective) to create an audiovisual artwork for the atrium screens at #CultureHouseSunderland! Take a look 👇

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

From volume to value: why the North East must re-claim strategic control of Inward Investment In June this year the UK government published two policy papers. A modern industrial strategy to increase business investment and grow the industries of the future in the UK, and an infrastructure str...

From volume to value: why the North East must re-claim strategic control of Inward Investment.

Having a bad day?? Here you go... 😊 #dog #dogday

The new issue of NOIR CITY looks like it will pair well with NOIR CRAZY 003—The Dark and Crazed Mind, featuring THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER🌒👀
#FilmNoir
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The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

#ThursdayMotivation
#ThursdayThoughts
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Charles Embezzlement Cheese

Kirby Smart needs to put this dude in as tailback.

A Shot in the Dark - Bright Wall/Dark Room Blow Out marks the moment when the split in the screen between De Palma’s early films & the sleaze-noir terror of his erotic thrillers fell, merging in a high-low interrogation of our need for comfort...

Happy 44th bday to Brian De Palma's BLOW OUT. I wrote about it for @bwdr.bsky.social.

“BLOW OUT is when the split in the screen between his political films & the sleaze-noir of his erotic thrillers fell, merging in a Zaprudic interrogation of our need cinema.”

Artwork by @briannaduggan.bsky.social

Tom Waits reading 'The Mammoth Book of Oddities' at the China Light Restaurant © Jill Furmanovsky

"They have removed the struggle to find anything. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone." - Tom Waits

Who wants this job?? 😊

Bad Karma, Loose Ends & Stray Bullets: Exploring the World of Crime Comics Do you like crime comics, comics in general, and crime fiction? Then come read some crime comics with me and let’s talk about ‘em. If you’re new to crime comics, welcome! If you’re more familiar with ...

I'm starting a newsletter devoted to crime comics. I've been reading crime comics for years & I wanted to create a space where we could read and talk about crime comics

Expect weekly posts 🤞

First post, a longer introduction to the topic, will be this weekend

buttondown.com/crimecomics

Good. This scheme should be as generous as possible. Let young people have the times of their fucking lives.