Tim Maytom

A four-by-four grid of album covers. The top left album is Anyway by Anamanaguchi.

This week's listening

Michael Ironside has other, more expansive uses but he can absolutely wear a uniform and say stuff like "send in Mendoza" or "may God have mercy on our souls." He'll do that about as well as it can be done.

Alpha Legion?

@dialhforhagai.bsky.social Happy belated birthday, Hagai! Your passion, creativity and insight remains an inspiration, and I hope you had a lovely, silly day.

Am I remembering correctly that we watched it on Christmas Day in SF?

And yet it's the Iron Hands who spend all their time hanging around near Medusa

Made the mistake of watching this while eating dinner and almost choked to death

Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point.

Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.

Abigail, from the directors of Ready of Not, is a lot of fun if you haven't already seen it. Cocaine Bear is on the sillier side of things, but has some horror moments, while Final Destination Bloodlines is more horror-y, but includes some Looney Tunes fun.

It's Wallace Shawn Wednesday, everyone!

Man, I could absolutely go to town on some iced donuts right now

Spider-Punk

Drawn by the impeccable @illaurastrates.bsky.social
Coloured by me

As you enter our fine borough there is a sign saying we have a “Public Space Protection Order” which includes “No gathering in groups of two (or more) engaging in nuisance or criminal behaviour” nuisance can mean “Just hanging out” esp if of a darker skin tone right

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Jesus Christ. We really do live in the dumbest possible dystopia.

Give CRJ a s̶w̶o̶r̶d̶ championship belt

I think two things can be true: A lot of straight porn is deeply misogynistic and is warping straight men’s minds which is why education is needed… and the current porn backlash is also deeply conservative

A four-by-four grid of album covers. The top left album cover is Nimrod by Green Day.

This week's listening

nature is healing

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

So we’ve actually done this before back in the 80s/90s and they had to stop because of how many people are actually intersex and have no idea

Which is cool! But it completely shatters the illusion of a clean gender binary

You need to be careful, though, because he can also have a big impact on the number of tragic love interests in his habitat.

Last night's cool-down
UNCLE FESTER

suggested by @trivialad.bsky.social

Gorgeous stuff!

British opinion on all British policy.

Uncle Fester

A four-by-four grid of album covers. The top left album is Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.

This (last) week's listening

Word on the street is that July 30, 2025, is INTERNATIONAL DRAW METAMORPHO DAY

We haven't had one in 15 years, but like Halley's comet, the blue blaze has cycled back around again, by Jasper

All you have to do is DRAW METAMORPHO -- spread the word!