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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

Hocus Pocus. Wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid and feel like it's one of those nostalgia movies. It's loved by the ppl who grew up with it, but overall looks like nothing special.

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 2, Episode 6: Halloweenie

Anyway, just had to write down my grumblings after going through my Instagram stories and seeing every white woman in their 30s and 40s posting about "that album"

How can you get excited about anything when the oversaturation is too real. Tell me when an artist who hasn't dropped anything in a decade releases something. Then I'll care the way they do every time she breathes.

No one follows me here so I can write this but what is it with millennial white women and a certain blonde singer who just dropped an album? Like she's fine. I enjoy some of her songs but they're just okay most of the time. Nothing too special but she's dropping an album once a year now.

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

the sacred text 😔

What's wild is that I watched Emma Watson trying to talk about JKR and it was clear she was trying to be like "I do love the person who was formative in my life, and I need for that feeling to be able to coexist" which is far, far more kindness than Rowling arguably deserves, and this just shows it

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

🎃

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

YouTube video by GLITCH KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT

Knights of Guinevere PILOT

youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

I've had to change the way I write due to physical disability, using speech to text and then going in and editing it on my laptop later. It was difficult at first but I'm somewhat getting the hang of it. So idk maybe I won't have to give up writing.

At first I was like why does Rashida Jones sound so much like Joan Cusack and then I went oh

Animation by Sergio Martins* | Klaus (2019)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

Yesss, it sounds weird to say but Chernobyl was my first old man yaoi

I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town

the only Trump announcement I care about is one he won't be able to give 🤷🏻‍♀️

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

need to rewatch

Dapper Goofy

Happy 30th Birthday to this Brian Eno banger

an illustration of Saruman, portrayed by actor Christopher Lee, sitting in costume on set and reading a piece of paper

Saruman, portrayed by actor Christopher Lee, sits in costume on set reading a piece of paper

The behind the scenes pics from LOTR always crack me up so I did a little study 😅

#Lotr #Saruman #fanart #art #illustration

No criticism at all to Animation Obsessive in any way here — in fact, I am immensely grateful to them for putting Glassworker on my radar.

But beside that, I find it a very sad state of things that GenAI has become so prevalent that we need to clarify when something isn’t.