Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

HALLOWEEN SUPPERS Club Sandwtchas Apples, Goblin Style Doughnuts Individual Pumpkin Pies Salted Peanuts celery Olives Cheese Sandwiches Ram and Pickle Sandwiches Butter-Scotch Pies Cider Apples

The Chicago Defender
Sat, Oct 31, 1925

A human hand, presumably regular sized, as in not some inhuman giant hand or anything, just a regular normal hand, and in it is held three baby turtles OMG they are so cute they aren't even as wide as a single finger! Just tiny little guys! Can you believe it??? They look very sincere and polite I wish I could feed them little leaves or other turtle food. They are adorable and you love them. 🔫👀 Say you love them. Say it.

Excuse me: bb turtles

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Earth wind and fire screengrab

Happy 21st night of September to all who remember

Kanopy and Hoopla (and Libby) are my best friends right now. Kanopy and Hoopla have so much “old” stuff I love.

I love the library!

a close up of a man with long hair and a beard . ALT: a close up of a man with long hair and a beard .

RIP Robert Redford, a Hollywood icon and GIF legend.

Said this in the Vulture slack, but this Emmys made me angry. Not because of the results: Lots of great choices from what was a great year of TV.

But the show had zero interest in celebrating TV: No montages, no clips (with sound) from the shows, and no interest in anything remotely surprising

An Andor win, yes! 🙌🏻

Bring back the acting clips! Where is the big montage! What are we doing, Emmys?!

What pisses me off about this deducting money from a charity bit is that it assumes the viewers want the speeches to be short. And we don't, at least not all of us!

Why do awards shows constantly try to tell the few people who still watch them that they are dumb for liking them?

OK, putting the money counter on when someone is basking in their win is just gross. It’s a fun idea but the Emmys shouldn’t be a reality show.

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

Aw, yes ❤️‍🔥 Hopefully there will be a Netflix bump 🙏

and people are wondering why artists are so mad àï stole our labor

this is why they want it so bad
our labor has value

The city that gave the world Siskel & Ebert no longer has a full-time print film critic.

so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether?

Cool.

a long, light brown creature rests on her back. her eyes are drooping closed, her tongue sticks out a teeny bit, and she has no visible ears. her front paws (flippers?) are tucked up close to her body like a t-rex’s arms. the long noodle body has no other appendages within frame. (it's a chihuahua, or so we're told, but we would also have bought "potato" or "sea otter.")

We only rate dogs. This is a southern sleepy seal pup. Please read her a short but comforting bedtime story, and only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (credit Brie the Chi)

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

dusting off my beatlemania fainting couch in preparation for whatever they say at the IWTV comic con panel today

Everywhere You Go Has Valet: "Clueless" at 30 (Or Whatever) | Features | Roger Ebert On the classic teen comedy, that's still leaving us totally buggin' three decades on.

"Cher and her father Mel are both kooks who think they’re the baseline for determining normalcy—like everyone else in the movie, really. All great comedies have this in common, and Clueless is one of them."— I got to write about a movie that I absolutely adore
www.rogerebert.com/features/eve...

This has been a frustrating ongoing problem and the proposed solution would work really well. Fix it, Television Academy!! 😤

I will say, though: Diego Luna robbed. And to follow @thefienprint.bsky.social’s “Who do you replace?” dictate, I’d probably Luna in for Pedro Pascal, who was not a lead performer in more than half of this season of “The Last of Us.”

(grumbles about the Emmys pretending "Interview with the Vampire" isn't a brilliantly made television show)

I know there's longstanding bias against genre shows. And AMC is kinda "who?" in Hollywood. I know Emmy noms just just reflect what industry are watching — but WHY aren't they watching it??