name

There's a reason Apocalypto is among the top popular films for discourse among American Catholic converts like Vance. The specific picture it paints is very attractive bc it re-retcons the indigenous American genocide and enslavement into the "civilizing movement" that allowed them to be in charge.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates

check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

James Baldwin talks about how in dry counties in the Deep South in the 50s and 60s the only place to get liquor would be from the sheriff, and describes the bizarre experience of being a small black man buying bourbon illegally from deputy sheriffs (he also got the South’s ass on grits)

there was an auction www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...

The only halloween movie we watch in this house is Ordet.

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

He was at a wedding where they ritualistically stabbed pictures of a 4 year old palestinian boy that was murdered. he represented the murderer for free. Will not stop being pissed that he was removed from sanctions

"cheeseburgers cause heart attacks" is true. but the statement omits the several thousand steps you'd need to understand in order to address the problem in a person who won't stop ordering five guys.

Cure

YouTube video by The Lehrer's Band - Topic Dodging the Draft at Harvard

terrifying slop was appearing on yt ten days before he died www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5J...

?

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

it looks like Henn's stunt double, Louise Head turning 11(?)

bsky.app/profile/weed...

the world's secretest picnic boy

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

With Ai the fascist unreality state can hallucinate false evidence of a crime you never committed.

for what it's worth, someone yelled at the BFI about this and they responded that "it was supplied by the licensor/owner of the film". AI still seems like a great bet, especially if the licensor couldn't come to an arrangement with palladini's estate. that wolf is so dumb tho...

I don't get why they'd even try to improve the poster. the palladini is such a gem

Inventing the Doomsday Machine Tracing the idea of a weapon to automatically destroy the world

Here's a post I've wanted to write up for awhile, tracing the history of the idea of a "Doomsday Machine," from fact to fiction (or maybe it was always, to some degree, fiction): doomsdaymachines.net/p/inventing-...

no way I'm getting a word in edgewise or finishing a single cigarette before he does

bulgakov, buster keaton, eileen may, john cazale, mirko basaldella, josé orozco and, who am I kidding, gabo

This is what I do when I think about the Confederacy's humiliation

is it on a lanyard yet?

The Inevitable Curse of Regret | Stanley Picnic Get more from Stanley Picnic on Patreon

why so looking back?

we're in our heads about the past — wondering about whizzing back into the kingdom of regrets, shattering the laws of thermodynamics in the process.

oh and — the thing that happened that you totally forgot about? don't worry about it. if it were important, you'd remember it.

right, but how big is that mountain? or the boulders in the foreground? is it 16km to the cliff face?