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"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

Meteorological (mists, clouds, wind, rain, storm, tempest, smoke, darkness, shadows, gloom). Topographical (impenetrable forests, inaccessible mountains, chasms, gorges, deserts, blasted heaths, icefields, the boundless ocean). Architectural (towers, prisons, castles covered in gargoyles and crenellations, abbeys and priories, tombs, crypts, dungeons, ruins, graveyards, mazes, secret passages, locked doors). Material (masks, veils, disguises, billowing curtains, suits of armour, tapestries). Textual (riddles, rumours, folklore, unreadable manuscripts and inscriptions, ellipses, broken texts, fragments, clotted language, polysyllabism, obscure dialect, inserted narratives, stories-within-stories). Spiritual (religious mystery, allegory and symbolism, Roman Catholic ritual, mysticism, freemasonry, magic and the occult, Satanism, witchcraft, summonings, damnation). Psychological (dreams, visions, hallucinations, drugs, sleep-walking, madness, split personalities, mistaken identities, doubles, derangement, ghostly presences, forgetfulness, death, hauntings).

thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao

Not all knocker-uppers were men. Mrs Bowers, of Sacriston, County Durham, was a familiar sight with her dog Jack. She got up at 1am each day to wake miners, starting in world war one and continuing for many years (Beamish Museum).

a stylized 3d render of a large manul sitting on a georgian orthodox church.

manul

One of my favorite Halloween time paintings by Fragonard -- The Magician

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Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority.

And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.

This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

Thank god that’s all over with. Now we can move on with our lives

A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Incredible work

being able to hear the wheels on the Sherman tanks squeal on account of no one there is some incredible footage. A+ comedy.

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

The fake front page of the Boston Globe from 2016, including headlines that read: Deportations to begin: President Trump calls for tripling of ice force, riots continue. Curfew is extended in multiple cities Markets sink as trade war looms

Do people remember that before the election in 2016, the Boston Globe printed a fake front page detailing the absurdist horrors of a Trump administration?

And that the current front pages have normalized what was once unthinkable?

Look at this. It’s the regular news now.

U.S. Marines detain a person outside the Wilshire Federal Building after Marines were deployed to Los Angeles, as protests against federal immigration sweeps continue, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2025. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci

BREAKING: Reuters has published video images of Marines carrying out the first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles

I’m not telling anyone how to protest but I am saying the optics of the police and marines being violent against protestors decked out in red white and blue waving American flags would be undeniably bad…

How’d I predict this? I’ve studied Project 2025.

Chicago, Philly: our #LosAngeles efforts are your model—we had zero warning #ICE was coming but rallied to protect our neighbors.

These next cities’ white residents MUST rise up. P2025 predicts each successive city will resist LESS—do the opposite!

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600 And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

As I drive down beautiful LA’s dustiest streets, thinking of the hatred aimed at the city, I remember another poem by Pillin, from 1978, in which a grouchy angel changes our speaker’s perspective:

“…reality is random and misleading / unless changed in the eye…”

The First Amendment automatically invalidates the concept of "unlawful assembly." You have the right to assemble in this country anywhere at any time, and the state has no authority to stop you.

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

San Antonio Express-News ® @ExpressNews Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

headline construction masterclass

COVID-19 was one of the 10 most common causes causes of death for all age groups in 2021

COVID-19 was one of the 10 most common causes of death for all age groups in 2021
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nv...

Holy shit is that real… seems uh…bad

Pleased to announce my summer reading list:

PURGE NIFLER, by Salman Rushdie

A RANK OF ELEPHANTS, by JRR Emily RR Dickinson, Jr.

THE LIEUTENANT JOKE SOCIETY, by Angry Mitch Album

CHAD, by Jonathan Franzen

THE TALE OF THE BOY IN THE LAND WITH THE LAMP FULL OF SAND, by Hilary Mandel

Murderbort

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget