Cody Yantis

The least frightening films ever – ranked! A Halloween screening doesn’t have to mean being scared witless. From serene sushi-making to a shell with shoes on, we run down the finest films for those of a nervous disposition

Checks out that my all-time fave films are on here 🤣 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Do some of you remember how I said a few months ago that the fascists aren't having fun? They still aren't, lol.

Their parties [when they have them] SUCK.

They make bad art.

They aren't funny.

They CRAVE Leftist popular culture & resent the fact that they do.

They aren't actually having fun

Perspective diagram showing the locations of commemorative trees on the White House grounds, with numbers keyed to species.

Aerial image from DCOpen Data showing the location of trees near the East Wing of the White House.

Trees likely destroyed for Trump’s Palace of Grifting:

1. S. Magnolia - Roosevelt (1942)
2. S. Magnolia - Harding (1922)
5. White Pine - Gerald Ford (1977)
6. Eastern Redbud - Bush (1990)
7. N. Red Oak - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)

LaPhonso Ellis.

The soul-crushing desire to make the creation of art into itself a commodity aside, this also ignores that the process of turning “I have this idea” into a finished movie that requires other people’s input is how you get good movies.

Ten Questions With David Perron On occasion, I will hone in on an artist/band etc and do my best to track down their work. In this case, the artist was Tilth. Which in turn led me to David Perron’s exceptional label, Round Bale Reco...

Be sure to scope this great interview with David, too.

www.droneworks.org/ten-question...

Had a ton of fun talking Tilth to celebrate the 15th anniversary of @freeformfreakout.bsky.social. Congrats, David! Much gratitude for your stalwart championing of all of the sounds.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

The Chaotic Genius of Pat Thomas From improvised jazz to instrumental hip-hop, here's some highlights from the UK pianist's stacked catalog.

Pat Thomas's relentless dedication to improvisational music has made him a revered figure in the contemporary free jazz scene. Here are some of his standout works.

Just going to say that there is no need to exceptionalize immigrant jails because every US jail and prison is like this. All of them without exception.

Community center
Ribera, NM

“Hopefully it’s part of a broader plan to wind down the internet entirely.” Michael Shim, Systems Analyst

AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet
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Folks, life is short. It's so short and very very precious.

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

A painting of a snowy, wet roadside with water droplets racing across the glass

A detail shot of a painting of a snowy, wet roadside with water droplets racing across the glass

Car window, heading to Santa Fe from Taos w @gkors.bsky.social #oilpainting #landscapepainting #contemporaryart

The failure of the United States government to do what it needs to do regarding climate change is one of the most undemocratic and possibly consequential things to ever happen in human history

Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens As we speak, up to two million people in Gaza are being threatened with starvation, as the state of Israel, backed by the US government, continues to blockade humanitarian aid into Gaza, attack basic ...

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing.

We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

I've said this before but the fascists don't seem to be having fun. They really do not.

Thrilled that "Cassette Album", a comp I contributed to on @flamingpines.bsky.social, gets a write up in The Wire this month!

People make art under hellish conditions locked up in prisons as just one example. It's because making things affirms our humanity. So yes, make art during fascism. What are we fighting for? A free society FOR ALL where we can revel in beauty, culture and all good things.

To celebrate the release of this stellar compilation on @flamingpines.bsky.social

flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/casset...

Playing London in one week! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/casse...

Playing London in one week! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/casse...

The "AI jobs apocalypse" is for the bosses As Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei forecasts mass job loss, Business Insider lays off staff and embraces AI

"This AI automation mania pushes bosses to train the crosshairs on anything and everything that isn’t built to optimize corporate efficiency, and as a result, you get the journalism layoffs, the Duolingo cuts; you get DOGE."

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...