Wintersong

I understand the benefit of CGI blood but I truly feel like nothing can capture the beautiful art of a squib exploding into a geyser of blood that looks painful

The onion just prints the news now

Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.

Maybe I’m the only iPhone user who utilizes its slide-to-type keyboard function, but if anyone else out there is using it: yes it’s been dogshit for ages, but did it just abruptly get WAY fucking worse for you?

CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?

Well this is a whole new level of bleak dystopian bullshit, isn’t it?

Fuck

@netflix.com was one of two streaming services we still paid for. We’ve had an account since it sent DVDs in the mail. But we cancelled HBO because there was no way our queer & trans money was going to JKR/HP. With the merger, we’ll have to cancel Netflix since it’ll be making the HP show now

I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home

Now his new big business genius idea is Sunglasses For Sex Offenders

A bit more than >50% of the number of Japanese Americans interned during WWII.

The Rocketship Defiant! #WIP

Yes,I know it looks like a turtle. I'm not sure I mind. 😄

This is honestly charming

Not that it should matter, but it’s also some of the oldest surviving art in existence. People like to pretend porn is some newfangled thing, but humans have been depicting sex in our art as long as we’ve been depicting just about anything.

like, this is the single most antisocial administration in american history and i don't think it's even remotely close. they hate us, they hate themselves, they hate each other, they're just fucking nihilists all the way down

I don’t even know what to say. Just wanton cruelty, and yet another sign of how dedicated these monsters are to hurting trans people in every way they can.

But while I’ve had a lot of legitimate gripes with @npr.org of late, I appreciate that it didn’t deadname her in the article

If you or a loved one has gone through it, you know how many years, how much paperwork, how much money, and how much stress goes into arriving at your citizenship ceremony. This is so pointedly racist and cruel.

Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Thread.

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

Yuanxin, the 6 year old kidnapped by ICE earlier this week, has been located in the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

This is also where they sent Emmanuel Garcia, the 15 year old autistic boy who went missing in Texas.

It took his mother 50 days to get him back.

We must get Yuanxin out faster.

Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.

I’ve read Heated Rivalry (and the rest of the series) along with literally hundreds and hundreds of other MM romance novels, including probably 60 hockey romances, and most of the discourse is driving me batty. Though I haven’t seen the show.

Go read this thread, it covers everything I want to say:

So people with media/culture criticism gigs who are writing or talking about Heated Rivalry right now: please, if you have never picked up a romance novel before, I'm begging you, either close-read at least a dozen from different subgenres, or pass the critique baton to somebody who has.

The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

This really feels like a bit from an ad playing in the background of Verhoven’s Robocop

A post from “juanbuis” saying “to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here’s one of his best quotes” and the quote text is on a liquid glass background making it totally illegible

lmao

On a bannister of a deck, multiple hemispherical ice pieces are stacked or placed beside each other.

Update on the ongoing winter sculpture that is owning a husky who refuses to give up on his outdoor water bowl.

I’m writing a queer fantasy romance novel right now. Odds are no one will read it outside my family, but I’m loving the experience of writing it. Why the hell would I want to outsource that to a damn robot? If nothing else, that wouldn’t be MY story.

I wish every Dem on here who keeps insisting trans people HAVE to vote for anti-trans Democratic politicians because they’ll be better than the GOP would take a look at how quickly Labour has gone all-in on transphobia. The US only HAS 2 parties, if we let the Dems go anti-trans, we’ve got nothing

^ THIS - vaccine researchers and science/health communicators need to take a lesson from anti-fascism activists and start marking up misleading posts from anti-vax assholes when posting them for debunking purposes. Anything else helps spread the bullshit even while trying to debunk it.

Make America Great Again is at its heart weaponized nostalgia, and much of what you described does reflect the reality of U.S. life in the first half of the 20th Century, which is the time Trump and MAGA tend to idolize.

Alternatively, you could stop pretending we still live in a country where the rule of law works based on how it is written. If Congress and SCOTUS treat *Trump’s* EOs as superseding the laws passed by Congress then they do, regardless of whether that’s technically how things should work.