WWCD 🐙

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

omg I just stumbled upon this and can’t stop laughing, absolutely top tier meme

Gurathin in the “You need to check the perimeter” scene

“I think it says so much about their connection and their friendship that all Murderbot has to say is, ‘I need to check the perimeter,’ and Gurathin knows exactly the implications of that.”

It was utterly lovely!
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I Didn't Expect Dr. Gurathin To Be My Favorite Part of Murderbot - Reactor I'd offer Dr. Gurathin a hug but he'd HATE that

"If you want to make me love your work, take a scene or a character who could have been flat or cliche or basic, and write them a wildly new direction."

@leahschnelbach.bsky.social discusses Dr. Gurathin in Murderbot, and how the show adds new layers to his character

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A light blue and grey sketch of dr. Gurathin sitting at his desk, looking slightly worried about something (probably Murderbot). The sketch has glitchy effects that emphasize how conflicted he is.

A self-indulgent sketch of dr. Gurathin from Murderbot, which I recently watched and became obsessed about. You can't judge me. There was no chance I'd get past these two anxious, socially awkward, depressed augmented human and construct.

Gura looking ready to do some THINGS for an appliance he clearly HATES

Gurathin in the books: twitchy background noise
Gurathin in the show: BEST BOY

CBS and Paramount: This was solely for financial reasons and had nothing to do with Trump.

Trump on Truth Social today: “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.”

Things are really bad when the liar in that scenario isn’t Trump

"I only use AI to generate ideas."

Why? You're carrying around the greatest idea-generator in the history of the world right between your ears.

All you have to do is oxygenate it, feed it, and prime it. It's ready to adapt to whatever use you decide is important to you.

Anatomy of online laugh transcription:

“Haha” - normal, respectable, nothing to write home about

“Hoho” - speaks of a certain Victorian jollity, or perhaps an owl. Delightful!

“Hehe” - this person is a despicable pervert

Interesting that 'resilience teaching' has failed in schools ... couldn't one reason for that be that 'resilience' isn't a cure for bullying, or bad teaching, or a trauma that nobody has helped with? Kids are told to 'learn resilience' when it's often the stressors that really need to change.

Teach a man to fish, and you'll probably get endless followup questions about technique and gear etc.

Teach a man to become a fish, and you'll never hear from him again

PLEASE DO NOT GIVE THEM IDEAS!

If you need a short-ish break from the real disasters, you might enjoy the adventures of my S&S heroine, the lovable (?) disaster knight Thevin Galois!

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

The Curse of the Paradox of Preparedness

This whole exercise feels like the TV show LOST. We’re trying to discern the importance of the smoke monster and a bunch of cryptic numbers when really we’re all just dead. 🤷

Oprah says: You get a tariff, and you get a tariff. Everybody gets a tariff

Trump:

A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom

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I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

The Paladin laughed as the Rogue’s dagger whistled past his ear. But the mockery soon faded from the Holy Knight’s lips after he spied the Rogue reaching for yet another blade…

Elon Musk | American History X

I cut the clip. You decide.

David Lynch in one of his weather report/updates. First pic is him looking at the camera saying, "Good Morning, everyone. It's... Second pic is him looking off to his left, saying, "It's an absolute shitshow out there, today."

Be as weird as hell today. Make him proud.

Look at this magnificent structure.

Star guts. Exploded out into the interstellar medium.

As a young teen I adored the novels, & have such a clear memory of going to see this film at the cinema! Huge fan of Lynch from that moment on - loved the aesthetic so much. For all its flaws, this movie was a visionary work of art. And I still have such a soft spot for it.

Issue 51: David Lynch Archives - Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2017

A truly awful day for movies and art, losing one of the most singular and brilliant voices to ever make them.

We've unlocked our full David Lynch issue from 2017, which is now entirely free to read.

R.I.P. Mr. Lynch, and thank you forever for the work and example you left us.

Forever my favourite David Lynch moment. Rest in peace to a legend.

We must protect David Byrne at all costs!

The bad news is that David Lynch passed. The good news is heaven got real weird today.

David Lynch on the set of The Elephant Man

“Fix your hearts or die” —David Lynch

He will be missed 💜