Steve B

several books stacked so their titles are visible: A Day at the Beach The Bathers Shark 1 Shark 2 Shark 3 Sudden Violence Silence

Does anyone else remember Nina Katchadourian's found poetry project where she photographed books to make poems.

YouTube video by Arrow Video Excalibur | Official Trailer | 4K

Arrow Video, which just released John Woo's HARD BOILED in 4k, now releasing EXCALIBUR in 4k from the original 35mm print.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw8o...

Labour lost three by-elections yesterday - all to different parties mobilising disaffected voters on their liberal left flank: Greens (see below), Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru.

Starmer/McSweeney strategy of marginalizing the left flank to go after socially con Reform curious continues to backfire

The Ncuti version of Ernest is up on youtube for FREE for a week from the 12th of March. I saw it live and it's brilliant:

Fun to remember that the dad of the Brontës was just a weird Irishman whose surname was actually Brunty, but he changed it up to be fancy.

This quote from Le Guin is also emblematic of why you can't be an "A.I. writer". The process is *everything*.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

Space Opera series with installments coming up! This Spring two of my favorite space opera series will be getting new books: the next book in the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, and the next book set in the universe of the Imperial Radch, by …

This May we are getting BOTH a new Murderbot book by @marthawells.com , AND a new Radch universe book by @annleckie.com ! It's time to get excited. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/02/18/s...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Milt Kahl just having them wiggle their heads around just to show off I swear god damn inhuman god of an artist.

And the consequence of the price of RAM doubling in the last six weeks because of AI is:

All of 2026's hard drives sold out by... mid-February, cool, cool.

And the price of RAM doubled in the last six weeks alone, great, that seems fine.

And AI is behind all of it? Awesome, that's brilliant, just cool and groovy.

I guess not everything is awful.

there's a measles outbreak in north london but sure, the most pressing issue is to stop timmy go on facebook

Starmer, the biggest domestic cause of doomscrolling for many on here, comes out against doomscrolling.

Dear Humans,

Remember how awesome Zohran Mamdani’s campaign was? How effortlessly he destroyed his opponents whilst unapologetically championing his ideas? You can have the same thing for the presidential election if you have the courage to nominate AOC.

Please 🙏

God

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.

Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

It *literally* does.

Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.

Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.

Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.

Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.

Be done with it.

So kinda the same point @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been making for ages and getting crucified for by the ‘sensibles’

It is very difficult to defeat the government on any terrorism judicial review

It is also very difficult to defeat the government when challenging a statutory instrument, terrorism or otherwise.

Legally this is a *huge* achievement for the applicants.

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Quick survey on D&D, benefits and hinderances if you're neurodiverse or neurotypical.

Little Harold and Maude thread.

I’d never heard of it until a friend told me I reminded her a bit of Harold. I think I was being gloomy. I had no idea what she meant. So for years, I was looking for this film. And it didn’t seem to be anywhere. This was the mid 90s. Just a missing movie. >>