What Would Kurt Wagner Do?

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

"When all hope was gone, you called for Granny Weatherwax, because she was the best.

And she always came. Always. But popular? No. Need is not the same as like."

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

the east wing was built in 1942 under FDR

I can't even replace windows on my house without permission. This lunatic is tearing down the East Wing of the WHITE HOUSE without approval from the National Capital Planning Commission.

you hear the call of a nightingale…
#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart

A gray cat is looking outside. There is a crow that is bigger than her outside, but it is out of view

in place of a king, you would have a queen! dark, but also beautiful and terrible as the dawn! treacherous as the sea! short of legs and close to the foundations of the earth! all shall love her, and despair!

People have forgotten how horrible insurance was before the ACA. You just couldn’t get coverage if you had a “pre-existing condition” which could be anything as minor as seasonal allergies; no prescription drug or maternity coverage; low annual limits. Just a nightmare.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Hey @edmarkey.bsky.social, my senator. Can you please teach out to Fenway Health and see if you can get them to restore the trans youth care they just ended?

Your words are great and we need your action too.

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.

Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.

Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird

Media: trans activist criticizes media

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

Pro-regime media is funded by your wordle addiction. If you or someone you know is struggling with a NYT subscription please show them video games

THANK you

Adventurers of Aramán

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even the famously bloodthirsty nypd was like come on man this is fine lmao

Not like Young Frankenstein lacks for appreciation, but: Mel Brooks directed the hell out of this. There are long takes in the opening act that are nearly Spielbergian. Brooks' scripts are full of great lines, of course, but he also knew how to tell a joke with a shot, a skill that's rare now.

Vote no for Sliwa’s Mayoral campaign, vote yes for Sliwa to have a podcast reacting to various posts from strange corners of Reddit

We showed out y'all.

Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

This is incredible. Provincetown's entire off-season population is about 3600.

90 FUCKING PERCENT

i’d love for cis folks to remember what the nyt, atlantic, guardian, daily mail, times of london, ny post, cnn, wall street journal, & economist took from your transgender neighbors & loved ones before the next time you consider giving them money or listening to a word they say.

Case in point: the South isn't perfect (no region is), but folks would do well to remember that gerrymandering and voter suppression make our region look redder than it actually is. NY gave us Trump and CA gave us Reagan. Regional politics aren't simple, and writing places off can't be the move rn.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.