Luke Aspell

to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox:

* go to about:config
* set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false

Is It Time to Resume Retraumatising Yourself?

The Braag is a Poetry and speculative fiction publisher looking for manuscripts June 15th - July 31st thebraag.co

UK writers can submit
⭐ Poetry Pamphlets
🌟 Novellas/fiction experiments/flash or short story collections up to around 30,000 words

Writers worldwide can submit
💫 9 a5 pages of work for limited run micro-chapbooks

We pay our authors! We never use AI! Could you please share this? We want your work!

Fred Camper broke the news of P. Adams Sitney's death on Frameworks 25 minutes ago. A devastating loss.

Great relief!

Please don't make this kind of joke, someone will believe it and add it to Wikipedia.

1999.

AI opponents—writers, people who like writing, people who care about writing—are more likely to use em dashes and semi-colons than AI proponents, so they're spreading FUD, is my theory.

The great Leo Gorcey. Judging from his age and costume, this pic is from the Bowery Boys era.

The new Pope has started out on the right foot in naming himself after the great Leo Gorcey.

to mark trans history week, I want to showcase some of the best recent work that's been published in medieval and early modern trans studies; most of it is open access, so you can freely download and read it without access to an institutional library. 🏳️‍⚧️🧵

Press release: 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations call for transphobic political parties to be banned from Pride events 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations have signed an open letter calling for the organisers of Pride events to take a stand against transphobia by barring all political parties advocating for ...

Press release: 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations call for transphobic political parties to be banned from Pride events

When I teach LGBTQ+ film classes I spend a lot of time giving students (who are usually part of the community) LGBTQ+ history because, as Hugh points out, most gay people don’t know all that much about their own history. It’s the most meaningful work I do. Excellent thread, highly suggest you read!

Wasn't he, though? I'm reminded, of course, of Gilbert Adair's comment: "Keaton was a great artist, to be sure, and his niche in the history of cinema is an elevated one; but Chaplin belongs to history itself." Seems fair.

They employ some real people, yes, just the sort of people who can't quit their jobs over one more expected, routine atrocity. Let's not waste energy being outraged by inevitable horrors.

What do you expect? Why do you expect it?

What do you mean "belong in the Academy"? They're not PEN, being in the Academy would be many people's idea of a definition of moral unseriousness (union-busting, rapist-lionising, the Oscars basically being an informercial for artistically indefensible crap).

I have multiple & contradictory thoughts about including non-binary writers (such as me) in IWD book displays.

*if all ur nb writers are all afab, congrats ur the Women's Prize & it's a fail

*if u include afab nb writers & no trans women it's a double fail & pure transphobia

YouTube video by Vicente Luján Pink Industry - Don't Let Go

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Watch Carry Greenham Home Online | Vimeo On Demand A record of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, and the philosophy behind it. Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson spent seven months filming at the women's…

Beeban is amazing, watch CARRY GREENHAM HOME for £3 & support independent community film distribution! / end of PSA

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This was the first version of the Doctor Who theme I ever heard, years before I saw the programme. Favourite part is how the brass comes back in at 1:53, which last came back into my head a few days ago actually. Haven't heard this in about 30 years, thank you for this reunion!

An email sent out by TripleCeePee asking recipients to "help us save this Leicester Comedy Festival show" because 10 more ticket sales are needed in the next 24 hours to "ensure the show is viable and can go ahead." The show is called Ada & Bron: The Origin of Love.

Cropped image of show synopsis, showing that Ada and Bron's full names are Ada Player and Bron Waugh.

Zoomed in image of Bron Waugh's name.

The Bugs Bunny "no" meme.

Imagining October – Senses of Cinema

For the Melbourne Cinémathèque and @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, on Derek Jarman's IMAGINING OCTOBER.

www.sensesofcinema.com/2024/cteq/im...

In the Shadow of the Sun – Senses of Cinema

For the Melbourne Cinémathèque and @sensesofcinema.bsky.social, on Derek Jarman's IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN.

www.sensesofcinema.com/2024/cteq/in...

Make that the *three* existing etc.

I am going to begin my time on Bluesky by liking the two existing bleets/skeets/tweets/posts about Peter Gidal.