Halcyon

Happy Half-Century Birthday (one day late) to one of my all-time favorite albums.

do people who work for the new york times know that shutting up is free

Star Trek The Next Generation upon hitting 38 years old: *signs up for a Bluesky account*

Watching them cherry pick the hateful podcaster into a martyr really makes you wonder about all the other folks the gatekeepers of history have put on a pedestal.

Happy 35th Anniversary to Captain Planet

Must stop trying to wear mascara. I rub my eyes far too frequently for that shit.

This was twenty-two months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,186 kids since.

Brooke Smith in purple crimped hair in the 1980s

I need more folks to know that Brooke Smith of Silence of the Lambs fame (she's instructed to put the lotion in the basket) was a member of the 1980s New York Hardcore scene and a photographer who documented that scene prolifically. She has a book called Sunday Matinee, which is absolutely stunning.

Corn Telethon

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Happy Labor Day, comrades

Today I saw a tourist face-timing with someone exclaim “I’m in Maine, man, look there’s water here!” Then he walked to the very end of a boat launch and started moaning at the ocean. It was so incredibly sincere and enthusiastic. I will only accept this kind of tourist energy from here on out.

I have as much disdain for the remake/adaptation mania currently suffocating the film industry as the next guy, but I think if someone were to abstract a monster of the week episode of Buffy into a short or feature length horror film that is actually scary, it should be all of them.

This is just how these fucking ghouls operate. When they’re in power they tell you how important it is to do the atrocities and do them well, then when they’re out of power act like they want to stop the atrocities. That’s the entirety of Democratic foreign policy.

Just alienated and abandoned a group of DAR members. Feels like I’m about to move out of my grandparents’ pool house.

Help Juls present her research to an international audience! I am traveling to Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2025, to present my thesis research on pharmacological interventions for stimulant addiction and how its u

When your university rejects your travel grant application despite being accepted to present your thesis research on an international platform, all you can do is turn to the internet to beg (after exhausting all your resources).

www.fundmytravel.com/campaign/byj...

capitalism, covid, capitalism

Something we should really think about is that "the children we are starving to death were already sick" isn't supposed to be some kind of exculpatory defense, it's an attempt to inject the idea that it's okay to kill people who are sick or diseased or disabled into mainstream conversation

So just to keep track: Trump justified detaining students who protested & wrote op-eds because they're "flight risks." And then he lets a top Israeli official facing felony charges for child sex crimes just fly back to Israel. All while still refusing to release the Epstein files

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

J Crowe

Sharing my work on the internet once again - short stories, weird horror, surreal, sometimes silly, genre-bending, free to read - jcrowe.itch.io

Do hashtags still work in 2025 #horror #fiction #weirdhorror #flashfiction #shortfiction #hashtagsareembarrassing

Google search screenshot: Al Overview The saying "beer before candy, you're in the clear; beer before candy, hurricane sandy" is a popular rhyme that playfully suggests the order in which one consumes food and alcohol can affect the severity of a hangover. The rhyme implies that consuming beer before candy will lead to

my dad was always saying this

The show should have been called Pacey’s Pond!

I am unreasonably jazzed about this.

circa 1960s black and white photo depicting the side of an 1860s farm house. Towards the left, and standing in front of the back bedroom window, is what looks like the figure of a man looking at the camera. According to the photographer, no one was there that day. Also there’s a puppy blissfully trotting in the lower right hand corner.

I used to clean this house and it always felt haunted. All your typical signs were present and a clowder of cats lived there. They would gather in this one place and watch me walk between buildings. Today I saw this photo of a ghostly figure by the back window, watching from the same place.

The Israeli military is deliberately massacring groups of journalists as it is threatening to occupy all of Gaza.

Oh I lied. One more thing.

The word "crime" is meaningless. Lots of crimes are morally good. Lots of legal acts are morally repugnant. Kill the cop in your brain.

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

How are you calling trans women misogynists when you’re out here in the streets referring to cis women as having “egg-producing equipment” like a human trafficker in a 90s Law and Order episode

Huh maybe if they weren't kicking all the Palestinians off the app there would be more users

Maybe if they didn't welcome Jesse Singal there would be more users