Kaushik Karforma

Searching for birth control and how to use it? Obscene. Anything remotely about trans rights, gay rights? Obscene? My PROFILE gets labeled obscene.

Anyone who doesn't see this for what it is is either a dupe or complicit.

FIGHT THIS TOOTH AND NAIL.

Cover reveal this weekend at PulpFest: The Midnight Guardian battles an army of metal monsters on the streets of Union City. Coming this fall from Flinch Books!
#TheMidnightGuardian #FlinchBooks

And it HAS to be Jock on the art.

A nice little entry in the Frenzi canon. Chock-full of blood and bullets. Hope Calder writes more of these.

The only known use of a boomerang to explode a helicopter.
From THE SECRET OF KING MAHI'S ISLAND (1988)

1 like = 1 ‘90s action movie rec

Hi Dalia. Great to see you're making progress on the novel.

Also, messaging will work in remote areas that calls can't be made.

Great news!

2 other Westlakes I highly recommend:
CASTLE IN THE AIR
HELP I'M BEING HELD PRISONER

Both laugh-out-loud funny.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

From Wikipedia entry: Johann Wilhelm Fück (8 July 1894 – 24 November 1974) was a German Orientalist. Starting in 1913, Fück studied classical and Semitic philology at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and Goethe University Frankfurt. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the German National People's Party.[1] His promotion took place in 1921 as part of the Orientalist Seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he had lectureships in Hebrew language from 1921 to 1930, and in Arabic philology and Islamic studies from 1935 to 1938. He attained his habilitation in 1929. In the interim from 1930 to 1935, he was a professor at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 1938 Fück went back to Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg where he remained until his retirement in 1962. In Halle he was also the director of the library of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society).[2] Along with Karl Vollers and Régis Blachère, Fück was an important early researcher into the language of the Quran.[3]

I am, in fact, juvenile enough that I'm going to begin citing this guy regularly, asking researchers if they've consulted Fück recently, what Fück thinks on a particular subject, was Fück enough for their proposal/article/book, and so on.

Dibs on the ARC. 😀

Superman speaking to a group of boys and girls telling them to be more woke and that not being woke is un-American.

Just woke up. What’d I miss?

I used to ask myself what endpoint billionaires envisioned for all this but now I realize there isn't one. There's no real vision at all. These animals are infinitely venal and infinitely unconvinced of their own mortality. At the most they think the guards in their bunker won't shoot them.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Give that bagpipe player any damn thing he wants.

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“Take care of your assistants.” #WeWereLiars co-developer co-showrunner Carina Adly MacKenzie gives advice to fellow showrunners. #WGAWPod

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I first became aware of Donnie Yen for his work in HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME (linked below for reference), and became a big fan over the years. Truly a legend.

youtu.be/p5dzAUJhe9U?...

Comics shown: Godzilla Kai-Sei Era #1, Red Sonna Noir #1, Post Malone’s Big Rig #1, Red Sonja vs The Army of Darkness #3

Catching up on some classic literature

This is my marvel cinematic universe

The Bartender: Cosmopolitan Chaos The Bartender: Cosmopolitan Chaos - Kindle edition by Calder, R. J.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Bartender: Cosmopolitan Chaos.

We don't love the Dark Empire...but if you buy there, Brodie won't judge, unless you are a dirtbag, murdering psycho...at which point you'd better be able to run faster than the bad guys in Cosmopolitan Chaos! 😃

The best action movie of the summer is a book. Get it.

www.amazon.com/Bartender-Co...

The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett

I agree. It's a so bad it's good movie. The most impressive thing was the filmmakers' chutzpah in adapting Casablanca. One needs Uwe-sized Bolls to pull it off. And I mean that in a good way. In my opinion they pulled it off to make a very entertaining movie.

I really liked the movie
What about you?

Thank you.

I envy you. You'll experience it for the first time.

I know that's right.

It's no secret that The Underground books got their start the last time we were dealing with, well... *gestures broadly.*

Something about an outsider, however fictional, out there pulling asses out of fires offers a little hope.

100%.

We need these heroes, fictional though they are, more now than ever. Hope can be contagious.

And in our world, the bad guys don't win. ✊️