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A dialogue exchange from the movie Brazil: Interviewer: Nevertheless, Mr. Helpmann, there are those who maintain that the Ministry of Information has become too large and unwieldy...And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national product. Mr. Helpmann: I understand this concern on behalf of the tax payers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and for the Information Retrieval Procedures used in their interrogation.

I'm sure Gilliam was always a shit but I loved that movie for 20 years before finding out, and the whole movie's full of prescient metaphor.

The basic plot device of a refunding a wife the fee her innocent husband was charged for his own torture and murder keeps being on the nose here in the US.

Long time fan, first time genuinely disturbed by the implications.

If you haven't watched "I Saw the TV Glow" or read "Black Hole" you have no idea how good this is going to be, this is like when we found out PTA was going to be adapting "Inherent Vice."

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

David Harbour as a clean-shaven maybe-murderer in Elementary s01e05.

David Costabile as a scrubby maybe-murderer in Elementary s01e05.

One great thing about non-prestige TV dramas (and sitcoms) is that once they've aged 10 years or so they live on as museum exhibits of respectable actors from before they were taken respectably. Elementary s01e05 has David Harbour AND David Costabile! And either one of them COULD be the murderer!

Such fun in unbelievable techno-nightmare benzodiazepine hell.

This is the basic thesis of Malcolm Harris's book "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World."

The Twilight Zone s02e02: The Man in the Bottle

"Head of a country... Can't be voted out of office... I'm Hitler! I'm in a bunker! It's the end of the war!"

Text from the article: “There have simply not yet been enough cases involving unlawful electronic surveillance in the smartphone era for the court to be able to conclude that defendants’ conduct was ‘particularly egregious’,” Hamilton wrote.

This is infuriating. "It hasn't resulted in a large number of lawsuits yet, so the almost-undetectable criminal hacking your company engaged in isn't really that bad."

He may have a point; it's not illegal to post "I wish JK Rowling ill" on Twitter

When Tiny Tim met Current 93, Nurse With Wound, and ‘the Antichrist’ Cover art for Tiny Tim's Songs of an Impotent Troubadour by Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound Another one of those things they don't teach you in school: Current 93 and Nurse With Wound collaborate...

It's one of those cultural moments that manages to reflect absolutely terribly on absolutely everyone involved.

(Hey! I enjoyed your book. "England's Hidden Reverse" is another great resource for discovering disquieting connections between outsider artists.)
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This is going ages back, like maybe 20 years or so, but at some point around Dark Side of the Spoon Al started mentioning in interviews that he was going to quit music and teach history at the University of Texas and I feel like our timeline missed a massive opportunity there

YouTube video by Marginalis Death In June (Douglas P.) funny moments!

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You did not! Does he sound like a nazi sympathizer?

The Douglas P/David Tibet split— the gay neonazi scorched-earthing his relationship with an old friend for hanging out with a homophobe— is one of the most philosophically complex beefs of outsider art

David Tibet was apparently the tipping point in getting Shirley Collins back to making music, I have forgiven him for his many sketchy associations

Of course, the fact that David Tibet was apparently the tipping point in getting Shirley Collins back to making music makes me worry about tradfolk

You're a childish bitch too, if that soothes your tummy at all.

Maybe if you did a better job you wouldn't receive so many increasingly urgent complaints

Just some helpful advice

YouTube video by Aamon Animations The Legend of Ethan Klein | Aamon Animations

The Legend of Ethan Klein
Another classic and timely deconstruction by @aamonhawk.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIhd...

Brass Eye (1997): Paedophilia

"A spokesman said: this is the one thing we didn't want to happen."

I had no injury, just natural aging, but there was a full year between when I needed reading glasses and when I realized that was the problem, and during that year I almost drove myself crazy trying to figure out why I'd suddenly become too distractable to get through a book.

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

Incidentally, the fact that the phrasing in the meme is different from that reported in the Digital Transgender Archive makes me think the screenshot is actually from one of the joke's inoffensive uses. But I understand anyone who thinks the whole joke is ruined by its worst application.

It is. It was a recurring line Norm MacDonald used in his Weekend Update bits. It was often funny, but hit a REAL sour note when he told the story of Brandon Teena, a trans man who was murdered by transphobes.
www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/b2773v...

I'm not disagreeing, but it seems to me that his opinions went from generally okay to almost always execrable right around the time he left Vox for the New York Times.

He's a great case study in how talented but insecure writers can be completely perverted by adversary-owned media.

A Joyce Carol Oates tweet about a house with elaborate Halloween decorations: "(you can always recognize a place in which no one is feeling much or any grief for a lost loved one & death, dying, & everyone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke.)"

A tweet from @contramordor on Twitter: "The problem with evil Halloween decorations is that they are real, they summon real monsters, they bring forth real beings. It’s not a game. Festivities matter."

The two killjoy genders: Halloween is awful because those skeletons are dead and will be dead forever vs. Halloween is awful because those skeletons will rise again

look, unlike in [herrenvolk state propped up by extreme violence] where [subordinate ethnic group] is unfairly oppressed, [my subordinate ethnic group] in [my herrenvolk state propped up by extreme violence] really are subhumans who need to be kept in check by the gun.

Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hegseth says Wounded Knee massacre soldiers will keep Medals of Honor Historical records say the US army killed about 250 Lakota Sioux people in the 1890 massacre in South Dakota

The Zachary Hale Comstock army base is keeping its name.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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