Josh Slater-Williams

1, man people are gross
2, "The Human Centipede of content" is the best descriptor of AI slop I've heard yet.

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

A turn that I will not be forgetting any time soon.

Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further Wes Streeting's new review into mental health and neurodivergency will be vice chaired by “the most hated doctor in Britain”, Simon Wessely

Labour is trying to prove mental health and neurodivergent conditions are over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further- and they’ve hired the dr who ruined people with ME's lives to do it. Me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Johnny Vegas Mr. Twit(voice) Margo Martindale Mrs. Twit(voice)

Definitely not a pairing I'd have predicted for the animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's THE TWITS

Shoot your shot

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it.

bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

“AI Avatar or Banner”

The thing about using AI--even in a short I was otherwise enjoying, like this one--is it's a poison pill. I can no longer judge the work by its craft. How can I trust that all those practical monsters were the filmmaker's idea? Can I believe them when they say they wrote it?

Knowing in advance that Jim Belushi is in THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER still doesn’t prepare you for Jim Belushi in THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

the extreme state repression of those protesting Britain's involvement in the Gaza genocide is only happening because our leaders have no available real defence to make of their actions and position and everyone knows it

As well as a terrifying extension of repressive state power, it's striking how intellectually dead this is. "You can have freedoms, but only when and if we say so." Ludicrous. We live in an era as stupid as it is evil, governed by moral and intellectual minnows as vapid as they are depraved.

Judge Dismisses Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Neil Gaiman A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled that the accuser’s suit should be refiled in New Zealand.

“The judge did not rule on the facts of the case, but rather that the suit should have been filed in New Zealand and not Wisconsin.”

FREDDY KRUEGER: (waving his scary gloves at me in a dream) Waugghhh!
ME: Whoa Freddy, I haven't seen you all semester, dude. We've got that big math test today, didn't you study? Uh oh, you're in big trouble, buddy.

Mid-shot of Meiko on stage, sitting and smiling!

Picture of the marquee at the Aero Theater that says: Meiko Kaji Tribute Stray Cat Rock Delinquent Girl Boss

The full Q&A between Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) and Will Morris has now been uploaded to YT:

youtu.be/4u3Hk7GkWL0

This time I was in the front, so the video quality is pretty good!

No song, but we did get Meiko with a t-shirt cannon!

I've never considered myself particularly religious, but I've become increasingly convinced of the truth of a thing we might call a soul; primarily through my reading and study, but also from being made to bear witness to the behaviours of people whose have clearly deposed and abandoned their own.

“Why’s she taken over the cinema as well?” - my parents looking for something to go see this weekend

This is the sort of drama my dad might have given a chance at the cinema, but he's put off because of basically everything Johnson's made in the past ten years.

Pundit Bro Doom Loop MAINSTREAM "LIBERAL" PUNDITS ACHIEVE PROFESSIONAL RESPECTABILITY BY REACHING OUT TO THE FAR RIGHT… Two male pundits talking: I'M SO OPEN-MINDED, I SHALL INVITE YOU ON MY PODCAST AND BANTER WITH YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA! ...THUS ALLOWING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS TO LAUNDER WHITE NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY INTO THE MAINSTREAM WHY YES, MY FELLOW GENTLEBRO, YOU MAY INTERVIEW ME AND LEND CREDIBILITY TO MY MUSINGS ON THE IQS OF BLACK WOMEN AND THE THEFT OF THE 2020 ELECTION! PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ARE REPULSED I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BASIC STANDARDS? PUNDITS THEN DUNK ON PROGRESSIVES AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES THEY'RE SO RUDE AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH REAL AMERICANS! NOW YOU'RE TALKING! ©2025 Jen Sorensen

Latest comic on liberal pundits being cozy with extremist commentators who would have been considered beyond the pale just a few years ago

Can... can I be on it?

people sometimes get down on satire for being too indirect but there is no amount of obvious you can make a work of art where someone will not find a way to miss the point

This week at the PCC we dive headfirst into one of the most striking and unforgettable revenge sagas ever put to screen – the FEMALE PRISONER: SCORPION series. Running across Monday to Thursday afternoons, we’re showing all four films in Shunya Itō’s cult nightmare!

🎟️ : tinyurl.com/mw8ckx4y

This perfectly encapsulates Labour's authoritarian mindset. There is no merit to the causes being protested; there are merely mystifying and annoying protesters, swarms of gnats who must be swatted away until the inconvenience stops.

How are you guys handling King Kong and Narnia both lingering for 2006's top 50?

I only know of ZULU because I edited someone's review of it years ago.