SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?
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SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?
Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.
As summer’s final days slip away, Turkey’s #wildfires seem determined to make a last stand—leaving smoke columns as their stubborn signature. In this image, plumes rise from forest #fires near Yenimahalle, Karabük, and Buharkent, Aydın, marking the season’s fiery farewell.
Sea level rise will do some of this anyway, but they might as well set up for success.
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
I emerge from the time machine and see my teenaged self. “Wow,” she says. “You’re me...but, like, old.” “Yeah,” I tell her. “Are you here to let me know it gets better?” she asks. “What? God no—it gets SO much worse. I just came for my last few gulpfuls of clean air.”
Sea food on track to become toxic - algal toxins, bacterial toxins, and flesh eating bacteria all on the rise non-linear with a chemical cocktail magnifying through the food chain on top of it all - happy sea food times again! #earth #food
Beautiful!
IMPROVE a movie by making it about Gary 2 Gary 2 Furious
IMPROVE a movie by making it about Gary The Wonderful Gary of Oz
What to eat when far from home? A vagrant seabird selects novel but analogous prey | http://www.marineorn... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
There's a really fun one from @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/product/skel... But yes, seems like a great opportunity to do any number of things within whatever theme you want.
Look at that! Improvement!
It was made for her!
IMPROVE a movie by making it about Gary Guardians of the Gary
I'm really grateful @manmademoon.bsky.social did this with his story. The future not being accessible is one of the biggest unspoken issues coming for us. (As Microsoft configures Office to respond best to speech, for example) We are all only temporarily able. Disability remains inevitable.
two classics Gary Movie Glengarry Glen Gary
So. I'm watching Mute, and it's one of my faves... but i've never really watched it with a disability-focus, even though the main character has a disability. So many things completely inaccessable to people in a futuristic society that emphasizes speaking to the interfaces.
IMPROVE a movie by making it about Gary Dawn of the Gary
IMPROVE a movie by making it about Gary When Harry Met Gary
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
This is good.
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
I mean, you could also do the burn test. That's usually what people do. Not only do they burn differently, but their odours are different, too.
Have you been introduced to @premeemohamed.com's work? She has two short story collections out. No One Will Come Back For Us is a diverse and very entertaining SFF collection. One Message Remains is a smaller collection of stories all set in the same universe.
Seeking: a collection of essays or short stories I can intermittently read to wean off my phone usage. Could be single author, or anthology. The shorter the stories the better. Preferably of uniform interesting-ness. Potential topics include history, SFF, ethnic studies, queer/trans stuff…
Some things are burned in your memory?
Pretty!
Bedtime reading getting repetitive?
It sucks either way. But yeah, i'm happy we get the fresh air. And feel bad for the people farther north.
Agreed.
It's working out so far.
Why is reality so messed up?!
She deserves so much more recognition than she got for this/these role/s.
It looks like the air is actually clearing a bit. It's still smoky AF outside, but I can now see downtown, where earlier today it was Blade Runner 2049. ... which is nice because I want to cool my apartment down!
oh, I see the default video autoplay continues. Come on @bsky.app This is actually an accessibility problem that is preventing people from using your website.
Refreshing my memory with this feature from 2010. albertaviews.ca/deconstructi...
They were at the Ice Capades! Snorks on ice!
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
Ever see a trust fund baby get a financial advisor and then because they did something goofy that they chose to do with like half their fund on a wildcat, greatly increase their wealth and then everyone acts like this asshole suddenly knows investing and is smart that's Nate Silver with stats.
Ok, if he is not dead though? I really love the idea of all of us being the grim reaper for halloween.
This is your regular reminder that rationality is an emotion. It is not the opposite of emotion. It is the feeling of being calmly certain. That is not the same thing as being right. It is the FEELING of being right.
Waiting for the core of the CME to arrive. Nothing great yet. A brief moment of some pink pillars but otherwise just enjoying the beach sounds. #SkySky #aurora
No shit sherlock but my argument is Netflix’s algorithm didn’t create or green light or develop or spend anything close to $320 million on kpop demon hunters. Did K-pop Demon Hunters get any of this? variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
First time in a long time that forestry departments have been bastions of fashion-forward looks!
Hello to all my new bot followers! Also hello to all the operatives just trying to make a living by creating fake accounts on social media platforms for their governments and associated contractors! I know you're all working hard and I see you.
Clicked through, found the inauguration pic, ... the accuracy
The worst!
Interesting how fast a government can move when it wants to force people back to work, and how slow it can move when people are being exposed to fine particulate matter and toxic gases from wildfire smoke. 🤔
Bro get over here. Bro. You're not gonna believe it, you gotta check this out, Gumby's going fucking ham
You two could retell Ponyo all on your own!
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
every pic of trump looks like this now
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
This is the trail of tears again .
Gender restrictions on the vax, too. I mean, not *restrictions* but they don't make it mandatory for boys.
Not the point, but how are Canada and the UK lagging so far behind?
I'm watching Moon. And then I'll watch Mute. ... and the probably fall asleep to some k-dramas.
None of our governments or institutions are legitimate, because they allowed this to happen, and actively assist. [cw: infanticide, genocide, manufactured famine] #freepalestine
#InverteFest!
someone on this teevee show had methanol poisoning and as an emergency treatment the doctor gave her a gavage feeding of a bunch of liquor! gin i think. i looked it up and that's a real thing, it basically distracts your liver from converting the methanol into formaldehyde. rad
“No Assblasting With Whales”
I see Elon Musk is quoting the Nazi son of the President of Trinity Western University
Hvtvm Graham Greene
My heart is heavy tonight. Graham Greene was an institution and an inspiration; we are better for him having been here.
Alt: "We cannot survive without forests, but we will thrive without billionaires." Comic panel of Poison Ivy (a red-haired, curvy green woman with vines growing out of her and wrapped around her green bodysuit) smiling while crushing a white man in a suit with her vines (as he screams "ahhhrrgh!").
Some cool mycelium on this block of wood.
Are you guys (and the world) getting Dave-d? Holy moly.
Fun IS subjective.
Quick question what is the one thing that COMPUTEors are good at You could not fuck up worse then this
I have no idea why the prototype short that led to Rock and Rule is not more popular on this internet, or at least certain areas of the internet, if you get me, lol Nelvana pioneered some of the greatest animation out of Canada, skyrocketing so many careers. All of us know that logo. oh well.
Happy Labor Day sex work is work
Nelvana also made Rock & Rule, and one of my favorite Halloween specials The Devil and Daniel Mouse. “On the night of her greatest triumph, the party of the first part—that’s you—agrees to render up her soul now and forevermore to the party of the second part. That’s me.” youtu.be/nNvHiegg31s?...
A book I’m reading quoted disability justice activist @reallandsend.bsky.social saying in America, “we are entitled to as much survival as we can purchase.”
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
Accurate.
Sending love. Hopefully Fiasco is making his way back home with some wild stories to tell you.
WHAT 💔💔💔💔💔
lmao
Blueskys core audience is liberal and leftist users and they are the ones driving much of the posting activity. If the platform shifts to accommodate right wing users that base is likely to migrate back to other sites leaving Bluesky without its main draw. This is the niche it fills.
Cask of Amontillado if it was written by RL Stine
THIS!
Satire but... www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/mark...
This trash government is pursuing a hateful, discriminatory future. #ableg #cdnpoli
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In the meantime, birds! In flight! Right now! #birds #fall #migration
Took Sam for a walk (masked) and the smoke is so bad the street lights have been on for hours. PM1 is 120. And there's a parent watching 3 kids playing in the local playground. Public health communication is failing at everything.
* And their hard, often invisible hospitalizations, deaths, new heart conditions, and #LongCovid ** We are still DURING COVID ffs
I spent all afternoon feeling really crummy and it turns out I might just have been hungry. 🫠
(also Sam Rockwell is wearing a Lunar Industries t-shirt in the waterpark tour video... which was a fun little easter egg) I'll bet filming this movie was a lot of fun. Steve Carell as the bad guy was excellent... but I imagine he's fun to work with in a not-bad guy way.
omg I FINALLY watched the deleted scenes from The Way Way Back and ... Maya Rudolph's improvised water park theme song "do you wanna get wizzed" is ridiculous. This movie is sweet-bittersweet (and a tough one for kids of divorce).
I found a pair of kingfisher here because why the fuck not
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Good news of the day: Amy Poehler unseated Joe Rogan for top comedy podcast
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
There are creators I dearly wish I could give money to, but they're on Substack and I don't want Substack to get a cut... it sucks!
What an absolute delight! Thank you for sharing them!
I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶
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