wrote that essay about superhero dicks * published in the New Haven Independent, New Haven Review, FSF, Fangoria, Blood Knife, Seize the Press, Typebar, Current Affairs * rs-benedict.com * RIP Rite Gud
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What? What is this gibberish? Total nonsense, this journalist is hysterical, he's on drugs or something. "Take the school bus"? Are you insane?? To and from school?
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
BREAKING: Looks like Rudy Giuliani was NOT helping a DV victim at the time of the accident. Article states troopers & firefighters, already on the scene for a separate domestic violence incident across the interstate, witnessed the crash and rendered aid. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
no matter your politics itâs disrespectful to joke about someoneâs death. donât say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. donât say stuff like that
Feeling powerless and frustrated about ICE in DC? Shout at them! Record them! Point out their locations on social media! Every time I scream at ICE they run away like scared, pathetic roaches đŞł
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isnât even news.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Again, the formula the American fascists are playing with doesn't work the way they think it does. You can't torch the US consumer economy while trying to use access to it to bully countries into submission. It only empowers other superpowers while shrinking US hegemony
can an expert explain? yeah man, you made a fake picture and now youâre doing physiognomy on it
There are mice and rats in literally every restaurant. All of them. I've worked in probably 10 restaurants and bars in my lifetime. Fact of life when you when you're working with and throw out that much food every day.
they're spending more time and money on plans for turning gaza into a coastal resort for pedophiles than they are on plans to rescue the hostages
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
I spend half my life amongst MAGAs in Texas. Without hate, they would be bored and depressed. Hate is their drug.
â ď¸ US suspends visas for ALL Palestinian passport holders âThe new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.â www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws. Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities "I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
This is why I found it so funny the ivys and snob schools rolled over so fast and got double fucked for doing it. These are the same people getting duped putting 50 grand in a shoebox. Rich and priveleged Americans are the easiest people to scam and bully because they've never deal with it before.
google AI going well again
As rumors fly that Trump has suffered a stroke, I was reminded that the motherfucker has always been a loathsome piece of shit. To make more money with a different tenant, Trump threw 74-year-old widow, Mary Filan, who had recently suffered a stroke out of her Queens apartment.
"Israelâs policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
BTW, Eno has called out MS for its commitment to genocide in Palestine and donates his fee from this intro to Palestinian causes.
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
you know, there was a time society would handle guys like this by just beating the shit out of them in the town square
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
weird thing about consuming literally any art other than what is being promoted at this exact moment is people will be like whoa where do you find this stuff? or they react with hostility to the idea that you're watching even like an extremely famous and popular movie from a few decades ago
Mary Shelleyâs âFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,â illustrated with original engravings on wood by Lynd Ward. Post 3 (of 4).
A cool shot from Albert Capellani's L'ĂŠpouvante (1911): The camera pulls back to reveal a burglar hiding under the bed
Thereâs a great exchange in The Grapes Of Wrath where a farmer whoâs been kicked off his land by a bank meets the guy getting paid peanuts to take it over. The guy is mewling like âwell somebody was gonna do it if I didnât!â and Steinbeck has such a beautiful, visceral, disdain for the character
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Pretending you didn't know the foreign national who works DIRECTLY for a head of state wouldn't show up to a hearing where you had them red handed for one of the most horrific crimes ever is honestly such a wild bit lol www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
I know super-rich CEOs have always had an asshole streak, but I really do believe we're dealing with the new genetic strain here, one that doesn't even pretend to be a normal human
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him â¤ď¸
Ah fuck my lawyer got drunk & kidnapped a woman & then her husband went to save her but he hit my lawyerâs car from behind when my lawyer slammed on the brakes to pull in to a gas station to buy boner pills đşđ¸đ˝
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didnât file the report in time â and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
looking good sir
Does starving babies to death and shooting children with a sniper rifle get you closer to the presence of the divine or further from it?
I cannot stress enough how much Ancient Rome fucking sucked. Being a Rome fanboy is embarrassing. Fuck Rome. All my homies hate Rome.
another thing made by me about how i feel applying to jobs
Turns out Google made up an elaborate story about me uploading a controversial video about "my trip to Israel" where I learned how wrong I was about the conflict. I've never been to Israel in my life. Gemini confidently confused me with a Newsmax commentator who uploads military videos.
My movie The Howling is available to stream for free on Tubi RIGHT NOW. âWerewolf Cinema at Its Finest,â sez here: www.dreadcentral.com/news/541393/...
A thing that stands out from watching just about any movie from the 20th century; 1993 for instance, is how pretty they are. Even the biggest mess still has to be photographed and designed by a person who sees the world in a specific way. Lighting, costumes for extras your won't notice.
Pathetic and cowardly. Your tax dollars at work
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romneyâs presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Anyone who thinks the GOPâs Hitlerite turn sprang fully formed from under Trumpâs red hat wasnât reading enough early 2000s blogs
Adham recently saw a close friend shot to death in the killing fields where the US & Israel operate aid traps. He's been on Bluesky since the beginning of Israel's genocidal siege, & has been harassed, suspended, & kicked out by this liberal platform repeatedly. Please help his family survive:
Anyway, @typebarmagazine.bsky.social had this to say about today's sci-fi discourse a year ago, and people in publishing got incandescently angry about it www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/n...
25 years ago PBS began airing Between the Lions â arguably the zenith of children's programming. The years since then have seen a precipitous and deeply concerning nosedive in the quality of what children are watching. www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/b...
Anyway, it is true that democracy will be on the ballot in 2028. But it'll be on the ballot for Democrats well before the general. And the party's task is creating democracy, not defending it. That demands both an attentiveness to structural politics and a willingness to defend the equality of all.
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
Look, if youâre dedicated enough to have 16 cats and you donât know their names, individual meows, paw pad color and blood type then you never deserved to be mayor
Itâs astonishing how few people realize ceding some rights got us into this situation
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
đ¨BREAKING: Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips
A lot of different genre discourse threads going on here, but I have to say it's a mistake to define "literary fiction" (as problematic as that term is) as "realism." That is not accurate historically or in contemporary publishing. There have always been non-realist traditions outside of SFF.
The Chinese sci-fi scene, which appears to be pretty healthy rn, offered Anglo sci-fi publishing a lifeline, but the Anglo sci-fi writers were too goddamn racist to accept it.
Have the Treatlers noticed prices or shrinkflation yet or do they not care now
feel like slim and fat chance should be a different amount of chance
Nobody knows everything that came before, & of course we should push back on those bad-faith "testing" canon ideas; at the same time, there's immense worth imo in being conversant with *the thing you are interested in*, and there are predictable & sometimes imo v negative sides to skipping tradition
Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and đđđđđđ
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If I believed you had a soul, I'd tell you you're going to hell.
Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate
If you think 'the canon'/the classics are too pale and male, you could always hunt for past writers who aren't that. But that takes effort. It's much easier to just post. kittysneezes.com/diverse-sci-... kittysneezes.com/rite-gud-wom...
Most notably, the sci-fi authors who insist you don't need to read the classics are usually the ones whose work is just preachy rehashing of the classics. Omelas response stories, Star Trek riffs, etc.
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs arenât laws, the federal government doesnât manage voting in this way, and itâs all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesnât provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. đ Marlon on Snoop:
Greetings! Iâm here at Metro Detention Centee, the site of a 24/7 protest in Los Angeles. Just got here, a dispersal order is being announced via loudspeaker by DHS.
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year). Just read it. My God.
CHICAGOâŚ
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
they made an SVU episode about bluesky
Remembering a mistake I made fifteen years ago
I think the press have a duty to take seriously the real concerns of real Americans and demand that Trump take the presidential fitness test on camera.
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this âMake America Healthy Againâ?
I would like to draw your attention to this fundraiser. it would make me so happy to see it fully funded so that John can get transportation and get his kitties back đđđ
damn I can't believe that shunning reading, obsessing over corporate fandom, being super racist to Chinese people, and bullying anyone with anything interesting to say failed to nurture a thriving sci-fi literary genre
If you're interested in watching the amazing episode of Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur which Disney tried to bury because of its message of trans positivity and solidarity: archive.org/details/the-...
Your dad was Mario Cuomo.
every campus needs a sara
just once iâd like to hear an established, successful artist look back at their work and say âof course, you couldnât make that these days, because you canât get funding for original work thatâs not based on an established ipâ
An account dedicated to making fun of communists had to go protected mode after asking for help paying medical bills
RFK Jr looks like heâs been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-41
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
Science fiction â printed, published science fiction, and sci-fi as a distinct publishing category â is dying. I think it's obvious at this point. It's not dead yet, and who knows, maybe a miraculous intervention could save the patient. ButâŚ