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- A popular press recap of all the cool stuff that @schmidtocean.bsky.social recently found off the coast of Argentina Deep-sea explorers film massive animal drifting through darkness in South Atlantic Ocean | Discover Wildlife share.google/99B8UnGPRL7y...
- Well. Looks like they finally did it.
- Here's another #transcrowdfund: Hailey Kaas is a brilliant writer, translator, educator and activist in Brazil, and one of my fav humans. She founded Brazil's first transfeminism website/collective. Hailey's mom has cancer and she's had to quit working to take care of her: ko-fi.com/haileykaas
- From: Big Fish & Begonia (2016), dir. Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun, B&T Studio/Studio Mir
- THE SCREAM I JUST SCRUMT 😆😭 #ReadingAfterDigitalAgeFandom
- ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck theonion.com/lord-of-the-rings-r…
- Can’t stop talking about this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece about the ways the tech industry has tricked us all into trading connection for convenience and how to break free of it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
- FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs: “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
- It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
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- A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
- @shadowtodd.bsky.social I saw the video announcement (IG ad) for the Ordinary Warren dude and it just felt like someone was putting too much money and trying too hard. Also, he’s terrible at acting
- Silly gripe: three of my favorite bands—Metric, Broken Social Scene, Stars— are coming touring together. They’ll visit Austin but it’ll be at one of my least favorite venues! I want to go but I loathe the layout and acoustics of the place. Maybe I’ll travel to see them elsewhere
- An ask: Wanna read about a Black mother & daughter wielding powerful magicks to make their travels around the world lovely? I hope so because I'm working on a 3rd one. If you've read books 1 & 2 & enjoyed them plz leave a review or recommendation. Share like pie. Because life is delicious!
- Rise and shine! It’s time for whimsy! #WhimsyWednesday
- Democracy, dying in darkness?
- The Washington Post is expected to announce mass layoffs this morning, dealing another big blow to a storied media company and a newsroom that has reached a breaking point. We'll be posting updates here: www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/m...
- this is literally the critique of crypto that was offered when it was launched, so please, fuck off into the sun
- If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
- “Did they grow up under a rock??” Yes. And the rock was probably put there on purpose by men who wanted uneducated people to control. This is why we don’t leave any state or county or town behind. Nobody deserves to grow up under a rock. Especially one they would never have the power to move.
- Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
- “You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
- Interesting term for today: INFOXICATION Discuss
- My friend Dana started writing a fanzine to sell during a horny book fair at The Tiny Minotaur, an art installation/fantasy tavern in Austin, TX. (She created the space) She ended up creating a lovely book titled Defending A Big-Dicked Elven Wizard instead. Check it out www.dabdew.com/main-page
- Worth noting that their march is taking through the heart of the Fillmore, once a vibrant Black neighborhood but a majority of the residents were pushed out due to "redevelopment" by rich assholes.
- New work, public appearances, awards eligibility, and more! www.juliarios.com/big-news-rou...
- Groundhog Day but from Punxsutawney Phil’s perspective.
- Kind of amazing that it’s 2026, the cinematic moving image is over 130 years old, we have witnessed 3D, IMAX, Technicolor, CGI and beyond, yet hair and make-up departments are still unable to manufacture a beard that doesn’t resemble a £7.99 comedy purchase from madpiratejokeshop.com
- Hmm, seems odd that Variety is leading their box office results with Melania, even though it has massively underperformed in relation to it's production budget, and underplays the totally indie Iron Lung nearly topping the weekend, the most significant result.
- dark times ahead. but we are going to win
Another great thread to help people survive:- This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.
- When I saw pictures of Liam Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to support Liam and groups helping other immigrants like him. ❤️💪🐇
- Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
- Solution: start your own bullshit genres. - Cozy Body Horror - Fungal Crepuscular Academia - Magical Cyberpunk Realism - Romantic Ethnography - STEW (Simply Typed, End Wins)
- Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!
- Oh yeah, check this one out @gregpak.net @trungles.com @teaberryblue.net @comixaction.com @christinenorrie.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ! Future comic book pro just checked into the campaign!
- From my son (12) 🩵 #Comics4Liam Check out more from amazing artists at comics4liam.com!
- An even weirder show called Triplet Peaks
- You know who really ought to pay attention the result in TX Sen 9? Democratic leadership in Congress.
- Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.
- Wrote about all that kind of stuff here:
- RNIB Bookshare is an amazing resource and a national treasure - it’s the backbone of accessible text provision in education.
- Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.
- "Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
- a few new aGoS pages are up on patreon. gonna post 1 or 2 every Sunday, in the name of holding myself accountable
- the primary blocker to UBI is the puritan belief that humanity is so sinful and depraved that it should not be permitted personhood unless it becomes 'civilised' that's how liberal social policy ended up asserting that helping people would harm them but hurting people would help them
- Find out what disgusting things can make your water undrinkable, and other ways we can help make our world totally unsuitable for human life, by doing the opposite of everything in this week's Stupid Comics! misterkitty.net/extras/stupi...
- In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
- Thys was my Heated Rivalrye
- Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
- Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
- I hope we make it.
- Hope can be reassuring. But don’t let it be your only way. We can hope ourselves out of this.
- Hope without action is just wishing.
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- sorry I called your movie a numbing onanistic neon lighting fever dream trainwreck experiment, it was meant as a compliment
- The Boston Strangler’s less threatening cousin…
- How to turn a pizza for 4 into a Calzone for 1 in one simple step :3
- Among the giants of Sequoia National Park, California ❤️
- Holy hell, my novella GRIEF EATER is on NetGalley!!! Check out that stunning Dante Luiz cover!! @interstellarflight.bsky.social www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
- I’m Artist Guest of Honor at this weekend’s #AggieCon in #CollegeStation along with Author GoH @marthawells.com. Here’s where to find me. There will be Lotería. ✊🏽 And there will be a limited supply of signed copies of THE INVISIBLE PARADE at the @austinbooks.bsky.social booth!
- 90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off
- Animation ruled streaming in 2025. Again. Nielsen data shows 'Bluey' repeated as the most-watched title across all genres, while 'KPop Demon Hunters' was the most-watched movie, and Seth MacFarlane won the inaugural Streaming Icon of the Year award. www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/ni...
- ICYMI: Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
