Schoolgirls in Iran in protest against the regime sticking their middle fingers to Khomeini and Khamenei
Torchwood is like. What if a sitcom was evil. In the parallel evil universe Torchwood is just a normal sitcom
I saw this Plympton-animated film at the Woodstock Animation festival. It has all the things I love in it -- Tim Curry and Bowie and Lou Reed and Hedwig, and discovering yourself. So I'm posting it for all the people who will love it to discover and tell their friends about.
“[Keanu] Reeves said a recent conversation about “The Matrix” with a 15-year-old put things into a terrifying perspective. The actor explained to the teenager that his character, Neo, is fighting for what’s real. The teenager scoffed and said, “Who cares if it’s real?” “People are growing up with these tools: We’re listening to music already that’s made by AI in the style of Nirvana, there’s NFT digital art,” Reeves said. “It’s cool, like, Look what the cute machines can make! But there’s a corporatocracy behind it that’s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the non-value. And then what’s going to be pushed on us? What’s going to be presented to us?” “It’s this sensorium. It’s spectacle. And it’s a system of control and manipulation,” Reeves continued. “We’re on our knees looking at cave walls and seeing the projections, and we’re not having the chance to look behind us.””
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If Legends fans can rally to hire a fucking plane to try to get a show renewed, we should be able to rally for the things that the people who made that show actually care about.
One of the reasons I love Tala so much is that she cares about EVERYTHING so hard. And what’s going on in Iran is something really personal for her that she’s posting about constantly.
Can we rally for the Iranian women and girls who are dying for their basic human rights, please? The most it costs is a stamp but even just liking the posts on insta would be something. Can we rally for Tala? For Zari?
I have a very small impact on all my social media sites so please share.
(Also nobody should trust Brandon with scissors.)
One of the worst innovations in communication technology is the "read" status feature on messengers. It intensifies the already unhealthy and unreasonable expectation of constant availability that smartphones have created by putting pressure on recipients to respond immediately to messages and instilling hurt feelings or paranoia in senders. It makes it that much easier for controlling or smothering behavior between family members, lovers or even friends. If any technology fosters an erosion of personal boundaries and personal time, it's this absurd feature. Just turn it off.