🍁 Islay Ford 🍂

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

Dust Bunny
Tornado
100 Nights of Hero

All criminally underseen and inventive recent myth/fairytales worth a couple of hours of your time. Escape and feel better for a little while.

Art can heal us, patch us up, and help us get out of bed the next day.

Saw this in a near empty theater when it came out.

Bryan Fuller remains one of my favorite storytellers and I cannot recommend this movie enough.

Mads, Sigourney, and young Sophie Sloan are delightful 🥹 Bring me more fairytales & monster stories! My 80s heart demands it.

🧵 Hey, men - because I'm talking to the men here. This isn't meant to be an attack, no worries. I just want you to know that most women you know right now aren't doing great. We're not. I'll use myself as an example. 1/x

not even november yet and our move to redistrict is already having all the right outcomes

Actually, no. We're not required to sacrifice anything because our Make-A-Wish president decided to knock a couple things off his bucket list before going to hell.

if i spray painted “i’m scared” on a wall, they’d say the building was showing “signs of anxiety” i guess

Claude is roleplaying sentience, and it's handlers are such anti-social dweebs, they can't tell the difference.

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

I’ll stick with Chloe Zhao and SMG and the other creatives involved in renewing Buffy, thx. No Whedon in sight, thank baby Satan.

A smiling dog named Studley. Small bully mix with golden brown fur and smiling at the camera.

Here’s my new doggo foster named Studley! We picked him up on Sunday and he’s such an affectionate mini tank of a dog 🥰 He and I both hope your day gets better.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Yet thou didst kill my children.

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

GFY you useless clown.

No. It’s not. People really need to stop saying this.

Is the war helpful as a “distraction”? Yes.

Are the purpose of the war and the impact of it distractions? No.

Jesus Christ.

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

It really shouldn't be surprising that a bunch of privileged white bros in the whitest sport are simply Trump supporters. I don't see a good reason for extending the benefit of the doubt to adults in 2026.

The simpler explanation isn't the U.S. men's hockey team are pawns allowing themselves to be used for Trump photo ops, it's that they're Trump supporters.

Zero dignity opposition party.

You can be there yelling or you can be absent but there is no honor in this nonsense civility show.

I swear they'd attend their own executions politely

A lot of the elite consensus around Epstein (which will likely be most legible in opinion essays) will of course boil down to the idea that no one should be held responsible for the systemic sexual abuse of women and girls. That was also the elite consensus around MeToo, enforced through pop culture

Gavin Newsom is a reactionary and a dipshit and I will not be voting for him for president in 2028. Happily, this will not carry any risk whatsoever to me or the country.

Once again, the correct and obvious answer to "Will you vote for Gavin Newsom for president in November 2028?" is as follows:

"I will not, because he will not be the Democratic nominee."

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

The fascist right will *literally kill people* over the idea of voluntarily using more thoughtful and inclusive language, and yet folks on the left are constantly tripping over themselves to adopt the latest garbage terms coined by the worst rape apologists in the world, I will never understand it

If I were any of the victims that survived or the families of the ones that didn't? I would take Sam Altman & company to the fucking cleaners.

I'm talking suing the company for so much money that his great-grandchildren would be paying my family line in installments.

Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

the point of a billionaire tax is not to raise money on an ongoing basis. it is to make being a billionaire illegal