Sin Blaché ♣️

If you look at these men and think "that's what a genius looks like, I gotta give this guy all the money that has ever existed in the hopes that they build Roko's Basilisk and it rewards me for my unwavering faith in The Basilisk" then I'm sorry but you have the brain of a baby penguin

Escape From New York (1981) Director John Carpenter

People can debate AI all they like, but surely we can all agree that anyone who owns or uses a pair of the pervert glasses that secretly record people should be ostracised immediately and totally from our society? I'm sorry but your pervert glasses prove you're a pervert! Get out of town!

Millennialists scribbling IF YOU CAN READ THIS THE APOCALYPSE IS HAPPENING on a wall and then pointing at it with their mouths agape.

Prophet by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blache. Two figures next to a car with red and green lights streaming up to the sky

I LOVED this book by @sinblache.bsky.social & @hjm.bsky.social.
Completely blew me away!

A wild, conceptual, queer sci-fi about an unlikely duo, a rowdy British-Indian with uncanny abilities and a quiet spy assassin, who are sent to investigate a series of bizarre events.

Utterly brilliant 📚💙

Thrilled you enjoyed!

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

the long 2003, they're calling it

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The universal writer experience is catching a single grammatical error after something's already been sent off, and seriously considering walking into traffic about it.

that's my secret, cap. I'm always just a little shitty

A new phrase I got to hear tonight. "If you don't want people to ask you to make tea, learn to make really fucking terrible tea".
This wisdom was swiftly followed by the following statement: "You got really good at making the tea nobody else wants to make."

🏳️‍⚧️💕

Welp. Seems like it's a good day to highlight trans books. I'll do this off and on all day, no idea how long the thread will eventually be. And if you need any trans book recommendations, post in here and I'll point you toward people who might know if I don't since I mostly do romantasy.

I wanted to move to topamirate a while ago, and they wouldn't let me (for really good reasons. I'm not mad) so it's very good news that he was already there in that place without you having to fight. I'm sorry you had to do the LP though. They SUCK so much.

all time photo editor performance

that is also what I YELLED

BAFTA didn't even SPEAK to them after it happened???

This story is bonkers, from the *immediate* consideration of the swearer’s feelings above all to the fact that they didn’t edit it out but did edit out a “free Palestine” prior to broadcast. The layers

sorry i can't go to that thing tonight. yeah im gonna be busy taking poison damage and cycling through the same three grunting sound effects. yeah.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I'm so glad I got to be in Dublin the day it falls into the sea and floats away.

I recommend that everyone apply if they're eligible. There is literally no sense in any of us suffering and struggling. I hope this kickstarts other places doing the same, and that it becomes bigger and better.

I don’t keep up with explosive technology, so learning about these new bombs is giving me the same feeling as learning about Hiroshima as a child. Deep, deep sadness that we are capable of such things. Both kinds of weapons killing so utterly that there’s nothing left to grieve.

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

haha say sike

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

can’t not hear and see:

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”