Thank you.
Absolutely necessary to treat MAGA and Trumpism as a cult.
The way Stalin , Ceausescu and Putin cultivate it.

‘I Hadn’t Anticipated Developing Empathy for Them, But You Can See How the Conspirituality Belief System Also Serves as a Set of Coping Mechanisms’ Byline Times’ Editor in Chief speaks to director Liz Smith and writer Noelle Cook about their journey into the world of ‘conspirituality’ for a new documentary shedding light on the women attracted to...

"Trump could leave today and this doesn't change – because it became a community, and then it's people's identities"

My fascinating interview with @noellecook.com and Liz Smith on their film 'The Conspiracists' – following why women attracted to MAGA and 'conspirituality' believe what they do 👇

We filed suit against the Trump administration (again) today to block the implementation of an unlawful executive order that seeks to undermine inclusion & equal opportunity, threatens government contractors w/ criminal prosecution, & chills protected speech.

These are not normal times.

"We all wish was something from the past, but this data shows that it still has a very important impact on our hospitals," said Mélanie Josée Davidson of the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Andrew Vaughan/ The Canadian Press file photo

Hospitalizations for COVID and other preventable illnesses have soared. Researchers are worried www.thestar.com/news/canada/hospitalizat... @thestar.com

COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden

"COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden."

"People vaccinated against COVID in Germany in 2023 experienced reduced hospitalization rates, fewer long-COVID diagnoses, and lower all-cause mortality than those who weren't vaccinated, according to a new study"

Ex-Marvel Studios artists speak out on Disney layoffs and possible AI use in the MCU Former Marvel artists discuss the impact of the Visual Development team's layoff on the MCU's future and whether it was all to benefit AI.

Y’all, disney will replace its human artists with AI and reap even more profit.

Support live music, live theater, live art. Fuck AI and the evil bastards using it to destroy creativity for a fucking profit.

www.polygon.com/marvel-studi...

I mean, because they keep saying we'll fire everyone in their internal memos and are firing everyone in their public actions.

An anonymous Marvel Studios visual development team member claims that AI was used for some #MCU projects:

“I don’t know if Marvel ever declared that… but the other teams that would come in, like the art departments & stuff, or the costume designers. They were already using it.”

(via Polygon)

Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."

Charisma isn’t important enough as some people think, because the dullest awful people keep getting loads of money and a huge following.

I thought they made a whole plot point in the first Minions movie about how they served Napolean and then went into hiding until the 1960s in order to avoid some pretty uncomfortable questions.

(moviegoer attending latest Minions movie) I wish I was entering a suicide booth instead

The movie ends when an Austrian art student sends them into another dimension

Okay sorry to be up to date on Minion Lore but this wouldnt be possible. The Minions are nomadic single cell organisms that all travel in a single, large pack, and for 156 years, from 1812 to 1968, they were all in the Arctic, couped up in a cage. Unless if they retcon smth idk.

I see illumination has stopped being cowards

Cthulhu??

everyone knows they were stuck in an ice cave since the napoleonic wars and get out in time to serve pol pot.

Plot Twist:

They end up serving the guys who wanted to overthrow FDR during the Business Plot.

1920s provides JUST enough wiggle room for their exile before the 30s

r/mildlyinfuriating u/MySchoolsWifiSucks • 5h College Art Teacher wants Al Generated Content. Overdone I currently take an online art history class-Introduction to Art. I'd suspected in the past that the teacher uses Al for assignments with how how they're structured, how text is formatted, incorrect information, and incorrect dates. On top of that, each unit we have to talk to an Al about the Unit content. Now, for our next assignment-due in about 3 hours-the teacher wants us to generate Al art and have a discussion about said "artworks". This is a genuine, actual interpretation of machine-created art, not discussing the consequences of Al on the art landscape, not in a satirical sense, this is an actual genuine evaluation of slop. And even if it harms my grade... I'm not fucking doing it. It goes against my own fundamentals and values, both as a human and an aspiring artist. 398 • 108 3

*mildly* infuriating?

Preserved orchids show pollination has fallen 60% since the 1970s Orchids aren’t just beautiful or rare – they’re ecological time capsules that offer clues to the long-term health of ecosystems.

Research using Australian herbarium specimens shows orchid pollination has fallen 60% since the 1970s.

The “declines in pollination are most pronounced in orchids that rely on specialised pollinator interactions”

#orchids #nativeplants #pollinator #conservation

theconversation.com/preserved-or...

Who let this legal pervert in

I bet in some Alien species in another part of the Galaxy, that could work, have you heard of Siphonophores?

Somebody out there should base an extraterrestrial species on at least some of their biology.

The world has moved on from COVID. The risk hasn’t. An epidemiologist explains what the evidence says about when the next pandemic might happen — and why the risk isn’t declining

"Because the conditions that produced COVID‑19 haven’t disappeared..."

- and actually neither has #COVID.

@profesterman.bsky.social
Via @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social

medium.com/@adrian.este...

Sibil.la Catalana YouTube video by Jordi Savall - Topic

And another version!
youtu.be/5bXoYbKusLI

Chant de la Sybille Occitaine “Ell jorn del judizi” – Anonymous YouTube video by Jordi Savall - Topic

I don’t care that much about Authenticity in Music, since I prioritize performance-the Voice IS an Instrument, after all.

Thankfully, this is a pretty good “Authentic/Academic” version of Song of the Sybil.
youtu.be/it5kN-UgXjI

You don’t get to talk shit about and against real Artists and Writers for years, then lecture to them about tone when it comes to talking to Leftists that bought into the LLM/AI scam.

Chris Rufo was also getting paid by Hungary.

I don't think that the Past was doing its best.

"The mixed race question" is not just saying the quiet part out loud, it's screaming it.