Screenshot of Joker and Batman from the Adam West Batman series surfing. Joker says "Cowabunga, Bat-Drip! As surfers go, it looks like you're all wet! Ahahaha!", to which Batman replies "Shut the fuck up! Fuck you!"
JUST LEAVE ME BEHIND ❤️
it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth
“Al can only execute shallow imitations of the humanity we naturally inhabit.”
Anyone who has worked in a creative job knows about managers who slow down projects and grind morale into dust with constant pointless revisions to work that's completely fine to make themselves feel important, but as of about two years ago they suddenly forgot how they were so 'detail orientated'.
Again my thesis is the great divide in politics is being driven by positive emotions and negative ones, and the coalition of the loving needs to win .
This is the truest thing ever. “Activists going too far” is the cry of anyone who finds themselves or considers themselves a “fair, reasonable and balanced” person more than someone concerned with literal human dignity and rights.
The thing that annoys me the most is they will argue this devoid of any actual context. The anti-trans side spent years making bomb threats against children's hospitals, gay bars, and LGBTQ community centers. They call LGBTQ people groomers and pedophiles. They mocked trans teen's suicides.
When all is said and done, let it be remembered that the ones that fought against the trans community hardest were a bunch of warmongering, sex trafficking, racist pedophiles.
Norway only changed the sterilisation rules in 2016. The current hospital leadership – at the state monopoly for treatment – still seems, as per their latest public statements, mournful it ever got changed.
Yeah, the compelling parts of the language analysis and the weird timelines are overshadowed by bizarrely naive ideas about technology and a lot of assumptions. He may well be right, but he’s not making a good case for it.
I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits
I believe they used some Tiny Grotesk for the Eberhardt Brucks exhibition from a year ago, though I never saw any of it myself sadly.
If you’re browsing newer items too, you might even find one of mine ❤️
Sure she’s horrifying but the most likely alternative course for her life would be running an orphanage savagely for the love of the game, so maybe it’s best she’s a thought leader
if you're morbidly curious, here's the context - it's basically great replacement + race & iq stuff
(elon is very overtly a believer in both)
One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.
One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.
I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine
I’m always working on new things, new fonts, new articles. I’m updating multiple websites and working for clients, so some things take time, but I am trying to be more active with my Patreon now. Next up will be a guest article about the weird comfort of zombie movies.
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Third is the case study for Tiny Grotesk, which goes in depth on the whats and whys, and hopefully educates and excites – because I think this release, while conventional-looking to many, does do a lot of fun new things ☞ tinytype.co/news/2024/de...
The second is an updated, complete release of my widest-ranging type design project to date. A sans-serif that straddles 500 years of type design history, multiple sizes, and multiple widths, all wrapped into a tiny package ☞ tinytype.co/type/tiny-gr...
I’m neck-deep in production on a lot of things right now, but I want to point to some things I’ve finished more recently that I believe deserve a wider audience. The first is a short essay about tech optimism, on my new blog ☞ www.veryzine.zone/2026/baymax-...
There was a burglar named Basil Banghart a hundred or so years ago, a crazy name for one crazy-sounding mutherfucker. He described indeterminate prison sentences thus: If you tell me to pick up a big rock and carry it, and I say, 'Where to?' and you say, 'To that pile over there,' and the pile is a mile, or two miles, or five miles away, and I say, 'And then can I put it down?' and you say, 'Yes,' I can pick it up and carry it. But if I say, 'Where to?' and you say, 'Until I tell you you can put it down,' why, I can't budge it.
That resembles your situation a little, no? Imagine if I told you — and believe me, I wish I could — that you only have to keep living this way for another week, or a month, or even a whole year. You might not like the information, especially if I could only promise you relief a year from now, but it would still represent an endpoint. You'd have a direction to travel in, days to tally on the wall. You could most likely square your shoulders and accept the burden of one very shitty year. What you're being asked to do right now, it seems to me, is accept a burden of indeterminately many shitty days. You're working towards a goal you can't even see. That, more than the specific (and considerable!) pains that plague you, strikes me as unbearable. So if you can't just take the path of least resistance and move back home, how can we slap an endpoint on this blue period? Even a distant one?
‘dear rax, i’m broke, in recovery — and falling apart’
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This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you
thebookseller ig account saying NEWS: some editors uploading confidential manuscripts to ChatGPT to read quickly, agent claims
the guardian: I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche
the walrus bsky account: Authors are using AI. Publishers know it. And now, says publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, authors are being forced to lie about it. One cancelled horror novel didn’t just end a career—it exposed an industry-wide reckoning.
idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!
Pumpkin hoop
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
this is what actual literature discourse is like now
a good rule of thumb for moving through the world is if anyone calls themselves an "influencer" or "creator" they are about to tell you something insanely fucking stupid
FRANCE: we're fancy
WORLD: ok
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch
WORLD:
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife