if you are "healthy" — which appears to be a function of race, class and the purity of your body, as defined by what you eat and drink — then you cannot be truly sick and you do not need modern medicine.
The Batman animated series Basil Karlo as Clayface with fedora and trenchcoat in the foreground, the shadow of a Bat in the middle ground and the transformed clayface in the background
Small TLD soundtrack update!
yeah, always felt like something a live performance would either leave out or abridge. Or everyone’s drunk at the festival and it floats by. But yes, not compelling.
“worst part”?
Who reads the Iliad like it’s a Tom Clancy novel?
In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
Chernobyl 40th anniversary approaching…
“Make The Expanse more appealing to non-book readers” isn’t something we ever heard, was it?
I take the the color tracking for the weapons doesn’t help this aspect.
rad. Also, what is Right of Way?
because of the Downey Doom casting this is going to be some multiverse weirdness.
I think we all know it’s fantasy and that’s precisely why it works.
It’s a lot of the experience we want at work but don’t always (or never) get.
the article is about him visiting Bezos’s Campfire event some years ago.
archive.ph/Q6TAF
Writer and director Noah Hawley (FARGO etc)
all of this. Bonus points if you’ve had a lot of consequential contact with modern US healthcare and can spot all the good (and bad) things The Pitt puts on display.
It really is like the absolute best parts of ER’s 15 seasons distilled into a bare bones new setting.
Alert issued for a potential mega-quake in northern Japan following a M7.5 tremor that has triggered tsunami. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne...
STC Executel (1984)
White Apple eMac and black keyboard rest on a metal desk colored in wood vinyl. A word document is open and in large text the document reads “Cooper is in the back! Down the hallway, past the library, and to the left 🙂”
this is how we do open house hours at the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social lab
exhibit A humanities matter, specifically German Studies, or Germanistik as it is in Germany.
Unified Germany has, itself, an entire internal dialogue about this topic:
“defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price”
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Photos of the original movie posters for TGE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1956) and John Carpenter’s THE THING
GOT ALL THE THING(S)!!! ☄️✨🛸🚀
7. Cultivate positive self-talk around writing. Writers are REALLY bad about this (I know because I am one). This is HUGE. Have a good relationship with yourself and your work!
"I'm so bad at first drafts." -> "I struggle with first drafts because they're intimidating. But I can do hard things."
most mornings I wake up bleak and it’s all downhill from there. So that checks out. :)
like all great songs, there’s a whole universe hidden in those words. Good stuff.
snake crouching behind a stack of boxes in a dimly lit concrete room. a green light glows above on a surveillance camera.
metal gear solid / psx
konami computer entertainment japan, 1998
it definitely leaned into survival horror more than the following games did. I like both approaches though.
replaying METRO 2033 REDUX — it’s a whole vibe.
Great game.
This is crescent Uranus, as seen by Voyager 2 after its flyby on 24 January 1986.
The Sun is to the left of this scene. This view is not possible from Earth, and no spacecraft has been back to visit the planet since 1986.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS
