4 Screenshots from the movie "The Fog" (1980): First, an older man in a sailor's cap sits by a campfire on a beach at night, telling a story to children seated around the fire; subtitle reads, "One hundred years ago, on the 21st of April...". Second, the same scene continues with the fire casting dramatic shadows on the storyteller’s face and subtitle reads, "out on the waters around Spivey Point...". Third, the fire burns brightly in the center as the man gestures while speaking; subtitle reads, "a small clipper ship drew toward land." Fourth, a close-up of the man’s face illuminated by the firelight as he stares intensely; subtitle reads, "Suddenly, out of the night, the fog rolled in."

Apr 21st 1880 - On this foggy night the Elizabeth Dane steered off course and crashed into rocks. 100 years later the crew returned.

📽️📅 The Fog (1980)

Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing “We at Fisher-Price have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. T...

"The new See ’N Say Friend or Foe Threat Classifier. 'The cow says: HOSTILE. The duck says: NEUTRALIZED. The sheep says: COORDINATES CONFIRMED. The horse says: REDACTED.'"

And as we build new institutions in the coming years, as we must, we can prioritize blurring the distinction that academia built up like a plaque between learning and the world. And then you won’t be outside at all.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

they should summon the Irish regulators of X while they're at it. negligent isn't the word

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

Heads up: Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch Book 1), by @annleckie.com, is on US Kindle sale for $3; I got some for random giveaway.

Pigeons said fuck your spikes. 🪶

There ya go @niamhkirk.bsky.social

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired I don't mean I want to sleep. I mean I want to disappear for a while. To be rain on a stranger's roof. To be smoke rising from someone else's fire. I don't want to die. But I do want to rest in a way the world has never allowed me. I don't want comfort. I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved.

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté

"I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved."

We simply, as a species, have to band together and and ensure that anyone who wears these glasses is looked upon as a desperate predatory nonce. It should be considered as weird as walking down the street wearing a Fleshlight.

And those of you who pave over your front gardens and put fake grass on your back gardens, a curse on you. Nature is beautiful not messy.

Yeah, ZERO shade to the good 'uns (NOT looking at YOU, Dim Cain), but Reeve was just as excellent a person in real life as his character was on the screen.

This is amazing and it does make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. We've all heard plenty of dead men's voices but this is *Robert* *Johnson*.

Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas not only recorded an anthem for the civil rights era – they fought for fair pay and proudly called themselves divas Classic songs ‘Nowhere to Run’ and ‘Dancing in the Street’ captured the revolutionary spirit of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

God says 'Meatier'

HARRIS TITTIER

My ma is getting frustrated with Dementia Dad. In full bicker mode over the Strategic Cereal Reserve, she just spat out "Not Aldi! Harris Tittier!" and I could not break.

I left the room.

Probably just a coincidence that there’s a shortage of rich people near there.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

The time William Holden almost killed Warren Oates while filming the train heist in The Wild Bunch*

*Excerpt from W.K. Stratton's excellent book on the making of The Wild Bunch

Nine Inch Noize and Reinventing Your Old Stuff The talk of the town this past week has been the blistering Coachella set which Nine Inch Noize put on. A hybrid project of Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize, birthed from their tour together last year, ...

New on Stuckness: THAT Nine Inch Noize Coachella set, the import of reworking your old material, what happened when Front 242 did something similar, and how weird it is that a 60 year old is singing about heresy in an evangelical age.

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An UWS Bee Distribution: ‘A Shoe Box of 12,000 Flying, Singing, Venomous Creatures’ Andrew Coté distributing bees outside his UWS shop, Andrew's Honey, last Friday. Photos by Scott Etkin By Scott Etkin At

“bees are sold by weight, like cheese or cocaine.” (via @thecity.nyc)

I feel so absolutely justified in my yeeaars long TV crush on Wyle

People find it difficult to visualise the size of the solar system but I find this helps: if you imagine the Earth is the size of a ping pong ball you are wrong. It's much bigger.

The US military is a parasite that will kill its host.

The Dublin Inquirer is a marvel by the way. You'll learn far more about the realities of life in this country from it than you will from many much larger media outlets.
Long may they inquire, expose and explain.