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IMAX UPLOADED THE MUMMY TRAILER WITH HALF THE AUDIO CHANNELS MISSING AND CREATED 40 SECONDS OF UNDILUTED COMEDIC PERFECTION

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Wizard spelling bee

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Solaris 8 (2000)

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this wouldn't leave my brain

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Seeing Yoko Ono slander on Facebook >_<#

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Daring Fireball this week: "Erm actually it's unprofessional to protest your company's complicity in genocide at work. And what's worse, I think you look silly doing it."

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a wikipedia poem on software entropy

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there's a public consultation on sunak's stupid ''no more sick leave work yourselves to death'' idea which closes 8th July 2024.

uk people you know the drill: polite but firm about how this is economically and socially a stupid fucking idea

non uk people please share for visibility

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Hi! #portfolioday

I'm an illustrator from Portugal, most known for my fan art prints and indie game/TTRPG/record covers.

Currently busy but possibly able to book from summer onwards.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

The Times memo outlines guidance on a range of phrases and terms. “The nature of the conflict has led to inflammatory language and incendiary accusations on all sides. We should be very cautious about using such language, even in quotations. Our goal is to provide clear, accurate information, and heated language can often obscure rather than clarify the fact,” the memo says. “Words like ‘slaughter,’ ‘massacre’ and ‘carnage’ often convey more emotion than information. Think hard before using them in our own voice,” according to the memo. “Can we articulate why we are applying those words to one particular situation and not another? As always, we should focus on clarity and precision — describe what happened rather than using a label.” Despite the memo’s framing as an effort to not employ incendiary language to describe killings “on all sides,” in the Times reporting on the Gaza war, such language has been used repeatedly to describe attacks against Israelis by Palestinians and almost never in the case of Israel’s large-scale killing of Palestinians.

End your New York Times subscription

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one thing that's hard about shopping for men's clothes is like. yeah okay we know everything just looks like a burlap sack. just the exact same silhouette over and over. only six colors are allowed, and they're black, grey, khaki, olive green, navy, and white. but all that's a given.

no, the hard part about shopping for men's clothes is that the stuff that doesn't look like a burlap sack always has a Very Specific Vibe. so if you can find your way out of burlapville, everything feels like it belongs on a specific category of dude that I am not.

"fashionable" men's clothing is just: military chic. cowboy.* definitely cultural appropriation. not technically cultural appropriation but it's close enough that it's at least a little weird. extremely goth. I don't know what this style is called but everyone who dresses like this is a doucbebag. another subculture I don't belong to. and so on.

and just where is the gay section? FASHIONABLE GAYS WHERE DO YOU SHOP THAT DOESN'T COST $200 HELP NONE OF MY CLOTHES FIT AND I CAN’T KEEP DOING BURLAP

*accidentally typed "cowbot" and actually I'd like to know more about that subgenre of style

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minor complaint but why are mens clothes so boring. i hate the way most womens clothing feels and looks on me but its all that ever looks mildly interesting. give the mens section more pastels. everytime i walk into the mens section i feel so sad its all soulless. why arent men allowed to wear colors.

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really truly mens fashion rn is just national park youve never been to tshirt band you don't listen to tshirt tshirt with the joker on it tshirt with naruto and japanese text that is probably just the characters name or like a takeout menu on it tshirt that says like "im a PROUD ASSHOLE and i LOVE COPS" or button ups in 5 different muted colors. and pants that fuck hard but do not fit if you don't have an ass flat enough for somebody to put a sheet of paper on and use as a clipboard in a pinch.

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My favorite thing about mid-century sewing patterns is that the go-to method of showing off different styles/cuts of a pattern was apparently “plausible-deniability homoeroticism”