Doris V. Sutherland

Don't go out like that love, you'll catch your death

When you're not even imaginative enough to be a proper crank.

When I was a student, I remember predicting that Labour and the Tories would be replaced by the Greens and BNP as the two main parties.
Few years later I looked back and thought "that was a stupid thing to say"
Now it's happening

Werewolf Wednesday: Samuel Humphreys on Biblical Lycanthropy (1739) The third volume of Samuel Humphreys’s The Sacred Books of the New Testament, Recited at Large: and Illustrated with Critical and Explanatory Annotations was published in 1739. Included withi…

Does lycanthropy appear in the Bible? This 18th-century scholar says yes!
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amazing cover for a fascinating moment in time. the advent of containerisation famously ended the London Docklands as actual docks (because container ships are incredibly big and wouldn't be able to travel up the Thames)

Hooooooly

product images of ROVER ROBIN uncovers BLOODY ANTLERS doom zone compact playset

I'm so glad Mighty Max is back. of the new sets available I've grabbed the celtic deer head but it's not HERE yet and I'm losin my marbles

PEOPLE/WH_BK.GIF

Comic strip "The Astronits." Girl alien Vif asked girl alien Adx how to look prettier, and Adx suggest drawing a mole on her cheek. Vif draws a mole, the animal, on her face and gets lots of attention. This strip takes place on an alien planet, so how do they know about Earth moles?

"The Astronits" by Pat Anderson, 1970-1977
February 5th, 1970 as seen in the Cook Inlet Courier

“Galveston,” interrupted the Time Traveler. “The Space Needle. Bank of America Plaza in Dallas. Renaissance Tower in Dallas. Bank One Center in Dallas. The Indianapolis 500 – one hour and twenty-three minutes into the race. The Bell South Building in Atlanta. The TransAmerica Pyramid in San Francisco . . .” “Stop,” I said. “Just stop.” “The Golden Gate Bridge,” persisted the Time Traveler. “The Guggenheim in Bilbao. The New Reichstag in Berlin. Albert Hall. Saint Paul’s Cathedral . . .” “Shut the fuck up!” I shouted. “All these places can’t disappear in the rest of this century, your goddamned Century War or not! I don’t believe it.” “I didn’t say in the rest of your century,” said the Time Traveler, his torn voice almost a whisper now. “I’m talking about your next fifteen years. And I’ve barely begun.”

Plus this story from 2006, with its impressively inaccurate prediction of terrorist atrocities being carried out between then and 2021

Surprised Disney let them get away with that

His 2009 short story “The Time Traveler” depicted a dystopian future where Islamic extremism had conquered Europe. The story was controversial, with critics accusing Simmons of Islamophobia. His blog posts and public statements on climate change skepticism further alienated him from a genre community that had become increasingly progressive.

JDA's substack has an obituary, and I'm genuinely wondering if it was written by AI. Note that the story being described here wasn't from 2009 and wasn't called "The Time Traveler".

Fixed

That argument exists because the lives of non-white people are cheap in imperial discourse. Mass death on the other side of the world has no reality outside of what space it takes up on the american tv news cycle. If it were otherwise, the old normal would have been as insupportable as the new

Movie Month February: Laurence Olivier Every week this month, I watched a film featuring Laurence Olivier in either a starring or supporting role… Hamlet (dir. Laurence Olivier, 1948) Hamlet wasn’t the first of the Shakespea…

I'm still keeping up my "watch a themed film every week" deal. This month, the theme was Laurence Olivier:
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Screenshot of a transphobic substack. Heading: "connecting the dots". Below is an AI image showing a kid playing a video game, a kid staring at stars through a door, and a ripoff of the Poltergeist poster. Hooded ghosts, anime girls and an lgbtq flag float around.

Finally, someone's connected the dots between video games, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, melty-faced anime girls, the DIC ident, LGBTQ rights, and the kid from Poltergeist

What a pig-headed bloke

Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang

Serialized comic strip "Star Wars," a continuation of the film of the same name. The first part of the "Princess Leia, Imperial Servant" storyline, Princess Leia and a man named Hume are on a rebel ship, low on fuel, floating through Imperial space. A Star Destroyer that happens to carrying Darth Vader arrives, detecting the ship.

"Star Wars" by Russ Helm and Russ Manning, 1979-1984
November 6th, 1979 as seen in the Idaho Statesman

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Richard Shaver's Detrimental Robots.

Single panel comic strip "Proven Proverbs." A fine dressed man approaches two other men arguing in the street. Caption reads: "Fools and willful men make rich lawyers."

"Proven Proverbs" by Bill Zaboly and William Davy, 1962-1963
August 15th, 1962 as seen in the Cleveland Press

Struggling to compose a tribute to Rob Grant, and next door suddenly start doing a loud, out-of-tune karaoke version of All That She Wants.

The sheer ludicrousness of that is perhaps something he might have enjoyed.

They're saying what we're all thinking

Describe your favorite game poorly

There's a dude who can only walk around really slowly, and you have to block him in so he can't move at all. Optional sidequest: make a weird little guy walk to the other end of the room so he becomes a Queen

How do you make a Danish pastry?

Pour poison down his ear

Dead End House by Bryan Smith (2024 Splatterpunk Awards) In the town of Elkmont lies Dead End House, a Victorian manor that played host to several murders, became a magnet for local legends, and is a favourite subject for children’s Halloween-time dares.…

My latest #SplatterpunkAwards review: Bryan Smith's Dead End House...
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I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so.

Hey JK, Kansas just revoked every trans person's driving license, so if you ever intend to live up to this promise now would be as good a time as any

Robert Eggers

The birth of Robert Eggers