✨Esca_F (they/them)

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

this is so fucking dope.

A drawing of six weird eldritch dudes all spiked and looking like they got bad attitudes

Weird dudes from two weeks ago

i picked this up last night and i can’t put it down, it’s so good. holy shit.

Yes. I had grown up meeting where I said flat out that we don’t have enough people in Trust and Safety who understand the mechanics of messy Polycule/ BDSM/ and laterally violent relationships

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Snack time motto

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

One day I will be able to market a project without my country getting bombed. Anyways I don’t have it in me today, sorry. Tell your loved ones how much you love them.

The Metaverse Housing Crisis YouTube video by Default Cheesecake

No one should ever be allowed to forget this. And I mean ALL aspects of it. The pointlessness, the celebrity and media collusion, the financial nihilism and desperation of the populace that fell for it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCg2...

Man, I hate when when you’re sitting there, in a chat, and slurs just walk on in all by themselves like somebody turned on a faucet

he had it for 20 years and he bragged and asked people if they wanted to see “my totenkopf”

just say you love Nazis. the apologism is boring.

Once again, @karnythia.bsky.social was right.

If I have to hear one more CEO say their ai might have achieved consciousness

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Two things can be true about Mike Richardson:

-He was responsible for some major genre hits
AND
-He did not protect staff if they were not a white man and is responsible for a generation of queer and female editors leaving comics rather than continue in a toxic environment

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

Very much agree with this!

Next fest is flooded with demos and having a simple toggle to filter out AI content as Casey says would be great!

Let me give my money to the hard workers, not the lazy button prompt folks!

“The creator of the AI actress has received death threats”

Any queer person or BIPOC existing openly on the internet gets those regularly and it never makes news. When we report the threats, we’re told no ToS were breached. Fuck her and fuck her grift.

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

It's day 93 of the ICE occupation of MN.

Minnesotans are not generally people who engage in long hugs, but the last 3 months have changed that.

The hugs now are long and meaningful, whether between old friends or people who just met responding to ICE calls.

Our love for community keeps us safe.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Just fucking support local music

Don’t let them take silly away from you