@emirates why is EK201 sitting on the tarmac for over 6 hours?! Deplane the passengers and let them go home.. especially if you're not going to feed them!
“Steven Spielberg said to me, ‘Oh, you’re the director of 'Godzilla Minus One' (2023). I saw it three times,. I couldn’t believe it, because Spielberg is like a god to me, just for what he’s done for the film industry." - Takashi Yamazaki
@stereophobe and @MarcSollinger have a NEW podcast, their first since Archive 81!
It's called 'Conversations with Ghosts' and it's a mix of horror, history, and fun sound design
The first two episodes are out NOW, listen wherever you got your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/show/21fSHPyYG…
Too big to buy at Dubai Airport so will have to shop local when I land but a useful reminder to re-listen to ALL @EmpirePodUK again to get the list of books to add to the pile!
I’ve only slept six hours in the past three days, and that was morphine sleep so it was all sweaty and nightmarish. Plus I’m sick and my heart is compromised. Not to mention cancer and my kidney tx. I’m starting to see and hear things. This is asking a lot of my patchwork body.🙏🏻
As we watch an ascendant fascist theocracy queer people might be tempted by the urge to sanitize how we present ourselves and I'm here to tell you the actual best strategy is to be as mindblowingly gay as you possibly can
Instead of showing me your diversity statement, show me your hiring data, your discrimination claim stats, your salary tables, your retention numbers, your diversity policies, and your leaders’ public actions against racism.
End performative allyship.
When the gleaming moon outside his window announces bedtime, Mitch McConnell curls up on a pile of dead children, tugs the limbs of the smallest all the way up to his chin, and snuggles around his favorite rifle. "Don't worry, Arfy," he whispers. "I'll never let them hurt you."
If Black elders who suffered Jim Crow are still w/us, & Native elders who were robbed of their land & rights are still w/us, & Japanese elders who were forced into Camps are still w/us—why do we pretend the people & systems who committed those atrocities are magically gone?🤔
Some media literacy on trans issues:
1. When a piece about youth transition says "daughters" it's talking about young trans boys in a way that is priming you to dismiss them as silly and emotional and believe they need to be protected from themselves.