David John Roden

My latest article: "The Good, The Bad and the Grimdark: Why Technological Mastery Precludes Collective Self-Mastery" Out now in Technophany: a journal of philosophy and technology. (link in reply)

'No one wants to be right about this’: Climate change scientists’ horror and exasperation as predictions play out. "It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself." #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Vampyr (1932)

Netherlands pride parade. This is great.

GOTHIC SETTING in Whitby today with @IGA_Goths the abbey ruins, graveyards and cliffs serve as a backdrop for the arrival of Dracula's ship the Demeter which crashes into a harbour during a storm!

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

“Should Max Miller resign?” @Jim_Jordan: “He’s a good man. I’m helping him get re-elected.” @kasie: “He’s accused of throwing boiling water on his ex, held a gun to her head, fractured their daughter’s collarbone…”🤔 JJ: *stammers helplessly as she plays his Platner comments*

🚨 BREAKING: Reacher star Alan Ritchson on Donald Trump: "Where are the Epstein files? It's the law—release them. Are we going to stay silent? That scumbag has the nuclear codes. He's literally chasing 13-year-olds. Throw him in jail."

“Scientists discovered and developed the COVID vaccines that brought the pandemic to an end. It’s the anti-vaxxers, not the scientific community, who should stand indicted in the light of 2026” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…

The legendary Vincent Pastore, co-star of The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.

Almost as horrifying as COVID itself was the bizarre response to measures put in place to keep us alive. A deadly novel virus attacked us, and many people responded by attacking the medical professionals, etc. struggling to protect us. That we’re still doing this is unreal to me.

forgive self- promotion but if you want to read how and when the politicisation of vaccination began in US have a read of the penultimate chapter of my Foreign Bodies : Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations, published in 2023

i just found the BEST photo from artemis ii.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

🎬 Un Chien Andalou (1929, Buñuel)

Dr. Fauci: -Opposed injecting bleach and isopropyl -Opposed ineffectual use of hydroxychloroquine -Opposed using toxic oleander -Opposed bogus use of ivermectin 60 years of medicine usually means you don't have shit for brains and is why real practising physicians support him.

We Europeans struggle to understand how a man with such poor and vulgar language skills could have been elected president by 77 million supposedly intelligent people. How is it possible that a candidate with a history of inflammatory rhetoric, convicted of 34 serious counts of falsifying business records, and repeatedly mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's files, was elected president?.