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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 3h

"Why are you reading horror stories as bedtime stories for your parents"

Because they read me Misery when I was in elementary school :)

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 3h

So I was reading the book aloud as bedtime stories tonight and the flow of Langan's writing is so good for speech that I could read it very quickly without stopping/starting and I ran out of breath! Was not remotely a problem for the last seven books I read aloud. And my mom keeps going "OH NO!"

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 7h

I think you're required to put them down. The flag is holstein patterned though, right? It would have to be.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Sep 2

Devastated today to learn that the middling horror film "10,000 Creepy Crawlies" starring Clancy Brown as the boogeyman summoned by the protagonists to kill the titular monster invasion was actually something I dreamed about a decade ago and not a real movie when I tried to recommend it today

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · Oct 28

You know my horror-loving ass would have been tuning in every week. More info in the quoted thread.

A digital drawing. Somewhere outside in a concrete structure, a girl dressed like a detective hides behind a pillar. In the background, a very sick looking person leans against another pillar. There is blood around the second person's feet and some entrails on the ground nearby. In the background there's water and some green hills. A pink floating robot accompanies the first girl. In the bottom right of the image it says "7PM MONDAYS WALDA" as if to advertise a television show called Walda

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 7h

There was also a radio play spin-off thing that was published on records where you could listen to dialog and stuff but it also did not involve the hole at all. But the album art had all the faces of the main actors. They also reprised all their roles for the reboot.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 7h

The series was rebooted a few years later but the hole wasn't in it anymore. I saw people watching the new one and was like "oh I love this show, where's the hole?" and people didn't know what I was talking about. The reboot cut the entire thing with the hole out but reused 90% of the old jokes.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 7h

I dreamed there was a four-seasons-long comedy sitcom about people who lived in a hotel and their hotel room had a mystery hole in the floor and anyone who fell down was gone forever. They could never get changed to a better room and were bothered by the hole, but it was irrelevant most episodes.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 11h

Sometimes! It totally depends--Shakespeare didn't write very many stage instructions, so this is almost always up to the director. I've seen some Shakespeare stuff with cheap, almost empty sets and some with hyper-detailed ones. It's always fun to see what the director chooses.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 11h

Oh yes!! And this was performed and recorded in Central Park, too iirc

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 12h

You're gonna love it when you do

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 12h

Either they're salty people like him more than them or they've just never been to one of his plays and had the completely natural thought of "god damn, this guy was the best to ever do English."

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krad @kradeelav.com · 13h

There's a UK adult games creator on reddit who's been rejected from 36(!) and counting UK banks and unable to process the earned £90,000. Debanking for adult creators continues to be a real threat.

reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1o5nw74/i_develop_adult_video_games_on_steam_i_cant_find/

From the UKPersonalFinance community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the UKPersonalFinance community

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 14h

You should read poetry often not merely because poetry is is good for you to enjoy and learn from, but because you will be able to spot hacks muscling into that space before they start cranking out dogshit in the literary fiction world. You can be like 5 years ahead of everyone on being a hater.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 17h

It infuriates me that as human-made porn is being increasingly censored across the board, AI porn is not only allowed, but celebrated. And AI porn exists because of stolen content from non-consenting, unpaid human pornographers. It's maddening.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

“I still can’t believe how unhinged the last update was. Not only the nudity but the motions, boobs bounces more realistically, it’s incredible.”

Elon Musk's xAI seems to have relaxed filters on Grok's video generation, allowing users to create and share explicit AI pornography.

Musk's AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: 'Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!'

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

#SaveSpeech

Canadians! The UK is attempting to push their own version of the Online Safety Act onto Canada via the bill S-209!

You need to contact your representatives in parliament and explain how this policy is catastrophically bad! Mention the discord data breach!

youtu.be/Qx_zi1hNTCI?...

UK Pushing Online Safety Act to OTHER Countries

YouTube video by CYBER WAFFLE

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 15h

for the illusion of structure, this will be the opening page of my upcoming book* which is really just a random grouping of paintings that happen to share the same dimensions
*pdf

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 15h

Saw my mom looking at her phone and she adjusted her glasses and said "Locktober..." in a tone that suggested she was trying out the word for the first time and did not know what it meant and my first thought was "oh this must be a @boontavista.com vista episode description"

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 4d

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Phone Numbers
• Stripe (California): +1 888 926 2289 (Say you're based in California before continuing.)
• Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955
• Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815
• Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67
Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 • Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372
Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309
• Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111
• Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113
• Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers for Mastercard Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200
• Visa (US+ Can): +1 (800)-847-2911
• Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa
• PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161
• PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000
PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

I need to live in a perfectly flat neighborhood surrounded by ocean and mountains

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

My dad and dog are watching the game. Dad cautioning the dog, "Don't get so excited about a foul ball!"

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Christine, a Theory Girl @theorygirl-ftw.bsky.social · 1d

💯 Porn addiction is a tool of religious extremists and right-wing authoritarians who are seeking to control both sex and sexuality. Racism and ethnonationalism are inherently part of the concept and often the solution is to find God and save sex for procreating more white babies to save the nation.

⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · 1d

This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

damn i cant believe my diegetic exposition machine is ringing AGAIN

Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 1d

You know, people on TV shows sure do get a whole lot of phone calls relative to how often they happen in real life

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Alison Robin @alisonrobin.com · 1d

My haters can't stand that I brought enough to share and I'm still slurping it all for myself

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