Joe Stanley

Sunset at Glastonbury Tor.

Halloween Radio: The Peoria Plague I try to plug this fun and very creepy play every Halloween season. A mix of Orson Welles' War of the World's broadcast and Night of the Living Dead, it's a zombie outbreak played straight by local talent on the very real radio staton WHUN (now WSWT). A favorite!

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

LOOK WHO'S BACK

[flustered costanza voice] george is walkin' away from omelas!!!

NATHAN FIELDER: So now that you’ve seen it, can you tell me what was funny about that bit? ELIZABETH HOLMES: *smiling like the Smile Demon from the Smile horror movie series* The guy took a really long time to describe what his family’s act was

This is a war crime, and specifically forbidden in the Geneva Convention.

Like, to have a meaningful debate, you require at least two participants who: - know a lot about the subject - have some common values about the purpose of the debate - hold conflicting positions on the subject - but do not hold those positions particularly strongly

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AS A: Employee I WANT TO: Not use this software but I have to SO THAT: I don't get fired ---------------- The enterprise SaaS user story

Continuing my Betty Gilpin praise. She is a conventionally attractive actor who has consistently chosen the weirdest roles and I will forever cherish her for that fact. She described playing Mary Todd Lincoln as being a Yorkie on cocaine that was to go on as Hamlet’s understudy at the Coliseum!

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

This year marks another spectacular Garden Glow at Maymont. This august institution is in the autumn of their celebration of 100 years of being open to the public. I went to the preview the night before it opened in earnest.

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

gasoline is cocaine for trucks

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

Cover art I made for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires. Available to pre-order from Mercurio Books

I know You Can See Everything hits crazy because half of my mutuals letterboxd reviews are just like "What does it mean to lie? Who are we but the sum of our actions?" like characters in a Mamoru Oshii movie

malcolm gladwell has been a dipshit for 10,000 hours

can't they just say donald faison

Doing the lords work

The problem with most articulations of just, equitable, and pluralistic alternative futures for societies or organizations, like Escobar's Designs for the Pluriverse, is that they lack defensive strategies. You have to be ready for when private equity/fascism etc. come calling, because they will.

This is literally just the plot for the movie Alien

nice to see an attempt to exhibit the sheer amount of computation taking place!

What can you say? This was the definite winner they will never top. Also one of the best things I've seen at any PRGE #PRGE #PRGE2026

(at a bar trying to join a strangers conversation) the bar across the street is actually better. there’s not even that many nazis

(DMing a mutual) Hey man I'm imagining Dracula saying your latest post and it's freaking me out. Could you possibly delete it

Daily bunny is not returning their cart

I am feeling attacked

The Gen Z kids at work when I do something cool