While Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are dominating the discourse right now, I just want to take a moment to shout out Raised By Wolves again. The first two episodes are directed by Ridley Scott and the show deals with similar themes of creation, godhood, religion, and AI...
i want everyone who is enjoying Buddy that’s in theaters rn to also support the independent film Mr Crocket (2024) directed by Brandon Epsy. it’s an INCREDIBLYYYY underrated horror movie and it’s a very similar concept.
Grupo de hombres lobo apoyados sobre la tapia de un cementerio. Litografía de Maurice Sand para la obra "Légendes rustiques" de 1858.
La figura del licántropo es de las más antiguas y a la vez recurrentes del folklore europeo. Desde la Prehistoria hasta el cine contemporáneo.
The thing about TITANIC is that everyone saw it. Your friends saw it. Your friends' moms saw it. Your grandma saw it (mine took her pastor!). People were quoting it. It was parodied. The theme song was everywhere. These mega hits today just don't feel like that.
The banana in your kitchen is a sterile mutant that can't reproduce. Every single one is a clone, and nearly the entire global export supply traces back to one plant raised in an English greenhouse in the 1830s.
Wild bananas are stuffed with hard seeds the size of peppercorns. Barely any flesh. Around 7,000 years ago, farmers in New Guinea stumbled on rare mutants carrying three sets of chromosomes instead of two. An odd number can't split evenly during reproduction, so seed-making fails and the plant pours everything into flesh. Those tiny black specks in the middle of your banana are the remains of seeds that never developed.
Perfect fruit, one catch. No seeds means no planting. Growing another one requires cutting a shoot off the base and sticking it in the ground.
A clone.
Back in the 1830s, the Duke of Devonshire's gardener raised one of these plants at Chatsworth House. His family name was Cavendish. Cuttings descended from that greenhouse now make up 99% of bananas exported on Earth, genetically identical from Ecuador to the Philippines.
Identical genes means a fungus that kills one plant kills all of them. And it already happened. Gros Michel, the banana everyone ate before 1960, was wiped out commercially by a soil fungus called Panama disease. The industry quietly swapped in the Cavendish, a lookalike that resisted it, and most shoppers never noticed their banana had been replaced.
A new strain called TR4 kills Cavendish too. No cure exists, the spores survive in soil for decades, and it has spread to more than 20 countries. Late 2025 it reached Ecuador, the world's biggest exporter.
The world already lost its banana once and got handed a body double. The body double is dying the same way.
Así se habla @AfraBlanco
Pedagogía , pedagogía contra los del discurso fácil y torticero
Hay que hacer mucha pedagogía ; esa que está faltando en los programas de TV
Y digo TODOS
Straight men will ejaculate on their male friend's face while he's asleep and then turn around and yell you that a woman is lying about her assault because she's too ugly