sammy 🏴‍☠️🏝️🗡️

they/any | enjoyer of film, tv, drag, music

[sammy 🏴‍☠️🏝️🗡️ @sammyrackham]

I’m opening cross stitch commissions! I can use existing patterns, create my own patterns, use photos/art as reference, do text/fonts, any size, any colors! Let your imagination run free!

DM for pricing based on what you want and I’ll charge between $30-$150 (includes shipping)

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

It’s well known Americans hate children but we also hate teenagers and absolutely despise people in their early twenties. In America you’re basically dead past 30 so the only acceptable age to be is 26, which is also coincidentally the worst year of your life.

[🦁 Luka (Voltron TWT) 🌞 @twithesquire]

In honour of Anthony Head here's my favourite pictures of him on set of BBC Merlin in full Uther attire, playing on a pink Nintendo DS

RIP Sir 🕊

[sammy 🏴‍☠️🏝️🗡️ @sammyrackham]

@KestrelDC @emkenobi I think historically the church hates it when people can read

[raq @beatenpuppy21]

you may believe that tom steyer won’t be successful in implementing medicare for all in california, but the private insurance companies believe he will be and that matters a hell of a lot more in my opinion

[Eshan @eshanbuilds]

The babydoll dress Olivia Rodrigo got criticized for has a name. It is called kinderwhore, and it was built in the early 1990s to make the exact argument she just made.

The term was coined in 1993 by music journalist Everett True, combining the German word for child with the English word for whore. The look is specific: childlike babydoll dresses, Peter Pan collars, Mary Janes, paired with smeared red lipstick and dark eye makeup. Innocence and adult sexuality forced into the same frame on purpose.

Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland and Courtney Love of Hole pioneered it. They shared an apartment and a wardrobe in the 1980s before either was famous. In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Love was explicit that the look was built to read as ironic rather than seductive.

The irony was the entire point. A grown woman dressed as a doll, screaming into a microphone, daring the audience to decide whether they were looking at a child or a threat. The discomfort that produced was the art. It made the viewer's own gaze visible to them.

Which is what makes the criticism of Rodrigo so clarifying. Her actual complaint is that a revealing stage outfit was called fine and a fully-covered babydoll dress was called inappropriate, and that the gap between those two reactions says something about who is doing the looking.

That gap is the thesis kinderwhore was built on three decades ago.

When Rodrigo says she felt like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love, she is not reaching for a vague aesthetic. Hanna led the riot grrrl movement and Love built the look beside it, and both spent the early 1990s being told the same things Rodrigo is being told now, by people who thought they were delivering a fresh objection.

The replies calling the dress inappropriate think they are critiquing the aesthetic. They are completing it.

[Dr. Bradley J. Sommer @DrHistoryBrad]

This is what all universities need to start doing, and should have been doing from the get go. AI is antithetical to the entire university project. Bam it, fail students who use it, don’t hire/keep profs who use it, and let’s get back to actually fucking teaching and researching.

[brown recluse truther @Alex_of_Olaphis]

Michaelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" if it was good

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

SPOILER ALERT: It’s the same reason AI writing sucks. AI is pattern-based, which means it disregards outliers then forecasts (or writes) based on what’s statistically probable given the average pattern. You can’t predict extreme weather based on average patterns just as you can’t write amazing prose using something that merely predicts the next average word.

And we’re losing jobs to this. What a wicked world.

[sammy 🏴‍☠️🏝️🗡️ @sammyrackham]

@Logically_JC crazy how i have to pass an exam on the US constitution to become a teacher in california but politicians in DC dont know fucking anything... or they think that we don't know enough to care when they purposefully ignore the constitution. both are bleak to think about

[sammy 🏴‍☠️🏝️🗡️ @sammyrackham]

at least they can do something right!!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar.

• Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars

• Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

[Nateinthewild | Nate Luebbe @nateinthewild]

If u want to defund this ur a little bitch

[Kid Riles @kid_riles]

Take a good look folks.

These are the Minnesota boundary waters. Every Republican senator voted to allow a Chilean billionaire to mine it. The minerals will go to China.

This truly enrages me.
It should you as well.

Fuck, and I mean fuck…
The @GOP 🖕

[sammy 🏴‍☠️🏝️🗡️ @sammyrackham]

@lectersbian @wills_axe Chad Radwell understood the assignment

[Neil Salter @NeilSalter4]

We must rewild on a massive scale while we still can, returning rainforests and ocean ecosystems, to stop the 6th mass extinction and to stop the Earth turning into a Desolate Hothouse, less fossils fuel use has to be backed with winding down animal agriculture and fisheries

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

never underestimate the passion of a single person, how beautiful

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I don't know that words will ever be able to adequately express how insane it feels to sit at a desk and respond to trivial emails while the President of the United States threatens to destroy an entire civilization.

[Raveena @raveena_aurora]

it’s crazy that 95% of people just want a nice normal life on our beautiful, already abundant planet where they can have their basic needs met and cute experiences with their loved ones and then we have these 5% of evil, narcissistic goons at the top fucking it up for all of us

[sammy 🏴‍☠️🏝️🗡️ @sammyrackham]

HELLLLLL YEAH

[Freedom in the Dark fanzine @blacksailszine]

☠️ Interest check now open!

It’s true, pirates: issue 2 of Freedom in the Dark: A Black Sails Fanzine is in the works, to honour the upcoming 10-year anniversary of the series finale in 2027.

🧵

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Iran is doing more to uphold international law than the entire Western Bloc

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

This might surprise younger people but in the ‘90s most of us knew how to read & were culturally literate. You could mention King Arthur or Citizen Kane and everyone knew what you meant. We were capable of writing essays. We had educational TV. We have lost so much, so quickly.