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Currently reading Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser

The thesis of the book is basically that environmental pollution, particularly lead, might be the thing that caused so many serial killers to pop up during the period of the late '60s to the late '70s. Only half way through it so far, and not quite convinced by the theory yet. Although it's indisputable that such pollution can damage brains to a severe degree, I'm just not sure how you get from "damaged" to "I'd better serial kill some women". Random violence and anger management issues, sure. But the highly specific and MO-driven criminality of serials killers seems like something else entirely. We'll see what evidence comes in later chapters!

That any government or public figure would subject the public to X's cesspool in order to contact or keep up with them is as fucked up as the platform itself. It'd be less fucked up to paste government news bulletins onto the walls of a crackhouse.

I think I blocked a couple of accounts years ago that were just reposting ancient memes from reddit in bot-like numbers. But it seems like the majority of content here falls under that category, so blocking seems futile. Can't even use downvoting to correct the issue because our votes aren't private/anonymous here and I don't need a large account seeing that I downvote their content every time I come across it. It would have to feel personal at that point 😆

I don't mind big accounts in principle, I just don't want to see memes from 2018 being reposted every day with the same titles, and for there to be no other content from those accounts.

A brave man and a necessary conversation about the casual shaming of people's genitalia.

Something went wrong, just wish we knew what.

I'll be curious to see how the OP OP's machine is doing a few weeks from now, and if the error pops up again.

Lookin' like Vic Mackey's stunt dummy.

Whatever replaces Tenor needs to allow for more specificity in searching. If I search "lemur" and I see 3 orangutans, a chimp and a 12 gibbons, and maybe 1 actual lemur, I'm still happy to have simians, but I really needed a lemur, man. I was quite fucking specific in my search term. Had I written "monkey" but it showed me a series of apes, I wouldn't mind that so much.

Also, "cat on skateboard" has fuck all to do with a poorly staged video of a dog playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with a set of gaming bongos. Again, glad to see it, but where's my skateboarding cat??

I think Morgan Freeman is his painting of Dorian Gray. That poor fucker was born looking like an 80-year-old man.

I had a hilarious dream just last night! Remember recently when Quentin Tarantino was talking shit about the acting skills of Paul Dano? I dreamt that Paul was in a new movie, and was acting hard, like, really giving it insane levels of energy, and after every line he delivered he'd glance at the camera with an expression of exasperation on his face, as if to say "is THAT good enough for you, ya cunt??" directly to Tarantino.

Some early shock/gore site discussion below, spoilered in case you don't wanna read about such things.

When the internet was first introduced to me in around '97 or so, in IT class in high school, the only thing I really did was look for URLs on products around the class or in my pockets. For example, Pepsi had a website, Peperami had one too. I also created an email account on Hotmail.com, and I believe we did some chat room stuff in IRC or ICQ or one of those things.

One day during a lunch break at the same school, I looked up porn and actually found some, although I have no memory of what the site was called. I got scared though, and closed the browser as soon as I saw nudey ladies. I'm sure the teacher checked the browsing history (something I had no idea about back then) and saw what I was looking at, but he never said anything to me about it. Legend 🫡

That book is filled with rape, genocide and lots (and I mean LOTS) of genital mutilation. I don't know why they'd want kids reading it. Especially when the people forcing it on students are the same ones trying to ban books about being kind to gay people.

I'm sure the obvious picks are already mentioned, so I'll try to think of some stuff that might not be well-known:

Shane Meadows has produced 2 TV series worth watching. One is the This is England collection. It starts with This is England (2006), which is a film, then 3 miniseries (This is England '86, This is England '88 and This is England '90) that continue the story. All of it together is about as good as TV gets. Might wanna check for triggers before watching on something like doesthedogdie.com.

He made a second miniseries called The Virtues. It's a difficult watch at times, but it's a masterpiece. And it's another one you might wanna look into before watching.

There's a show that was very popular in the UK and Ireland back in the '90s called Cracker. It stars the late great Robbie Coltrane (you probably know him better as Hagrid from Harry Potter). He plays a psychologist who works with the police to find and interrogate various kinds of pathological killers and sex offenders. It's really, really good. Unfortunately I don't think it's ever been released on anything but DVD, so you'll be stuck with SD quality.

Say Nothing is a recent show that does a really nice job of dealing with 'the troubles' in N. Ireland. It's based on real events, the most central of which is the abduction, murder and 'disappearing' of a widowed mother of 10 children by the IRA. Jean McConville is one of 17 people who were disappeared in this way, and is by far the most notorious given her circumstances. The story - based on the book by Patrick Radden Keef - follows Dolours Price, a female IRA member who was a significant figure in the conflict and who was involved in Jean McConville's abduction. One of the better shows I've seen generally, and probably the best bit of media on the N. Irish troubles (there's so much junk about this place, it's refreshing to see something half-decent for once). If you need a palate cleanser after watching it, Derry Girls should do the trick!