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My Year of Dicks An Oscar-nominated autobiographical cartoon about a woman deciding she's old enough to lose her virginity; less about penises then about high school boys being dicks.
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Meet the red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura), also known as the red-tailed wambenger; red-tailed mousesack; or kenngoor. It is a very small carnivorous marsupial with a big brushy tail/big feathery tail. It is around 10 cm (3.9 inches) long and weighs about 60 grams (2.1 oz). It can leap up to 2 metres (6.5 feet) between tree canopies. It eats insects and spiders and does not usually need to drink water. [more inside]
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 10:30 PM PST - 16 comments

How much money do we think Substack lost last year? by Elizabeth Lopatto [The Verge] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 3:56 PM PST - 57 comments

No Boyfriends Since Birth: A minicomic about going on a first date as a gay adult, by Richard Mercado [more inside]
posted by simmering octagon at 1:20 PM PST - 9 comments

While Wyrmwood Gaming wants to convince audiences that it’s just a cool bunch of goofballs doing their best, there’s rot at the company extending deep into the heartwood of its structure. TW: sexual assault, sexual harassment
posted by Kitteh at 12:34 PM PST - 21 comments

Piano Day is held on the 88th day of the year (there are 88 keys on a standard piano). The idea came from the German pianist and composer Nils Frahm in 2015 "because it doesn’t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener." Come celebrate the piano! [more inside]
posted by kristi at 11:43 AM PST - 39 comments

After an unsuccessful board fight and amidst cost-cutting at the House of Mouse, long time Marvel head Ike Perlmutter is out at Disney (ungated).
posted by NoxAeternum at 11:01 AM PST - 30 comments

The portion of artists who failed to follow-up their first hit has been relatively constant in the last two decades — but rose in 2020.
posted by Etrigan at 9:03 AM PST - 22 comments

The trailer for Asteroid City, Wes Anderson's latest film, is finally out. The poster was revealed yesterday and the opening date is set for June 16th (6/21 for wider release). [more inside]
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Zelda Producer Plays Tears Of The Kingdom For 10 Mins, And The New Stuff Looks Wild [YouTube][Spoilers ] Zelda fans have been starving for anything they can get, any crumb they can catch, and it seems like Nintendo is finally taking pity, rewarding them with a 10-minute gameplay trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. During the gameplay snippet, Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma says through a translator that Tears has changed the world “in many ways,” including pieces of Hyrule that float high in the sky, or “sky islands.” [...] Today’s trailer, which continues to show Link and his verdant world at its best and adds even more gameplay mechanics to the ones previous trailers revealed, is hopefully only the start to Nintendo preparing to open up the flood gates of cold, hard Zelda information. It doesn’t have much time, anyway—the game releases for Switch on May 12. [via: Kotaku]
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Dyson gripped the top of a stone bollard; Wagner continued to look away. The film caught a stance that suggested majestic indifference to the poorer boys at their side, as though these boys were subjects as well as spectators. The moment passed, the morning moved on. The photographer and the local boys disappeared and the Wagner car at last rolled up. The match began.

—Five boys: the story of a picture by Ian Jack [archive link] is an essay exploring the history of the famous 1937 photograph Toffs and Toughs by Jimmy Sime, and the lives of the five boys in it.
posted by Kattullus at 4:25 AM PST - 26 comments