Riley Silverman

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“The richest man in the world is spending half a billion dollars of his own money to sway the election in his favor” should be such a damning story.

R.I.P. to Eric Bauza Out of all the actors who voiced the rabbit, you were the one who came the closest to Mel's original voice. You should've been around for 40 more years to voice him.

Years ago I saw the vitriolic obsession towards trans people on the right, compared it to the complacency on the left, and concluded that my community were in for some tough times. I readied myself to stand behind the basic humanity and dignity of trans people while mainstream support crumbled.

There’s some music festival happening near the California science Center and we had to walk around it leaving BMO to get back to the train. I’ve never felt more in my 40s than when some kid asked us if we were going to some specific stage and we all scoffed and went “no we’re going to bed”

I just smiled and waved at a dog on the red line and they turned around and faced the other way. It’s hard not to take that personally.

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

ANGEL CITY’S IN THE PLAYOFFS BABY!!!

Shame on my ex-profession for failing to stand up to the rampant transphobia within NHS England and within its own ranks. ‘We know our actions will cause harm to trans people but we’ll do it anyway because we either a-believe trans people are less than or b-we are cowards’ Which one are you?

I need you to understand that this is an antisemitic dog whistle

One of my big personal takeaways leaving Wildwood is that with as much as I adore Laika and have devoured their catalog, I’ve kept most of the Ghibli films as a glaring blind spot in my cinematic repertoire. I think I need to change that. I’ve only seen Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle.

To give fellow Angeleno’s some perspective on just how massive a hit You Can See Everything is here: Yesterday I saw it at noon at the Burbank *8* and it was a sold out screening.

Wildwood is a beautiful experience and a masterwork in handcrafted animation. The plot occasionally suffers from too much exposition but the visual cacophony more than makes up for it. See it. On. The. Biggest. Screen. You. Can.

The "A.i." industry has a problem with consent. It's a predatory business that's stolen vast amounts of creative work, exploits overseas workers, and constantly violates people's privacy. Tell @mayor.nyc.gov to keep it the hell away from our high schoolers. Cancel the "A.i." pilots. heymamdani.fyi

The Chappell remix of expectations made me think about my most recent ex who ghosted me. So I went to her IG and discovered she soft blocked me. I texted a friend to vent about it and she responded with “🎶 typical LA behavior 🎶” which felt like a play in 3 acts.

Monday I’m doing a double header of You Can See Everything along with Wildwood and if that doesn’t feel like one of the broadest spectrums of upcoming moviemaking (and puppetry?) idk what does.

I'm the sort of elder millennial gay who took a day to finally watch the Olivia/Chappell crossover video, but would have watched it earlier if literally anyone told me DAVID BYRNE is in the video!?

I don’t livestream games at all nor do I have the infrastructure to do so. But I get the appeal of it when I’m left of tipsy and wish I had a peanut gallery I could turn to and say “yall wanna go fuck up Gortash?”

May I direct you to literally today’s news out of the UK with what the *Labour* party has done to trans people?

I saw so many comments saying Wildwood is “just Labyrinth.” Y’all, I adore labyrinth and a comparison to that film is a reason *for* me to see a movie but also: The Jim Henson Company did not invent ::checks notes:: fae beings kidnapping children

Netflix has 16,000 employees. If they kept half of that profit and paid the rest out equally to everyone, they could give each worker a $426,000 bonus this year and still pocket $6,825,000,000. Instead they fired 1000 people.

Security Update: At 5.00pm UK time we launched the Kickstarter campaign for our Murderbot graphic novel, All Systems Red. At around 9.30pm we hit our £65,000 target! Head to the link in our bio to view the campaign, and pledge.

Murderbot: Great, we're fully funded, now let me get back watching my shows

Active now and climbing fast!

Every post on comment I see against the idea of WOTC workers unionizing brings up something that people dislike that is 💯 something Hasbro corporate tried to mandate and the creative team trying to unionize is hoping for the power to fight against.

I was already onboard for Charlie Jane doing Star Trek but you’ve also got my beloved Tendi in this?! I’m sat.

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

“300 billionaires accounted for 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in the 2024 election. And these are only reported, cash donations…” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: –Kansas –New Jersey –Oregon –West Virginia –Louisiana (online only) Go to IWillVote.com for more info

Almost every hobby or passtime I've had my entire life - comic books, action figures, trading cards, personal computers, even *the movies* - has been consumed by a bunch of gambling addicts desperate for some new speculative market and we should make gambling illegal because it's their fucking turn

- I don't think people are taking this seriously enough - There'll be no economy on an dead / un-inhabitable planet. How much evidence will it take ? #MajorPartyDisconnect #GovtHypocrisy #OutOfTouch #ScienceDenial #Ecocide #TakeRealAction

This year two “small businesses” who heavily market to the queer community and have BOTH put out apologies in the past for licensing a certain famously transphobic IP decided to plop down the 6 figures+ to do it again because they figured the business would > the backlash. So I welcome the inverse

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period

an interesting and, imo, important read. what does capitalism begin to consume (and/or accelerate its existing consumption of) as it exhausts material avenues for expansion? how do we (as workers, as storytellers) push back?

I came out as queer when I was teenager. I came out as trans 10 years ago. Coming out can be difficult, but I truly believe living as your authentic self is worth it.