Really want to emphasize the fact that even if that boat was loaded down with the finest of 70s era cocaine that doesn’t justify killing 11 people.
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Really want to emphasize the fact that even if that boat was loaded down with the finest of 70s era cocaine that doesn’t justify killing 11 people.
Flimsy Steve origins revealed
by unpopular demand (literally no one asked for this)
(This is the line I remember from the film)
"Pha love Pa"
Dick Grayson debuted as Robin in April 1940, became Nightwing July 1984, so June 2028 will mark the dickquinox, the exact point he was Robin and Nightwing for the same amount of time.
Remember Strange Luck? No? Okay.
You could also go Parasite Eve, but I'm not immediately coming up with the joke as well
I would feel real guilty these days if I were Ron Howard. It might not have made the difference, but I'd feel just real, real bad all the time
Whenever I see someone downplay Peter Thiel malfeasance, or say something like “he wouldn’t,” my brain involuntarily thinks of Kevin Conroy’s Batman growling at the Justice League “You don’t know the Joker.”
holy crap I didn't know Frank Frazetta did a poster for 'From Dusk til Dawn'- kudos for focusing on the only good part, you can always count on Frank 📽️
Prayer never resonated for me, but I remember us being told to pray for things like moral clarity and the strength to take action. It doesn't devalue prayer to say you need to do more than just pray
Look it's been awhile and I'm not a man of faith, but I do clearly remember from CCD them stressing that praying for something hard didn't just mean God would do what you wanted. I'm pretty sure we were instructed, maybe not in these words, that we also had a practical ethical duty
TRUE DETECTIVE season 5
anyone who says this always wanted to say it and is simply now under they belief they have social permission to vote for the TERF movement
I never liked how the other shows (or at least the new shows, I never watched enough Enterprise to fully get their take) made it a sort of extra secret Starfleet Intelligence instead of a powerful interest group that some corrupt admirals and others collaborated with
I was a fan of Section 31 on DS9, but part of what was interesting was that its relationship to the Federation (and its efficacy and necessity) were at the very least much more ambiguous. It was also the bad guy in all its stories, and Bashir grappled with and overcame its challenge to his idealism
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
As bad as your day may be going, at least you’re not on the line with tech support while in a fighter jet, in the air, trying to figure out how to unstick the landing gear, at which point one of the troubleshooting steps accidentally crashes the plane (the pilot ejected, they’re fine)
Karen Gillan should be the titular Highlander
At least it should
It continues to be super weird that atheists who view religion through a Christian-specific lens insist on doubling down that their assumptions are true for all religions and that Jews who tell them those things AREN'T true for Judaism are wrong, deluded, or lying.
Like a Wilhelm scream in movies. That's very funny
Shaking my head and frowning while I read the human leather bound copy of The Necronomicon so the other people on the bus know I don't agree with it.
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
Styling and shooting blacks and dark colors in a way that pops on screen is a real boon for a Batman film, especially one that leans more towards grand epic than pulp or noir, and Nolan and his team nail that
I gotta say, I'm no Menswear Guy, but I dig Gordon-Levitt's layered blacks and dark grays and blues when John Blake first goes plainclothes in Rises. It looks real sharp. (It's a little bluer here than in the film proper because I took a picture of my screen)
Thought it was the Onion at first
::beastie boys voice:: My child arrived just the other DAY He came to the world in the usual WAY But there were planes to catch and bills to PAY He learned to walk while I was aWAY
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
So is there a regular newsletter on this topic I could subscribe to?
is the actual secret lesson here just get high and don't watch the news
Funny enough, I have a memory of my mom explaining the gay subtext of Dracula when I was around that age and getting the gist of it more or less, so presumably I got the info by osmosis or something at some prior point
Nolan's Bat-Films are a mixed bag with enough highs to overshadow the lows, but Michael Caine earnestly discussing the legacy of the League of Shadows sells the goofy superhero stuff as real and important more than any other element
me (sober): i will not go to the town that is shrouded in fog to find my wife who has been dead for three years me (after three beers): could she really be here after all this time? in our special place?
NW: Sinners (2025)
But for real, she should have been an immortal and got a sword. If any franchise does not need to retain the same set of characters and relationships in a remake, it's freaking Highlander
So they've cast Cavill's Spanish-Egyptian mentor then, huh?
I feel like the scheme would fall apart by the end leaving everybody in worse circumstances than when they started, though
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Dare I say, let them cook
I only read the first book and found it kind of meh, but I will happily finish ASOIAF if I get to make it a lean crime caper set in the fifties that has none of the same characters or themes
Raylan: 'Member that fella took off into the woods a couple years back? Long-haired, shower-shy? Hippie-like I guess you could say, 'cept armed to the teeth. Boyd: Hwhy Raylan Givens I believe you're referring to Aragorn, son of Arathorn; a man to whom you owe your allegiance.
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An "Oceans are now battlefields" level of intro here
This is a good way of looking at it. Because I do have a tough time with the natural result of making more Alien stuff being unmaking its mystery, but I also dig Alien stuff
I have no illusions that I'm some fantastic cook, but food I make myself fills me up and satisfies me more than food from anywhere else.
"Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration." - @hypervisible.blacksky.app
Oh, hey, it's the "Nightmare World" device. Awesome.
(I had my suspicions that this would ironically get some interaction via likes at the very least, lol)
Saw some people saying Blue Sky is in trouble because they're getting fewer interactions with their posts. To that I say
Man I hope this a sign. I've been thinking this wasn't gonna have the same burnout as crypto and NFTs, but I've also been hoping with my whole heart that I'm dead wrong
I've noted before that the retro-future elements of Past Tense's 2024 are just WILD. There's the stuff they get mostly right like the ubiquity of networked computing, the "just get 'em out of sight" vision of "helping" the unhoused, the failure of even good people to consider the oppressed as human…
This is all obvious, but if you find yourself agreeing with someone who says things like "his Jewish lies" maybe you need to rethink what got you to this point.
Doesn't England have famously strict libel laws? I'm generally not in favor of them, but if it's a tool lying around, could they use it? Or is that only for those wealthy enough to pursue that angle?
The thing is: Hemsworth, Chris has a kind of broey agreeability as part of his public persona, but he doesn't seem to let it make him as willfully and self-righteously ignorant as Pratt, Chris. At least not publicly. Being agreeable doesn't have to mean being spineless
The depravity of owning people is so mind-boggling evil, and given what people do to people they don't own in the eyes of the law, the day-to-day business of slavery is a level of cruelty hard to hold in your mind. And the nation is built on that and genocide. Plain and simple.
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You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week. The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.
"a partner in the act of meaning-making" some real "your plastic pal who's fun to be with" energy
THR picked the correct most punchable face expression here
The spineless, bland, passive-aggressive agreeability is really what brings this home. It's his defining feature at this point
I was shocked at how much I enjoyed this one.
Look, people, there’s no way famine is responsible for killing this child who suffered from [checks notes] malnutrition before the war even started!
"They need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price,” he added" The Israelis routinely describe their genocide as a continuation of the Nakba, which was the argument put forward by South African too. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
as hard as it is to imagine political solutions to the current moment, it’s even harder to imagine how we could be expected to comfortably share a society with these fucking babykillers
Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.
They're definitely making a choice with this and it's a disgusting, piece of shit choice.
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
Blue Öyster Mainstream Religion
Truth!
Slightly diminish a band: The Confrontational Femmes
terf ideology is a cancerous rot in our society pass it on
Honestly, this made me laugh even without the context. I heard it in Marge Simpson's voice, for some reason. Homer works, too, maybe better
And because I'm in a buzzkill mood, comedians really took the fun out of comedy for me
There's gotta be one in my 392 followers, right?
This sounds cool enough that I'll repost it in the hopes some random comics person might see it
Look it's not like I haven't known our actual sci-fi dystopia would be dumb as shit for a long time, but knowing a punch to the jaw is coming when you can't stop it doesn't exactly dull the pain
I reviewed this multiple times to make sure I quoted accurately, and I still wrote "stars" instead of "starts" 🤬
Fozzie bear headlining the Riyadh comedy festival.. wish i could say I was surprised
Doing research for my rpg campaign set in 1930s London immediately made apparent to me that a lot of English culture was shaped by its Jewish population
I haven't looked in a bit, but to my knowledge there's yiddish in Cockney slang, right? Related, I'm thinking about scanning my copy of the out-of-print Living Up West, an oral history of West End Jews in the early 20th century, and uploading it to archive
"a vagrant stars accosting us" cartoon rich person shit. What an asshole
I think they had an episode where the whole Angel team got amnesia and reverted to teenagers mentally (or something like that) and rather than have Boreanaz do an Irish accent, they just had him act confused he didn't have one
It's a target-rich environment if you're comparing JURASSIC PARK to its successors with an eye toward what's changed in blockbuster filmmaking, but a big one that stood out to me this time around is little things like Sattler collapsing against a fence and sobbing after an escape from the raptors.
Interesting bit in this article www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Let's get some Sortes Vergilianae going, baby!
The phrase “ parents have a legitimate concern about integration of races in schools and as a party, we haven’t done a very good job of listening to those concerns.” would shock and offend I would hope. A similar statement about trans kids should also shock and offend.
This is the one
Moore literally retconned him into being a different guy, lol
Boy if someone hates writers retconning characters, they're gonna have tough time when they start reading comics
This is a real question, not rhetorical. I'm looking for answers, preference for links to articles, essays, or books, both those written for the laymen and those written for experienced people in the field. If anyone has the notion and inclination, feel free to drop a link in response. Thanks!
I see AI boosters today saying they work in the field and they don't really know what's going on under the hood. Really? Doesn't that seem like a bad thing then? Shouldn't we? Why don't we? It's not technology gifted by aliens. Didn't humans design it?
“If you just go back indoors, now, that’ll be the end of it…”
strap in for outdoor pig discourse everybody
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