Gavin Newsom is a transphobic dick, but I admit I absolutely lost it at "just like Little Hands, she is slow and burps a lot".
Gentleman, wordsmith, man-about-town, et cetera and so forth.
182 followers 114 following 1,212 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Gavin Newsom is a transphobic dick, but I admit I absolutely lost it at "just like Little Hands, she is slow and burps a lot".
Gonna review some of my favourite physical conflict media, or, as idiots call it, "action films". Why would you call it that? All films have action. Do we expect the characters to stand stiffly, without motion? My explanation of this is necessary for you to understand my review. :-P <3
You use any term where the reader understands what you mean without you having to then further explain yourself.
Good review that makes me want to see the film, but stop trying to make fetch happen. "Survival horror" is a clearly understood and well-used term, and it's not used for film, and certainly not as a synonym for Saw-alikes.
First they came for the sex workers, and y'all did absolutely nothing, but it's not too late to demand that legal businesses should have access to financial services, before those businesses are made illegal and the deplatforming expands to queer content generally and sex ed.
I went to school with Ben Cousins, who was very much one of the dickheads.
I encourage a deeper reading of why I chose that word and why the post has apparently resonated with 5,000+ people when I only have like 100 actual followers.
Although noting that the vast majority of those FOIs were deemed invalid and not answered, and the remainder sought largely identical information that eSafety had no good reason not to have published anyway with or without an FOI.
"Foreign actors" probably means or includes the large number of people from Twitter who FOIed eSafety with form-letter requests on prompting from Elon Musk, that led eSafety to outsource a couple of hundred FOIs to an external law firm.
I'm going to need Labor to stop being so egregriously shit on a daily basis, thanks. The goal of FOI is to encourage government to make material public as part of normal business without needing a request. If it costs them money to fill a request, that's an admission that they've done it wrong.
As per my replies to other comments: because it wasn't invited to the conversation, it wasn't asked for its opinion, but it's going to be loudly, patronisingly and confidently wrong in a way that drowns out the actual correct information I was looking for.
I've had a look at the report and it's weird and bad. It's academic cosplay full of advertorial and assertions that aren't supported by actual evidence.
I mean, I binged some Netflix the other day, but... not pronounced like that.
I sincerely apologise that the algorithm put my post in front of your eyeballs and I hope you have a great day despite this experience! <3
Fellow neurodivergent, allow me to suggest you have fallen into the trap of mistaking my post for a logically constructed argument that I wish to debate with the entire internet. instead of, as is actually the case, a lazy joke I made to entertain the half-dozen people who actually follow me. <3 <3
Greetings fellow neurodivergent. You have correctly identified that the word is not being used in its traditional sense.
Sorry, you missed my comment on this to another person. Mansplaining in the sense that I didn't invite it to the conversation, I didn't ask for its opinion, but it's still going to prioritise its opinion over trusted sources and be loudly and confidently wrong and it's difficult to make it stop.
Well it's not also assuming that it knows more than me, possibly about a subject I'm an expert in, on the basis of our relative genders, but I'm still happy that it was the right rhetorical choice to capture the vibe of its particular brand of irritation.
Damn I miss this game.
Film #81 for 2025 is A Complete Unknown (2024). Mangold's direction is gripping, Norton is outstanding, Chalamet is... Chalamet. The real star feels like the sound design - every noise roars like a lion, you're immersed in the acoustics from beginning to end. You want to applaud.
I've got my browser set to do this by default if I search from the address bar, but I do miss some of Google's useful widgets (such as Calculator and Translate) that don't activate in this mode.
Made one viral post and now dozens of cute definitely-real internet girls with poor conversational skills and only three posts on their account want to chat with me on Bluesky. Take notes, gents, this is how it's done.
LLMs have many powerful uses, but search engines and accurate facts are not one of them, and I'm honestly surprised you haven't had daily experience of Google summaries being absolute nonsense. But also I am an account with only 113 followers and you are overthinking my only post to go viral.
It (generally) does but you may not get the results you were looking for, particularly if SafeSearch is off.
Really, Bluesky? I have "30+" notifications? Is 30-ish really the point where you give up counting? You only have four bytes allocated for this task?
Absolutely. I didn't invite it to the conversation, I didn't ask for its opinion, but it's going to loudly tell me things that are probably wrong in a way that drowns out the information I actually wanted, and I can't make it stop.
Honestly one secret door/hidden room is quirky, beyond that then best case you're visiting The Riddler and worst case you're about to end up in some Saw-style shenanigans where you're choosing which limb is your least favourite.
Me, concerned: Oh crap I've gone viral on Bluesky. Me, relieved: Wait it's just my lazy joke about Google AI. Everything is fine. Please continue enjoying the low-hanging fruit of the comedy tree, fellow internetters, and thanks for the eyeballs. :-)
I'm away until later this week so I haven't deep-dived into the teen social media ban's tech trial report, but I thought it was notable that Nine/Today's tech commentator Trevor Long said the report shows how "age assurance doesn't work"
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
The image is from the original Watch Dogs, which I'm playing at the moment, but the text could equally apply to any Assassin's Creed or FarCry release.
Ubisoft games be like: Here is fifteen million square kilometers filled with the most godawful minigames the human mind can devise, complete them all perfectly to win a hat.
Also I don't think the writers intended it to be about autism or neurodivergence, but when you're doing Vulcans that's what it's going to be about anyway, and on that axis I found it *incredibly* offensive. And while I often sigh about bad autism portrayals, I am very rarely *offended* like this.
Strange New Worlds' "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" is the kind of show we were worried Lower Decks was going to be - casually undermining the franchise, its themes, and its characters for the sake of jokes that aren't even particularly funny. I did not enjoy it.
The new Genshin Nod-Krai trailer is a good-looking thing.
I continue to enjoy your desk-bots.
Film #80 for 2025 is Calamity Jane (1953). Doris Day shines, and it's immediately apparent why it's a queer touchstone, whether it was intended to be or not. Day has more chemistry with Allyn McLerie than any man she's shared a screen with. Frequent winces at treatment of First Peoples though.
as far as i can tell the primary purpose of this site is that someone i know posts that they're watching a movie and if i've seen it i reply "nice, hell yeah" and if i haven't seen it I reply "whoa this looks cool". that's pretty much all you need
Warcraft 1 and 2 had it on the left. (And it's huger and chunkier than I remembered.) But I'm not wedded to which side of the screen particularly.
Not going to lie, the thought of "it's an RTS and the UI is a big bar on the left" produced a lizard-brain response of "we must buy it now!"
Ah, got it, thanks.
Would swear I heard it in Australia. I don't have much occasion to interact with US news channels. Maybe a Mandela effect thing.
The Greens say they’ve successfully established a Senate inquiry into the “social media age ban and search engine age verification codes”
I note the only women on that list are the Wachowskis, and only one of their films was made post coming out. Katherine Bigelow is at 4. This reflects the state of the film industry but I swear to Jeebers if Emerald Fennell or Greta Gerwig or Autumn de Wilde make 15 movies I will watch them all.
At 5 each: Danny Boyle, Doug Liman, Edgar Wright, George Miller, Kevin Smith, M Night Shyamalan, Peter Weir, Robert Wise, Ron Clements, Wolfgang Reitherman
At 6 each: Bryan Singer, Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, David Yates, Don Bluth, James Cameron, James Gunn, Joel Schumacher, Richard Donner, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis.
Updated list of my most-watched directors: Tim Burton (14), Steven Spielberg (12), Sam Raimi (11). Ethan Coen, Wes Anderson, and Stanley Kubrick (10 each). Joel Coen, Quentin Tarantino (9 each). David Fincher, Ishiro Honda (8 each). Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson, The Wachowskis (7 each).
He's an absolute master of visual comedy, both slapstick itself and the art of leading the viewer to draw connections between visual elements. Also the occasional flash of absurdist humour.
Watched Buster Keaton's "The Balloonatic" (1923). Always a delight when a movie from 102 years ago is still genuinely hilarious today.
Season 3 (10 episodes) aka Part 5 if you're Netflix is the final season.
Good call.
Lee Van Cleef absolutely steals his scenes in a supporting role without a single line of dialogue.
Tom Cruise post about 1995 + anyone is always cringey, but in High Noon Gary Cooper literally looks and acts like Kelly's dad.
Watching High Noon (1952). It's iconic, but has there ever been a more awkward, inappropriate and chemistry-less pairing than 22-year-old Grace Kelly and 51-year-old Gary Cooper playing her retirement-age husband?
Getting near the end of season 2 of Disenchantment (or "part 4" if you're Netflix) and it's truly amazing how what at first seemed like "Futurama but fantasy" turned into a tightly-wound epic about family, love and the legacy of colonialism where every shocking reveal was seeded at the very start.
I probably would have liked Molina's queer-coded version more, even if only for coherent themes and a clear authorial voice, but the problems with the visual design extend far beyond Elio himself and it seems likely it just wasn't very good in either version.
There is rarely anything to catch in the background in Elio because most scenes simply don't have a background. This apparently cost $200 million, but Pixar has never looked this cheap.
Elio (2025): film #76 for 2025. Obvious good intentions, but a muddled screenplay that never really comes together and disappointingly dull visual and character design for a Pixar film. The characters are largely broad types, frustratingly short on the specifics needed to make the story work. B-.
I'm not surprised they gave F Gary Gray a Fast & Furious film because you could basically swap Mark Wahlberg with Vin Diesel in this film and it's already an F&F caper.
Watching "The Italian Job" (2003) brings me to 75 films so far for the year. High points of this one are the almost non-stop high-quality stunt driving; low points are the constant misogyny. I enjoyed, but I'm glad this didn't end up being the most famous stunt driving film starring Charlize Theron.
The irony is that Emma has never looked less attractive....
Wow, X-Men Xenogenesis was... a thing. Not just that it's written by Warren Ellis, but also some pretty wild racism even as it pats itself on the back for imagined liberalism. Plus the camera is just locked on Emma Frost's cleavage...
In this case it's just as well, as the Commissioner's additional recommendations were rubbish, and would have the effect of further privileging large platforms that can comply with regulation while making the regulatory burden on small business unaffordable.
Every three months. Some internet guy: "I am outraged that this company, who I haven't been a customer of since I was a child, have changed their logo for reasons I'm not qualified to understand, and I wrongly assume that someone cares about my outrage."
Romulus, Daken, Wolverine having a second unrelated tragically dead Japanese wife, Professor X wiping Logan's memories, everyone called Hudson being related... that's five already and I'm not even done with Way's run.
Started making a list of Marvel's five stupidest retcons but realised they were all just going to be from Daniel Way's Wolverine run.
*looking at my own workdesk setup, which is basically this, but with two screens* Do... do people not do this anymore?
Bad laws continue to be bad. The intent of the US laws, of course, isn't to get platforms to comply, it's to shut them down entirely. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
"Good people make good systems" is a rubbish take (and a wrong one) but over many shows Trek actually shows us good systems and good cultures that produce and promote good people.
It's frustrating because to create its conflict the crew act in ways that are different from how they act every other episode, and it's those differences that make up the answer. (i.e. Normally they'd widely consult the crew for their viewpoints and actively raise and discuss the ethics.)
The latest episode of Strange New World, "What Is Starfleet?" was a very enjoyable piece of entertainment, but an incredibly shitty, conservative and naïve answer to the central question it asks.
In a shocking turn of events, feminism actually includes the right for women to consensually allow a man to make their decisions for them, if that's the lifestyle they want, and to choose the specific man who will do so, and makes them safer in doing that, and allows them to change their mind.
Less theoretically, if we had made rules regarding AI in 2010 it's exceptionally unlikely they would have captured or covered anything we're now calling AI. And rules about image generation would have found it exceptionally hard to cover generative AI without also regulating Photoshop.
The first barrier is define "flying" and "car", bearing in mind ground effect vehicles, horses, magnetism, kites and gliders, drones, aircraft, bikes and scooters, motorcycles, and children's toys. Which is why we generally need to know non-theoretically what actual tech we're regulating.
Agreed. Sanctuary -> Simple and Clean -> whatever the KH3 song was.
Congratulations to the winners of those categories though, who are all deserving of *some* kind of award, even if the process by which they got *this* one might feel like damning with faint praise.
I keep wanting to write something about the Hugos, and particularly the comics, dramatic short form and game/interactive categories, but everything I have to say is mean-spirited, and it all ends up in that "If those kids could read they'd be very upset" meme anyway.
The original post, now deleted, suggested Stephen King had at least 1-5 books that might qualify as THE Great American Horror, which was absolutely a solid and reasonable thing to say, so I hope the OP didn't delete because of contrarian asshats.
Scoop: another expert has resigned from Australia's teen social media tech trial, as some on its advisory board describe an increasingly acrimonious relationship with the trial's organisers and question the significance of its findings.
Voters frantically scanning the nominees: "Surely ONE of these comics is written and drawn by two men."
Ryan North for sure deserves awards but this is absolutely people who didn't read the other nominees, or read comics generally, voting for franchises and creators they recognise.
"No good choices" is not the same as "no bad choices" though, and often can be unncessarily stressful for a player, and sometimes grimdark wanky in a way that's a little immature.
I also appreciate that if you put this idea to Stephen King he'd probably say, "With all due respect, you're insane, the Great American Horror Novel was already written by Shirley Jackson in 1959 and it's called The Haunting of Hill House, but thanks for thinking of me."
Three kinds of meaningful choices in games: a) Right answer/wrong answer, and the clues to work it out. b) Choose your gameplay (stealth path or combat path) c) Express yourself (roleplaying / identity / ethics / art) Too many games try to offer a (c) but get it mixed up with (a) or (b).
Just saw a review that was "Paprika is Satoshi Kon's worst movie and I give it five out of five stars" and honestly that's pretty fair.
The whole story has a very boomer "we drank straight from the hose and we liked it" energy to it.
We absolutely are not. www.upworthy.com/what-is-gen-...
To be a good reviewer is to be passionate about what you like and dislike, in engaging, insightful, nuanced ways, and in so doing help the reader not only to understand whether they too might like or dislike it, but to develop their own vocabulary for explaining their tastes. Vale David Stratton.
Remembering this panel from Ghost Rider Vol 3 #9.
I lie, I would totally expect Spock to be Team Iron Man. "If we must have officers of law enforcement, Captain - a point I do not concede - should we not expect them to be trained, identifiable and accountable?"
Show me your favourite panel from Marvel's CIVIL WAR! 💥🥊 Wrong answers only. Still can't believe Spock was Team Iron Man.
There are absolutely exceptions, and they work when they either engage with those ideas of exploration and ethics *within* the Holodeck, or where they reflect on the characters in a profound and transformative way.
Holodeck episodes too often feel like the writers fundamentally don't want to write a Star Trek episode. I get that everyone's having fun dressing up as gangsters or Robin Hood or whatever but maybe LARP on your own time and give me a story with spaceships and exploration and ethics.
I mean, it's not really a question, there's no doubt about how people will respond, because we have a fairly good historical record of what's happened every other time governments tried to directly or indirectly ban porn. It didn't work, and it just made the world less safe for everyone.
I'm still glad they're wading into it, though, even if they're still reinventing the wheel on defining the problem and its (unfeasible) solutions so far.
Ngl, I think a lot of gamers and game devs who until a couple of weeks ago had never heard of payment processors or debanking, had never paid attention to sex workers or adult industry, are wading into a conversation they are not really bringing any unique insight to.
It's a fairly consistent pattern by Inman-Grant to characterise any disagreement with her as being in bad faith.
Your main barrier is always getting people to pay any money at all. Once they have their wallet out, the difference between $1 and $5 is, for the majority of customers, trivial.
