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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
Using one photo that's already on your device, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Top four right here. I didn't watch too many duds this month.
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
It bugs the fuck outta me there's this new wave of people who think Doug, Rob and his company are cool when it was proven ages ago through the Change the Channel document the Walker Brothers are massive assholes. I dealt with Doug's shit behavior at a con ages ago so I can back it up with how he is
I'm not sure whether or not it says anything about the movie itself but there really is something to a character you can actually SMELL through the screen.
August 31st September 1st
Kevin Costner, best known for his role as Frat Boy #1 in the 1982 Ron Howard classic. NIGHT SHIFT, also featuring Rod Stewart performing "That's What Friends Are For" on the soundtrack before it got covered for the AIDS benefit later in the decade.
(For the record, I think that the version by Dionne Warwick with Stevie Wonder, Elton John, and Gladys Knight is more noteworthy, but the Stewart version has more of songwriter Burt Bacharach's flavor to it so it's a slightly different kind of good)
Kevin Costner, best known for his role as Frat Boy #1 in the 1982 Ron Howard classic. NIGHT SHIFT, also featuring Rod Stewart performing "That's What Friends Are For" on the soundtrack before it got covered for the AIDS benefit later in the decade.
people in 1997 playing Resident Evil: who the fuck would build a mansion like this rich weirdos:
Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%
thing is, if you’re like me and have been looking for this very sort of job for over a year, feeling like you’re about to unravel from the stress of it all, you’re lying if you say it isn’t tempting, just for a second, to be able to afford healthcare even as you build your own gallows.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.
It's got brilliant points and I'm invested in the overall enough but fuck, it became such a chore.
If I wasn't so close to finishing- and so obsessive about not leaving media unfinished- I probably would've dropped it after the third chapter in a row featuring the same character think how they can't believe X was really Y all along and how disgusted they are with themselves- and nothing deeper!
I really don't like to hate on things too much, but the disappointment of a sequel work that has brilliant stuff within it and sloppy narration that wastes time going in circles might just set me off after a rough morning at work. I listened to the last hour at 1.5x speed, and I seldom do above 1x.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
The chatbot I use for therapy is saying I should break up with the chatbot I consider my wife. Meanwhile, the chatbot I get investment tips from is encouraging me to poison the town's water supply. If only there was someone I could talk to about all this. Ah, well. Guess we weren't all born lucky
"A rising tide lifts all ships!" "Ok, but what if I don't want to lift all ships? Can we lower the tide and sink some ships so that shipwreck survivors are grateful for the opportunity to swab the deck on my yacht?"
I appreciate these two rewarding bisexuality for existing as a concept
Ouch…
also they not only wish us dead but are actively engaged in it as a national and global project, this is literally the least we can do
That breeze you just felt was the joke passing over your head.
*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker. *My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near
We know that George Lucas was a fan of Japanese cinema based on Kurosawa’s influence on Star Wars and I think that this might've been an origin for Anakin's very specific sand hate in the prequels.
"Talk in 23 short sentences, one line each, about those automated rejection letters and we'll send the bots to upvote and tell you how good of a point you made!"
I see a discussion re: whether science fiction as a lit genre is dying. My thought about that is no BUT there are two important factors to consider: One, it was/is heavily cis-white-dude coded and that group buys fewer books now; Two, SF thrives with optimism about the future, and, well.
1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago
Bringing this one back around again. The American government is trying to erase trans lives permanently. We have to keep fighting for everyone, don't let these dumb mother fuckers win.
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's YOUR #LastFourWatched? I'm cheating again because I didn't watch many up until the past couple weeks, but! One banger kaiju flick, one blast of a sci-fi, one dud of a sci-fi, one stellar western, and... well, my life is different after that last one. #Letterboxd
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Jensen’s research has identified more than 1,000 mass casualty plots — where the perpetrator clearly intended to kill or injure as many people as possible — since the start of 2023. “You can count on less than one hand how many of those were perpetrated by a transgender individual,” he said.
Also the villagers jeering at me to debase myself for their entertainment are just LinkedIn posters.
Hahaha jk the bucket of water is my phone at the bottom of the sand pit that is my miserable job and the ocean is the opportunity for more fulfilling work that I passed up on because I was afraid to take risks after being burned in the past. We're in full existential crisis mode here today, folks!
Awww, did you have ChatGPT help you with all that?
...I might get in trouble for doing this but I've got enough movie nerd coworkers that I might be able to get away with it.
What the fuck do you mean I have to get up and go to work tomorrow like it's a normal day and I haven't just experienced THIS
(The joke is that DUNE has so few significant female characters)
It's due back tomorrow so I'm gonna take tonight and submit myself to WOMAN IN THE DUNES. It's been talked up to no end by a few folks in my circle (independently, even!) in the past couple weeks, so I'd better get to it, I suppose. (Which is it about though? Jessica or Chani?)
This is fucking cool. www.fangoria.com/the-toxic-av...
This is an important part of the current dynamic. You can't threaten to bring something to a halt if they don't want it to work in the first place.
“Oh I see you’re resorting to personal attacks.” Well, yeah. I’ll logically refute your points because it’s the right thing to do, but I also deserve some joy.
This is useful information for how to get vaccinated, even though delusional eugenicists don’t want you to
like the overwatch and world of warcraft teams before them, over 450 diablo devs have voted to unionize. last year's mass microsoft layoffs convinced them to start organizing, but this year's kicked things into high gear
Something I won’t ever do is answer for another trans person’s violence. One transfem did a shooting? Fuck off if you think I should go out of my way to “condemn” more than I would when the hundreds of right wing men do it. Happy to condemn you being an opportunistic little cunt about it though.
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
There's a lot of MST3K episodes that have really good movies underneath all of the cheesiness, and I'm convinced that we'd have some legitimately good modern cult classics if they got this treatment.
This is the exact kind of remake I want to see more of. Take something that didn't pull of what it was trying for and have a blast with improving it. The sword and sorcery subgenre in the 80s is filled with potential for this. Helll, a lot of Corman's no-budget works are good fits!
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National Weather Service meteorologist applicants are now being asked to pledge their support for Trump’s executive orders. (Image reposted with alt-text)
I, too, remember when "conservatives" & Republicans pretended to care about this thing called "economic uncertainty" because the Black Man in the Tan Suit supposedly mused a bit about modestly higher marginal tax rates & incremental regulatory changes.
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
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Burning a flag will never be as offensive as draping it over his coffin will be.
"paradigm" "synergy" "deliverables" "innovating customer experiences" bro shut the fuck up you make an app that shows you the shortest drive to chicken restaurants that accept crypto
I don't think of Newsom as a potential president, I think of him as a meteor that will crash and hopefully take out a few dinosaurs.
"Nobody's asking you to vote for him!" Then why are you so bothered that I don't like him? And why are you furthering the argument that he is the antithesis to Trump if not to place him in the role of candidate?
I wish that internet points counted for anything because this profile is a goldmine for r/iamverysmart and its badass sibling subreddit.
As someone who learns by watching others fail, I appreciate how good of a lesson plan you've been.
There's a piece to be written about how one year before the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved people in the region that would become the United States, Africa is being treated as a dumping ground for people of color the white supremacists don't want anymore
There can be no salvation for this country, for democracy, or for humanity, without our trans siblings. There’s no “but Trump” or “at least Newsom.” There is no no incremental liberation. Either we fight for everyone, or we lie down and die.
kitchen table issue: stop kidnapping my neighbors!
I don’t understand how Adams and Cuomo have zero people on their staff who say “sir, is the intention to come off like a vice principal breaking up an unauthorized bake sale to benefit a child with cancer?”
This has an ungodly number of shares for something that apparently to be entirely made up. The police report has been covered and doesn't say anything like this. www.wired.com/story/edward...
When some rando posts an outrageous claim that makes your schadenfreude receptors tingle, be suspicious.
Reaction to someone remixing/reworking their own content: 👍 Reaction to whatever videos are going around: 👎 I will watch a "someone turned our stupid jokes into music" reaction with zero hesitation. I would like to launch "watching ghost footage TikToks until I get scared" into the sun.
#FilmSky 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙨
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This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
Immaculate post right here.
Anyone who says it's just about fairness in sports has not been paying attention to the last 5 years where every time "fairness in sports" (completely unproven btw) has been allowed to plant seed, it is immediately followed up with denying medical care for youth and then adults. Every. Time.
When we reestablish rule of law in the US, one of the reforms we should make is a law capping CEO compensation (salary, options, etc) as a fixed multiple of that of the lowest paid worker (employee, IC, whatever.) If CEOs couldn’t make more than 20x the minimum pay, you’d see wages skyrocket.
I’m not entertaining any 2028 speculation until July 2027, as that will mark six months of Congress post-midterms. We are not even 250 days into this administration and y’all are claiming that we have to settle on our fighter right now. Unserious people.
Almost all of the smartest liberal and left wing writers and reporters I know have basically been reduced to doing that work as a mostly-unpaid hobby in addition to their actual job (if they have a job). Just a few rich Democrats could put their money where their mouth is and fix this.
Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.
Words are wind in this kind of thing but a good scathing takedown is still satisfying to see. Especially since common "scathing" responses are milquetoast and not this attitude of "you support him because he says he hates the same people you do. Congratulations, you're a bad person AND a sucker"
Newsom supporters will tell you that ignoring the transphobia and the dehumanization of the poor is the only way we can win. But I won’t vote for light fascism any more than I’ll vote for full strength.
AI-generated humanoid entity with feathered hair: The 80s miss you The 80s:
How to run backwards on a treadmill ルームランナーを後ろ向きで走る方法を教えちゃいますっ☆
do the people getting mad at bsky about this know that pornhub has been inaccessible for people in texas for over a year for the same exact reason?
And that led me eventually to a media studies degree, and a chance to study for a month in Italy thanks to the academic grants I got through my job- which I have partly thanks to my manager being a fellow movie nerd- and now I'm writing for a publication and occasionally being a PA for indie flicks.
Realistically, RoboCop is the one that's made the biggest impact. Even as a kid I could tell there was more under the surface of "robot policemen shoots baddies" even if I couldn't understand it, and over time it's been the film I point to as sparking my interest in analyzing the medium.
Terminator 2 has made it so I never drink straight from the carton, ever. (I'll have a more serious answer later)
This 👇🏾 “Why do they need masks? They’re federal officials, they’re paid by the taxpayers. They should be doing their jobs in a way that’s lawful and constitutional, and that’s part of the job.” DC Mayor Bowser questions why so many federal officers in the capital continue to cover their faces.
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
I showed you my potato chip bag full of money please respond
Sadly, we have to accept that the art of placing bribes in an empty bag of pretzels is a lost art.
Whey Standard 