Was Tyranny a victim of bad timing or was it a bit too honest about the subtext of its audiences’ fantasies? @duncanfyfe.net on a game that has remained topical, trenchant… and rather neglected. remapradio.com/articles/ten...
Ten Years of Tyranny
Sympathy for the Devil's little helper
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Morton Salt Girl is a merry fellow; Bright blue her label is and her shoes are yellow
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
This is very good
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 2d agoTODAY: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the life-changing power of skills-based therapy. "A lot of this stuff has saved my life and the thing it’s saved my life from is not capitalism, or any other form of adversity, but myself." flaminghydra.com/issue-620/?a...
I’ve been in Greenland more than two weeks and I finally found the wifi. Here’s the finest two-toothed narwhal skull in the world.
A few weeks ago I realized that tomorrow is the date the Ray Bradbury story “There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place. It’s a shame science fiction from 75 years ago isn’t relevant anymore
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Phobos Over Mars - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2q7SEgp
ASMR you are in the little moon van from kubrick's 2001 taking a ride to the monolith site and i am whispering too you in a breathy youtubers voice about the two dozen kinds of wax paper wrapped sandwiches i have in this compartment
Opening in theaters this weekend: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest genre-bending triumph THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER! Get tickets and see showtimes here samuraiandtheprisoner.film/buy-tickets
UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm
I watched the entirety of Star City in about five days, and I regret to report that I think I may have to become a For All Mankind guy now
This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...
Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC | CNN
The bodies of New York City coronavirus victims are still being stored in refrigerated trailers converted into makeshift morgues during the height of the pandemic one year ago, according to the medica...
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You better run, you better take cover. Weather delay at the #MLSAllStar skills challenge night here at Truist Field. Been about 45 minutes so far.
LRT - Celine Song is an example of a director who doesn’t work this way; I’ve always thought the apartments of her characters feel lived in to an extent that I notice
Pretty standard expository shot from Event Horizon (2000). What interests me here is the amount of *stuff* in the frame. The criss cross desk, the background doors, things on the table, the multi-planes of staging. Even the beloved filmmakers of our era now seem to work in completely sterile spaces.
Happy 20th anniversary of release of the movie version of MIAMI VICE
older son and i have been listening to the napoleon podcast and I’m floored to learn that the Corsican city of Ajaccio is not necessarily named after Ajax?
Immensely saddened to hear that author Higashino Keigo has died of colon cancer. He was only 68. The Devotion of Suspect X remains one of my favourite mysteries . RIP.
BREAKING: Justice Department drops criminal case against CA labor leader David Huerta over 2025 anti-ICE protest. Prosecutors had previously downgraded it from felony interference w/fed agent to misdemeanor. Via @jeremybwhite.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
DOJ moves to drop case against California labor leader
The arrest of SEIU leader David Huerta sparked outrage around the administration's immigration agenda.
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People know him from Industry but I encourage everyone to watch RYE LANE, quietly one of the best romcoms of the last decade
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoBlack Panther 3 will be released December 15th, 2028. David Jonsson will star as T'Challa's son in the film.
these people taking phone calls while running the half marathon are society’s true monsters
the only way i've remained sanguine during the past 15 years of endless superhero movies is remembering that athenian drama, the cornerstone of western literature, consists entirely of playwrights delivering fresh, edgy takes on existing IP
