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Watched a trailer last week for a film starring Zendaya, Tom Holland and John Bernthal before watching a film starring Zendaya, Tom Holland and Jon Bernthal
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 6d agoHollywood is officially out of ideas. About 20 years ago they made a movie called SPIDER-MAN and it was a hit. Flash forward to 2026 and there’s a new movie opening today called (you guessed it) SPIDER-MAN. He even dresses in the same costume
Adam Smith: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public"
Andrew Quemere@andrewqmr.bsky.social · 11mo agowow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
The thing I don't get about Leto is *why* Hollywood has protected him for so long. He's box office poison: a movie with "Jared Leto" on the poster is a guaranteed flop whatever its other merits.
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · last wk.I was going to say “Finally” but that might be misinterpreted as “Finally, women have come forward.” No, I mean, “Finally, this has broken through the numerous media barriers that allow men like Leto to get away with it”.
There was an old man from Poole Who soliloquised thus to his tool You've stolen my health And spent all my wealth And now you won't pee, you old fool
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
I want to see Emily Wilson's academic viewpoint on how the Minecraft movie is not a good adaptation of the source material
Of course any translation of the Odessey will be inferior to the original Klingon.
Not going to weigh in on a choice for the Canadian people. But the fact that they are contemplating a nuclear deterrent against *America* shows how utterly deranged and dangerous their southern neighbour has become.
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · last wk.This is an interesting article that makes some good points, so if you don't mind I'll use it to lay out my case for why Canada cannot and should not attempt to develop its own nuclear weapons as a deterrent against the Americans. I think we miss a lot of the requirements by focusing on "breakout".
30% of any given population, as election after election proves, are sad wankers.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w agoThirty percent of Americans now say it was "inappropriate" to cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. That opinion didn't exist a year ago. Somebody built it. New piece on the campaign against The Odyssey: what it failed to do, and what it actually accomplished. www.readtpa.com/p/where-did-...
Reading about the Edwardian era and a big moral panic of the time, teenagers watching porn on screens (the "What the Butler Saw" mutoscope)
Why is drone production in the UK the responsibility of the MOD and not the Ministry of Culture
Helium atmosphere....do all the aliens from this planet have squeeky voices, nobody in the Galactic Federation takes them seriously www.rnz.co.nz/news/science...
Atmosphere discovered on Earth-like planet beyond solar system for first time
Astronomers say they are one step closer to finding a habitable, Earth-like planet beyond our solar system with the discovery of an atmosphere on a rocky planet.
rnz.co.nz
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w agoAxel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...
The Obama era was probably the last time in our lifetimes that America - or even a fictionalised sitcom/historical musical version of it - would ever be held up by foreigners as some kind of ideal.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3w agoo Father I have sinned and weighed in on some tedious online discourse, by which I mean - I defended still loving Hamilton and Parks and Rec in 2026 and still finding both joy and political purpose in both of them: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/some-notes...
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Hope he's OK. On the other hand not all of us get to experience flying through the air after being butted by a huge bison like in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Libération@liberation.fr · 3w agoEtats-Unis : dans le parc de Yellowstone, un bison charge un touriste et le blesse grièvement ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/45X
Does he mean "facing trial because of some dodgy business in the Balkans"? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...
Nigel Farage Says He Is Being Treated Like 'A War Criminal' By The Media
The Reform UK made the astonishing claim on the party's in-house podcast.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
I'm going to tell my grandkids this is what happened at the end of the Clone Wars just after Order 66 was declared to deal with the striking miners
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James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · last mo.I'm sorry, what?
Omni? Does the app give you 30 seconds to pay the meter after parking your car?
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last mo.HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/
The VCs' brains are just pudding at this point. www.reuters.com/business/med...
Talk of a bubble is 'blasphemy against AI' says SoftBank's Son
SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son told shareholders on Wednesday that artificial intelligence is still in its early stages and any talk of a bubble is "an insult to AI."
reuters.com
I love how movies that star a famous foreign actor have a backstory to explain their accent. Jean Claude van Damme grew up in the Louisiana bayou. Jane Birkin is a journalist for the Daily Mirror. For some reason though Arnold Schwarzenegger is just presented as a plain American, no explanation.
Ironically AI-pilled execs are the easiest job to replace with AI
B. Prendergast@renderg.host · last mo.The problem with AI-pilled execs is they have, in the main, never worked in a truly creative role, and so can easily mistake productivity for creativity.
"If AI Is Sentient Then So Is Age Of Empires II" by Harlan Ellison, 1967
