I stopped caring about sealed media when I stopped caring about piracy. I stopped caring about piracy when a studio took a show off streaming, making it impossible to legally obtain and the creator of the show told folks to go pirate it. Incidently, I'd still buy a physical release of the series.
I shit a lot on the Phantom Menace, but it did accurately predict how most journalists would react to fascism
The modern Republican Party has completed its transformation into antebellum Democrats. A party of insane white supremacist aristocrats supported by broke rubes who can feel superior about the circumstances of their birth and nothing more. No merit top to bottom
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
everything is speculation now. everyone who threw out or gave away their pokemon cards or video games from 30 years ago has been driven mad by the thought that they could have made upwards of several hundred dollars off them
Your Canadian Girlfriend@yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · 2d agoWhy? Why must everything we enjoy be sealed up with a "grade"? I get baseball cards being put in plastic because you can still enjoy both sides of the card. But a Blu-ray?
May I point out that both El-Sayed and Stevens are Millennials. Generational shift. It's here. It's time. November up here won't just be about progressivism vs. fascism. It will also be about the future vs. the past.
"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."
A Peek Into Jupiter’s Inner Life - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nLdWAu
The most glaring double standard in American politics today is that if a Democrat said 1/10th about GOP-leaning areas what this guy says about cities on the daily there'd be a media dogpile so swift and vicious there'd be nothing left of their bones for the hyenas to pick at.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoTrump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out. (1998)
The other day I was looking at Twitter (still gotta, unfortunately) and I got ads for AI apps that were like "you can take pictures of girls and make them kiss in bikinis!" just regular ads on the regular feed
Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 10h agoNEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 10h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Reading that tradwife-as-stale-trend piece and it has me thinking how my ACTUAL experience as a woman with small kids at home is. How most of the work isn't the cute home stuff. It's community support stuff because often moms without formal jobs are the only ones who can fill the gaps on the fly
A YouTube video with the title "the longest fart sound in history"
Josh@josh2028.bsky.social · yesterdayIt is not "anti drag" to prohibit children from attending an explicitly adult performance. Children should NOT be at most drag shows, and anyone who has been to a drag show knows this.
This is so over the top it looks like a Michael Bay movie
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cook, was the Capitol attack on January 6? COOK: I hesitate to use the word 'attack'
Emily Wilson set the entire world to arguing how to properly interpret an ancient poem and a modern blockbuster but sure, this is a failure of public engagement.
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · yesterdayIf the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.
"negative criticism of a thing I like is a major social problem" is an incredibly cowardly take. if you disagree with her, disagree. don't hide behind a moral panic. it makes you look like a ridiculous spineless lump. 1
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · yesterdayIf the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.
one group that is quite marginalized and disenfranchised in the US is Muslims.
Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 15h agoI would tag her but Shannon (who blocks) Watts has become intolerant of different views. Watts is making the claim that AES can’t get black or working class voters while ignoring the $60M of negative ads placed against AES as if they had no effect. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
kind of comforting that it is trivially easy to bait literally any political faction into internecine public beef with a single burrito taxi post
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution
WIRED@wired.com · 10h agoOver the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
I feel like it might have been a bad idea to hand the world over to sociopaths
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 7h agoSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Kirsten Dunst hasn't gone without recognition, but I still think she's under-appreciated for her skill at playing characters who are truly, deeply, spiritually Done With This Shit, with "this shit" usually being "men".
The first essay we wrote in my intro film class was breaking down this scene from Singin' in the Rain, and I know it's not a fair comparison, but rewatching it now feels like a breath of fresh air. I particularly love how we get an almost two minute uninterrupted shot of them walking and talking
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 6h agoif you're directing a feature film you gotta come up with a way for a scene to be that's not "the two actors stand facing one another and deliver their lines." like you have to do SOMETHING
if you're directing a feature film you gotta come up with a way for a scene to be that's not "the two actors stand facing one another and deliver their lines." like you have to do SOMETHING
Peter Labuza@labuzamovies.com · 2w agoDo people just not write dialogue anymore? This entire scene feels like did a first draft with a bunch of "[insert joke line here]".
ordering Domino’s and then blaming ChatGPT when nobody wants it
nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch
one of the things that gives me optimism about the US in a way I never had for India was how insulated electoral systems are from the central govt
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterdayDOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
brain still getting used to to seeing "Iran War" and not reading Iraq and having to realise every time that oh yeah they're really doing this all over again
