Non-spoiler: Godzilla Minus Zero review: It's fantastic. It may be the loudest movie I have ever experienced. Consider earplugs. Meteorologists have a new favorite movie. At least the cool ones do. A very common phrase will make you cry.

Happy Godzilla Minus Zero Special IMAX Screening Day to all who celebrate

For someone in tech, this progression of "down for maintenance" -> "estimate 12 hours" -> "estimate 4 weeks" is horror of Lovecraftian scope

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

Forget Halloween, this is actually scary asf :( www.404media.co/archive-of-o...

The kids are all right

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · last wk.

Lmao Gen Z are dressing as Millenial Optimism for Halloween

Yet another startup that could have been a Black Mirror episode

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 2w ago

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

I took a job at a gas station in my late teens and about 2 hours into my first shift I got a call from the record and video store I had also applied at. I quit the gas station immediately and told them those two hours were on me.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w ago

In honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16

Unquestionably the funniest thing in my Amazon profile

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · last mo.

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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Staying at grandparents, alone in the guest room watching late night tv with the lights off and this commercial comes on youtu.be/leJfJxMnf6c?...

Suspiria (1977) - TV Spot #1 HD 1080p

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Sleeping Village Reviews@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · last mo.

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

This is the most adorable Yakuza scene I have ever watched

Justin Decloux@declouxj.bsky.social · 9mo ago

THE CLANS HEIR IS A TRANS WOMAN (2013) is like Steven Seagal decided to Write/Direct/Star in a love letter to his trans friends, but it looks and feels like every action movie he's made... except Hitoshi Ozawa is way way way way cooler than Seagal.

Overheard convo in coffee shop: “Been reading about them LGBTs” “Yeah, about how they're all spying on us.” “They come installed with secret software that uses your network…” Me: well I know more than a few queer people who are good with software but… My brain rewinds a bit. He had said “LG TVs”

NYC and adjacent friends, I sincerely can’t recommend this show enough. Manual Cinema is brilliant in general and this show is no exception. You have almost certainly never seen a show like this. manualcinema.com/work/the-4th...

The 4th Witch | Manual Cinema

Manual Cinema’s The 4th Witch is a fantastic new tale, inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth , in which a girl escapes war and flees into a dark…

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I had tickets to George Carlin at the Rosemont and I got stuck in bad traffic and then got completely lost trying to find how to actually get into the Rosemont and got so angry and frustrated I gave up and drove home, thinking "I'll see him next time", but there was never a next time

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How about this? Best concerts that you ALMOST got to see but DIDN’T. Include reasons if you like: Rolling Stones (play rehearsal) Johnny Cash (I dallied) R.E.M. (play performance) Nirvana (canceled, college declined to pay requested $500 appearance fee)

“She speaks with the might of a hundred soldiers!” Indeed. Go, Dolly.

The Orville - 9 to 5 scene

YouTube video by Ganymede23

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We know in Star Trek the Federation developed synthahol, allegedly alcohol without “negative effects, so does that also imply the existence of synthabbis? Synthstacy? Synthal meth?

Discworld. I have never been asked an easier question.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd

woke 1

Lead Belly - "Scottsboro Boys"

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Ever since I learned of the german-inspired term "hobbyless behavior" I can't not see it in all the hateful horseshit some people engage in

New York Post @nypost.com · 3mo ago

Ex-NBA player, GOP Senate hopeful Royce White to declare for WNBA Draft as transgender

I’m one of those high income tech workers and I haven’t set foot in a datacenter in over 5 years, and even years before that it had become only occasionally. DC crews are mostly electrical/hvac, security, shipping/receiving, and smallish crew of entry-level folks as remote hands. Good jobs but few.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

“Okay but our think tank still needs a name.” “I’d like something that suggests a third-tier antagonist on a CW show.” “Way ahead of you!”

Ghoully Krausened@fullykrausened.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're assembling a team of the weirdest looking think tank ghouls to fight the communist menace.

“The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” I don’t think I could love film commentary more than this.

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don’t wanna step too far into than this but - I really enjoyed Nolan’s Odyssey. Had some qualms, but on balance great. Enough so I hope to see it again soon (I almost never want that). I also liked Emily Wilson’s essay. Again, yer qualms. But fascinating points! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Flight attendant on my flight today knew my name. Turned out she used to work at the coffee shop by my house

Leslie Jones. Just viciously roasting every moment without mercy until my last breath

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 4mo ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Of all the ways to get explosive diarrhea, are there any less worth it than iceberg lettuce?

Turned out to be more than I would have thought Joe Abercrombie Peter V. Brett James S. A. Corey (I know, it's two guys) Stephen Graham Jones Martha Wells Cherie Priest Gail Carriger Jim Butcher Piers Anthony (Ugh, I know, I was young...also turns out still alive)

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

five living writers that you've read five books by each Rita Dove Tasha Suri Courtney Milan Grant Morrison Tom Perrotta

MLB games today are on peacock. The white sox game is delayed, but the stream is just live shot of the ball park, with no audio but barely-audible sounds of stadium's announcements, otherwise dead air. Out of nowhere a woman's voice says "baseball" and that's it. Back to nearly dead air after that.

To add to the list, I highly recommend folks watch Stray Dog by Akira Kurosawa. I've never before or since sat in an air conditioned theater feeling such an unconscious urge to keep wiping sweat from my face that wasn't there. (Also it's a great movie with an excellent and young Toshiro Mifune)

Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 4mo ago

seriously, does any movie capture what it feels like to be this goddamn hot better than Do the Right Thing?

In the interest of full disclosure I must confess that while I am not a young squirt I am a Punkin-Lily and 1/4 Jane Dandy on my mother's side. And proud of it!

Michele Tepper@michelet.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Roosevelt's trips to the Dakotas in the 1880s were meant to have two effects: to help cure his asthma and other neurasthenic symptoms, and to reverse his original political image as a 'Young Squirt,' a 'Punkin-Lily' and a 'Jane Dandy'" -Tom Lutz, American Nervousness 1903: An Anecdotal History

Me, painting a badass mural on my VW Bus and putting a waterbed and disco ball inside: "Germany couldn't build a car like this"

CNN@cnn.com · 4mo ago

As President Donald Trump boarded his inaugural flight of the new Air Force One, a luxury jet donated by the government of Qatar, he shared his excitement for the new aircraft and its foreign builders, saying the US "couldn't build a plane like this." https://cnn.it/4wcuEsk