I am more bug bite than human, sadly it hasn't done this to my abs

Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in The Fly (1986)

ALT: Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in The Fly (1986)

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Showed my 7yo this movie a few months ago and he still talks about it. I explained to him how it was done. He’s watched it 3 times again since. Essential cultural viewing, in my opinion.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

column on ceuta and the new phenomenon of "border porn": migration as livestream spectacle, the frontier as computer game www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew

It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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unconventional alt text, but honestly unimprovable

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️@spitfire.bsky.social · yesterday

reaction to this is crazy to me. 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 should leave algorithmic, link-suppressing hellsites. i want all sorts of losers i would never follow or converse with on bluesky 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥. the whole 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 of this place is that you can ignore stuff you don’t like!

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

because exercise is bad for you

‘I spent a week crying. I’ve never had an injury in my life!’ Why do so many fitness fans end up needing surgery?

From the 47-year-old runner who needs a double hip replacement to the 27-year-old CrossFitter with a ruptured ACL, those who push their bodies too hard often regret it. What are the lessons for the re...

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Well

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d ago

An explosion at Moscow's luxury Balzi Rossi restaurant. Early reports say at least three people were killed and several others injured. Russian Telegram channels say the restaurant was closed to the public for the birthday of Russian general Aleksandr Chayko, commander of Russia's aerospace forces.

When I spoke to unhoused people they told me their day to day lives were mostly terror Constant terror Fear of assault, rape, the police. Fear of losing what little they had left Were I in the same position I’d look for any way to dull it.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration

There can be no let-up now. Infantino must stand down or be removed: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed | Nick Ames

Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader

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UEFA going for the jugular. "The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family." Translation: UEFA will back a opponent to Infantino in the Fifa presidential election on 18 March 2027. Montagliani?

The official website for European football

UEFA.com is the official site of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, and the governing body of football in Europe. UEFA works to promote, protect and develop European football across it...

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Just putting it there: the last week has shown how Bluesky has grown into the most reliable, noise-, bot- and BS-free resource for anyone interested in football governance and politics. The coverage of Fifa's and Infantino's debacle has been fantastic. Size isn't everything.

Well, the final whistle on Chelsea FC's financial cheating under Abramovich seems to have blown. The Guardian and our reporting partners practically put it on a plate for the FA and Premier League. They blazed it over the bar. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Chelsea fined £10m and given suspended transfer ban by FA over agent breaches

The club escaped a suspended six-point deduction for the infringements after appealing against the original punishment.

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A trip back to 2016 VR to compare against what’s gone wrong with 2026 smart glasses, with a 2013 Google Glass kicker www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

To Get Beyond ‘Pervert Glasses,’ Meta Should Remember the Lessons of VR - CNET

Commentary: You can’t understand what you can’t see – and the social contracts for smart glasses are still nonexistent.

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Tip of the hat to Fifa official Kevin Lamour, who basically assured himself of the sack when speaking on the record to AP's @gdunbarap.bsky.social. Fifa staff were “deceived” by Infantino’s lack of openness planning the private investor scheme and “deserve better than contempt and intimidation.”

Senior FIFA official resigns over Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan. Second says it deceived staff

Two senior FIFA officials have criticized Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan with one resigning as a presidential adviser and a second saying staff were deceived by project that must not go ah...

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Tonight, the D&D team revealed a project two years in the making: Universes Beyond. Much like with Magic: The Gathering, it brings other big nerd properties into the D20 system, starting with World of Warcraft content coming in Q4 2026 and Star Wars in 2027. www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

D&D Rolls a Natural 20 on Nerd Collabs, Announcing World of Warcraft and Star Wars Sets - CNET

Dice rolls are headed to Azeroth and a galaxy far, far away — starting this year.

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Am told sentiment from Concacaf meeting was that vast majority of members have lost confidence or are losing confidence in Infantino as Fifa president

The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

President Toddler

Let's see what Fifa come back with now but this is a stunning move from Uefa. Plenty of concerns that smaller countries would choose Infantino's $$ but he has taken a massive blow here. Feeling this is only the start of the story: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup

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is this good

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 6d ago

"Wall Street is racing to roll out complex investment products tied to SpaceX shares that aim to shield buyers from future losses amid a sharp selloff following its market debut." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

yes

Nick Ames@nickames82.bsky.social · last wk.

Enough statements, enough words, enough "careful consideration", enough private disgust. It's time for UEFA and Europe to take action against what FIFA and Infantino are doing to football: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56

interesting aside here about Patel as Odysseus, which would have been dope, but also misses the crucial (Hollywood) cinematic technique Nolan deploys in his film namely, he shaves scenes and dialogue down to the bone, casting stars who can fill in the gaps via performance and star persona

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

In this piece, I regret the paragraph about the uses of the POC actors - who are all great, but IMO under-utilized (and why couldn‘t Himesh Patel be Odysseus instead?) I still think the film largely wastes its strong cast, but I framed it badly.

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

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heads up for Juno completionists: Juno has finished her Nirvana series

I was rushing to make breakfast for me and the kids because my wife is away. I dropped a bowl and yogurt went *everywhere*. Floor, walls, me, everywhere. I'm literally an Incompetent Dad from an advert. (Bounty, Swiffer, pls get in touch)

Three hour adaptation of "The German Guns" by Private S Baldrick, when?

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now