Especially stupid move because Christopher Nolan's movies always have conservative subtext. If the right wing waited they could've used The Odyssey to screech about 'low-trust societies' and welfare frauds. But, as always, he's a Tory and not racist enough for them to see an ally.
Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w agoIn retrospect the right wingers should have latched onto it and declared cultural victory for Statue Guys, but their racism was simply too strong.
You can tell Trump actually wanted a deal because he didn't send Vance, Kushner and Witkoff.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.*LUTNICK WAS INVOLVED IN TALKS W/ FIFA ON BALOGUN: POLITICO
We need to get the Norwegian World Cup supporters to call upon Thor for one last job.
Ben Schwartz@benschwartz.bsky.social · last mo.DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
This week at a museum I learned the Roman Empire had challenge coins. This is a bronze medallion of Commodus (177 - 192 AD), dressed as Hercules, that he gave as collectible gifts to friends and government lackeys.
All newly-arrived white South Africans are required to conform to our cultural understanding of them, the sole textbook on this being the movie Lethal Weapon 2.
Zeeshan Aleem@zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · last mo.I wrote about Trump’s white nationalist goodie bags for incoming white South African refugees, which include android tablets, American flags, and a bunch of literature that criticizes Mandela and says the U.S. civil rights movement was misguided. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
I've had conversations with 70+ year-olds where they've complained about my generation and I've told them the decades I've worked, the house I won't own, the family I won't raise and my expected future and seen in their eyes a flash of incriminating sympathy. But it's only a flash, and they recover.
Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · last mo.The political story of this era is a petulant, narcissistic generation demanding to ruin a future they will not be a part of. Pulling the ladder up behind them wasn’t enough; their arrogance and vanity demanded more.
Always sad the day they emerge from the pokeball and realize they're sliding down the factory chute.
Cheap Ass Gamer@cheapassgamer.com · last mo.Campbell’s Condensed Kids Soup, Pokémon Flavor, 10.5 oz Can (12 Pack) $14.38 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). #ad https://ow.ly/wweH50Zg5pC
Not true. We are doing all of that in exchange for the same nuclear statement and Iran graciously allowing Israel to not deplete its remaining stockpile of functionally irreplaceable aircraft and missile interceptors.
Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote@thefred.bsky.social · 2mo agoFolks, we're recognizing an Iranian sphere of influence, withdrawing forces, and paying indemnities, in exchange for merely the same statement from Iran that they have always made about nuclear weapons.
He looks like he should be shouting, "Boss, it's him! D-d-da Bat!"
alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2mo agomy man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic
Hot Take: It's beautifully lit but this movie is pure cheese. The story is a cartoon, the characters are lazily conceived and Walken's ethnically diverse Burger King Kids Club of a gang is stupid. It's an edgy gangster movie from the mind of George Lucas.
Siskel and Ebert Bot@siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.social · 2mo agoKing of New York (1990) Director: Abel Ferrara Cast: Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes, Laurence Fishburne, John Turturro Watch Review wp / wd
Weapons? Did they assume in the event of nuclear Armageddon Ted Kennedy would need to fight raiders and super mutants?
Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe congressional nuclear bunker at Greenbrier was stocked not only with food, weapons, medicine, etc but with a ton of alcohol until 1975. So many members of Congress were open alcoholics that emergency planners feared a wave of people simultaneously having withdrawal in a confined space.
Honestly believe Hollywood needs to create a Strategic Yayo Reserve to bring back good movies.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3mo agoCocaine has done infinitely more for the arts and education than AI ever will.
Charlie Kirk was a human Twilight Zone episode: a man who used sophistry to annoy and irritate his way to meme stardom who then suffers the ultimate grotesque murder and then his name and likeness are stripped of context (like how he used to argue) and he's turned into an immortal meme goblin.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3mo agoIn times of immense division, people are metabolizing violence through memes—pushing the A.I.-slop frontier from Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the ongoing war in Iran. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Meanwhile, far from the attention-seeking headlines of the White House Correspondents Dinner, the starving sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln begin to plan what future historians would call 'the death spasm of the American Empire'.
Everyone's a high roller until an Iranian missile hits your petrochemical industrial complex.
The Saudi pullback from sports investing shows even the ultra-wealthy are trying to cut costs
The nation's Crown Prince just approved a plan to 'redeploy capital within the domestic economy.'
businessinsider.com
Negotiating across from them, a guy who wrote in his memoir how in college he once was terrified of burning his tongue drinking sparkling water.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 4mo ago📸 The Iranian delegation in Pakistan.
For Americans alarmed about negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran, just ask yourself 'What Would Reagan Do?'
This account is occasionally like a Woot alert for cool toys so long as you don't eat them or stick them in your eye.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 4mo ago#Warning: CPSC Warns Consumers to Stop Using LRIGYEH Magnetic Stick Figure Toy Sets Immediately Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Magnet Ingestion; Violate Mandatory Standard for Toys Learn more: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
A visual guide to Iran's strategy of targeting the allied Gulf states in the war
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
This is also the reason Macy's itself is dying. Consumer spending is down because all of our money is spent paying bills.
SEIU_ORG@seiu.org · 4mo agoAbout 17% of a typical household’s income went to rent in 1980, versus 30-40% or more in many areas today.
In history today, the Great March of Return, a peaceful march for Palestinians right of return, began and was met by extreme violence by Israel in 2018. The noir of the day is 1953's JEOPARDY, directed by John Sturges for M-G-M and starring Ralph Meeter, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Sullivan.
There is no way any major media outlet *favorably* compares Oysters Rockefeller here to one of their progressive foes unless the editors got an instructive phone call from the boss.
The discourse is broken@brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 4mo agoThere are a ton of obvious examples of this. How does a political newcomer running in a Senate primary get a gushing profile in … Bon Appetite magazine? www.bonappetit.com/story/graham...
Every day of this war has seen some kind of anecdote that a historian would spend three paragraphs writing about in their history of the fall of an empire.
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · 4mo agoIran took out a fucking E-3 Sentry AWACS parked on the ground. that's the literal definition of high-value asset. great job Pete, your war is going awesome.
