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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Avatar and Arco remaining 🤘

A ★★★★ review of The Girl Who Cried Pearls (2025) The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead, patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill of...

The Girl Who Cried Pearls

The final short. Just stunning.

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A ★½ review of The Three Sisters (2024) This was so slight, I dont even know how the comment. Had some mildly entertaining moments but felt icky overall and the animation wasnt anything to write home about. Please put up a damn fence if you...

Three Sisters

Who lust after a man and argue. Thats basically it.

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Prompt: please draw the best mouse Output: an adorably naff mouse

Prompt: ai please draw a sneaky whale Output: a small whale and the words "you can barely see him"

Prompt: show me the best cat Output: dog in a cat mask. The words "not dog"

I want to be friends with every single person on youraislopbores.me

holding old timer bats so they can still feel like flappy lads is some real heartwarming stuff

The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com is absolutely incredible.

Do yourself a favor: take the next hour or so, sit down with a coffee or tea or whatever cozy beverage you prefer, and bathe in the magic of its grammar.

A ★★ review of Forevergreen (2025) Pixar's Cocaine Bear

Forevergreen

Perfectly fine if someone mawkish. And then the Bible quote threw me.

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A ★★★★½ review of Butterfly (2024) A life marred by racism. The growing realisation of the setting was brutal. The final shots and text broke me. Gorgeous animation, painting a sad yet uplifting tale.

Papillion

Retirement Plan nearly made me cry, but this broke me. Realising it was a real life. Outstanding.

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A ★★★★½ review of Retirement Plan (2024) Forget about the past, your mask is wearing thin Just let me throw one more dice I know that I can win I'm waiting for my real life to begin

Retirement Plan

Seven minutes that caught my breath in my throat. Beautifully delivered by Domnhall Gleeson, beautifully edited. We spend life waiting just to have the time.

I spent my Friday night organising my storage and digital photos, because I never have time.

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So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

2 new Pixar original films have been revealed:

• ‘Ono Ghost Market’ - A film inspired by Asian myths about supernatural bazaars where the living & dead interact

• The studio's first-ever musical film, directed by Domee Shi (‘Turning Red’)

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Hank Hill hotdog jpeg meme but the caption reads: "I do not want to save to onedrive. I want to save to the documents folder... On my computer... That I own... In my house."

Whoever decided that this "onedrive" nonsense should be turned on people's computers by default & fucking with file placement without our knowledge or permission should be [REDACTED] sorry I mean [REDACTED] aww dangit I just mean IT BAD OKAY

Reminder, because it can feel VERY hard to believe in these unpleasant times:

Transphobes are a vanishingly tiny minority.
Smaller still than transgender people themselves.

Most people are actually completely fine with our inclusion and existence. They just don't have billionaire megaphones.

This is the energy #LDConf debate chairs need to bring

"Straight ahead is a clock. It's a clock. We would love for you to help us as we press towards our goal."

So. Avatar, Arco and the Animated shorts. Can I do it by the 15th? Do I want to force myself to watch another damn Avatar movie?

I've gone from having watched 109 or 87% of all nominations to 117 nominations or 94% in one film.

I've now seen over 90% of total runtime (69hr 21 min - 92.18%) and completed 20 categories.

Hamnet means I have hit a huge milestone. Only two feature length films (Avatar + Arco) and the five animated shorts left.

It was the final nominee I needed for Best Picture, Director, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Production Design and Casting.

A ★★★½ review of Hamnet (2025) I truly believe Paul Giamatti to be one of our greatest living actors. I believe this because in every deeply emotional moment, he dials things up to a solid 9 - he doesn't blow out the speakers and r...

The final Big Hitter down - Hamnet

I am sure it was better in a cinema. The cinematography is gorgeous. If anything, I do agree with critiques it was overwrought and manipulative. The acting aims for 11/10 too often.

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Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

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“Armed Only with a Camera”: Oscar-Nominated Doc Honors Brent Renaud and Other “Fallen Journalists” We speak with filmmaker Craig Renaud, the director of Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, an HBO documentary about his brother, photojournalist Brent Renaud, who was killed b...

"Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud" is nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards.

A balancing act between "efficiency and our rights" is always a terrifying discussion - great analysis of the reforms here.

💥Big vote next week on government's plans for court reform. Analysis here 👇

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finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

As always: its not just grammars you're bringing back, its secondary moderns.

And no one wants their kids to go to one. Which is a issue when 75% of kids will do so.

Always missed in this debate. You're making the education of the majority worse, to privilage a small minority.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

A ★★★½ review of It Was Just an Accident (2025) A road movie with dark overtones, I nearly broke at the card reader 'gift'.

It Was Just An Accident

It's strange watching a movie about life under the Iranian regime this week

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Pokémon Fans Share What 30 Years Of The Series Means To Them We asked folks to tell us a story of how the series had affected their lives for the better

If you want a big wall of feel good stories from the past 30 years of Pokémon, I asked developers, creators, and media folks to tell me a story about how the series has affected their lives for the better.

The "rather" is killing me. But they'll take it if needed.