gotta make (even more) money off of those dead kids 🤷
02.03.2026 21:54
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gotta make (even more) money off of those dead kids 🤷
I get my basic news from AP because I don't trust any other place...and now this (on top of some rancid recent headlines)
Is there a single place left that will just matter-of-factly say "This thing happened", "this person died", "we're doing this war now"?
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
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The thought I keep having about SCREAM and the Berlinale and everything else is: you know you're allowed to use your one life to stand for something, right? Even in little ways like this review or a soundbite from an interview. Running away from that is just bizarre to me.
Great review that manages to both discuss the behind-the-scenes and take the movie for what it is. Disappointed by how many seem to be writing off that first part as "internet chatter". It was a pretty big deal that should probably be addressed, AND one of the main reasons that the film is a mess.
finally started The X-Files (my greatest tv white whale) mostly because he's doing the pilot of the sequel series & i just can't miss a project that he's on
wish this was getting more attention from the show. moving speech. didn't know the Joachim connection, that's sick.
"when you look at that blank page, think of who you love." - powerful sentiment i hadn't heard in quite those terms before. only Oscar thing i care about is this guy getting one.
i think spending a summer in the house from JANET PLANET would do me a lot of lasting good
Learning more about my autism diagnosis has led me to the discovery that "neurospicy" is an activation word to make me go insane
I almost said Atlus in general because I just played that, totally agree
On a similar note, I've been thinking that Stephen Miller really gives "Persona villain cackling through a monologue about human weakness before they transform into a Freudian cosmic horror beast"
This could slot onto Fountains of Wayne's WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS easily, one of the highest compliments I can pay a song
She was a contender for the funniest person ever and also this makes me cry every time I watch it. She was a true genius, still doing incredible work. Gutted.
I just moved back to Chicago last fall so I can't take an ounce of credit, but I did luck into having one of the only good representatives in the government right now 🙏
Fiennes & O'Connell are great but Chi Lewis-Parry is doing something extraordinary in THE BONE TEMPLE. After that train sequence I want him in both a delicate weepy drama AND a fisticuffs brawler with Scott Adkins
i've wanted to see this play for ages (ever since reading STATION ELEVEN), new most anticipated film easily
also i'm 33 and went to an arts school so Fleet Foxes covering Elliott Smith is going to hit for me, no question
youtu.be/7tiL5jSz1RY?...
i'm sure the movie's as weak as everyone says but it was worth it for this
youtu.be/kFqIeLP7_JM?...
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every moment of every day. about to see a friend who suffered a horrid loss and have been sick for days knowing it will be a conversation i can't "succeed at" (or get out of without vulnerability at least)
Whitney built herself a character arc on MORMON WIVES this season that rivals Tony Soprano:
doesn't appear for five episodes, blatantly says she's just back to get DWTS, gets DWTS, becomes leader of the group by the finale. amazing stuff.
one of my favorite things
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seeing Wednesday bust out a cover of Big Star's "September Gurls" was the most i've smiled in ages. felt like a gift. incredible show.
"the vague feeling that there must be something I want to do here, but unsure if it is any of this"
is also just a pretty great summary of what every day of being alive has felt like for years
"It evokes the off-kilter oddities of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but also the sensation of restlessness that I associate with scrolling through the Netflix queue—the vague feeling that there must be something I want to do here, but unsure if it is any of this."
great stuff. bleak!
The science backing up the idea that race can make someone a good or bad scientist or airline pilot is as solid as the logic behind “orcs can’t be wizards” or “a hobbit can never become a great fighter.” This vision of racial rigidity, in which people can be sorted into categories that quantify their potential, has nothing to do with genetics; it is a political creation, a descendant of the same racist pseudoscience that was prominent in Tolkien’s time. In this sense, what we call “scientific racism” could be called “fantasy racism” instead, a belief that people can be reduced to quantifiable numbers, like so many digits on a character sheet. The races might be fantasy, but the effects of racism are real. After Musk’s DOGE gutted USAID, he insisted that “no one has died.” That wasn’t true. People had already died, and hundreds of thousands more will follow every year because America cut its food and medical aid to the world’s poorest. Anyone could have predicted this catastrophic human cost; Musk must not have cared. Perhaps he saw the dead of the global South as so many nameless orcs.
Musk and others on the far right are obsessed with things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons because they see fantasy worlds as reinforcing their own beliefs about immutable hierarchies of race, gender, and by extension morality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
“Much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you”
it’s a balm to the brain to see this entire way of thinking, which has somehow taken over this stupid country, so thoroughly and entertainingly dismantled
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