In Alexandre Dumas' 1846 novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, the titular Count "hacks" the telegraph system, a novel technology at the time, as part of his plan to avenge himself against the Baron Denglars. Thus, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is canonically a progenitor of cyberpunk. In this essay I will

you know what most people want to watch? they want to watch good movies unfortunately for the chuds all the good movies are woke

For a man who "Isn't on the Internet" he sure likes to use internet discourse to his own ends.

Tim Pool was paid by a Russian front to create content. This is definitely the dumbest timeline…

Total woke cultural victory. We're bringing pronouns back. It is now illegal to be a white male. We're doing May Day parades just for HR ladies.

The weekend can't come soon enough!

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Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

"The Antichrist, in Peter Thiel’s theology, is always the person telling Peter Thiel no."

it's cool how we literally opened our doors during 9/11 to Americans and literally die to save Americans but we have Republicans proposing to sanction us www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rebecca Traister is using the death of an innocent man at the hands of ICE agents to argue that a Nazi rapist shouldn't have been forced to drop out of a Democratic Senate primary. The depravity in these people's hearts knows no bounds, and neither should your contempt for them.

If you think cis women can't have a deep voice and facial hair, can't comprehend that a rape victim could panic at the thought of being recorded, think confidentiality at a rape crisis centre is ever optional, or that trans people can't be raped then YOU are the misogynist.

I'm comfortablewith calling Transphobia misandry because they're comfortable with all the cruelties of the world falling on men and look for excuses to make it a reality, regardless of the people in question. She doesn't believe that men can be raped while secretly wanting it to be a punishment.

One thing that's a really obvious way that The Patriarchy Benefits Woke Men is that we all kinda know that just applying some basic hygiene, having a job and hobbies besides gaming all day, and just not hating women with a burning passion - makes you upper echelon dating material.

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A lot of it is to do with lining up surgeons and specialists' commitments not cost/insurance stuff. That is a different problem with different solutions.

It's interesting that for women the major factor is being objectified, whereas for men it's feeling that women are unapproachable almost as if they've been put off by something (and then a little objectification in turn). I feel like there's a more obvious solution than "a common language" though

Fr, my biggest problem with major movies is that don't take into account the colour and texture of the film.

There is an interesting conversation to be had about the nature of how we process through photography, and the choices that photographers make about colour, lens and framing.

Honestly most right-wing discourse in the UK is produced for a US audience not a UK one because that's where the money is

Literally everyone has “lived experience,” and I’m going to need folks to be little more specific of what the experiences are.

He died too soon.

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

Pictured: Real American farmer ready to do Communism if only urban voters weren’t so mean to rurals online.

The Israeli govt took Democratic support for granted despite being really shitty *political* as well as national allies for a long time, and the Democrats honestly didn't give them much reason not to think they could keep getting away with it. But it's finally snapped.

"Send Tweet."

i say this as an extremely avid video game enjoyer: gamers are easily the worst consumer base on the face of the planet, incomprehensibly entitled and insufferable about a miraculously accessible product and industry

God that “I weigh 50 pounds more than you” just really makes the whole sentence 100x more evil than an already very evil sentence was

Anti-Platner predominated here not b/c it's ideologically monolithic but b/c everyone from Never Trumpers to radical socialists came through the common experience of not wanting to use the website run by and for sexist and racist internet trolls who like Nazi imagery. Pretty good filter on this one.

"All my friends are rapists" is one of the more fucked up rape apologism tactics I've seen and it's not the first time I've seen it.

One writing "rule" people should care about but which is surprisingly often broken: you need antagonists to get some wins in to be scary. One reason, not the only but one reason, the "they fly now" moment in Star Wars was so mocked is it makes no difference if they fly, Storm Troopers never matter.

Anyway stop buying into reactionary agrarian propaganda. This is as old as civilization and it's fucking wrong. "Its better to be a humble farmer" wrong. The guy telling you that had 2,000 slaves to do the hard work for him. He was lying to you. He sat in his villa all day writing poetry.

it is very funny the number of people who have replied to my column on lindsey graham with some version of "but he was a nice guy!" yeah, who cares.

Remembering that electricity only came to rural communities due to the New Deal.

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

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Let's Streisand Effect this report!

You people have literally made gay people's and women's lives harder, because your views have now justified laws that put ALL LGBT+ people, and women, in danger.

As an aside: I've been around a lot of anti-trans people in my life, have talked with them extensively, and they are all deplorable. They hold very disgusting views about trans people, and it often overlaps with twisted views of gender, and often stereotypical views of gay people.

Nonbinary People's Day AND #PortfolioDay? Woag Anyway hire me to cast and/or direct the voice acting for your game or show or whatever, I'm pretty darn good at it

The prop briefcase from Total Recall (1990)

Spaceballs: The New One: The Teaser Poster. In theaters April 2027.

I usually care less about this (personally, I don't use it) but it speaks volume given Kleins career.

As a book reviewer *and* author, I am begging authors to either learn how opinions work or stop looking at them. And CERTAINLY stop posting screenshots complaining about them. No one needs to explain their feelings about a book. If the lone one star is giving you anxiety - GET OFF GOODREADS. Yikes.

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Friendship for artists in their 30s is just spinning the slot machine to see which one of us gets the depressive spiral this week

Honestly we're rapidly approaching the point that The Beatles and The Stones are themselves too old. My dad is 70 next year - he really doesn't like either, because his formative years were the late 70s when they were old news and disco was big.

Once you start mass removal of citizenship on political grounds you've stopped functioning as a viable democratic state. But that was always where this agenda was heading.