When it comes to sequels I like more than the original despite public consensus? My feelings about the Matrix films are pretty controversial, The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars film since Empire (and might be better than it, there's room for debate), and Iron Man 2 is underrated.

I have intentionally not bothered paying any attention to the Texas D primary so someone I like from there please tell me if tonight is doing the good thing or the bad thing thanks

"COOP, IT'S GORDON COLE! I'M HERE IN DUBAI WITH THE BUREAU, COOP, AND I'M TRAPPED AND UNDER ATTACK! MEANWHILE, BACK AT QUANTICO THE BOYS ARE FURIOUS, MY PET CHIHUAHUA - I HAVE A PET CHIHUAHUA, COOP! HE'S SICK, AND WORST OF ALL, I LEFT MY SPECIAL MOUNAJRO PEN IN THE FRIDGE, COOP! A REAL KERFLUFFLE!"

"Better to die in freedom than live as a slave!" I scream as I clutch the salad bar's entire container of French dressing and toss croutons into it.

And that’s the Rosetta Stone that explains it all. Platner’s whole appeal is “Trump, but leftishly”: a boorish lout who does stupid, thoughtless things, lies, never apologizes, and thus gives his supporters permission to be their worst selves.

So just putting this out there for the folks I know - I'm hoping to get a 3D-printed replacement head for Age of the Primes Sureshot, since I prefer his toy head design to the one used by the animation model. If anyone sees that for sale or whatever, give me a ping, if you'd be so kind.

I am a woman who understands that when it comes to freaking myself out, I should focus on the things that I at least theoretically have some control over instead of the things I have no control over.

the joke is that kyle maclachlan was very good on this show as well

"Diane, it's 12:21 a.m. on February 25th. I've just finished watching a television program in which a man in a red jumpsuit attempted to maintain his sanity with the help of four robot companions. Diane, I find myself unable to stop thinking about how this man eats or breathes."

"Land of Confusion" was written as an expression of anxiety and uncertainty in a time when national leaders seemed openly inimical to the people most of the time and quietly indifferent at best, but it also concludes by saying, "It's up to us to fix it right now."

The lootbox/gatcha economy is bad, there's basically no principled way you can distinguish it from MTG booster packs.

A good thing to know about Corey Doctorow is that after he published his "enshittification" article (which, tbc, I think is a valid, if overapplied, concept) and when ppl were like "ok so why arent you quitting twitter then" & his response was "why would i leave a place w a big audience"

Deontology is a terrible way to live your life.

I sincerely believe that Warner Bros. should just ask Wallace Shawn for a number and then give him that much money to do exactly that.

of all the star wars things I don't want I don't want this a great deal

*50s singer voice* Everybody do the Aneurysm Hop! *collapse to the ground twitching*

Person Whose Work Sucked Now Sucks At Politics, Film At 11

As someone who knows she was a cowgirl during the Wild West era, well, I won't totally miss it... but there was a feeling to it you just ain't never going to get again. But trying to chase something that ain't coming back don't bring it back none, just makes what happens now worse.

I see people responding to this with "well, actually, it stretches further back than that" and there are two things to consider: 1) no, it really doesn't, disagreeing with the GOP agenda (which I do) doesn't mean that there is no material difference between now and then 2) going insane is a process

I dunno which I'd kill first: "Sports Betting: The App" or "Payday Loan: The App"

Something that came up when talking with @cobaltlily.bsky.social - we joke about the Revolution being leftist secular Rapture, but memestocks/crypto fantasies are functionally right-wing secular Rapture just as surely. "You don't need to do anything, just arrive at the right moment."

"COOP, IT'S GORDON COLE! TURNS OUT DIANE IS IN A CLOSET FULL OF MOVIES AND SHE'S GOT A LOT TO TALK ABOUT, HENCE WHY SHE HASN'T BEEN ANSWERING YOUR VOICE MEMOS! THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE WORKING ON A SYSTEM FOR FEEDING YOUR TAPES INTO THE CLOSET FOR HER, COOP!"

No, what I am feeling about the bitcoin crash is not schadenfreude. "Schadenfreude" means "shameful joy" and I do not feel one whit of shame.

filling my neighbor's car with a swam of angry biting but non-lethal beetles y'all want anything

if by coincidence part of the conspiracy theory lines up with reality, you might think that it means the theory was correct, but consider the following: no

Sure, it's an outfit, but it's being worn by someone awful enough that I really don't care.

Idk if trans kids these days know this but back in my day you could just walk into a RadioShack and walk out with one of these puppies

Why didnt Trump rig this? 🧐🧐🧐

This is insulting specifically to Transformers and a compliment to the RX-78. A real "oh, he's so lucky, she could do better" moment.

The Bureau of Reasonable Bluesky Posters have moved our Posting Vibe Clock from "Deranged" to "Feral."

The Internet was based on Ben Franklin's notes* so it's really from 1780 basically. * The notes in question: "It woulde be agreeable to My Conftitution if, upon my Confeption of looking upon a comely maiden bereft of Clothef, I could conjure a clear Picture of thif upon a mirror Promptly."

This picture looks like Space Oddity feels.

ok, but WHY is the proof in the pudding? and who put it there? Now we're just sitting here with pudding covered proof and a mess on our hands.

BUDD: "So lemme get this straight. They're gonna prevent change... by stopping people from voting?" BILL: "Nah. Voting doesn't actually matter or change things, they're just going to stop you from doing it." BUDD: "Huh. Why're they doin' that?" BILL: "I dunno. I guess they thought it sounded cool."

I'm coming around to the idea that the firebomb-a-walmart people who are complaining about voting aren't just dooming, they fundamentally do not believe in democracy. We're fighting for liberal democracy, they're fighting to be the ones in charge of a dictatorship. Those two are incompatible.

"I can't argue with that logic" as a statement of absence.

LISTEN UP 🗣️ LIBS 😏😏 you better get ready 👀 to PICK A GENDER ⚧️🚫 cuz there's ONLY 2️⃣

"I have to fight so hard to make myself understood." Sounds like you're a champ at communication, a skill which famously only involves one person.

There are few solutions, but with a life of therapy, you can experience a largely normal life that does not involved weeping openly at a single peach whilst wearing a low-cut shirt and smoking a cigarette.

Writing something like this is disqualifying you from ever being taken seriously just from the tortured non-logic evident in the statement. (Screencapped for the inevitable block/delete.)

Incrementalism works. Incrementalism is good. Incrementalism is how you turn a mountain into a paved road. It's a tool the right has long weaponized in its arsenal, and if you can't understand that an incremental step is important you are unable to engage with the reality of wielding power.

every year the Academy Awards once again fail to give Zap Rowsdower his due

In The Shawshank Redemption, when Andy Dufresne writes a letter a week requesting funds for the prison library, he finally gets a response saying "here's some money, please stop sending us letters" after six years. He promptly says he'll start sending two letters a week instead of one.

I appreciate that @jackwnicholls.bsky.social took the time in his Vile: Exhumed video to inform me that the nubile blonde woman removing her bra for the camera was not, in fact, John Hurt. (It's a good video but it'll fuck you up.)

Change a letter, ruin a film: The Bug Lebowski

"Trumpy, you can do stupid things!" but serious

Rhio does not need glasses and never has, but she wears them. Part of this is because most of them are treated very carefully with coatings to minimize flashes of light and a few have more esoteric aetherscope functionality. A bigger part, however, is that they look very good on her.