I think part of Snyder's appeal to a particular CHUD demographic is that he looks like '90s Image comics pinups. Movies that lurch from Liefeld splash page to Liefeld splash page.

Good analysis. I enjoy Pain and Gain but also find it to be sort of grossly exploitative in the way it adapts a true story as a less-than-true crime-comedy. I’m more personally fascinated by Snyder’s (considerably less influential) style and I think you’re onto something with the slow motion.

Continuing my thoughts about Bay and Snyder. I think Zach Snyder doesn't really like how much of his fanbase are CHUDs.

He's like Zack Snyder's Wario, and I say that as someone who has *never* gotten the appeal of Snyder as a visual storyteller.

I think he's drawn to the aesthetics of stuff blowing up, perhaps even moreso than Snyder

What I find fascinating about Michael Bay is he's shown he's just as willing to direct jingoistic flag-waving bullshit doing the flag waving for China as for the United States. He's not a normal American nationalist. He's just in it for the love of the jingoism game.

New innovations in racism coming out of Sweden.

Yeah, the same shit that's happening in a hell of a lot of countries, I reckon. We are ruled by the worst people on Earth.

Why are the Americans mad at the UK today?

Quantum computing, like net-positive fusion, is the high-tech hype that gets rolled out when the normal hype cycle is about to pop a bubble.

I know the running theme here is everyone’s horny but gang, this is the horniest anyone has ever been and it isn’t even a debate.

The Swedish 🇸🇪 Parliament just approved a law that would create a tiered citizenship scheme, with a 1st class (mostly for the native born) that cannot be revoked and a 2nd class (mostly for the naturalized) that can: www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... Only two parties (Left and Green) voted against.

Recreational ozempec lol

20, 12, 10, 8, 6

This is a lesson the dems will also never learn: you will be accused of being pro-immigrant, pro-trans commies by the right, and nothing you do will convince them otherwise. So might as well lean into it and actually get off your bellies and stand for something once in your fucking lives

What I want is a list of fucking links.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand did an interview with Al Jazeera and was asked a ton of the questions about Israel and the government’s hypocrisy around it that Canadian media would never ask government officials.

Fun fact about Colossal: they did *not* resurrect the dire wolf!

This fucker needs to sleep. He needs to stop using drugs that prevent him from sleeping and get some fucking sleep. Idiot managed to sleep-starve his brain straight into Naziism. It's one of the most drug-assisted far-right pivots since Nick Land.

"Bad but interesting" is the most consistently underrated category of media

I wonder when somebody trying to smear the reputation of an anti-genocide org is going to stop and ask themselves:

the contemporary stuff features marginalisation in the wider sense, this isn't mutually exclusive with the absurd coincidences, which has a lot to do with the meandering and long nature of the genre.

Good advice

The Wrath of Becky presents an alternate reality where the CIA assassinates Nazis rather than supporting them. But tbe main character uses hunting traps and cunning to murder Nazis in over-the-top revenge-horror antics so it is, at least, a fun aspirational alternate history.

Take a rabbit and make it a trickster wilderness prophet with the bite force of a particularly mean pug, presto: hare.

Larry Sanger started a WikiProject promoting "intellectual diversity" the membership is uniformly, to a person, pro-MAGA, pro-Israel.

If this sounds like you, I encourage you to look into my two favorite genres of country music — 1. I will die for my union and the cops who shot us are going to Hell, and 2. I just killed my husband and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.

Don't buy Tweed vapes. If they break the manufacturer will NOT help.

That's a funny way of saying "we will raid to public coffers to keep Telus and Loblaws in the green"

The United States is attempting to enact a genocide in Cuba as a method of forcing regime change.

Insufficiently disenchanted and what comes next will still yet be worse

look around, we all ultimately chose together that it was easier not to stop this etc

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

I came out of the closet as bisexual because I couldn't stand being seen as a mere "ally" to my queer brothers and sisters any longer. I am married to a woman. I have a child. I present like a very normal cis man what with my interests in grilling and hunting and such. I was safe. And I hated it.

I wrote about Evil Dead (2013) for Horror Mode and I'd love it if you gave it a read! Now, hopefully, without being dunked on by Bluesky's labeler! horrormode.com/no-heaven-ev...

Yeah.

Typical Federation behaviour.

There is no creative on this planet I detest more than Gossip Goblin. Their work is just ugly and poorly formed. Their scripts are shrill and annoying. Their whole vibe fucking sucks.

Can somebody please tell the creators of Stranger Things Tales from '85 that the bluetooth protocol was developed in 1999 and wasn't used for music devices until 2004? Because punkrock girl using a bluetooth headset with her fuckin walkman has to be the worst anachronism this franchise has ever done

And so I find myself in the unusual position of defending Christopher Nolan's choices...

I'm sorry but anyone who sees a problem with Lupita Nyong’o being cast as the world's most beautiful woman is simply undeserving of eyes in the first place.

The problem with integrating any conspiracy theory into a game in a "what if it was real lol" kind of way is the more you learn about it the harder it becomes to ignore the antisemitism.

For sure. There’s at least one of those in every arc where Oda really tests your patience, but everything around them has kept me hooked for 1200ish episodes now. 😂

Dudes who rock more than any other dudes have rocked

Nobody wants this.

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl... America doesn't have free speech.

And I'm tired of being told that I need to just deal with the censorship so as to protect the poor undeserving SFW artists from getting swept up by it. I'm tired of the solidarity only flowing in one direction. I do not care about helping people who are content to watch me and mine suffer.

If you're a SFW artist, you're only safe from censorship FOR NOW. Once they're done grinding up the NSFW artists, they'll come for you work, too. You either fight this fight with us now and maybe we can win, or you can ignore us and definitely lose in the future. Your choice.