Booing Donald Trump is the closest thing to a national anthem for the world.

The same people who want to sanction Canada for the wildfire smoke have killed federal regulations so they can load the atmosphere with deadly pollutants while cutting cancer research and reducing access to healthcare.

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18

The World Cup final in a nutshell

Pool report from @svdate.bsky.social, who is at the World Cup ceremony: "The president walked onto the field at 1826 to a sustained chorus of boos. Ambient crowd noise was about 78 decibels. Booing brought it to 84."

Shoutout to all the racist Argentina fans that showed their ass this World Cup. Enjoy that flight home.

Well unfortunately, I found The Odyssey to be incredibly moving in addition to being very good. Great experience at the theater as well, so, man, nothing to complain about, should I even be on social media?!

Everyone check in on your fuckface headass old timey cryptocurrency snake oil huckster libertarian prime ministers. They are not ok right now

Amusing that the “controversial” casting in The Odyssey ended up being over two (well, three) minor characters with a combined total of about five minutes of screen time. The hills trolls are dying on are getting smaller.

We now go live to the World Cup final

Watching both teams still 0-0 after the half like

Well that makes sense of the murder spree. Prosecute everyone.

"Yeah, Christopher Nolan made a billion dollars with a film about a scientist being sad, but I really think I can get people to skip his movie where Matt Damon fights monsters with a sword," - the finest minds on the internet.

That is not a judgment on The Odyssey btw. It’s just that many (most?) normal people shed books after they’ve read them. Couldn’t be me. Maybe some day.

At this point right wing culture war shit is just Cartman’s minorities in the water park song. Just say you want segregation. Who are you even trying to rationalize it to anymore?

It’s pretty funny that Elon had to block Cinesthetic, for all intents and purposes a gooner account, because they *checks notes* accurately reported on the box office for THE ODYSSEY. The “facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd really just wants an alternate reality to protect their feelings.

It's really been clarifying to watch how the "centrist"/"moderate"/mainstream "liberal" Democratic establishment has reacted to a handful of people to their left having some electoral success.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Good, balanced takes here. To me, the data suggest Game Pass' negative impact on sales is overestimated and overblown by many, much as was the case for both piracy and used games before it. The important insight here is the MS does not appear to have clearly laid out the formula for compensation.

Just a word of advice, if you’re thinking about reading The Odyssey, wait a couple of weeks. Your local used bookstore is going to be overflowing with them soon.

The same people who cry "election interference" are hiding a senator's dead body to keep their majority.

like, I know people get mad when you say liberals prefer fascists to leftists but they keep saying it

His answer on how you define “working class” gets at something too many pundits and politicians forget: The raw numbers might matter for policy, but for politics, it’s more important to speak to how people *feel* about their ability to afford the life they want.

Mamdani's critics in one screenshot, lol

I like how Platner was this singular irreplaceable figure and within ten seconds everyone was able to go “never mind this other guy is just as good”

Fuck me, something just occurred to me about the way a scene in THE ODYSSEY is shot like a Catholic confessional booth despite the mythos it takes place in and now I want to see the movie all over again to look for clues to see if that’s a running visual motif, goddamn what a picture.

ive gotten much more convinced how important it is to call things what they are. look what can happen when you state the facts clearly and posit them against a clear moral background. good work can get good results. (and i think we can blame bad results on the absence of good work)

Been listening to Ludwig Goransson’s beautiful score for THE ODYSSEY nonstop since yesterday. It’s so different from what you’d expect but so perfect. The main theme for Odysseus and his crew is haunting. He’s coming for Oscar #4. Insane.

If you’ve just seen THE ODYSSEY and are looking for a video game to scratch that same itch, don’t go for AC ODYSSEY or the like, play HELLBADE II: SENUA’S SAGA. Different mythos but very similar vibes and aesthetics. Trust me.

another outstanding piece from @bilgeebiri.bsky.social on an outstanding movie.

It’s incredibly small and incredibly astroturfed.

we cannot continue down this path. we are killing ourselves

Lucky enough to have a theatre nearby that does this, that’s how I saw I Thursday. Have to drive an hour out to Buford Mall of Georgia for the IMAX 70mm but that’s how I saw DUNKIRK, TENET, and OPPENHEIMER, so doing that with my father in law this next Friday.

But but the smart centrists on Twitter said that’s the sentiment coming from the American heartland in rural diners, what do you mean they are wrong?

THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

Elon is right, I've read The Odyssey and Helen is specifically described as a white woman with blonde hair, dark roots, 32DD silicone breasts, a lower back tattoo of Dale Earnhardt, and who cums at the sight of a doughy trust fund kid.

I also share this belief.

Tenet made 300 million during the pandemic! People want to see his movies, simple as

I hope a lot of people took the over on how much money The Odyssey was forecast to make

It rocks that so many people thought the guy whose last movie made a billion dollars and won all the Oscars would follow it up with a disastrous bomb

"Okay, you're fighting a guy named Boxcar Bob." "Brawled his way up from the boxcars, did he?" "No, not yet. He still lives at the train yard but he's a hungry young fighter. In fact, he's actually fighting for a sandwich."

I know this is super basic, but, there are no winners in a war. One side just gives up before the other one.

Really loved THE ODYSSEY, and I am not always the biggest Nolan fan. I run hot and cold on him. This one really landed on me. It is fucking psycho to call that movie "woke." It is deeply humanist, though, and that seems to be what the right-wing fuckbrains hate the most. Empathy. Humanity. Civility.

It would be nice to never hear the argument that Twitter drives our culture ever again. They’re actually the Japanese soldiers who kept fighting for years in the jungle after World War II was over.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Christopher Nolan, for all his flaws, makes real movies that even people who sop up all the content slop inherently realize is an example of how things used to be before everything was half-assed and done in a green screen soundstage.

Christopher Nolan's Dante's Inferno