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Community indulgence of the delusion that Covid is gone is why, just five years out, people feel like it never happened. Stop participating in that if you find it problematic.

I’m not gonna yell but a good way to ensure that the lockdowns and high death rate in the first year of the pandemic are not forgotten is to not keep dismissing that it is still a significant health risk, long covid is now as common in kids as asthma, and people need your help guarding against it.

As someone currently living in a malnourished state due to Long Covid complications, the amount of “was” in the qts and the replies by people who I’m rather certain are *still* exposing high risk people to Covid is going to make me tear out what is left of my hair (yep, that’s also from Long Covid)

Taylor Lorenz makes the correct point: "Grok cannot apologize. Chatbots don’t think, feel, regret things, or take responsibility. They are software tools". The Guardian should amend this story @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #auspol @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

I keep going back to Star Trek lately. Not for the future. For a place where adults are in charge. Where choices matter. Where harm has consequences. Beam me up. Shields up. Warp 10. Make it so. 🖖🏾

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Stranger Things x wrestling @netflix.com

First and last films of 2025 #FilmSky

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1st Film of 2026: Cocteau’s LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE

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Can someone please create and release an open-world Stranger Things game? @netflix.com

An era has ended and I’m expected to work on Monday like normal!?!

I have just finished Stranger Things. It’s the end of an era; a series that meant so much to me. I will not be normal for the next 7 to 10 business days. @netflix.com

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My basement would become an immersive indoor city/town street.

10-15 years ago, if any company made a product that did even half of the horrors GenAI has been doing in the last year, they would have been rendered worthless and shut down. But in our bizarro world of a pre-depression economy based solely on insane tech speculators, they're just doubling down.

Strands #670 “Home is where the hearth is” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡💡🔵🔵

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"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief

A celebration of 2025 in film 💃 🕺 Presented with ⁨NEON  Watch now: boxd.it/eem Personal wrapped drops the afternoon of January 2 (ET). Community Year in Review publishes on January 12.

Consider this your personal year-end reading list. Revisit the top New Yorker stories of 2025. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/63j-sq

Amanda Petrusich picks 15 of her favorite albums from 2025, from an unexpectedly inventive dèbut to an album that evokes a 70s feel, with echoes of Fleetwood Mac and Minnie Riperton. See the list: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0PddGS

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I also was tickled to see a couple bring their two kids (probably between 9-14) to the film. The kids were both quiet and respectful the entire screening. Kudos, family, for celebrating cinema! #FilmSky #MovieSky

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Finally checked a longstanding film off my “To Watch” list and it did NOT disappoint. I was enamoured by Hitchcock’s VERTIGO. It felt right that I waited to see it on the big screen and in 70mm no less. Another thing I absolutely loved: a PACKED cinema on a freezing cold Tuesday night!

The least useful people on this site, and for my profession, are those who feel compelled to point out / complain about paywalls. If you want some things you have to pay for them, And if you want to keep getting them you have to support those who create them.

Revisit our Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films, starring Stormzy, Gabrielle Creevy, Rory Kinnear, Katherine Parkinson, Shazad Latif and Arlo Parks. Click the link in below to watch them all. https://youtube.pulse.ly/oxf33aztxr

Over the past 12 months, the world said goodbye to an array of exceptional people. Each lived a life that was singular and complex. Yet their stories offer universal lessons. Here are lessons, big and small, from noteworthy people who died this year:

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

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These farm workers work under a UFW contract in a plant nursery in Tulare Country. They're sorting and trimming rootstock. Their wages start at $17.43/hr, w/a increase to $17.95/hr on January 1. They get a $3.00 bonus when the team completes 800 plants in a day. #WeFeedYou

If you know anything, call in ASAP. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/27/p...

54. Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch #BookSky 📚💙

Happy Boxing Day / Letterboxd Friday #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourFriday #LastFourWatchedFriday @letterboxd.social

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I worked in movie theaters for nearly twenty years in various roles, often on Christmas Eve or Christmas, and I loved seeing people pack the house for the holiday. Families, couples, people flying solo who might not have anywhere else to go. Cinemas are a great common denominator. Go see a movie!

"Samuel" sent us this photo from where he is pruning apple trees in WA State. "Holding up the pruning shears up all day is hard on your arms, shoulders, and back. But it's the type of work we have at this time of year and it feeds my family" #WeFeedYou