delivery app discourse functions the same way as vegan discourse. "many americans have the means and ability to change their eating habits", a true statement, is met with middle class people arguing that THEY shouldn't have to because someone, somewhere, is poor or indigenous.

A lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”

My 2 cents: Star Wars is best when it incorporates other cinematic works (the original channeling Kurosawa, WWII dogfight footage and Flash Gordon) and least interesting when it’s only alluding to itself (the sequel trilogy)

absolutely incredible watching Historical Accuracy people rend their garments for months over the costumes in christopher nolan's odyssey, only for the trailer to reveal that the movie is pitched in an entirely contemporary register.

Threw some color over these X-Files drawings

Watching it tonight as well

sometime materialism lets you down and Idiot Man Theory reigns supreme

fellow leftists on twitter this week desperately trying to justify why it is morally fine to eat meat. just admit you don't care. be honest.

my wife watched michael clayton for the first time recently, didn't like it, and later described it to me as "a movie about george clooney getting in and out of cars". funniest review I've ever heard, personally.

living in an apartment means I limit my blurays to movies I feel like I have to see in the highest definition possible. this stops impulse purchasing, but also means that when we get a shiny new 4k transfer from my very best friend william friedkin, I'm basically helpless.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

It really is substantially more likely that some guy wanted to shoot some people (or one man in particular) than that the government staged a false flag attack. Running towards conspiracy thinking is naive and you should be embarrassed. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No.

Man Torn Over Which Shirt Worthy Of Wooden Hanger https://theonion.com/man-torn-over-which-shirt-worthy-of-wooden-hanger/

impossibly hot stud directing line traffic at the trader joe's, and I'm so flustered that I hold everyone up for a crucial four seconds

V.I.T.R.I.O.L Painting piece from last year which I still like a lot, it started as a random study of a lion before I suddently got the idea to turn everything green.

This is how it's done! "a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods" www.conservation.org/news/brazil-...

so so many people here spontaneously erupting in chants that translate to "it's over! it's over!" not even 10pm here and unfortunately I'm already getting a bit emotional

I have never in my life bought a pair of pants so quickly.

I am never forgetting at the first anime con I ever went to in like 2007, there was someone selling a print of Light and L from Death Note naked and dramatically reaching toward each other across a flower and the artist put a big sticky note on it that said "NOT YAOI - SYMBOLISM"

A group of devoted volunteers is methodically researching, cataloging and digitizing more than 10,000 concerts that one music fan recorded over four decades.

Son that's God's elect! Stacked up like bank quarters!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Idk what church is like on Easter but imagine it should go down something like this.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

OLHA O QUE EU TERMINEEEEI!!! Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral ❤️

I would like to especially bless the elderly man who let me have a post-two-drinks slice in his store as he was actively closing. thank u king. the city has been good to me tonight.

my uber driver is locked in on THE most classic 80s new wave playlist. thank you for providing the perfect soundtrack to the silk suit I'm wearing, brother.

Temps maussade pour des sépultures.

recently finished an absolute nightmare of a knitting project, so I did a little palate cleanser too.

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

I’m too single for this

so there's this romantasy-coded reworking of the phantom of the opera musical coming out in september that claims to Tell The Story Through Christine's Eyes. which is incredible because she's our pov character for nearly the entire musical.

a well-meaning friend recently said "of course you'd move to a smaller town and buy a house if it weren't so expensive right now" and seemed genuinely surprised when i was like "no. no i would not"

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

it is very funny that they can't change the aesthetics of the harry potter show because of the theme park so it is forced to look like a bad cover version of the movies. including probably muted keywords so people who have muted this won't see it JKR rowling wizard book

once I was waiting at a very hard to get into bar in brooklyn and the willowy gay guy at the host stand had on what looked like a dries van noten blouse. when I asked if it was indeed designer, he turned to me scornfully and said "I ONLY wear dries." the impact that had on me.

Baseball vampire

it will take generations for the world to trust America again but imo we can speed run it by shipping people to The Hague. As a gesture of like “we get it.”

they say there's no such thing as soulmates but before my wife and I got together I hooked up with two (2) different nuns, and she dated two (2) different magicians, and I do think there's something almost mystically compatible about that.

if you're going to put a character on a $400 copper pot, make it a character for adults, like the goat from The VVitch, or Werner Herzog

Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go Dune 2: Oh Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No

so one of my favorite parts of the dune score is how, when paul drinks the Water of Life, we finally hear male voices in the choir. Before that it's only been women singing, but as paul becomes what he is doomed to be, the masculine emerges in the sonic landscape of the films.

its a heavy burden, having a heart as big as a city. and heavier still when it loves you back + #discworld + #samvimes + #vetinari + #sybilramkin

lmaooooo the boy was ready

through a vampire the masquerade lens, Sinners is just about a toreador who fails his entrancement check.

goths rise!!

The Oscars are stupid, but I am glad they went all in on two really idiosyncratic films that try to grapple with who we are today. That doesn’t always happen.

Both of those movies went on to be much loved for almost two decades, and I really think the same will happen here. The parallels are kinda eerie. Sinners even won the same two awards as Blood (Actor and Cinematography), plus two more to boot.