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Almond
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I know things and squeak a lot. Begrudgingly Seattle.
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Dofresh @dofresh.bsky.social · 19h
This will be my #PortfolioDay
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Dofresh @dofresh.bsky.social · Oct 21
An introduction post.
I am a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in western France.
I explore mostly sci-fi themes for movies, games and books.
Furthermore, I am currently working on my first art book, a compilation of personal works.
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Isaac Hannaford @isaachannaford.com · 2h
My other ride #wip #blender #conceptart
an offroad racing vehicle in the foreground with a vtol jet in the background. Purplish desert sunset on a desert airbase
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11h
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
www.nytimes.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.
Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.
www.msnbc.com
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 9h
I have seen Shrek 2 more times on GBA than in any other form
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scorpy 💿 @socpens.com · 11h
movies are too easy to watch rn bring me back to only being able to watch norbit on hd dvd because thats all i had
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h
every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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-ˋˏ syd ˎˊ- @saab.bsky.social · 10h
some examples of what i've got in the shop currently! any extra love would be a huge help during this time. i did not expect jaw pain to turn into a whole thing. 🫠
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Politico @politico.com · 13h
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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KashBong Nation 🔞 @kashmoneym.ink · 15h
Commission

A frenzied mind readies a frenzied body
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NEOMECHANICA @neomechanica.bsky.social · 16h
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h
one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
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Lemonlight @lemonlight.bsky.social · 1d
I'm pulling tricks with my Sega Genesis that would make Hiroshi Yamauchi rise from the fucking grave just to shit himself
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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 20h
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 20h
But instead sociopathy is defeated by punching the guy who just follows orders really hard and thus superman films will never escape the allegation of them being knuckleheaded bro fests where brawn solves all problems and any moral complexity or social commentary is just another villain scheme.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 20h
This is also yet another reason why Lex begrudgingly helping superman save the world at great humiliation to himself would have been a much more interesting direction and made Superman's moral argument stand out so much more - caring about people is powerful, even sociopaths need to care for others.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 20h
Another point why Lex doesn't work as Evil Tony Stark: Tony *is* morally disposable which is why we care when he chooses to give up weapons manufacturing even at great personal cost - he could have just retired on a beach. Lex has to be evil though for the plot, so there's no weight to his choices.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
But the problem with 2025 Superman is that Lex is **morally disposable** to the movie's plot. He builds nothing of value to society and everyone turns on him immediately, so his defeat is meaningless. Lex is shielded by his metahumans more than his humanity, making it a Man of Steel Punchfest.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
It's the most capeshit thing ever for me to say but Ryan Reynolds coming back as Green Lantern only to go batshit insane and fight Nathan Fillion Guy Gardner sounds fucking great.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
It's not quite marvel villain syndrome but the fact that Lex is so cartoonishly pathetically self-defeatingly evil in Superman 2025 makes me think they'll do a much better job handling Darkseid, Sinestro, or Brainiac. I'm excited to see Guy Gardner show up in an Emerald Twilight adaptation.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
"Over time, society will improve toward utopia, until socipathic monsters like Lex Luthor are no longer needed. But until that point, we have Superman, who can remind us of what it means to be human."

Instead we got "Sometimes you got to punch narcissists in the face" which is fine I guess.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
But it's kind of a toothless, feckless, cowardly move that absolves the audience of having to blame society or themselves or their own value system. They don't have to think "Hm, maybe we shouldn't give rich people all the power in society" because they can go "Oh well Lex is obviously evil!"
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
I get why they turned Lex into a Palmer Luckey style military contractor, because imagine the optics of "Superman wants to stop the guy who makes clean energy and free housing???" But swinging it to the opposite extreme of "superman's haters are actually bots" is kind of insane.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
Nicholas Holt's acting is great. But it's not JLA Lex, It's not comic Lex, it's definitely not All Star Superman lex and it's far from President Luthor.

It's a better version of Smallville Lex, but a worse version of every other Lex, and I do worry any All Star Superman adaptation will kinda suck.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
I get why they wrote it that way - they don't want lex to become a Tyler Durden/Joker/Travis Bickle style character.

But the message of Superman really fell flat for me because the way they wrote Lex kinda showed that Punching People Really Hard Until They Incriminate Themselves is the solution.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
Their core dynamic is missing:

Lex has the ability to kill superman, but can't exercise it without ruining his reputation or destroying the world.

Superman has the ability to arrest Lex, but can't exercise it without violating the laws of our society and becoming an enemy against earth.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h
Often, Luthor will begrudgingly team up with superman rather than let the world die, knowing he'll get another chance. It's DARKSEID is the one who would destroy a world just to rule over the cinders.

Lex is a transhuman OPTIMIST - a character attribute completely missing from the film.
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