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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 12h

Rest in peace to D’Angelo. I’ll never forget his third album and masterpiece Black Messiah dropping in December 2014 the day after the Millions March after weeks of protests for Black lives took over NYC. Will always associate this song with what started that winter. youtu.be/T3CunfPYkME?...

D'Angelo and The Vanguard - The Charade (Audio)

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 12h

thinking about kill bill

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 14h

classical music was completed when robbie williams toured his back catalogue with a symphony orchestra. game over

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 14h

excited for doctor who classic era s13 boxset!

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 16h

think shearman put it right in, that as long as this continues there's no real incumbent you can run with in audio, books or comics. or even just your imagination.

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 16h

eg, surrendering control over renewal and timeline. am posting cos it has literally hit me that RTD may not even come back. Show feels like it got driven into a wall and left there

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry for Dr Who posting but mad what a misstep the Disney tie up was. I actually don't see it as detrimental to the show's creative direction (do think there were some, but these seem oddly unforced and all Russell's choices). Feels like they had no idea what the knock on consequences would be

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 16h

i agree but i permit the sentinel guys an orbital space station that theyve got to crash

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 16h

hang on i have another. i will take a book out with me on a walk and will just read it as i mill about or take my dog around. you get thru em faster if you do this. people do this with their phones but you legit get comments like 'wtf are you doing' but imo ppl not doing this are the mad ones

Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 16h

think ive got one. one time i was reading a disintegrating 40+ year old copy of 'waiting for mr goodbar' and it was really fun to just scrunch up and bin each page as i finished them

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 17h

i think a problem with ID cards is literally just calling them ID cards. rly think gov would be having a better time of it if theyd called them 'services passports' or something dull like that

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 17h

really cannot think of a single insane book opinion i have. i do sometimes go in a bookshop and go 'there are too many books' but better to have too many than too few so not a hill i will die on

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Stephen Kirchner @insteconomics.bsky.social · 19h

Was at an EIU conference once and they gave out free copies of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest. Saw a guy start reading it at the top of the escalator to the lobby only to then put it in the bin conveniently located at the bottom of the escalator.

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 1d

did this but for the ginsters pasty factory. earned my loyalty for about 20 years. We got the crimp them and everything

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

There is nothing profound or revelatory here. These are just drug-induced manic episodes being broadcast on a world stage by people who can afford to both stave off the inevitable crash and hide themselves from the world when it inevitably comes. It’s all incredibly sad, cynical and terrifying.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

I can’t express how dually maddening and affirming it is to have spent years reading philosophy and theory trying to make sense of myself, my politics and my place in the universe as our leaders get worked by dickheads who believe they’ve cracked the code by abusing amphetamines and watching anime.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

They’re morons, they’re just dickheads who accidentally struck it rich by chance, not by merit, and this system does not give a fuck about the ability or morality of the idiots who relentlessly quest to amass as much money as possible

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

'we'll play some more soon' from prince andrew is genuinely vomit inducing. truly, like primally repulsive

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

they probably wrote the Depeche Mode stuff into it so he could just latch onto something harmless. like he'll just be off in the corner listening to violator really intensely.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Legendary interview moment with the director of Morbius about Jared Leto’s behavior on the set of Morbius

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I heard a story about filming and I want to see if this is true. Someone told me that Jared Leto was so committed to playing Michael Morbius that even when he had to go to the bathroom, he would use his crutches and slowly limp to get to the bathroom. But it was taking so long between for pee breaks, that a deal was made with him to get him a wheelchair so someone could wheel him there quicker and he agreed to that. Is this true?

Yes.

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

i love the concert movie, absolutely beautiful

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

cd haul!!!!

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

In my eyes EDDINGTON is the second best film of the year and OBAA's farcical partner-in-crime, and the Pueblo cop from that film's opening really hit the nail on the head when Sheriff Joe Cross is rambling and telling him to listen and he just responds, "I *am* listening. Shut up!"

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

When ITV albeit late on a Sunday evening when nobody was watching broadcast a play with revolutionary Marxist themes. youtu.be/o0KxIR2xO-E?...

Occupations - starring Donald Pleasence, Georgina Hale, Jack Shepherd & Nigel Hawthorne (1974)

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 2d

sums up the future of online for me that Instagram updated and now when i open it instead of showing me photos of my lovely friends and their beautiful pets, it autoplays (with sound) AI slop reels: today bilbo shooting gollum with an AK47

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