Lavacastle
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At any time, humming a kaiju theme or arguing why villains are better. Angry about X-Men ships.
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Lavacastle
@lavacastle.bsky.social
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When you feel at your lowest, remember
Whenever people say TLJ doesn't understand Luke, it helpfully has Luke say a line (twice no less) that's a perfect rebuttal to most of the reasons given.
a man with a beard is holding a light saber and saying every word of what you just said was wrong
ALT: a man with a beard is holding a light saber and saying every word of what you just said was wrong
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Whenever people say TLJ doesn't understand Luke, it helpfully has Luke say a line (twice no less) that's a perfect rebuttal to most of the reasons given.
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putting tums on my pizza to save time
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
putting tums on my pizza to save time
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“President says thing” is generally newsworthy because, well, it usually results in actual policy changes
increasingly, it’s just an angry old man typing into the void
increasingly, it’s just an angry old man typing into the void
President Trump said Friday he would reverse any law, pardon and executive order former President Biden signed with an autopen, though it wasn’t clear how that would work or whether it would be legal @jennifershutt.bsky.social reports wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/11/28/r...
Trump social media post claims to void Biden orders • Wisconsin Examiner
President Trump said Friday he would reverse any law, pardon or executive order that former President Biden signed with an autopen
wisconsinexaminer.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“President says thing” is generally newsworthy because, well, it usually results in actual policy changes
increasingly, it’s just an angry old man typing into the void
increasingly, it’s just an angry old man typing into the void
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as someone whose jewish ancestors who came over in the exact same wave of mass migration that stephen miller's did, my contempt for this creep is boundless
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
as someone whose jewish ancestors who came over in the exact same wave of mass migration that stephen miller's did, my contempt for this creep is boundless
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Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
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yeah I feel a very high sense of alarm about what the "incapable of loving our country" goalposts are going to include
quite certainly they're going to try very hard to use it on elected Democrats which is at least one reason I feel like we need to be TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT WAY MORE THAN WE ARE
quite certainly they're going to try very hard to use it on elected Democrats which is at least one reason I feel like we need to be TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT WAY MORE THAN WE ARE
In case you thought you were safe bc you aren't one of his currently identified enemies to kidnap and deport, take a look at this line:
"and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country..."
No one is safe when a bully is in charge.
"and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country..."
No one is safe when a bully is in charge.
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
yeah I feel a very high sense of alarm about what the "incapable of loving our country" goalposts are going to include
quite certainly they're going to try very hard to use it on elected Democrats which is at least one reason I feel like we need to be TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT WAY MORE THAN WE ARE
quite certainly they're going to try very hard to use it on elected Democrats which is at least one reason I feel like we need to be TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT WAY MORE THAN WE ARE
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We had a giant tube attached to an air conditioner, which we called “the snake” and I used to put my shoes in there to cool off.
They have them on a lot of sets, actually! We also had one on Matilda and Pam, who played the Trunchbull, used to use it to cool herself off under all the padding.
They have them on a lot of sets, actually! We also had one on Matilda and Pam, who played the Trunchbull, used to use it to cool herself off under all the padding.
That Christmas movies are filmed in summer is one of those "obvious when you think about it" things but, yeah that can't be comfortable. How did you stay cool?
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
We had a giant tube attached to an air conditioner, which we called “the snake” and I used to put my shoes in there to cool off.
They have them on a lot of sets, actually! We also had one on Matilda and Pam, who played the Trunchbull, used to use it to cool herself off under all the padding.
They have them on a lot of sets, actually! We also had one on Matilda and Pam, who played the Trunchbull, used to use it to cool herself off under all the padding.
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100%
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
100%
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
Real life villains are the only ones served when compared to fictional ones, because it makes people think they're competent. Genuinely believe the reason so many hated Hux is because his pernicious, petty, coward vibes are more realistic than any Vader. And they don't like thinking about that.
Tomorrow’s episode covers this. Comparing these people to Palpatine and the Empire is a disservice to the fictional villains.
They’re mean and STUPID. Orders so illegal that anybody with a conscious has to speak to a reporter and trickle it out. Same thing happened with the Coast Guard fiasco.
They’re mean and STUPID. Orders so illegal that anybody with a conscious has to speak to a reporter and trickle it out. Same thing happened with the Coast Guard fiasco.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Real life villains are the only ones served when compared to fictional ones, because it makes people think they're competent. Genuinely believe the reason so many hated Hux is because his pernicious, petty, coward vibes are more realistic than any Vader. And they don't like thinking about that.
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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Tomorrow’s episode covers this. Comparing these people to Palpatine and the Empire is a disservice to the fictional villains.
They’re mean and STUPID. Orders so illegal that anybody with a conscious has to speak to a reporter and trickle it out. Same thing happened with the Coast Guard fiasco.
They’re mean and STUPID. Orders so illegal that anybody with a conscious has to speak to a reporter and trickle it out. Same thing happened with the Coast Guard fiasco.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Tomorrow’s episode covers this. Comparing these people to Palpatine and the Empire is a disservice to the fictional villains.
They’re mean and STUPID. Orders so illegal that anybody with a conscious has to speak to a reporter and trickle it out. Same thing happened with the Coast Guard fiasco.
They’re mean and STUPID. Orders so illegal that anybody with a conscious has to speak to a reporter and trickle it out. Same thing happened with the Coast Guard fiasco.
I'm still convinced the reason we've heard so much about this movie despite how early it is, despite how every other Star Wars project says nothing until it's done. Is because they want to distract from the #TheHuntforBenSolo news and the fairly universal criticism they had over it.
Shawn Levy: "they gave me so much creative freedom, more than I've ever had"
Also Shawn Levy: "they made me change the third act"
Also Shawn Levy: "they made me change the third act"
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm still convinced the reason we've heard so much about this movie despite how early it is, despite how every other Star Wars project says nothing until it's done. Is because they want to distract from the #TheHuntforBenSolo news and the fairly universal criticism they had over it.
Shawn Levy: "they gave me so much creative freedom, more than I've ever had"
Also Shawn Levy: "they made me change the third act"
Also Shawn Levy: "they made me change the third act"
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Shawn Levy: "they gave me so much creative freedom, more than I've ever had"
Also Shawn Levy: "they made me change the third act"
Also Shawn Levy: "they made me change the third act"
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I like a little woobification as much as the next guy, but my favorite remains by far "idiot whose misery is their own fault".
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I like a little woobification as much as the next guy, but my favorite remains by far "idiot whose misery is their own fault".
Obviously Rey needs stories not about or connected to Ben. But it's hard not to notice how many are very pressed at him ever being mentioned even, but never balk at how much of Luke's stories have at the least allusions to his father.
#starwars
#starwars
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Obviously Rey needs stories not about or connected to Ben. But it's hard not to notice how many are very pressed at him ever being mentioned even, but never balk at how much of Luke's stories have at the least allusions to his father.
#starwars
#starwars
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Y'all, I just read the best young Rey story in Star Wars Insider issue 235. If you're a Rey fan, which I very much am, then you've gotta read it.
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Y'all, I just read the best young Rey story in Star Wars Insider issue 235. If you're a Rey fan, which I very much am, then you've gotta read it.
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Stephen Miller talks like every nerve in his body is forcefully trying to reject what his mind is telling it to say but he powers through anyway & yet the most remarkable thing about him is how his eyes are more soulless than Pinhead's while his appearance entirely What If Buster Bluth Had A Wario
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Stephen Miller talks like every nerve in his body is forcefully trying to reject what his mind is telling it to say but he powers through anyway & yet the most remarkable thing about him is how his eyes are more soulless than Pinhead's while his appearance entirely What If Buster Bluth Had A Wario
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I definitely want other st characters to have merch rep but the pettiness I feel at seeing reylo get the last laugh 🤭
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I definitely want other st characters to have merch rep but the pettiness I feel at seeing reylo get the last laugh 🤭
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November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.
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Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.
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If you sit back and think on it it's really tremendous that there's a game genre called "beat 'em up"
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If you sit back and think on it it's really tremendous that there's a game genre called "beat 'em up"
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Far from being an eternal symbol of Pilgrims-and-Indians lies, Thanksgiving was, for a good portion of its history, a symbol of social reform and abolitionism
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Far from being an eternal symbol of Pilgrims-and-Indians lies, Thanksgiving was, for a good portion of its history, a symbol of social reform and abolitionism
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new macy's ad where baker mayfield talks about his offensive linemen's "scent"
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
new macy's ad where baker mayfield talks about his offensive linemen's "scent"
There's something I always feel tempted to talk about around Thanksgiving in regards to an aspect of it. But alas, chicken out because I don't want to sound like some others with more tenuous connections than mine who always go on about it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
There's something I always feel tempted to talk about around Thanksgiving in regards to an aspect of it. But alas, chicken out because I don't want to sound like some others with more tenuous connections than mine who always go on about it.