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space pirate, robot whisperer, word wrangler, marteau sans maître, purveyor of weapons of mass deconstruction – formerly bylined at Birth.Movies.Death
This is exactly what I feared in 2016, but it didn't come to pass.
Should it become policy
a) fuck that noise
b) they aren't going to let me in anyway
Luckily other, more lenient countries are available to visit. The People's Republic of China, for instance...
Should it become policy
a) fuck that noise
b) they aren't going to let me in anyway
Luckily other, more lenient countries are available to visit. The People's Republic of China, for instance...
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is exactly what I feared in 2016, but it didn't come to pass.
Should it become policy
a) fuck that noise
b) they aren't going to let me in anyway
Luckily other, more lenient countries are available to visit. The People's Republic of China, for instance...
Should it become policy
a) fuck that noise
b) they aren't going to let me in anyway
Luckily other, more lenient countries are available to visit. The People's Republic of China, for instance...
Shout out to the casting director who spotted that ELLA McCAY sounds almost exactly the same as Emma Mackey
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Shout out to the casting director who spotted that ELLA McCAY sounds almost exactly the same as Emma Mackey
Watching the Michael Biehn/Patsy Kensit classic, produced by Raffaella de Laurentiis
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Watching the Michael Biehn/Patsy Kensit classic, produced by Raffaella de Laurentiis
Playing the margarita, one presumes
Johnny Depp to Produce First English-Language Adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Classic ‘The Master and Margarita’
Johnny Depp is set to produce and possibly star in the first English-language adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic 'The Master and Margarita.'
variety.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Playing the margarita, one presumes
ngl, I’d be delighted
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
ngl, I’d be delighted
Chat, is it gay to go sans serif?
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Chat, is it gay to go sans serif?
Tubi is the world's finest resource of DTV movies of which you have NEVER heard.
I rarely go to bat for a streaming service but I can say Tubi is the one that most accurately captures the video store experience.
December 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Tubi is the world's finest resource of DTV movies of which you have NEVER heard.
When you go on TV to admit you don’t have the parental instincts of a Neanderthal
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
When you go on TV to admit you don’t have the parental instincts of a Neanderthal
SHAME
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
SHAME
Now, are they going to expect trans women to take the larger portions?
December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Now, are they going to expect trans women to take the larger portions?
In the spirit of the season, let us set aside our differences about whether or not DIE HARD is a Christmas movie and come together in reconciliation and agreement that this DIE HARD key art is abysmal.
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In the spirit of the season, let us set aside our differences about whether or not DIE HARD is a Christmas movie and come together in reconciliation and agreement that this DIE HARD key art is abysmal.
Gonna watch an Apollo I documentary, the endpoint of which is inevitably dudes getting fried in a pure oxygen atmosphere because NASA hadn't figured out that a pure oxygen atmosphere was a bad idea and even more so when you had a hatch which was both dogged and could only be opened from the outside
December 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Gonna watch an Apollo I documentary, the endpoint of which is inevitably dudes getting fried in a pure oxygen atmosphere because NASA hadn't figured out that a pure oxygen atmosphere was a bad idea and even more so when you had a hatch which was both dogged and could only be opened from the outside
I mean, I've BOUGHT it more than six times
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I mean, I've BOUGHT it more than six times
Formula 1 World Champion Lando Norris in tears, hugging his peers and his team members and his boss and his parents and being totally overcome by his achievement: that's the opposite of toxic masculinity
December 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Formula 1 World Champion Lando Norris in tears, hugging his peers and his team members and his boss and his parents and being totally overcome by his achievement: that's the opposite of toxic masculinity
This is the good shit
There are details in the models that makes technical advisors and historians take to strong drink. The battleships have straight bows rather than clipper bows and the West Virginia didn't have casemate guns forward (that ended with the New Mexico class).
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is the good shit
Those boots are also made for kerbstomping.
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Those boots are also made for kerbstomping.
Just ordered a copy (£3 at Waterstones for UK readers!) on the basis of this paragraph alone.
This passage shocked me to my core.
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Just ordered a copy (£3 at Waterstones for UK readers!) on the basis of this paragraph alone.
Mark Zuckerberg's funding could have provided clean water in developing countries, helped alleviate homelessness and poverty, enhanced global education, cured or eradicated a disease.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Mark Zuckerberg's funding could have provided clean water in developing countries, helped alleviate homelessness and poverty, enhanced global education, cured or eradicated a disease.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
Instead he'll be remembered as the power dork who managed to spunk $80bn up the wall with nothing to show for it.
Nobody's seen it, but what Matthew Lillard injects into the single episode of TRUE LIES in which he guest stars almost redeems the entire series with an off-kilter but deeply empathetic and fun turn that finally hits a tone the show was aiming for from the outset but none of the regulars can manage
December 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Nobody's seen it, but what Matthew Lillard injects into the single episode of TRUE LIES in which he guest stars almost redeems the entire series with an off-kilter but deeply empathetic and fun turn that finally hits a tone the show was aiming for from the outset but none of the regulars can manage
I am also in favour of the return of a very specific kind of public execution.
December 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I am also in favour of the return of a very specific kind of public execution.
JAY KELLY is kind of the platonic ideal of a Netflick: a meandering self-involved and knowingly pretentious movie about movies and movie stars and the death of both from a singular auteur writer/director, with an absolutely stacked cast doing great work and absolutely zero box-office appeal.
December 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
JAY KELLY is kind of the platonic ideal of a Netflick: a meandering self-involved and knowingly pretentious movie about movies and movie stars and the death of both from a singular auteur writer/director, with an absolutely stacked cast doing great work and absolutely zero box-office appeal.
Oh. No.
AI ‘creators’ might just crash the influencer economy
AI ‘creators’ might just crash the influencer economy
On the slop-filled internet, Jeremy Carrasco uses his platforms to spread AI literacy.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Oh. No.
"Let me have silence always in the centre of the shouting, that is essential. Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle scratching upon this gramophone of the circular cosmic spot."
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Let me have silence always in the centre of the shouting, that is essential. Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle scratching upon this gramophone of the circular cosmic spot."
Pitiful.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.
Tower of London closes after apple crumble thrown on crown jewels display
Four people arrested after apparent protest against UK inequality claimed by civil-resistance group Take Back Power
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Pitiful.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.
What does apple crumble symbolise? Absolutely nothing.
Now, cake, that's got real historical resonance when it come to protesting against societal inequality, and also a solid track record of getting results.
In the meantime: stricter bag checks at major tourist attractions.