Core Thoughts

"And we walk the Earth with love in our hearts. We extend it to others, and they extend their love to us. Embellishing both our lives, and that is beautiful. Somewhere out there, there is someone waiting for a new friend." 😭

there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.

There's a lot of us.

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?"

Seized from the group chat.

A dark day for human rights.

Legacy of Kain remake/reboot in the vein of God of War modern gameplay and camera angle. But more traversal focused, so maybe a lil like Jedi: Fallen Order, too?

If they make a DungeonCrawlerCarl game, they should just give it to Respawn Entertainment. I want a "pilot-inspired" Princess Donut hopping onto mech-tank Carl's shoulders with quippy dialogue and an emotional story. Just also make it an RPG.

I don't know if anyone at @developers.google.com reads these things, but the combination of sloppy AI summaries (that I can't turn off) and just hilariously but annoyingly irrelevant news stories in my Discover feed has led me to turning it off entirely. There's your qual feedback.

That awkward moment when you take a nude pic thinking it's super hot...but on reflection it's like mediocre at best 🙃

There is no greater cinematic experience than the blooper reel from Rush Hour 2.

Obviously I never want them to remake The Princess Bride, but if they did - have Pedro Pascal be Inigo Montoya, with Humperdink (Jonathan Bailey?) and the Count (Andrew Scott?) as not-so-secret lovers. For some reason I also see Zendaya and Tom Holland as Buttercup and Wesley?

So, can anyone ever access @theverge.com without paying? Like putting the Pixel review behind a paywall makes zero sense to me - aren't reviews like y'all's main value prop as an outlet?

It's wild that an important subplot of the movie Gattaca is Ethan Hawke's doctor commenting on his huge penis.

Waking Ned Devine is an unspoken bisexual movie, right? Like Michael and Jackie's relationship is more than buds, like it's a love story in the movie itself.

Omg why is Speed Racer such a good movie? Why am I crying?

I have come to accept and love my beautiful contradictions. Like how I hate seafood but love ceviche. Or how I love water and boats, but not a fan of the beach cuz of the waves. It's not all black and white, I'm a complicated mess.

I'm realizing part of the reason I love Octavia E. Butler is that she writes stories of how individuals shape and influence communities. She balances the community vibe with an individual's role within it. It's beautiful.

So venture capital really looks at the world and says "let's give millions of dollars to this mission-driven startup making ChatGPT-enabled dog toys" while not supporting corporate/billionaire tax policies to fund public transit, rent control, or universal healthcare?

What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape. Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar

I think I've posted this before, but #LowerDecks really missed an opportunity to highlight the Starfleet Fashion Core - the folks responsible for coming up with whole new uniforms every 4 years or some shit. #StarTrek

I don't think I really understood the meme of "every white cis guy wants to do a podcast" until I, a white cis guy, started getting into weed and now thinks every idea I have deserves a platform.

Columbia: "We continue to be deeply concerned about Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi" Also Columbia:

"Unlike other issues, Trump is polling OK on immigration" isn't a reason for Democrats to ignore that issue, but rather a reason for them to attack it head on. Public opinion can actually be moved, Democrats. And on this issue there's a lot to push back on.

JK Rowling is a holocaust denier.

This putrid human is celebrating the decimation of trans rights in the UK. She’s gloating because she helped fund it. She funded it thru money she makes off Harry Potter. She will continue to do this. It’s her “mission”. Supporting Harry Potter harms and causes death in my community. Factually.

The whole Blue Origin space thing is just another example of how wealth and celebrity detach people from the real world. It's giving "Imagine" during lockdown all over again. Symbolic gestures absent of transformative action are just exercises in egotism.

whoever wrote this line was spitting facts back in 2004. it’s still relevant today (i also want to point this out because there are people saying “star trek isn’t political” and, uh….)

I’m going to pull my teeth out if the left tears itself apart over whether Pete or AOC would be a better candidate while Trump dismantles every single check on his power. Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.

When does a prison become a concentration camp?

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I'm gonna need the discourse to change around Trump's actions. Like, we know most things he is doing are "obviously illegal," (re: homegrown deportations), so while pointing that out is important, what are the next steps? Like clearly our system isn't working, so what are our options now?

Can we get a good, almost shot for shot sexy suave remake of The Italian Job with Ncuti Gatwa as Michael Caine's character? And he's a flirty, suave bisexual, of course.

The Calliope to Big Deal transition is my favorite piece of music in years. #LucyDacus #ForeverisaFeeling

It's a shame you can't be in a committed relationship with more than one person in DA: Veilguard cuz I really think Lucanis, Emmerich, and I would make a great throuple.

If you’re a Trekkie, you just get it. 🖖

I'm only 15 minutes into Butterfly in the Sky, the Reading Rainbow documentary...why am I sobbing with tears of love already?

The Republicans who regret voting for Trump when he's doing exactly what he said he'd do should know this: WHEN we build a new world, your voice in the new coalition will not be trusted. You do not have the best interests of all of us at heart. You put us this mess. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

It's straight up wild they had a serial killer on the crew of Voyager.