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Faqa

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Capping off a cinema week - Wildwood is fucking INSANE and is never going to make back its budget but fucking hell, it's just Laika doing flex after flex of what hand-animated stop motion can do. We better not have another fucking Kubo moment where it loses to an at-best adequate Disney movie.

Seeing Digger the evening after seeing You Can See Everything may not have been the wisest choice in retrospect but holy shit. Don't know how you would sell it better, but it goddamn deserves better (@annenotation.bsky.social - you can +1 to your tally of "online people you convinced to see Digger")

Staying general here - what a perfect fucking use of Jesse Plemons. This may be the first time I believe Kirsten Dunst's cute little story about being scared of him when he stepped into character on the set of Civil War. Just phenomenal work

I am taking psychic damage from some of the comments and "improvements" on Reddit. Never let the Internet get a single fucking syllable in on creating movies

Seeing Digger the evening after seeing You Can See Everything may not have been the wisest choice in retrospect but holy shit. Don't know how you would sell it better, but it goddamn deserves better (@annenotation.bsky.social - you can +1 to your tally of "online people you convinced to see Digger")

I thought I knew what fucking hacks Adam McKay and David Sirota are. I also thought I knew how much I hated Don't Look Up. Digger proved me wrong on both counts.

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i say this from time to time but it's really a shame that the ADL has become what it's become, because we sure could use an American organization against Jew-hatred that wasn't badly fumbling its mission. (sit down, Bob Kraft, you're extremely not helping)

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

The ADL is a fucking disgrace, not that this is new. Giving them money needs to start being a black mark

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

The ADL finally chimes in… with one very short post: "The term 'Shylock' is rooted in a longstanding antisemitic stereotype. Regardless of intent, its use can reinforce harmful tropes about Jews and normalize language that has long been used to target the Jewish community."

I think my favorite thing about You Can See Everything is how Fielder brings up multiple possible narratives to be layered over the whole thing then cheerfully shows how he's manipulating all of them. Aside from the fact that Elizabeth Holmes is batshit. That I do believe.

Again, I know reading books makes you a "charts pervert", but "it" was not, in fact, "done to the Nazis", despite much more widespread support for it than you will ever get against the GOP. 24 of them were put on trial, and a lot of the rest were allowed to persist and work in the government.

Bob Chipman ("MovieBob")@bobchipman.bsky.social

Cute hypothetical. Here's mine. People who behave with inhumanity can be revoked of the same. It was done to the Nazis to excellent effect, and if we'd done it to The Confederacy instead of dropping Reconstruction we wouldn't still be dealing with the MAGA Trash now.

I know literacy is a crime and all, but Hindenburg did not, in fact, "promptly put Hitler in power". Despite the fact that Hitler was the leader of the largest political party in the Reichstag, he tried multiple alternatives to putting him in power

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He made a lot of mistakes as a politician, but I cannot emphasize enough that the chances, in 1932, of heading off a Nazi government were MUCH better with Hindenburg as President than Hitler!

It's not funny, Yandex data centers only do this when they're very distressed

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social

After years of warnings that the war in Ukraine could spiral into a full-on Russia-Europe conflagration, the conflict has reached a point where this is a real possibliity. It’s a prospect that threatens not just European lives but the entire globe.

See, you know who can't organize on WhatsApp? You know who doesn't have access to the financial system? Hamas. Treat these pieces of shit just the same as them

Josh Nathan-Kazis@joshnathankazis.bsky.social

A Hilltop Youth WhatsApp group posted a "summary of a month of struggle against the Arab enemy,” with a list of 43 West Bank towns and villages and the number of settler attacks mounted against each over the past month. From today's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social news desk newsletter.

This isn't mine, but it's still fun and on-topic - Sterling Cooper in Mad Men uses a font that is technically available at the time the show is set, but it is highly unlikely an American company would be using it before the 70s www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

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Just once, I would love to hear how many of these apparently vivacious socialites regaling us with these anti-tech articles ever spoke to or praised a cab driver before it became a contrarian virtue signal

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

Waymo wants us to give up the car keys. But what are we if not drivers? Molly Fischer on the view from the back seat. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is a fucking tantrum against the state of Minnesota for being the location where ICE being a disgrace to humanity was made plain

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Via Fox News, natch: A criminal raid, right before the election, based on some paperwork Omar’s dad filled out decades ago www.foxnews.com/politics/ilh...

He's so close to getting it

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

Fuck my life, this is the second time Flanagan has crashed the fucking plane on landing (the first was Fall Of The House Of Usher). Whether on its own merits or as an adaptation, the final episode made me want to put my remote through the TV

Faqa@faqa.bsky.social

Me to Flanagan after the end of episode 3

One thing that does undermine the Carrie TV show is that it attempts to update Carrie's background to be modern right-wing nutso, but it falls flat because it's very clear everybody involved with this show has never spoken with a non-liberal in their life

Folks, everyone on this website is 38. I promise it won't kill you to read a goddamn middle-school-reading-level book before dunking on it.

Michael Mirer@michaelmirer.bsky.social

Another terrible idea inflicted on us by J.K. Rowling.

Me to Flanagan after the end of episode 3

Faqa@faqa.bsky.social

To take a break from all the fun Oct 7 stuff and the scum poking their heads out of the woodwork: I'm not completely sold on Flanagan's new Carrie series yet, but an episode and a bit in, Samantha Sloyan is incredibly compelling as Margaret

Holy shit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

I see some chud leftist chat has put out new terminology, stolen this time from the average racist right winger Horseshoe theory remains undefeated

The usual psychological classification according to the DSM is "having a working memory"

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To take a break from all the fun Oct 7 stuff and the scum poking their heads out of the woodwork: I'm not completely sold on Flanagan's new Carrie series yet, but an episode and a bit in, Samantha Sloyan is incredibly compelling as Margaret

Oh good, a Piker-Platner fanboy who spells AIPAC with a hard K and lashes out by quoting Nazi philosophers when pushed has Opinions on Jewish lives

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Alternately, you can remember when antisemitic trash Mehdi Hasan had a widdle tantrum as he realized his Nazi rapist hero wasn't going to become a Senator

Zeteo@zeteo.com

It would be nice if Western media gave a damn about the Israelis killed *by Israel* on October 7th. They may not - but we here at Zeteo do. Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social take you through that day, explaining the secretive 'Hannibal Directive' and how it was deployed by the Israeli military.

We have found the leftist Wario to the dumbass argument "Why do you care so much about Palestine, they'd kill you for being queer and Tel Aviv has a pride parade"

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social

stumbled across this, and its amazing to see people say what I've said about "Queers for Palestine" demanding that LGBT people give up on their rights where they live to spend all their time fighting for people who don't support them in other countries and they're like "yeah that right!"

This is slander. Sometimes, in the hands of a Nobel Prize-winning author, "purge the vampire scum" can be about the dangers of assimilation www.commentary.org/articles/s-a...

commentary.orgThree Stories: The Lady and the PeddlerA Certain Jewish peddler was traveling with his stock from town to town and village to village. One day he found himself in a wooded region far from any settlement.
A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social

We avoid things like "this monster is always chaotic evil" because it's bad writing that encourages a smallness of mind, not because it's necessarily* The Monsters Are Marginalized People in Fantasy Clothes * that said "purge the vampire scum" fiction just seems to end up in antisemitic blood libel

8 posts to get to an even dumber version of "ackshully, Arabs are the real Semites". Really impressive work, I hope his friends pick him for being so very Cool.

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The only "concern" people pushing this have is that they can be treated badly by a plumber or electrician (ie, they can't get one dirt cheap in the middle of the night) and they want to fix that by flooding the market

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Hey man, quick question, what is the full name of the current government of Iran

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It's probably OK if the person saying something better than you is Joyce Carol Freaking Oates

Faqa@faqa.bsky.social

Not to interrupt BlueSky circle jerking about their tasteful and unique connection to art, but if the most popular literary genre really is those romantasy books with Light Novel titles and music has a similar pattern, then AI can absolutely feed that content mill

Not to interrupt BlueSky circle jerking about their tasteful and unique connection to art, but if the most popular literary genre really is those romantasy books with Light Novel titles and music has a similar pattern, then AI can absolutely feed that content mill

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

"Encouraging autistic men to go around asking to see women's boobs" Fucking hell, that sentence is causing every legal and HR department in SV to smell burnt toast. At last, rationalists have recreated the strip club from first principles, including weird delusions about the women being into it.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

As I keep saying, every single online tech dude simping over Aella and her faction would sneer at old-world businessmen who thought the stripper actually liked them, but what they're doing is just as obviously delusional and pathetic.

It helps that Jackson shows no signs of harbouring the vermin trying to catch a ride on the issue of Palestine to reach their real goal of normalizing antisemitism. It's a really low bar to clear, yet many on the left enthusiastically limbo under it

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Happy Friday in particular to the person who decided to bring their infant to the goddamn Chris Hansen movie

I generally think Idiocracy comparisons are overtly simplistic, sneering and nasty, but there's a wing of the GOP that does seem to be using it as an instruction manual

Andy Vitek@avitek.bsky.social

So Nancy Mace is now hosting a podcast called 'Get Maced' in a leather catsuit. And no you did not hallucinate that sentence.

It's not always the Irish, but why is it way too often the Irish?

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Platner fans were always Like This, this is just the mask coming off

Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social

I see “The Jews took down Platner” is now an explanation

The "family in the West Bank" part is just the final *chef's kiss* touch. You didn't have to do this, lady, you could get the praise you wanted by just going full-on Cool Jew.

A veteran Philadelphia School District educator has claimed at times to be Palestinian and Black. But Hannah Gann, it turns out, is white and Jewish and lied about her identity for years.

Funnily enough, while looking up this vermin's fine work, I found this excellent dunk she made on her squeamish colleague Cenk Uyger and despite dril's caution on the matter, I absolutely do have to hand it to her for having a better grasp of the term "Zionism" than half the people in this Discourse

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