Of the others, I want to see Nickel Boys but ran out of time. Dune, The Brutalist & I’m Still Here look like not my thing … but I also thought that about Conclave, which I loved, so what do I know?
Rooting for Moore, Chalamet, Saldana & Norton in the acting categories, for silly fangirl reasons.
I’ve seen way more of the Oscar movies this year than usual. Ranked list off the top of my head: 1)Anora; 2)Wicked; 3) Conclave; 4)A Complete Unknown; 5) The Substance; 6)Emilia Perez. I liked most of these but Anora is the one I’ve thought about the most (in a good way) since watching it.
Must you scrap all the joy from our lives?
Mina’s younger than me, but this video pretty much matches why I’m not on social media much anymore. It’s too fake, too much irony, too little actual connection.
Social media peaked around 2010 and it’s all been downhill since.
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Some things are lost. Some things will float around forever. Which is which? Nobody knows! So it’s better to act as if the worse option is true — the stuff you don’t want out there will live forever, while anything you might need could be deleted tomorrow.
Me, age 2.5, hard at work on the family homestead.
Are those Canadian people in the room with us right now?
Found via @cartoonshateher.bsky.social
Watching gameplay clips from Dragon Age Veilguard and for once, I’m glad my gaming laptop is all but dead.
Look, I don’t want to have a public fight about this. Last night I read something that pissed me off and vented here, and I’m reminded now of why I don’t do that. Suffice it to say I respect your opinion but disagree.
And also he thinks the common people would be on board if they only saw reason, which is the thing that has always staggered me. I get imagining yourself as a philosopher king, but at some point you need to consider what’s in it for anybody else.
(I know this isn’t entirely rational, but I’ve decided I’m allowed to be irrational on this one thing in my old age. I see though of the content reflected elsewhere that I feel like I have a good grasp of what’s on there.)
I haven’t used it since I saw what it did to my daughter’s mental health during lockdown and realized it wasn’t just her, it was every. Single. Teenager. I don’t know why it’s so much worse than other social media but I’m firmly convinced that it is.
But yes, when I used it I just got cute things.
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So I’m supposed to feel bad that people who have managed to support themselves by shilling junk, exploiting their children, and spreading conspiracy theories may soon need to find real jobs?
Sure.
Haunted by the knowledge the KidzBop version of “Good Luck Babe” replaces “you can kiss a hundred boys in bars” with “you can show a hundred boys you’re smart.”
A tiered ranking list with 68 books. The highest-ranked titles are Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Damon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver), Kindred (Octavia Butler), The Wedding People (Alison Espach), Misery (Stephen King), Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Roshani Chokshi), Annie Bot (Sierra Greer), The Guest (Emma Cline) and Happy Place (Emily Henry).
In case anybody is curious what I read last year. Underhyped pick: Last Tale of the Flower Bride.
And I think I can firmly say the dark romance trend is not for me.
My nudge word for this year: Health. Of the body, the spirit, and (to the extent I can control it) the world around me.
(And U2, but that’s every year.)
Cool, thank you!
Bah. Hopefully they add it soon.
Screen cap of menu on President Biden’s Twitter page with the “turn off reposts” option highlighted.
I can’t find the highlighted function on Bluesky — does it exist here?
Post a movie gif from the year you were born.
Good point. Maybe people are confusing cultural dominance (which happens just because those states are where journalists and performers live) with actual numerical dominance?
I agree with this but it could be six words shorter.
I got 46, ish. Depends on whether you count ones where I recognize the name but could not tell you a single thing about them.
It’s true so I’ll take it.
To some extent, but other stuff just seems like people being dumb or not thinking things through. No disinformation is trying to convince people that the population of NYC is 90 million.
I really liked this piece, especially the point it makes about how what we consider a crisis depends on who it effects. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
HELLO TO YOUR FACE, TOO. And also the rest of you.
