Good chance this is my last 4th July as a permanent US resident. Weird feeling.

RIP Diogo Jota. Heartbreaking.

No Kings.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Assault on nonviolent citizens

Very worried about what might go down in LA over the next 48 hours.

Stay safe, everyone.

this bill is going to kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of trans people and I'm not being hyperbolic

Ange Postecoglou saying "I always win things in my second year" and then delivering is absolutely legendary manager banter.

Oh, cool, we've already reached the "twist the commonly accepted definition of words to justify arresting people you don't like" stage of fascism.

Gazebo/Hangman 2036

Quick, someone good with photoshop make a graphic saying "Abby Gazebo is All Elite".

The new Prequel Trilogy is Andor S1, Andor S2, and Rogue One.

#freekarenread

Starting up a 'refugee program' for white Afrikaners in the middle of a nationwide immigration crackdown is extremely on-brand for this administration.

The people want pipe-related content. You're a man of the people.

I mean, you're outlining in detail the exact reasons it's inherently political.

If not everyone at the Academy is evil, but they're constrained by the system of government under which they live, how is that apolitical? It's a moral grey area that immediately introduces politics.

So, in the first act of the first movie, when Luke talks about wanting to join the Imperial Academy, he's just...deciding between good and evil?

There's no wider political context to that? No complexity? Just "Luke almost decided to be evil but didn't"?

Exactly. The first line of the opening crawl is "It is a period of civil war."

Yep,nothing political about that, just a good old fashioned civil war between 'good and evil'.

I agree with you on most things, but this is just inaccurate.

The entire premise of Star Wars is based on the Vietnam War. Lucas has said so.

It is very explicitly about the overthrow of a tyrannical Empire by a Rebellion.

From the very first scene, it is and has always been political.

ANDOR is incredible across the board, but in particular it excels at highlighting two things:

1) Fascism appeals to many types of people for many reasons

2) Fascism is a doomed, loser ideology for cowards

This week's three-episode Andor arc is some of the best TV I've ever seen.

400+ hours in that game and I never clocked this.

Now I need to play it yet again.

Inter-Barca. Wow. Probably the best 210+ minutes of football I've ever seen.

Rewatched Andor season one.

I can't believe "ONE WAY OUT" and the Luthen monologue are in the same episode.

Absolutely incredible TV.

Fuck it, make him the Pope. It's hard to imagine anything funnier.

Obscure cricket post:

I absolutely do not believe Vaibhav Suryavanshi is 14.

He's 14 the way Shahid Afridi was 16 when he made 100(37).

It took me until the Don Callis mention to realize you weren't talking about something called 'AE Wheels'.

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Dude, Jim Rash does not deserve that comparison! You take that back.

I'm not sure that was the reason.

They needed Tommy to be in Jackson, so they needed someone else to go with Joel.

Dina made more sense than Jesse, for a bunch of reasons. It sorta sucks but I can see the logic.