The "NO" is leading overall 54% to 46% right now in the statewide count (with roughly 46% of the vote in) but: We have absolutely nothing from huge Fairfax County, a huge driver of Dem votes, and similar but smaller Henrico County & Richmond City.

a screenshot showing the measure being turned down by 100k votes but showing zero votes counted in Richmond

Map? No 54.5% 576,368 95,521 ahead Yes 45.5% 480,847 Est. 35% votes in Updated just now

ok, well things have shifted and “no” has pulled more ahead, but Richmond and NoVA are still outstanding.

watching these results come in, and it’s wild how early the polls close, how fast Virginia counts its votes, and how these website widgets are able to continuously update every 30 seconds or so with new info.

for anyone interested, it’s very close but Richmond and Fairfax County have yet to report.

Bill Clinton 2.0

Mario and Luigi are canonically fraternal twins. let that absorb into your fucking brain. now, let's go a little further, due to birth-order effects in the womb and during delivery, plus small differences in growth timing and placental blood flow, the second born is usually taller and skinnier

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this prick is running

let’s be honest: this film should have been titled Gravity, but the Sandra Bullock film of that name was released a year before this one.

he’s pretty young in this, and i am pretty sure the first time i saw it was before Lady Bird (2017) came out and the next time i just wasn’t paying attention. his role is pretty small here, too.

fun fact: there were over 5 dozen books submitted for this year’s Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature.

novels, poetry collections, anthologies, essays, non-fiction—even an archival collection of zines from the 1990s.

your community is creating art every day,

i definitely never previously noticed that Chalamet was in Interstellar (2014)

in Europe they actually call him Meter&Metre

the end of this film is just like the hunger games, minus the arrow through Glinda

i can’t believe Elphaba and Glinda never kiss

A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag

This is why whale punk had to happen

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

alright. all finished, and i gotta say that anyone who generally enjoys the Alien franchise, but didn’t like the theatrical release of Alien 3 should definitely watch the Assembly Cut. will you love the film? probably not, but it is clearly a superior watch.

people who find the end of this film cynical are probably the same folks who probably don’t understand Ophelia’s suicide in _Hamlet_

remember kids, the villain in every _Alien_ film isn’t the xenomorph, it’s the Weyland-Yutani corporation.

wait, this was Fincher’s directorial debut?!! wow.

young Charles Sance (36) isn’t hardly recognizable as such

Alien 3: Assembly Cut (1992)

i’ve seen this film maaaaaaybe once, and not the assembly cut

God kills his only son

Christians: wow, so brave. cool that he resurrected 3 days later. what a sacrifice God made! truly inspiring

23 year old woman kills her son cause she wants to get drunk at the club

Christians: this should be illegal and you're a monster

part of it is that we live in a society where few people can afford to take time away from work and our CJ system does not properly compensate folks for that missed time.

Black text on white background reading: What if he’s written “mine” on my upper thigh only in my mind?

see kids, voting is about Faith. you trust that the candidate is going to do the things you want because they have the correct letter next to their name, regardless of whether they’ve done anything to indicate their support for those policies. are they silent on a subject? ignore that and vote!

if you told me that The Italian Job (2003) was actually a 110 minute Mini Cooper commercial masquerading as a heist film, i’d believe you

it’s not the women themselves so much as the way they are presented.

any time i read someone remarking how “unsexy” the women in this film are, all i can think is “yeah, that’s kind of the point.”

this film is a commentary on the lack of eroticism in Vegas, and the exploitation of women through patriarchal capitalism—what could be less sexy than that?