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The World’s 3RD deadliest Comic Book Geek, Cinephile, Political Wonk, Music Nerd, Digital Strategist, Human Rights Activist – He/Him, because it's all connected.
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The same commenters wonder why no one wants to have sex with them, let alone have children with them.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The same commenters wonder why no one wants to have sex with them, let alone have children with them.
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This is why I talk about sheriffs a lot when it to comes to immigration: they decide (in most states) on whether to hold people for ICE at all!
ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...
www.iowapublicradio.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is why I talk about sheriffs a lot when it to comes to immigration: they decide (in most states) on whether to hold people for ICE at all!
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Motorcycle Diaries director and City of God producer Walter Salles has made an effortlessly lived in, effecting and heart achingly lomographic adaptation of Marcelo Rubens Paiva's political memoir I'M STILL HERE that's arguably the best film from 2024 even though it might have one ending too many. 📽️
A ★★★★½ review of I'm Still Here (2024)
"Batons on heads and gas to burn it down." The Motorcycle Diaries director and City of God producer Walter Salles who's managed the trick of being both seminal and essential without ever having been t...
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March 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Motorcycle Diaries director and City of God producer Walter Salles has made an effortlessly lived in, effecting and heart achingly lomographic adaptation of Marcelo Rubens Paiva's political memoir I'M STILL HERE that's arguably the best film from 2024 even though it might have one ending too many. 📽️
I’m still kind of cheating and calling I’M STILL HERE from this year.
Without saying Sinners, name your film of the year.
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I’m still kind of cheating and calling I’M STILL HERE from this year.
Trying to imagine what a worse timeline than this one would even look like.
Damn she really banged 2 different old guys running for president to cheat on her ex-fiancée who was *doublechecks* fired from the New Yorker for “improper sexual conduct”. I for one am shocked the Coulter fangirl friend of extremists also banged a 2020 Republican who was barely in the race.
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Trying to imagine what a worse timeline than this one would even look like.
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Something would've to have gone very wrong with Cheng Hou's almost lost but only slightly lost disco da nu (action girl) basher SEVEN TO ONE for me not to have had a pretty gosh darn good time with a film wherein Polly Shang-Kuan, befriends a karate Elvis and beats down scores of kung fu hooligans.🎥
A ★★★½ review of Seven to One (1973)
"You wanna know who's responsible for your father's death?" Given this format, it's certainly likely that we've never met, but if we have and even if you've only ever read a single review of mine befo...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Something would've to have gone very wrong with Cheng Hou's almost lost but only slightly lost disco da nu (action girl) basher SEVEN TO ONE for me not to have had a pretty gosh darn good time with a film wherein Polly Shang-Kuan, befriends a karate Elvis and beats down scores of kung fu hooligans.🎥
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50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
The 50 Best Siskel & Ebert Reviews
screencrush.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
50 years ago this week, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert made the first pilot for their TV show. In honor of this huge anniversary, I created my definitive “Best of Siskel & Ebert” article - 50 of their best reviews from across their entire career. 👍🏻👍🏻
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Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich
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Trump’s approval falls in NC, while Roy Cooper widens polling lead over GOP
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Trump’s approval falls in NC, while Roy Cooper widens polling lead over GOP
President Donald Trump’s approval fell in a Carolina Journal poll. Former Gov. Roy Cooper’s lead over Republican candidates grew.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Trump’s approval falls in NC, while Roy Cooper widens polling lead over GOP
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
Wow. Who among us could have predicted this?
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Wow. Who among us could have predicted this?
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Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
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November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Your top 5 film genres? Mine Are:
- Random Genres collide and a rec center is saved
- Not sure what happened but Bava shot it
- Upsetting Angela Mao/Meiko Kaji was a bad idea
- Samara Weaving covered in blood*
- Directors doing Wong Kar-wai doing Hou Hsiao-Hsien doing Ozu (Slowdive LP in film form)
- Random Genres collide and a rec center is saved
- Not sure what happened but Bava shot it
- Upsetting Angela Mao/Meiko Kaji was a bad idea
- Samara Weaving covered in blood*
- Directors doing Wong Kar-wai doing Hou Hsiao-Hsien doing Ozu (Slowdive LP in film form)
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Your top 5 film genres? Mine Are:
- Random Genres collide and a rec center is saved
- Not sure what happened but Bava shot it
- Upsetting Angela Mao/Meiko Kaji was a bad idea
- Samara Weaving covered in blood*
- Directors doing Wong Kar-wai doing Hou Hsiao-Hsien doing Ozu (Slowdive LP in film form)
- Random Genres collide and a rec center is saved
- Not sure what happened but Bava shot it
- Upsetting Angela Mao/Meiko Kaji was a bad idea
- Samara Weaving covered in blood*
- Directors doing Wong Kar-wai doing Hou Hsiao-Hsien doing Ozu (Slowdive LP in film form)
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Easily the best Tim Story flick since BARBERSHOP? I laughed a whole lot. The cast is great. A script that has more inspired moments than not. The clear love of genre within a comedy framework made me think of CLUB DREAD in particular (complimentary). Yeah, I love this one and it's 4 stars.
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Easily the best Tim Story flick since BARBERSHOP? I laughed a whole lot. The cast is great. A script that has more inspired moments than not. The clear love of genre within a comedy framework made me think of CLUB DREAD in particular (complimentary). Yeah, I love this one and it's 4 stars.
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Sunday nights tho amiright
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Sunday nights tho amiright
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-looks up Gen Z protests in Mexico-
-finds out it isn't Gen Z-
-finds out it is far right folks spray painting calling their president a Jewish whore-
-asking trump and marco to save them from communism-
And once again news media sucks
-finds out it isn't Gen Z-
-finds out it is far right folks spray painting calling their president a Jewish whore-
-asking trump and marco to save them from communism-
And once again news media sucks
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
-looks up Gen Z protests in Mexico-
-finds out it isn't Gen Z-
-finds out it is far right folks spray painting calling their president a Jewish whore-
-asking trump and marco to save them from communism-
And once again news media sucks
-finds out it isn't Gen Z-
-finds out it is far right folks spray painting calling their president a Jewish whore-
-asking trump and marco to save them from communism-
And once again news media sucks
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Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
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November 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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This is wild. But it certainly make the conversations I’ve had about race with British people make a lot more sense.
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is wild. But it certainly make the conversations I’ve had about race with British people make a lot more sense.
I think he’s had enough of what we call … civilization
It felt like a Kong kind of day, so slapping on this bright green soundtrack for King Kong Escapes (1967)! #kingkong #kong #kingkongescapes #vinyl #musicsky #akiraifukube
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I think he’s had enough of what we call … civilization
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"There's no such thing as overacting, as long as it's true."
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"There's no such thing as overacting, as long as it's true."
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Fossil fuel cars are stranded assets. EVs are pulling ahead of internal combustion engine vehicles in the used market. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carscoops.com/2025/11/evs-...
EVs Now Sell Faster Than Gas Cars In The Used Market | Carscoops
Used car prices are climbing again in 2025, and buyers are slowing down, though not when it comes to EVs
www.carscoops.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Fossil fuel cars are stranded assets. EVs are pulling ahead of internal combustion engine vehicles in the used market. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carscoops.com/2025/11/evs-...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by EBTGVEVO
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November 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM