Pinned
Jonathan Eby
@jonathaneby.bsky.social
· Aug 20
Two Basterds walk into a bar…
Two men emerge from the mountains to do a job. To defeat their nation’s enemies. One from the Alps, one from the Smokeys. They both enter a world where everyone must pretend to be something they’re…
flickreview.movie.blog
I wrote about Inglourious Basterds.
How it's themes of blending in, standing out and moral flexibility and inflexibility may be hidden in the subtext. But they're there. And that's why the movie has stuck with me.
How it's themes of blending in, standing out and moral flexibility and inflexibility may be hidden in the subtext. But they're there. And that's why the movie has stuck with me.
the suicide squad and superman are both right at 2 hours without credits
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
the suicide squad and superman are both right at 2 hours without credits
it's gonna be weird but i gotta start fundraising for this proof of concept short by the end of the month.
it'll be easier for me on here than on other platforms methinks.
it'll be easier for me on here than on other platforms methinks.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
it's gonna be weird but i gotta start fundraising for this proof of concept short by the end of the month.
it'll be easier for me on here than on other platforms methinks.
it'll be easier for me on here than on other platforms methinks.
i just love the suicide squad so much. gunn makes movies that are nasty and straight from a comic book. yet full of ideas and heart. comics are like, what if we take the dirty dozen then make it nasty and goofy, and gunn's not afraid to mix tones like that.
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
i just love the suicide squad so much. gunn makes movies that are nasty and straight from a comic book. yet full of ideas and heart. comics are like, what if we take the dirty dozen then make it nasty and goofy, and gunn's not afraid to mix tones like that.
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
Why do I as a YIMBY want to cut housing developers' costs? "The fluctuation of supply and demand always bring the price of a commodity back to its cost of production... Not only the supply, but also the demand, is determined by the cost of production" -MARX, 1847 www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
Wage Labour and Capital. Chapter 3
Wage Labour and Capital: Chapter 3
www.marxists.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Why do I as a YIMBY want to cut housing developers' costs? "The fluctuation of supply and demand always bring the price of a commodity back to its cost of production... Not only the supply, but also the demand, is determined by the cost of production" -MARX, 1847 www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
people should make anti nazi art all the time. if nazis pop up again (like they do) then you look like a prophet.
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
people should make anti nazi art all the time. if nazis pop up again (like they do) then you look like a prophet.
List 3 things you think you're known for and your followers will tell you if you're right or wrong
1. Movies are good
2. The Dodgers are good
3. The modern cultural & economic fabric of the United States is held up by an unsustainable system of loans designed to force everyone to drive everywhere
1. Movies are good
2. The Dodgers are good
3. The modern cultural & economic fabric of the United States is held up by an unsustainable system of loans designed to force everyone to drive everywhere
List 3 things you think you're known for and your followers will tell you if you're right or wrong
1. Waging eternal war on people who go into the replies of a post about some atrocity or other outrage and say, "And you're surprised by this?"
2. Deadwood
3. A.I. and/or copyright issues
1. Waging eternal war on people who go into the replies of a post about some atrocity or other outrage and say, "And you're surprised by this?"
2. Deadwood
3. A.I. and/or copyright issues
List 3 things you think you're known for and your followers will tell you if you're right or wrong
1. Dark Shadows 🖤
2. Guy Pearce 🤩
3. Hating Awards 😁
1. Dark Shadows 🖤
2. Guy Pearce 🤩
3. Hating Awards 😁
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
List 3 things you think you're known for and your followers will tell you if you're right or wrong
1. Movies are good
2. The Dodgers are good
3. The modern cultural & economic fabric of the United States is held up by an unsustainable system of loans designed to force everyone to drive everywhere
1. Movies are good
2. The Dodgers are good
3. The modern cultural & economic fabric of the United States is held up by an unsustainable system of loans designed to force everyone to drive everywhere
i hope @jamesgunn.bsky.social helps make modern rock more popular. it feels like rock died after the white stripes broke up but im just loving the peacemaker soundtrack.
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
i hope @jamesgunn.bsky.social helps make modern rock more popular. it feels like rock died after the white stripes broke up but im just loving the peacemaker soundtrack.
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
Schroedinger’s apartment building: simultaneously raising and lowering property values by being full of both rich and poor people.
It's very funny that in an urban context people say that apartments will destroy the neighborhood by bringing rich people in and in a suburban context people say that apartments will destroy the neighborhood by bringing poor people in. Is 'funny' the right word?
Building new housing does not destroy neighborhoods. Single family homes are the most expensive and luxurious form of housing, which is why nearly all rich people live in them.
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Schroedinger’s apartment building: simultaneously raising and lowering property values by being full of both rich and poor people.
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
"Fewer people" housing policy vs. "more people" housing policy:
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Fewer people" housing policy vs. "more people" housing policy:
peacemaker is incredibly my vibe. i shouldve watched years ago
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
peacemaker is incredibly my vibe. i shouldve watched years ago
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
at this point, Los Angeles is the most NIMBY city in the country.
I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.
I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
at this point, Los Angeles is the most NIMBY city in the country.
I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.
I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.
ive been spoiled on season 2, but i like peacemaker because it's sorta an inverse of captain america.
Peacemaker is kinda fucked up. he has a dark past, and he doesnt know how to process it in the present. can he move forward? can he become a better man?
Peacemaker is kinda fucked up. he has a dark past, and he doesnt know how to process it in the present. can he move forward? can he become a better man?
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
ive been spoiled on season 2, but i like peacemaker because it's sorta an inverse of captain america.
Peacemaker is kinda fucked up. he has a dark past, and he doesnt know how to process it in the present. can he move forward? can he become a better man?
Peacemaker is kinda fucked up. he has a dark past, and he doesnt know how to process it in the present. can he move forward? can he become a better man?
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
“SB 827 was a BC/AD event for housing policy in America,” @hanlon.bsky.social says. “We’re not going to solve this through marginal tax credit, low-income housing projects. No. You just need to legalize fucking apartment buildings.”
Scott Wiener defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can he fix America’s housing crisis?
By running for Nancy Pelosi's House seat, he's putting the abundance theory to the test.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“SB 827 was a BC/AD event for housing policy in America,” @hanlon.bsky.social says. “We’re not going to solve this through marginal tax credit, low-income housing projects. No. You just need to legalize fucking apartment buildings.”
i think this is the year for Sho to try and get a Cy Young.
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
i think this is the year for Sho to try and get a Cy Young.
Seiha (or Conquest, or Domineering) is a criminally underrated Yakuza film by Nakajima Sadao. It's cinematically playful, well paced, and has a great performance by Toshirô Mifune as an aging mob boss.
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Seiha (or Conquest, or Domineering) is a criminally underrated Yakuza film by Nakajima Sadao. It's cinematically playful, well paced, and has a great performance by Toshirô Mifune as an aging mob boss.
love and anger are conflicting emotions. im not sure if you can successfully make them the same motor.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
love and anger are conflicting emotions. im not sure if you can successfully make them the same motor.
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
100 years of Disney films and at no point have I ever seen one that I wish had been made by robots instead of humans
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
100 years of Disney films and at no point have I ever seen one that I wish had been made by robots instead of humans
what if a man ran?
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
what if a man ran?
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
She should punch her dad too honestly
All the adults failed her including her dad
"Honestly, I have no ill will towards that young man or his family. Kids are kids, & they do dumb things just like adults do. So, especially at that age, they don’t comprehend the severity of what they do" said the girl's dad
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
"Honestly, I have no ill will towards that young man or his family. Kids are kids, & they do dumb things just like adults do. So, especially at that age, they don’t comprehend the severity of what they do" said the girl's dad
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
She should punch her dad too honestly
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
I brought these stats up at the other place but consider this: Not only has there only been six Black directors nominated for Best Director (all of them men), there’s never been a two-time nominee in that category.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I brought these stats up at the other place but consider this: Not only has there only been six Black directors nominated for Best Director (all of them men), there’s never been a two-time nominee in that category.
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
reject modernity. embrace tradition.
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
reject modernity. embrace tradition.
Reposted by Jonathan Eby
Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin