Formal Plates
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I complain about movies
I’m testing a new monitor and it’s insane how many times I’ve inadvertently turned it off because the menu button is located close to the on/off switch
Just make them feel differently or spread them more apart
Do we really have to relearn the basic lessons of industrial design every 20 years?
Just make them feel differently or spread them more apart
Do we really have to relearn the basic lessons of industrial design every 20 years?
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I’m testing a new monitor and it’s insane how many times I’ve inadvertently turned it off because the menu button is located close to the on/off switch
Just make them feel differently or spread them more apart
Do we really have to relearn the basic lessons of industrial design every 20 years?
Just make them feel differently or spread them more apart
Do we really have to relearn the basic lessons of industrial design every 20 years?
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
Loved “Frankenstein”!
Give me Victorian era, the Creator vs. Creation clash, and Victorian ladies being laid to an eternal rest on a slab of marble.
Give me Alexandre Desplat’s score!
Well, who *is* the monster after all, you may be asking yourself, the sophisticated movie enjoyer.
Give me Victorian era, the Creator vs. Creation clash, and Victorian ladies being laid to an eternal rest on a slab of marble.
Give me Alexandre Desplat’s score!
Well, who *is* the monster after all, you may be asking yourself, the sophisticated movie enjoyer.
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Loved “Frankenstein”!
Give me Victorian era, the Creator vs. Creation clash, and Victorian ladies being laid to an eternal rest on a slab of marble.
Give me Alexandre Desplat’s score!
Well, who *is* the monster after all, you may be asking yourself, the sophisticated movie enjoyer.
Give me Victorian era, the Creator vs. Creation clash, and Victorian ladies being laid to an eternal rest on a slab of marble.
Give me Alexandre Desplat’s score!
Well, who *is* the monster after all, you may be asking yourself, the sophisticated movie enjoyer.
“Bioshock”, by Chris Nolan
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“Bioshock”, by Chris Nolan
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📷©️ Satoru Watanabe
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
📷©️ Satoru Watanabe
Sometimes I see comments about “performatively” hating (or liking) a movie and that’s always a funny concept to me.
What, you like a movie that much, that you cannot even begin to comprehend that someone else might genuinely not like it? That’s a difficult thing to fathom, to you?
What, you like a movie that much, that you cannot even begin to comprehend that someone else might genuinely not like it? That’s a difficult thing to fathom, to you?
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sometimes I see comments about “performatively” hating (or liking) a movie and that’s always a funny concept to me.
What, you like a movie that much, that you cannot even begin to comprehend that someone else might genuinely not like it? That’s a difficult thing to fathom, to you?
What, you like a movie that much, that you cannot even begin to comprehend that someone else might genuinely not like it? That’s a difficult thing to fathom, to you?
PSA: Somehow I missed it, but the Gmail feature “Consent to Primae Noctis” is now under Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy, turned on by default.
You definitely want to turn it off
You definitely want to turn it off
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
PSA: Somehow I missed it, but the Gmail feature “Consent to Primae Noctis” is now under Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy, turned on by default.
You definitely want to turn it off
You definitely want to turn it off
Lol, fuck off
(And yes, it’s a good idea)
(And yes, it’s a good idea)
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Lol, fuck off
(And yes, it’s a good idea)
(And yes, it’s a good idea)
Lol, I enjoyed the movie, but the “They’re just friends - until they aren’t” is a tricky line to walk/ play in a movie.
In this one, an innocent bystander irl would probably comment with either “Hey, get a room, you two” or “Wait, are those 2 f*king??”
Again, an enjoyable movie, good chemistry
In this one, an innocent bystander irl would probably comment with either “Hey, get a room, you two” or “Wait, are those 2 f*king??”
Again, an enjoyable movie, good chemistry
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Lol, I enjoyed the movie, but the “They’re just friends - until they aren’t” is a tricky line to walk/ play in a movie.
In this one, an innocent bystander irl would probably comment with either “Hey, get a room, you two” or “Wait, are those 2 f*king??”
Again, an enjoyable movie, good chemistry
In this one, an innocent bystander irl would probably comment with either “Hey, get a room, you two” or “Wait, are those 2 f*king??”
Again, an enjoyable movie, good chemistry
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Men reading in public are now considered so dangerous that the access to them must be restricted with a police tape.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Men reading in public are now considered so dangerous that the access to them must be restricted with a police tape.
This Way Up has a big heart: Really funny and uplifting - and then it makes you wonder why your eyes are misty.
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
This Way Up (TV series) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This Way Up has a big heart: Really funny and uplifting - and then it makes you wonder why your eyes are misty.
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
Hello [Existential Dread] my only friend 🎵
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hello [Existential Dread] my only friend 🎵
Men reading in public are now considered so dangerous that the access to them must be restricted with a police tape.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Men reading in public are now considered so dangerous that the access to them must be restricted with a police tape.
Gordon Lightfoot - Song For A Winter's Night
YouTube video by Jan Hammer
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“We”? “We” have to?
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“We”? “We” have to?
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
“Pluribus” (S1E1) started really good!
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“Pluribus” (S1E1) started really good!
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
They’re literally making this into “Dylan Going Electric” affair- instead of what it really is (a big corporation going cheap and showing that saving a few bucks is paramount to everything else)
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
They’re literally making this into “Dylan Going Electric” affair- instead of what it really is (a big corporation going cheap and showing that saving a few bucks is paramount to everything else)
“The downsides of being public”?
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
Musk: Maybe SpaceX should become public company Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said that SpaceX "maybe at some point should" become a public company, "despite all the downsides of being public."
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“The downsides of being public”?
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
I think that asking hey, how come we’re told by Party A that some things cannot be done because there are rules, people won’t budge, etc. and then you see Party B going through the same rules like a hot knife through the butter is a perfectly fair question
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I think that asking hey, how come we’re told by Party A that some things cannot be done because there are rules, people won’t budge, etc. and then you see Party B going through the same rules like a hot knife through the butter is a perfectly fair question
Fuck off
Netflix will roll out new modular ad formats globally by Q2 2026. $NFLX
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Fuck off
