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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 11h

Trump sets infinity percent tariffs on China in a desperate attempt to halt the flow of frog costumes to wizards.

manish vij @mvij.org · 2h

Most time-loop flicks: You can’t just cheat at everything, there are consequences

BttF: Sure you can, if you’re a huge a-hole like Biff / T••••. But then to not bum out the audience you get a truckload of 💩

manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

The whole genre is (duh) highly repetitive, but this one builds to something touching in the end. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV_gRLYC9yE

One More Shot | Official Trailer (2025) | Coming 7th November

New Year's Eve 1999. Minnie (Emily Browning) discovers a bottle of Time Traveling Tequila. Each shot takes her back to the start of the night, giving her a b...

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

When you’re jilted by a person, job, or situation in real life, the other party’s reason is often good, but hidden state. You don’t actually want it, you just don’t know it yet and they aren’t telling you. Here the player uses up the mezcal to reveal the hidden states.

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

Heroine learns stock lesson of acting unselfishly to get what she wants. Instead of “can’t change fate,” progressive disclosure on each loop teaches her she doesn’t actually want what she thinks she wants.

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

Even when playing sex bomb, desi actors can never get away from us boring kin :)

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

Browning points it out, the husband shrugs: we’ll just make another baby 🤢

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

Ethical issue: that guy tries to go back 10 years to save his marriage, as a side effect erasing his adorable brown baby “Ria” with wife “Pia.”

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

Interesting time game mechanic (like “Braid”) where one shot of mezcal takes you back to the beginning of the loop, but the bottle runs out. One player paces himself, sometimes going back years to the save point to, e.g., pass his surgery residency on multiple tries.

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

Rare for desis in American flicks: #MeganSuri in “Companion,” Sharda herself in “Tom and Jerry.”

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manish vij @mvij.org · 3h

Some interesting bits in “One More Shot,” a middling, soapy Aussie “Groundhog Day” with genders reversed:

Pallavi Sharda plays the female B-lead to Emily Browning as the hot friend (in costume for a Y2K NYE party as The Nanny), and is frequently centered with focus.

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manish vij @mvij.org · 7h

Costifa protests ICE in Illinois

manish vij @mvij.org · 7h

Pepe reclaimed, he’s Mexican

Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

manish vij @mvij.org · 12h

Blockchained

onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

manish vij @mvij.org · 18h

Vedam did more time than 2 men wrongfully convicted of murdering Malcolm X, combined www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/n...

manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

4 decades on, feds still grinding this man to dust to blindly fill another quota.

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manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

If white folks had any filial piety they’d respect their black ancestors. A little thappad 👋🏻 in the upbringing could’ve stopped all this :)

manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

Africa after Gondwana split: Ugh, finally we ditched America

Slave ships: Hello

manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

Imagine being from the American Southeast and being racist against your erstwhile next-door neighbors

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manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

Ioniq 5 dynamic regen has another benefit: it keeps follow distance ad hoc, when highway curves are too sharp to use radar cruise. Slows down for cars in front, adding safety margin, though it won’t come to a full stop.

manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

Consistently getting solid WiFi on IPhone Air in multiple spots that were flaky on 15 Pro. Launch event boasted that the entire border of the camera bump’s an antenna.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 1d

get in the fucking ribbit, shinji

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manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbfJzTPY4w

The Woman in Cabin 10 | Official Trailer | Netflix

They don’t want you to believe what she saw.Based on the bestselling novel The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. While on board a luxury yacht for a travel ass...

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manish vij @mvij.org · 1d

“You and Parminder both starred in ‘Bend It Like Beckham,’ but only your career took off, why is that” :)

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