Nute
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Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
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· Jan 1
🚨 IMPORTANT: If you begin playing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace at exactly 11:38:48 PM then Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray will say “Ah, Victory” at exactly midnight. Start the new year off right.
To be clear: no new praise for Platner, but it says explicitly that Mills running is why they decided to form the group, and it gives examples of only like 3 races they have views on and notes they disagree on MI-Sen but nothing about ME
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
To be clear: no new praise for Platner, but it says explicitly that Mills running is why they decided to form the group, and it gives examples of only like 3 races they have views on and notes they disagree on MI-Sen but nothing about ME
Mills running was the entire catalyst for them forming
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Mills running was the entire catalyst for them forming
Extremely funny to see this headline, read the laudatory reactions on Bsky, then click through and learn that one of the only things they agree on is support for the Nazi Tattoo guy
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Extremely funny to see this headline, read the laudatory reactions on Bsky, then click through and learn that one of the only things they agree on is support for the Nazi Tattoo guy
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Stiff competition but Vance is probably the worst fascist goblin in the WH rn.
Smarter than opportunistic idiots like Witkoff and more ideological and actively evil than Trump.
And he wraps all his smug viciousness in this faux ”well now good sir” civility that’s sooo hateable.
Smarter than opportunistic idiots like Witkoff and more ideological and actively evil than Trump.
And he wraps all his smug viciousness in this faux ”well now good sir” civility that’s sooo hateable.
Makes you wonder what Vance will say if Trump orders a US military attack on Venezuela
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Stiff competition but Vance is probably the worst fascist goblin in the WH rn.
Smarter than opportunistic idiots like Witkoff and more ideological and actively evil than Trump.
And he wraps all his smug viciousness in this faux ”well now good sir” civility that’s sooo hateable.
Smarter than opportunistic idiots like Witkoff and more ideological and actively evil than Trump.
And he wraps all his smug viciousness in this faux ”well now good sir” civility that’s sooo hateable.
“But I seem normal compared to most politicos I know” (they’re my former allies and enemies in the Labour Party)
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“But I seem normal compared to most politicos I know” (they’re my former allies and enemies in the Labour Party)
Special levy on immigrants having sex is actually earmarked for the end of budget surprise winner
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Special levy on immigrants having sex is actually earmarked for the end of budget surprise winner
I can almost guarantee nobody else does so you’re on safe ground claiming it
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I can almost guarantee nobody else does so you’re on safe ground claiming it
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Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
Trevor Philips is right but he must go further: the United Kingdom cannot escape its current plight until it has reversed decimalisation and brought back Merseybeat
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
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November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trevor Philips is right but he must go further: the United Kingdom cannot escape its current plight until it has reversed decimalisation and brought back Merseybeat
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Possibly the stupidest idea I've heard in the last few months, which is saying something. Shows utter ignorance around practicalities regardless of the ethics/desirability.
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Possibly the stupidest idea I've heard in the last few months, which is saying something. Shows utter ignorance around practicalities regardless of the ethics/desirability.
(Like, nothing Krennic or Jyn/The Gang do even really affects anything the other one does until the end… it’s Tarkin who nukes Jedha, it’s the other Rebels who blow up Galen/Krennic’s base etc)
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
(Like, nothing Krennic or Jyn/The Gang do even really affects anything the other one does until the end… it’s Tarkin who nukes Jedha, it’s the other Rebels who blow up Galen/Krennic’s base etc)
Oh I greatly enjoy the character and I think it works fine in the film, but I also think it’s very obvious it wasn’t *meant* to work out that way (as I’ve noted, there’s essentially an alternate film in there of “Orson Krennic’s Very Bad Day”)
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Oh I greatly enjoy the character and I think it works fine in the film, but I also think it’s very obvious it wasn’t *meant* to work out that way (as I’ve noted, there’s essentially an alternate film in there of “Orson Krennic’s Very Bad Day”)
Krennic is of course the antagonist, which is to say neither he nor the protagonist know the other one exists until the last five minutes of the film and they mostly just keep missing each other by five minutes
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Krennic is of course the antagonist, which is to say neither he nor the protagonist know the other one exists until the last five minutes of the film and they mostly just keep missing each other by five minutes
I very distinctly remember about twenty minutes in, around the Bor Gullet scene, thinking “Wait, is this star war… bad???” Which was the first time I had ever thought that in the cinema. Not, sadly, the last.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I very distinctly remember about twenty minutes in, around the Bor Gullet scene, thinking “Wait, is this star war… bad???” Which was the first time I had ever thought that in the cinema. Not, sadly, the last.
Eh, I mean “fine the first time but completely falls apart on a rewatch” is not a catastrophe but short of a full success IMO
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Eh, I mean “fine the first time but completely falls apart on a rewatch” is not a catastrophe but short of a full success IMO
I think all the parts are there in what you identify and you can see what the journey is meant to be and that’s why you don’t really notice when you’re watching it the first time, because your brain fills in other stuff, but what’s actually *in* the movie doesn’t do it IMO
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I think all the parts are there in what you identify and you can see what the journey is meant to be and that’s why you don’t really notice when you’re watching it the first time, because your brain fills in other stuff, but what’s actually *in* the movie doesn’t do it IMO
Except that after that she then does essentially face the camera and say “I am still completely uncommitted to this cause, I blame the Rebels for this, I am not buying your speech Cassian” and it’s litreally the scene before she makes an impassioned speech about the importance of the Rebellion
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Except that after that she then does essentially face the camera and say “I am still completely uncommitted to this cause, I blame the Rebels for this, I am not buying your speech Cassian” and it’s litreally the scene before she makes an impassioned speech about the importance of the Rebellion
Yeah, as I like to note, the protagonist undergoing their central character journey of the film entirely off screen feels sub ideal
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Yeah, as I like to note, the protagonist undergoing their central character journey of the film entirely off screen feels sub ideal
(Scene should have cut away after the breathing)
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
(Scene should have cut away after the breathing)
Oh I 10000% agree. Like give me the Gilroy version ANY day
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Oh I 10000% agree. Like give me the Gilroy version ANY day
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Spicy take: Rogue One is *worse* after Andor because it shows how good pure, uncut Gilroy is.
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Spicy take: Rogue One is *worse* after Andor because it shows how good pure, uncut Gilroy is.
The synthesis remains that “Rogue One is a mess and not a great movie” and “Rogue One is a very impressive rescue job on what should have been a disaster” are both true IMV
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The synthesis remains that “Rogue One is a mess and not a great movie” and “Rogue One is a very impressive rescue job on what should have been a disaster” are both true IMV
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i would push rogue one down and bring solo and the last jedi up. i’d also place attack of the clones at the bottom.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
i would push rogue one down and bring solo and the last jedi up. i’d also place attack of the clones at the bottom.
That’s right, the Mets
(Once we trade Senga)
(Once we trade Senga)
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
That’s right, the Mets
(Once we trade Senga)
(Once we trade Senga)