Scott Nye
@railoftomorrow.bsky.social
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Come on down to the mermaid cafe and I will buy you a bottle of wine
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railoftomorrow.bsky.social
I am all in on 4K but word to the wise it required a lot more calibration than Blu-ray. I still wonder if there are other settings I haven’t accounted for.
markharris.bsky.social
Blu-ray question: Is 4K UHD...terrible? I just tried to watch Amadeus and it had that awful hi-def video look of The Hobbit movies and those Ang Lee misfires. Do I have the wrong kind of TV or something? (Please don't say "Turn off motion smoothing"; obviously I have done that.)
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thehyyyype.bsky.social
Grandpa: I sent your grandma 57 handwritten love letters from the western front and she finally agreed to marry me when I returned from the war

Me: the computer told me to say "I had a good time last night" to this girl but it didn't work for some reason
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
People are citing this as hypocrisy when it’s pretty clear to me he means that left-leaning people - including three Supreme Court judges, and I’m guessing one in particular - need to be quiet. Just an extension of his whole deal.
mikesacks.bsky.social
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
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brendelbored.bsky.social
In some ways this is the government now
r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago
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I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa...
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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Take-backsies for the next Dem president
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Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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cait.bsky.social
"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
TRON: ARES, in which a computer program repeatedly runs out of breath and has to put their hand up to cover their face from bright light. Weird stuff.
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
One of the odder corners of Diane Keaton’s career I’ve always admired her for is producing ELEPHANT. She took it to Van Sant, let him run with the kernel of an idea they had, and supported him all the way. She found out they won the Palme while flying to shoot SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE. What a year.
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tcmfans.bsky.social
Diane Keaton at The Schwab’s Pharmacy counter in 1983.

Farewell to one cinema's greatest legends Can’t believe we’ve lost her. Such a shock. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” forever.
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Heading in now myself, the conversation in the crowd is pretty much “well I likely the Legacy one all right…”

The median audience, I suspect
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Also notably a film he only barely featured in
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Perfectly sensible way to allow an economy to run, another societal win for capitalism where innovation leads the way and we all benefit from its progress
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Execs greenlighting new TRON movies, looking at past performance of TRON movies
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
VAN GOGH, man…..that’s living
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molliekatzen.bsky.social
"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Man remember how mad people were about that ending? Now I’m watching it and I’m like “actually the movie could be more perfect if the dream was longer and more rambling”
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Rewatched NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, first time since about its time of release. I don’t call many movies perfect, nor do I put a lot of stock in perfection or quite know how to define it, but there is something intensely satisfying about a movie that feels it fits the notion.
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
(there isn’t a famous enough werewolf to use a name and really make this joke work)
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
He’s hilarious in a movie that is out right now!
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
“The antichrist is the reason I can’t hide my money in tax havens” is an extraordinarily specific definition of what the antichrist is all about
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People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Screenshot text from The Guardian:
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Like a lot of dorks in their late-thirties, I’m nostalgic for the insane over-stylization of the early aughts, constantly wishing we could get back to it, but those screencaps in today’s framed.wtf game…..really challenged some fundamental beliefs there.
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railoftomorrow.bsky.social
I dunno man are they gonna roll through and drag people out of their homes for no reason
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His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
railoftomorrow.bsky.social
Putting on the PULSE 4K with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’s commentary and as many good notices as I saw for this transfer, good god is this a tremendous transfer