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The Bondi Junction mass shooting is horrible, my thoughts go out to the victims and their families. It is concerning that I see opportunists champing at the bit to use this tragedy to spread hate, because that same hate is what caused the horror we see now.
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Bondi Junction mass shooting is horrible, my thoughts go out to the victims and their families. It is concerning that I see opportunists champing at the bit to use this tragedy to spread hate, because that same hate is what caused the horror we see now.
The secret agent is too good, it's exciting to see such a daring and formally bold movie get recognition from major awards bodies. Moura is the stuff of legends, Filco is a master in his prime. Reminds me of Aftersun and Saint Omer in all the best possible ways.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The secret agent is too good, it's exciting to see such a daring and formally bold movie get recognition from major awards bodies. Moura is the stuff of legends, Filco is a master in his prime. Reminds me of Aftersun and Saint Omer in all the best possible ways.
I will say it's very funny that people who write about Pynchon feel the have to get into literary "measuring contest" (if you catch my drift) and dry out their prose with witless, flavourless verbosity. Especially if you're critical, you need to prove you can write like he can for some reason.
“Shadow Ticket” is the first new work by Thomas Pynchon in a dozen years—and, at 88, he’s “still panoptic, exciting, abstruse, distractible, and, for good or ill, unrestrained,” Kathryn Schulz writes.
Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
“Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but it lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions...
www.newyorker.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I will say it's very funny that people who write about Pynchon feel the have to get into literary "measuring contest" (if you catch my drift) and dry out their prose with witless, flavourless verbosity. Especially if you're critical, you need to prove you can write like he can for some reason.
Reading shadow ticket reviews and many of them seem to be mad at the fact it's a Pynchon novel? The new yorker review especially is just the reviewer being vaguely grumpy that they have to read the book. I hate what the critical establishment has become.
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Reading shadow ticket reviews and many of them seem to be mad at the fact it's a Pynchon novel? The new yorker review especially is just the reviewer being vaguely grumpy that they have to read the book. I hate what the critical establishment has become.
Never forget that stand-ups are the ad-men of fascists. They will sell any inch of their soul for a cent and promise it wholesale for the cheapest laughs.
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Never forget that stand-ups are the ad-men of fascists. They will sell any inch of their soul for a cent and promise it wholesale for the cheapest laughs.
PTA's new movie supplants the original Vineland ending for one that I find very fitting, it's a master stroke. I can't help however but imagine that today Brock Vond wouldn't be called back, he would just reach the end of his rope. Just have no further money to expend. That's the end of the admin.
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
PTA's new movie supplants the original Vineland ending for one that I find very fitting, it's a master stroke. I can't help however but imagine that today Brock Vond wouldn't be called back, he would just reach the end of his rope. Just have no further money to expend. That's the end of the admin.
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RIP to one of the all-time greats. Watching #AllThePresidentsMen in film class got me serious about movies. Thank you to the truly legendary #RobertRedford for the movies, the magic, the charm, and reshaping the industry with #Sundance ❤️
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
RIP to one of the all-time greats. Watching #AllThePresidentsMen in film class got me serious about movies. Thank you to the truly legendary #RobertRedford for the movies, the magic, the charm, and reshaping the industry with #Sundance ❤️
I've thought more about Kirk and I have to say, man what a pointless death. There's a supreme emptiness in someone so pointless dying. No reason to be sad, or angry. Nothing was achieved, because Kirk never did anything. A pointless life, a pointless death.
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I've thought more about Kirk and I have to say, man what a pointless death. There's a supreme emptiness in someone so pointless dying. No reason to be sad, or angry. Nothing was achieved, because Kirk never did anything. A pointless life, a pointless death.
I see no reason for American lawmakers to pay any attention to the death of Charlie kirk. He was not a man worth speaking of, not worth condemning political violence for. He was a waste of air till the very end.
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I see no reason for American lawmakers to pay any attention to the death of Charlie kirk. He was not a man worth speaking of, not worth condemning political violence for. He was a waste of air till the very end.
The new letterboxd ui sucks 😮💨
August 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The new letterboxd ui sucks 😮💨
If there was any doubt that these are concentration camps, there is none now. These are conditions you'd expect to find in Auschwitz. It's not "thank god he got out" (though I'm glad someone has) it's "oh god we have to get them out."
Andry Hernandez, a gay makeup artist deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison, arrived home to his family after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death." He said prisoners were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food.
Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention
A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."
www.reuters.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If there was any doubt that these are concentration camps, there is none now. These are conditions you'd expect to find in Auschwitz. It's not "thank god he got out" (though I'm glad someone has) it's "oh god we have to get them out."
One summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler was cranking 90s in fortnite
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film ‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ is getting a Fortnite collab.
July 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler was cranking 90s in fortnite
Reporting on something so spurious and unquantifiable is a tell-tale sign that this is the next big push in the right-wing media, replace everything you love with robotic half-approximations and that is fine. Good, even, and no-one can judge it.
More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge
More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge
As AI-powered chatbots become more popular, AI-human relationships are a new and growing phenomenon.
theconversation.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Reporting on something so spurious and unquantifiable is a tell-tale sign that this is the next big push in the right-wing media, replace everything you love with robotic half-approximations and that is fine. Good, even, and no-one can judge it.
It's really funny that marvel has Ryan Coogler on call and didn't give him Blade, the black vampire movie.
July 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It's really funny that marvel has Ryan Coogler on call and didn't give him Blade, the black vampire movie.
I actually think somehow the problem here is bigger than trump in this instance. Like let's be real "our lifestyle revolves around exploiting migrant labour" is bad, but "our exploited migrant labourers are being taken to death camps" paints a picture of a system in decay long before fascist control
This is the consequences when we chose the wrong
direction.
direction.
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I actually think somehow the problem here is bigger than trump in this instance. Like let's be real "our lifestyle revolves around exploiting migrant labour" is bad, but "our exploited migrant labourers are being taken to death camps" paints a picture of a system in decay long before fascist control
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the @nytimes.com made their only left-wing columnist delete 100% fair and accurate criticism of--to be EXTREMELY charitable--a shoddy piece of reporting that just happens to enable American fascists to smear a rising socialist leader
July 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
the @nytimes.com made their only left-wing columnist delete 100% fair and accurate criticism of--to be EXTREMELY charitable--a shoddy piece of reporting that just happens to enable American fascists to smear a rising socialist leader
I think the big indicator of whether something is AI is the rate of production. AI users have no patience, so they'll throw out a hundred tracks in a week or two, but they also don't have the discipline to continue with anything that isn't immediately gratifying (...)
July 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I think the big indicator of whether something is AI is the rate of production. AI users have no patience, so they'll throw out a hundred tracks in a week or two, but they also don't have the discipline to continue with anything that isn't immediately gratifying (...)
Long time since I've last posted, so quick update:
Materialists was bad
The Iran affair happened, neat. Finally, an AI-generated conflict, complete with recycled reasoning and decades of enmity ground up into a reconstituted slush.
LA protests still aren't riots :(
Materialists was bad
The Iran affair happened, neat. Finally, an AI-generated conflict, complete with recycled reasoning and decades of enmity ground up into a reconstituted slush.
LA protests still aren't riots :(
June 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Long time since I've last posted, so quick update:
Materialists was bad
The Iran affair happened, neat. Finally, an AI-generated conflict, complete with recycled reasoning and decades of enmity ground up into a reconstituted slush.
LA protests still aren't riots :(
Materialists was bad
The Iran affair happened, neat. Finally, an AI-generated conflict, complete with recycled reasoning and decades of enmity ground up into a reconstituted slush.
LA protests still aren't riots :(
youtu.be/LLt5WVayz5Q?...
Hold on... is this going to be good? Positing racial discrimination as a way for the capitalist to reassert himself over a united group of workers? That's a lot more insightful than I would have thought a modern animal farm would be.
Hold on... is this going to be good? Positing racial discrimination as a way for the capitalist to reassert himself over a united group of workers? That's a lot more insightful than I would have thought a modern animal farm would be.
Exclusive First Look | ANIMAL FARM
YouTube video by Aniventure
youtu.be
June 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
youtu.be/LLt5WVayz5Q?...
Hold on... is this going to be good? Positing racial discrimination as a way for the capitalist to reassert himself over a united group of workers? That's a lot more insightful than I would have thought a modern animal farm would be.
Hold on... is this going to be good? Positing racial discrimination as a way for the capitalist to reassert himself over a united group of workers? That's a lot more insightful than I would have thought a modern animal farm would be.
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ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.
June 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.
The Erin Patterson trial is perhaps the least interesting murder case of the century. I do not care about it in the least and am frankly confounded by the media attention it has received.
June 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The Erin Patterson trial is perhaps the least interesting murder case of the century. I do not care about it in the least and am frankly confounded by the media attention it has received.
One of the dumbest, most utterly asinine takes you'll see on here. "What radicalised me against socialism is the capitalist housing market" are you braindead? Is there even a little light flickering in that moth-eaten upstairs?
Nothing has radicalized me against socialism more than housing. We've seen exactly what total democratic control of the housing market looks like and it's fucking terrible. Good things only happen when you don't need the government's permission to do them.
June 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
One of the dumbest, most utterly asinine takes you'll see on here. "What radicalised me against socialism is the capitalist housing market" are you braindead? Is there even a little light flickering in that moth-eaten upstairs?
You owe nothing to corporations. You owe less than nothing to corporations. They are very really in debt to every single person in this country. This is not a "don't shop at this place" moment, it is a moment where we need to realise that corporations ought to be ruined for this decision
Companies are lobbing higher prices on consumers outside America, all so that Americans won't pay the full price of Trump's tariff mania, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
Americans should pay for American stupidity. And Australia should make them
www.crikey.com.au
June 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
You owe nothing to corporations. You owe less than nothing to corporations. They are very really in debt to every single person in this country. This is not a "don't shop at this place" moment, it is a moment where we need to realise that corporations ought to be ruined for this decision
Nothing to do with this post but Carney looks like cormac McCarthy and it jumpscared me
Canada welcomes the U.S. Court of International Trade’s decision on the United States’ tariffs.
It confirmed what we’ve always held: that the American tariffs against Canadian goods are unlawful and unjustified.
It confirmed what we’ve always held: that the American tariffs against Canadian goods are unlawful and unjustified.
May 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Nothing to do with this post but Carney looks like cormac McCarthy and it jumpscared me