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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 31m

The worst thing about Portland is the dementors.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 58m

Shy FX - We Just Don't Care ft. Shingai

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, Newsom is in office and not defending those rights already, right? That’s what this thread is about.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 4h

If the Democrats were to nominate a candidate that notably didn’t care about the rights of specific marginalized communities, they would be broadcasting that they also won’t fight for those rights, and they would deserve to lose every vote that that would cost them.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 4h

“If you really care about trans rights, you’ll help us elect this Democrat.”

But that Democrat doesn’t care about trans rights.

“Listen, I’m sick of your purity tests.”

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 4h

But surely, saying “Your rights should be sacrificed so a party that won’t stand up for you can win the next election” is a great way to build a coalition.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 5h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 6h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 5h

Okay.

Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 5h

You’ve created a great learning opportunity for yourself here, and I sincerely hope you make the most of it.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 7h

Well, it’s a good thing that the answer is clearly in a drawer in an FBI office somewhere.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 7h

I guess somebody must have told him that Amelia Earhart was hot.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 7h

“Per a priority request from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, please search any areas where papers or physical media records may be stored, to include both open or closed cases, for records responsive to Amelia Earhart.”

Trump’s on the case, everybody.

CNN @cnn.com · 20h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

It just so wonderfully underscores “even the good guy among these men failed.”

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

For my money, the shot of Ewan McGregor, James Cosmo and the shadow of Eileen Nicholas in this clip is the heart of the film, not to mention a tremendous cameo from Cosmo. youtu.be/m3H0N7FFIOA?...

T2: Trainspotting (2017) - Renton Returns to Home in Scotland

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

It’s rare that a story with four protagonists ends with the reveal that none of them were actually the protagonist, is I guess my point. It’s a wonderful subversion of storytelling and masculinity alike.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

At any rate, I think it takes a certain artistic courage to round up the four iconic characters from the film that propelled all five of you into stardom and say “These four men are despicable losers and you should walk away from this sequel feeling bad for all of them.”

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

Benny, as always, thank you, my good friend.

Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

There’s an uneasy feeling of “Who am I supposed to sympathize with?” during the first act of this film, before it becomes obvious that the answer is “the neglected family members and naive young women who have built actual lives in their wake.”

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, you are!

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21h

It was just a brilliant take on how to do a sequel to the original film. The script drew from multiple sources, including Welsh’s sequel novel, but the film did well to acknowledge that the way you do a sequel to “Trainspotting” is to show that nothing really worked out for anyone involved.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22h

I was very reluctant to watch “T2 Trainspotting” when it first came out, and I was so glad to discover that it ended up being a movie specifically about how all of the iconic male characters from the first movie were now too old with basically nothing to show for it.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22h

We all want to believe that our lives, in the end, will make a good story.

But every life whose story is worth remembering is a “to be continued” story that somebody else will make their own.

Live well. Hand off the baton. Earn and enjoy your rest.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22h

Anything more I might have to say about this would count as “getting a little too Irish,” so let’s leave it there.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22h

I’m really not kidding when I say that I believe that “Keep doing better until you die” is the meaning of life.

You will never finish. You will never win. But you will have lived life to its fullest if you tried your best.

Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 23h

Not to be blunt, but you’d better get comfortable with a future in which nobody cares what you did when you were younger, because the ultimate goal is to help build a society that’s progressed beyond the restrictions of ours.

Keep doing better until you die, and others will pick up the baton.

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s just address the elephant in the room.

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