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Today at The Reveal: The latest entry in my '80s in 40 column looks at FOOTLOOSE (and, briefly, CHILDREN OF THE CORN), an old-fashioned movie that nonetheless attempts to make a case against turning back the clock—with dance!
The ‘80s in 40: ‘Footloose’ (February, 1984)
A rebellious Kevin Bacon teaches a small town the value of dancing in an old-fashioned movie that nonetheless pushes back at attempts to turn back the clock.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today at The Reveal: The latest entry in my '80s in 40 column looks at FOOTLOOSE (and, briefly, CHILDREN OF THE CORN), an old-fashioned movie that nonetheless attempts to make a case against turning back the clock—with dance!
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“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"
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I've tried several times to like anything the trash future guys do only to smash head first into the fact most of them get right on my tits.
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've tried several times to like anything the trash future guys do only to smash head first into the fact most of them get right on my tits.
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the AI journalism revolution continues to go great, thanks for asking
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
“BG3 players exploit children.”
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
the AI journalism revolution continues to go great, thanks for asking
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All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.
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Can I just fucking say, imagine if any of these people ever faced any kind of fucking consequence for just blurting out bullshit like this
“In a decade, Pichai said that it'll be normal to build extraterrestrial data centers”.
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
Sundar Pichai says Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027
Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.
www.businessinsider.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Can I just fucking say, imagine if any of these people ever faced any kind of fucking consequence for just blurting out bullshit like this
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This is brilliant analysis. The main takeaway is that Labour strategists do not understand why they won the 2024 election or who voted for the party. The leak leftwards was well underway before the country went to the polls. A major wake-up is required. I won't bet on it happening.
New post just out:
Six lessons from the 2024 election.
And what they mean for the next one.
Covering: Labour's fatal misunderstanding about why they won; effects of a more fragmented system; changes in media/polling.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/six-lesson...
Six lessons from the 2024 election.
And what they mean for the next one.
Covering: Labour's fatal misunderstanding about why they won; effects of a more fragmented system; changes in media/polling.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/six-lesson...
Six lessons from the 2024 election
And what they mean for the next one
samf.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is brilliant analysis. The main takeaway is that Labour strategists do not understand why they won the 2024 election or who voted for the party. The leak leftwards was well underway before the country went to the polls. A major wake-up is required. I won't bet on it happening.
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Part of me absolutely loves this list. Like fuck it, Quentin. Just pick the most basic ass man films of all time. Hell yeah.
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I'm not going to pretend these are bad films (I don't even mind the Woody film) but this doesn't exactly scream "voracious cinephile with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of genre and world cinema" so much as "dad who watches a lot of TNT."
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Part of me absolutely loves this list. Like fuck it, Quentin. Just pick the most basic ass man films of all time. Hell yeah.
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Genuinely feels like a tide changed when the UK government just refused assent to the Scottish Government's Gender Recognition Reform Scotland Act, via a power never invoked, which had gone through after years of scrutiny and ... nothign happened.
December 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Genuinely feels like a tide changed when the UK government just refused assent to the Scottish Government's Gender Recognition Reform Scotland Act, via a power never invoked, which had gone through after years of scrutiny and ... nothign happened.
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"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
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Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Joanne will never run out of money because people keep buying her stuff, and so this will keep happening. SLAPP after SLAPP until trans people are completely drummed out of public existence and nobody will do a thing about it
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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"The AI revolution is already here and there's no going back so we may as well get on board"
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"You can't switch off fossil fuels overnight"
Argue against something no one is saying and you'll win every single time 🥇
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"You can't switch off fossil fuels overnight"
Argue against something no one is saying and you'll win every single time 🥇
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"The AI revolution is already here and there's no going back so we may as well get on board"
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"You can't switch off fossil fuels overnight"
Argue against something no one is saying and you'll win every single time 🥇
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"You can't switch off fossil fuels overnight"
Argue against something no one is saying and you'll win every single time 🥇
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The collective noun for a group of Russian refineries is a combustion.
Drones have visited the Tambov region. The Nikiforovsky oil refinery "Tambovnefteprodukt" in Dmitriyevka is on fire.
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The collective noun for a group of Russian refineries is a combustion.
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Behold: bold British sheep in all it's majesty
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Behold: bold British sheep in all it's majesty
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If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
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December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
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A very good piece.
Labour are indeed not alone in refusing to confront reality and deal with wicked problems like climate change, an aging population and the increasing decrepitude of late capitalism but they are the actual government currently in power so they need to wake up!
Labour are indeed not alone in refusing to confront reality and deal with wicked problems like climate change, an aging population and the increasing decrepitude of late capitalism but they are the actual government currently in power so they need to wake up!
Column. British politicians do a lot claiming to face the world as it is, while their actions speak of yearning for the world as it was. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past | Rafael Behr
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be dealing with the world as it is, but seem to yearn for a world that has disappeared, says the Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A very good piece.
Labour are indeed not alone in refusing to confront reality and deal with wicked problems like climate change, an aging population and the increasing decrepitude of late capitalism but they are the actual government currently in power so they need to wake up!
Labour are indeed not alone in refusing to confront reality and deal with wicked problems like climate change, an aging population and the increasing decrepitude of late capitalism but they are the actual government currently in power so they need to wake up!
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It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
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Basically, this proposes that magistrates’ decisions on matter of factual guilt will be un-appealable.
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
This does seem pretty much guaranteed, especially combined with increased use of magistrates, to risk fundamentally restricting people's rights. I am genuinely confused how it is getting so little attention, unless I have seriously missed something.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Basically, this proposes that magistrates’ decisions on matter of factual guilt will be un-appealable.
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
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"I would simply not synthesize the space RNA virus" I say, knowing deep down that the insatiable curiosity would absolutely not allow me to only study the space virus in silico
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"I would simply not synthesize the space RNA virus" I say, knowing deep down that the insatiable curiosity would absolutely not allow me to only study the space virus in silico
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De-duplication was also a big part of Hitman 3 being only 60GB in file size, yet containing the equivalent content of 3 games + DLC: www.pcgamer.com/how-hitman-3...
Massive props to both ioi and Nixxes for great technical accomplishments!
Which sadly makes other 100GB+ games feel all the weirder.
Massive props to both ioi and Nixxes for great technical accomplishments!
Which sadly makes other 100GB+ games feel all the weirder.
December 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
De-duplication was also a big part of Hitman 3 being only 60GB in file size, yet containing the equivalent content of 3 games + DLC: www.pcgamer.com/how-hitman-3...
Massive props to both ioi and Nixxes for great technical accomplishments!
Which sadly makes other 100GB+ games feel all the weirder.
Massive props to both ioi and Nixxes for great technical accomplishments!
Which sadly makes other 100GB+ games feel all the weirder.
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"This government...reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending & debt interest the...reduction in the level of public service provision that we saw under 14 years of Tory rule has not & will not be significantly reversed."
New post: The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
What is missing is any sense that the government has a long term plan and is putting in place the resources to achieve it.
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What is missing is any sense that the government has a long term plan and is putting in place the resources to achieve it.
The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
My posts come out on a Tuesday and Budgets are on a Wednesday. Not great timing, which is why in the past I’ve often done special posts on...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"This government...reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending & debt interest the...reduction in the level of public service provision that we saw under 14 years of Tory rule has not & will not be significantly reversed."
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Have been reading Absolute Batman, Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter for 52 Pickup and I'm in awe of all of them. Martian Manhunter feels like something I'd pick up at an indie comic festival. Just an incredible run across the board, at least for those three.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Have been reading Absolute Batman, Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter for 52 Pickup and I'm in awe of all of them. Martian Manhunter feels like something I'd pick up at an indie comic festival. Just an incredible run across the board, at least for those three.