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Matt Rowan
@veryrealbatman.bsky.social
Dad, teacher, editor, student of the history of autocracy, anti-fascist, “Nazis ain’t got no humanity,” and author of HOW THE MOON WORKS. Stories in @havehashad.com, @bluestemmag.bsky.social, @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social, etc.
The perfect example of the person, as a parent, I will never let myself become. He had the easiest choice in the world to make and flubbed it.
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you can find it, it's really worth checking out.
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Yeah, part of me is just grateful for the attempt, like the short-lived "Sea Oak" series on Amazon (which was way too critical of commercial culture to ever get legs, if you ask me).
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
They also don't quite lean into how disturbing the story is. I think for obvious, entertainment-oriented reasons, but the story is mainly about technology leading to a loss of self, which is only more prescient nowadays. A great time to have the villain "win," for instance.
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The ending was way too much of a copout. That's probably my biggest criticism. But that's what Hollywood likes to do.
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Like I thought Chris Hemsworth was fantastic. He did a great job of capturing Saudersian qualities with his sense of humor.
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Oh my god you're going to hate me. I liked it. Or at least big parts of it.
December 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Many of these people are extremely stupid
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Always awkward enhancing how good-looking someone is as some kind of sick burn.
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Yeah, it's extremely disgraceful and corrupt everywhere. It's exhausting trying to be a decent person while our leaders offer us the worst example to follow.
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
That reminds me of Charlie Kirk saying that to a German man and getting rhetorically punched in the face.
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I simply wish for her waht she wishes for them.
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
They always try.
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
They’ll never recover from the reputational damage.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yeah, there's clearly something there. That's where I'm at.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM