Meanwhile in Hong Kong…

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What unholy AI bullshit is that cover image? If your butthole looks like that you’re problems aren’t in the future, they’re right now.

Weird exception: Akagi.

Intro: super chill, with this really melancholic vibe, imagery evoking the mournful, dilapidated state of post-war Japan. A nation in ruins, beaten down, with no sense of identity or direction.

Outro: HEAVY METAL OVER B ROLL OF PEOPLE PLAYING MAHJONNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!

Listen, if any branch of science is going to crack immortality, it’s the mycologists, 100%. Mushrooms are really, really, really fucking weird.

It is overrated, and I say that as someone who very much enjoys Nolan.

He’s never at his best without his brother on scriptwriting duties (that’s why TDK is far and away the best of his Batman movies), and he constantly struggles to present human feeling and emotion in a way that feels believable and real. He’s so caught up in his love of crafting intricate Rube-Goldberg machines that he forgets all the other aspects of the film-maker’s craft.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan and I’ll show up for every movie he makes, just to enjoy watching how he fits all the little intricate parts together, but he doesn’t even make my top five for directors. Almost everything he does, Denis Villeneuve does better.

Interstellar in particular really exposes his weaknesses, because it’s a film about love being a more powerful fundamental force than gravity, and Nolan is such a fucking robot that he really doesn’t know what to do with something like that. It’s a movie that contains lots of really great moments, but just doesn’t hang together or feel cohesive as a story. I won’t knock anyone for enjoying it, but it’s a clear demonstration of Nolan’s flaws.

And they’re right.

I think it would be absolutely ridiculous if we couldn’t.

While I accept that not everyone agrees with this, to my mind the idea that gender is a performance, a presentation, not some hard coded biological fact seems to be an essential part of liberating ourselves from strict roles and enabling trans people to live their true selves fully and without prejudice.

I want to be clear that when I say gender is a performance, that doesn’t mean it’s fake. Gender is an expression of something deeply integral to who you are. Often something that you could not change without causing yourself severe harm. But the presentation of that integral identity is for you to decide, and that should be true for everyone.

I think every cis person has gender goals, but most of us allow the world around us to define those goals instead of defining them for ourselves. I think that’s a part of why cis people act so hateful towards trans people; because a person simply throwing out the handbook and saying “Actually, this is how I want to express myself…” reminds them that they could be doing the same thing if they wanted. I think that’s also why crossdressers, trans people, and men who do nothing more radical than wear nail polish often get lumped in together. All of it is violating these supposedly hard coded realities.

So, maybe I’m wrong here, maybe I’m out of line, but I think the world would be better for everyone, cis and trans, if we all recognized that we have gender goals and were comfortable talking openly about them.

Also, Gomez Adams is an absolute gigachad legend. Raul Julia, forever king of my heart.

Seconded.

Andor is the best piece of Star Wars media, period.

Yes, even including the original trilogy.

Pro-tip: If you marry said friend, they have to seat you together anyway.

Good shout. I’d also argue there’s basically no way to read Bowie’s Rebel Rebel that isn’t about gender fuckery of some kind. I’d argue very strongly that it’s an AMAB character presenting femme.

Swiftly followed by Bowie releasing Queen Bitch in 1971 and Lou Reed releasing Take A Walk on The Wild Side in 1972.

Bowie and Reed were both heavily involved in the New York drag scene at the time.

Figures marines would be into the child prostitute who is legally an adult

(note for anyone who hasn’t played VA11-Hall-A: Dorothy is genuinely an amazing character. The entire point of her is to explore sex work from the perspective of the sex worker. You’re supposed to think her Johns are creeps, that’s the point. Seriously, it’s a great game, please go play it. I’m just fulfilling my legal obligation to dunk on the window lickers.)

I hate this with every fibre of my being.

Yes, I subscribed, obviously.

Having worked in a grocery store, honestly, shit like that kills time. You’re clocking out the same either way, what does it matter what you do for the eight hours in between?

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The second best time is always now. Regret solves nothing.

Here’s a question to consider; without making any statement on the facts of these particular cases specifically, is it conceivable to you that there could ever be a situation where two countries could institute these specific bans for materially different reasons?

What I’m asking is, does a universe exist where country A bans access to Facebook, Twitter, etc for entirely or almost entirely different reasons than country B banning access to Tiktok?

Well, there’s actually a third point on your scale, which is “The opposite of medicine.”

If you take something for pain management and it kills you, is that better than not having the pain meds at all? For some people that’s a complicated question; chronic pain can absolutely make someone wish they were dead. So maybe someone is desperate enough to try this in spite of the risks. But they should at least know those risks, right?

I make an excellent beef wellington and I have no objections to this assessment.

Psychologically, he’s still several steps below Mads Mikkelson as Hannibal Lecter on the monster fucker scale.