Polished off Sense and Sensibility and celebrated by watching the 95 film and in some ways I think it improves on the book. The book’s last act has a lot of repetition and focus drift that Thompson’s script honestly down to the actual relevance. And Lee is doing peak Merchant-Ivory like it’s nothing

The one and only nice thing I have to say about tech from the last decade is that setting up a new phone is functionally magic to anyone who is old enough to have had to spend like four hours in a Verizon or whatever store transferring a pre-smartphone phone to a new one.

Morally fucked up how the rich get rewarded for making themselves richer and the world worse. You took out student loans and are still paying them off? You're financially irresponsible. Nearly run a multibillion dollar company into the ground? Here's your hundreds of millions in severance.

Still can’t get over how far Ossof has shifted his rhetoric and behavior since the top of last year

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

I’ve got a limit to how much “actually the bad stuff is intentionally bad and is making a point about it” I can take these days but this is a case of Iñárritu pulling his head *out of* his ass as the film goes on rather than the usual other way round.

Can’t believe it’s come to this but me too

This will make canon the joke from the 1967 Casino Royale that “James Bond” is an assigned identity and therefore the Bonds from all eras will meet in the Bondiverse to stop the villain from thwarting a Scottish independence referendum

It’s the sort of thing that tells you when the people making something are truly thinking about it in ways deeper than “fill a 6-10 episode order for the content quarry”

Sometimes I think of the little sidebar in Andor where Mon Mothma’s daughter wants to be a tradwife and Mon just has to Jim Halpert face her way through it.

Yeah I saw a similar roundup of her tweets elsewhere. Of course, the exponential graph of trolling means she’s only gonna flip flop faster from here out

My eyes started to fog over at “Israel’s art scene is really mature”

Being a professional contrarian has gotta be harder than ever. Once upon a time you could say shit like “movies ain’t been the same since sound got in em” or “New Coke was actually better” and that could sustain a career but now everyone is so insane you gotta go in the hole to keep up.

I’m so used to every gd concert ticket now being an absolute highway robbery, even at venues I used to see decent names for $20-40, that I was honestly confused just now getting a ticket for Mastodon with Deafheaven and Alcest for <$60

New & Notable: The Ohio group evoke the bluesy psychedelia of Spacemen 3 on their epic latest release, which stretches out over two LPs.

I think Imamura at his best is able to strike a strange balance between a visceral immersion in all the animalistic behavior and a detached, magnifying glass analysis of same, but this was all the latter. Still very good but I prefer pretty much everything he made over the next 10-15 years over it

I’ve had this convo so many times with friends. I have never wanted kids but I do wonder on behalf of others how anyone can raise a child in this poisoned atmosphere. What used to be the basic markers of intellectual toddler development (sharing, delayed gratification) are outright demonized

YLT and Opeth, our greatest autumn bands

In fairness to Russia, when they complain to states, countries don't pull out of supporting counterdisinformation conferences, so maybe "after Russia" isn't 100% accurate.