Sean Connell

As this show continues , you’re gonna see the development of covert spy ring operated by women. It’s kind of crazy that the story is not more well-known. #HATM #TheGrayHouse

39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild.

"Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon

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And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we'll be talking about the Civil War, women's history, and spycraft with the first two episodes of #TheGrayHouse on Prime Video at 8pm eastern! #HATM 1/

Insert angry goose meme here.

“Working people.”

And which working people, in particular, do we think he has in mind?

Well, daaaaamn.

root causes of the world wars

world war 1: clash between imperialism and rising nationalist sentiment

world war 2: resentment from ww1 treaties, rising fascism

world war 3: feminist youtuber made a video saying lara croft should have smaller boobs

I am once again feeling like this mash up is incredibly prescient.

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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Replaying Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time in a while and congrats to CD PROJEKT RED for making a user agreement that is delightful enough to actually want to read the whole thing.

Gotta be Obi-Wan, and that’s without including the Clone Wars series.

I have run errands.

I have cleaned house.

I have made fried rice that will be dinner most of the week.

I am officially at the “have a drink and play video games” portion of my only day off this weekend.

Suddenly I am glad my divorce pre-dated the streaming era.

Probably slightly before my time. Not that TNT didn’t make sure I had seen all of the original Apes films by the time I left high school.

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Listen I'm gonna say this:

The world is always burning. It was burning when I was a kid.

Promoting art, including and especially your own art, is an act of rebellion and defiance against the people who want to throw gasoline on it.

🫂

Solid choice, if a bit weird.

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

The average recruit into the military is 18.

Before your frontal cortex forms.

And can't really grok scale of consequence.

America is an aggressor and an empire that needs to fall, but I save some empathy for the 18 year olds we're about to kill, too.

No one should be dying to war. No one.

Also I am putting Carl Orff on the stereo next weekend when the housemate is out.

Because people are stupid?

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

Still a glorious bit of cinema. I am not sure you could call it a “good” movie per se, but it is epic and glorious and beautiful.

If white progressives cannot consider Black and Brown Americans are often choosing between prison pipeline or service by design, that cheering for dead soldiers means you're cheering for the over 40% of recruits who are people of color to die because of ugly white men's wars, I give up.

Geoffrey Holder in a white suit as the Uncola Man, promoting a bottle of 7 Up, taken in the 1980's

Holder in his earliest 7 Up gig holding a kola nut, with a perching scarlet macaw in the background and two "uncola nuts" (a lemon and a lime) in the foreground

Holder promoting 7 Up while resting on a wooden chair, as 7 Up stands on the table and a highway, a green tropical setting and a limousine are seen in the background

Holder savouring the taste of 7 Up. "Aaaaaah!"

Uncola Man
7 Up
1971-1985

Geoffrey Holder brought unmatched charisma to his role as a "cool, crisp and clean" Caribbean planter in 7 Up's early 70's campaign, and opened up a new avenue for Black American spokesmanship in the process. His early success convinced 7 Up to extend his role in 1982.

That third one is a substitute for sex, though.

Hugh Grant is in another one of his “Fuck it, I’ll take whatever roles I want” mode, and it plays to Statham’s charm as well.

Operation: Fortune, on the other hand…

I have come to trust Guy Ritchie more or less implicitly especially when he’s in that “We’re just going to have fun” mode.