And speaking of DVDs lol. You know you don't need Netflix to watch Netflix shows, right? You can watch them "in your dreams".

But the main thing is, boycotts need to be strategic to work. Most won't upend their lives. BDS targets very specific companies to achieve a knock-on effect.

To the point it seems basically unethical to still sell DVDs for money. If people are paying money for that stuff they should really just pirate at 1080P IMO.

They're robbing themselves.

I was astonished to hear that 61% of physical movie sales in 2023 were on DVD.

Maybe it's because I have terrible eyes, so I love details, but the magic of hi-resolution versions of old films never gets old to me. Cannot fathom choosing to watch movies at lower resolution than a 2010 Youtube video.

“I’m making sure they put billionaires first no matter what petty differences they otherwise have! I’m a hero!”

We had this with state capture in South Africa too - people raging against the government’s “incompetence” when they clearly were very effective. Just not at governing the country for the benefit of its citizens as they are expected to do.

Starmer’s not worried about reelection. He’ll be rewarded.

This is the equivalent of Israelis going to Gaza and denying the genocide because there are still Palestinians alive

Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

Brazil also jailed the president who instigated an insurrection.

screenshot from the Subway Takes video of a guy with long hair and a blue shirt holding a subway metro card / microphone “I think we need to destroy the data centers”

me in any conversation about anything lately:

There’s that line about the only ethical way to become a billionaire is to divorce one. But I’m dubious even of that. That much wealth will corrupt anyone.

Just a reminder: there are no "good" billionaires.
Even if they're not shovelling money to Trump.
Not even your true-blue hero.

🚨The UN Sec. Gen. is refusing to defend Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese even as a fact check shows a disinformation campaign targeting her for comments she never made.

France 24 reviewed a video of Albanese & reported she spoke of “a common enemy,” meaning “the system” that sustains a "pro...

Gaza’s Health Ministry earlier said 591 people have been killed and 1,583 wounded since the “ceasefire” took effect, with 724 bodies recovered. Since October 7, 2023, the minimum recorded death toll at hospitals has surpassed 72,049, with 171,691 injured.

On the vote to proscribe Palestine Action, Liberal Democrat MPs abstained.

Stop gaslighting people.

When it mattered, you didn't show up.

⭕️ 8,000 Bodies Still Buried Under Gaza Rubble, Civil Defense Says Around 8,000 bodies remain trapped beneath destroyed buildings across Gaza, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Thursday, warning that rescue crews are operating with almost no heavy machinery. More than 3,000 people are still listed as missing, with no confirmed information on whether they were killed or detained. Basal said hundreds of recovered bodies are decomposed or unidentifiable due to the prolonged delays and lack of equipment.

⭕️ 8,000 Bodies Still Buried Under Gaza Rubble, Civil Defense Says

Around 8,000 bodies remain trapped beneath destroyed buildings across Gaza, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Thu., warning that rescue crews are operating w/ almost no heavy machinery. More than 3,000 people are still...

Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs @CzechMFA “Patience has its limits. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese should resign from her position. Her latest statements, in which she described Israel as a ‘common enemy of humanity,’ are unacceptable and indefensible.

Czech Republic, which has been a staunch supporter of Israel throughout its extermination campaign in Gaza, has joined the smear campaign with the foreign ministry restating the false claim about Francesca Albanese and demanding her resignation:

Latin America is gripped by regional paralysis in the face of US pressure, Drop Site News’ José Luis Granados Ceja told BreakThrough News, arguing Mexico’s hesitation to sell oil to Cuba reflects leaders’ belief that “if I go out on a limb here, I’m all alone.”

“Where is the regional unity?...

this is like when keir starmer started praising thatcher.

beware, america. beware.

this man is no fucking good.

Reports from international organizations and human rights groups confirm that Israel is currently blocking the entry of DNA kits and any forensic equipment into Gaza. Over 1,100 bodies recovered in Gaza remain unidentified because forensic tools, including DNA identification kits, are being denied entry. Israel maintains that its restrictions on aid and equipment entering Gaza are necessary to prevent Hamas from diverting them for military use. The military did not explain how DNA testing kits could threaten Israel. Within Israel itself, DNA testing is highly regulated under the Genetic Information Law, typically requiring a court order. Quote Ahmed Al-Najjar @Ahmed_A1Najjar ·

Ahmed Al-Najjar @Ahmed_A1Najjar More than FORTY deceased Palestinians — or what remains of them — have been buried nameless today in Central Gaza because Israel refused to allow the necessary tools for identification or provide any information about them after it had kidnapped them.

Reports from international orgs and human rights groups confirm that Israel is currently blocking the entry of DNA kits and any forensic equipment into Gaza.

Over 1,100 bodies recovered in Gaza remain unidentified because forensic tools, including DNA identification kits, are being denied entry...

Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK Arundhati Roy “Disgusted” by Berlinale jury's remarks, and says “history will judge” artists who refuse to speak out on western governments’ complicity in Israel’s crime of genocide in Gaza - as she pulls out of the festival

Indian author Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlinale after jury head Wim Wenders said filmmakers must “stay out of politics” when pressed on Gaza. Roy called the remarks “unconscionable.” More 👇

⚠️ Disturbing Footage Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir alongside his IPS Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi stormed Ofer Prison ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, detonating stun grenades near Palestinian detainees and boasting conditions are now “the opposite of an all-inclusive hotel.” Ben-Gvir remarked that his brutal prison conditions are still “not enough,” as he pushes for the ability to mass execute Palestinian prisoners. In November 2025, the Knesset advanced at first reading a bill from his Otzma Yehudit party allowing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted* of killing Israelis. The footage shows detainees forced face down, bodies lined up with hands bound behind their backs as armed forces move through the cells. More than 9,300 Palestinians, including about 350 children, remain jailed as rights groups and the United Nations document systematic torture, starvation, sexual violence, and medical neglect in the Israeli prison system. Only a little over 1200 of the detainees have been convicted of any charge. Israel’s military courts have a 99.7% conviction rate for Palestinians.

⚠️ Disturbing Footage

Israel’s Nat'l Sec. Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir alongside his IPS Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi stormed Ofer Prison ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, detonating stun grenades near Palestinian detainees and boasting conditions are now “the opposite of an all-inclusive hotel...

It’s the end game of the decades of punishment the USA has meted out to Cuba for refusing US control back in the 50s.

Now they must finally accept being a vassal state or face mass starvation and disease.

The genocide is ongoing.

“Since one cannot know a radically better world
is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by
insisting on continuing to justify, and reproduce,
the mess we have today? And anyway, even if
we’re wrong, we might well get a lot closer.”

- David Graeber

Jury chair Wim Wenders said filmmakers 'have to stay out of politics' when asked about German support for Israel's war

Jury chair Wim Wenders said filmmakers 'have to stay out of politics' when asked about German support for Israel's war https://aje.news/ibi1vx

The aesthetics of the 3.5" floppy are immaculate.
It's peak consumer electronics design from the company that brought you the Walkman a few years before!

I could write a book on the design of just this floppy, and how it's so much better than the 5¼"/8" floppies that came.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

Yeah weird to fixate on behaviour only detrimental to himself when RFK has done so much to harm others.

This should bring the Government down - criminalising legal protest to protect whom? Certainly not the people of this country, whose interests were they working for? Arms manufacturers? Another disgraceful stain on this Labour Government's appalling record on civil liberties