Travis Bernhardt

I thought the math was right — "how will these young, inexperienced, hothead revolutionaries come together to form a rebellion?" — but the tone was uncharacteristically goofy (the animal in the jungle? rock, paper, scissors?) and the characters felt like parodies to me

I love everything else!

and now that I think of it, similar to the way the first arc of Andor S2 rings false

love that show, but the Yavin scenes in eps 1-3 are its only real misstep

agreed

that phone call is not "inside" comedy from someone who actually knows what they're satirizing, and it rings false

(similar to the only false note for me in Tár — that scene worked structurally but the actual words he puts into the mouth of the young woke student felt off to me)

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

wtf how have I not heard of this, I've been waiting

The War in Gaza Leaves Toxic Legacy of Garbage, Disease and Pollution The bombardment of Gaza has left a toxic legacy of contaminated soil, blackened water and disease-spreading garbage that will last generations.

As well as famine, Gaza is experiencing a "complex environmental disaster," in the words of Amjad Shawa of the Palestinian NGO Network. The soil is toxic from munitions and coastal water is black with sewage. Nearly all the trees are gone now. The effects will linger for generations [gift link]

Tell the CLC to declare Israeli goods and services Hot Cargo! Send an email & demand unions refuse work for Palestine!

if you're in a union

actionnetwork.org/letters/hot-...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

I definitely want to read a whole book written with the dull, thudding rhythms of a marketing email

textbook guy who Has Something To Say but whose reach exceeds his grasp

28 days later, sunshine, and dredd are all cool genre work (I love dredd!), but I think maybe at a certain point you need actual thoughts, not just facility with genre

*experiencing a fleeting moment of joy* this should be automated, to increase profits for some guy

YouTube video by VHS Comedy And Music Vault Kids in the Hall Sick of the Swiss

this is all I know: youtu.be/46KuEzJ0B6A

Guy who loves parking his car: What is Joni Mitchell ON about

Chekhov’s karate master’s hands

NIH cancels grants through flagship long COVID initiative Termination ‘a waste of the money we’ve spent already’

cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

in the context of NIH cutting 1.7b in funding for long covid research incl. 577m to develop antivirals

www.yahoo.com/news/somethi...

tbh this framing would have improved this video

Quebec has achieved herd immunity against HPV: study The human papillomavirus vaccination program has achieved a degree of herd immunity less than twenty years after its introduction in Quebec, according to research conducted at Université Laval.

Wow!

measles requires 95% immunity (infection or 2x vaccine doses) for herd immunity to work, 80-85% is worrisome

in BC: "Just under 82 per cent of two-year-olds have gotten one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine, and around 72 per cent of seven-year-olds have gotten both doses"

but like, to make them stop the music only to deliver the most non-specific, anodyne statements...

it kind of sounded to me like he was doing some throat clearing before saying something difficult but then chickened out?

but who knows

missed opportunity: could have started singing, "Emiiiiiiliaaaaa"

I imagine he got derailed internally by stopping the music, but if you say, "I promise I'll be brief, I just have something important to say"

to follow that up with, "uhhhhhh..."

like, come on, man

was just talking to a friend yesterday about how acting is like the one place we accept child labour

if you're willing to start from scratch and do a bunch of learning and setup work, maybe consider an RSS reader like newsblur or something?

my friend from hong kong showed me swordsman 2 when I was like 13 or 14 and I've been chasing the high ever since

On my roof in a plastic chair, booing and throwing empty beer bottles at the waning gibbous moon, until it becomes my beloved crescent

fuck yeah love this