Agent Rush

I've been watching the Child's Play / Chucky films, and I'm reaching the surprising conclusion that it's probably the best horror franchise ever? At least it has the best hit:miss ratio.
The worst movie, Child's Play 3, is painfully mediocre, instead of an outright catastrophe. (1/3)

Finished watching the Chucky TV series, which has a wildly uneven quality.
The big criticism people on /r/chucky seem to have is that the title character is no longer "scary", which is possibly the clearest example of something not changing about a franchise but the viewers not being 8 anymore.

This.

If ten people could do a dollar, that's ten times the money I currently have.

When I say everything helps I mean it. I know the big numbers scare people off but if no one ever helps at all it feels a whole lot worse

Compassion fatigue is a real thing, but in the context of people who work hospice and healthcare and people who do support services for basically anything deeply depressing where you get to know about the worst aspects of death/disability.

It is not about people seeing homeless people lol.

not directing this at Greg but this is what BLM was all about. trying to explain to people that the guns they aim at Black folks just minding their own business will be turned on everyone if we dont course correct and here we are.

i am mutuals with a concerning, and increasing, number of podcasters

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Talking to people about what maladaptive daydreaming is...is hard when they don't get how distracting it can be and how hard it is to just not do it when it has been a constant thing you always so happened to do, often insited by the strangest of things.

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

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Since it's now news within our immediate circles, I can share: my partner got abruptly fired from his job (we had no idea it was coming; his boss chose to circumvent the normal steps you're supposed to go through to fire him while we were in Hawai‘i).

as fairness goes I genuinely do not believe that any trans girl has ever held an advantage over the next best cis athlete in their sport and division greater than prime Shaq or Wilt had over the next best center. Than Karelin had over any other wrestler on Earth.

Hi. Anyone saying their argument about trans people in sports is about “fairness” or a “biological advantage” is a fucking liar and a bigot. THE ENTIRE POINT OF SPORTS IS UNFAIRNESS THROUGH BIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES.

Ask your bigoted Facebook uncle if he thinks everybody over 6’4 should be banned from the NBA because stupid tall people are only 1% of the population and they have a biological advantage. Then tell him to go fuck himself

“Fairness” in sports is a word that only comes up with trans people. It’s like “spry” with old people. Or “well spoken” with black people. You know what I mean.

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.

we don't talk about this enough but ozone (the primary moderation tool) being as bad as it is likely is a significant contributing factor to how inconsistent moderation is on here because the whole design strips context. no account context, no thread context, no post context, etc. it's appalling.

In terms of position in the sales charts, this is the highest performing Red Hood story ever, as under the red hood debuted at 22

If you grew up male, but always had a different fashion sense and got along better with female family members, and had a non specific yearning in the back of your head, you really need to hear this: one week left to enroll in extended updates for Windows 10

Aaron Bushnell literally immolated himself in broad daylight to protest the Palestinian genocide and every single person with their hands on the levers of power in this country gave a great big collective shrug and went back to business as usual

i kinda think Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies are also (maybe ironically but not at all) ok starting frameworks for understanding why t3rf/gc consciousness is specifically a fascist one, but with the caveat that the differentiation self-enforced is "orderly female vs undifferentiated tr4nny"

jkr openly condemning palestine so once again if it isnt clear all transmisogynistic politics claiming to "defend real females" is ideologically the same kind of reactionary nationalism, heterosexualism, and turning "weaklings into soldiers" that zionism, hindutva, etc are

Also, bonus, the only way to make the utterly incoherent conceptualization of the world that is transphobia make any kind of sense basically requires you to become a conspiracy theorist.

And, unfortunately for continuing to enjoy the x-files, all conspiracies are just antisemetism

I'm literally telling you I will take this whole country down with me before I help you pick and choose which minorities are icky enough to cut loose from society so I SUGGEST you use the next THREE YEARS to bring me somebody better

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

It is cool that whether it's landlords, doctors, or cops, there are whole private forums full of them that are occasionally breached and every single fucking post is like "guys this grandma is bothering me how do I legally kill her"

It does make sense, the first step and core of all these fascist movements involves first denying humanity

I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is "do you want to feed my friends into a wood chipper", if your bitch ass can't manage a weak little "no" then get the fuck out of my face!!!!

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

I like the term "trunk or treat" because it implies that some percentage of kids are getting tossed into trunks for daring to ask for candy.