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No One Will Save You (2023) A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.

#10 Asshole trauma tourist aliens. A very good slice of alien terror, though your feelings about the ending may vary.

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Arctic Void (2022) When the power mysteriously fails, and almost everyone vanishes from a small tourist vessel in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore, the men deteriorate in body ...

#9 Decent performances and excellent setting in an abandoned Soviet town north of the Arctic circle. But the story is thin, a 45-minute X files episode stretched into a 90-minute film.

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Imagine what it was like to have the latest innovation be “whipped cream that sprays out of a can” instead of “what if you subscribed to a car” or “computer that lies to you”

Sample of the artifact drawings that kids did this year at our table at Archaeology Day.

It's International Archaeology Day at the Houston Museum of Natural Science!

Come check it out.

Ready or Not (2019) A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

#8 Fuck the rich. Good chaotic fun.

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The Cost of Cutting Anthropology Out of U.S. National Parks A former National Park Service anthropologist reflects on the vital role of cultural anthropology to the agency’s mission.

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He immigrates to the US under trumps new asylum plan and takes a job in the administration overseeing sex trafficking?

The header of the appeals court decision: NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

And his voice has only gotten better.

I went to visit someone in their new home, and as we were driving there I was like "I think I did the archaeological survey for this subdivision". It was actually the next one over, but close enough.

So what IAD2025 events are happening near you? In Houston there will be events at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Buffalo Bayou Park. 🏺

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📢 IAD 2025 is here! Celebrate 15 years of International Archaeology Day with our refreshed logo, or join our Drop-In Collaboration Session August, 27 at 2 PM ET to discuss your event plans: buff.ly/TAeczq5 #IAD2025

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bell...

#7 I rewatch this film every spooky season now. I legit think it is one of the best PG13 horror films of the last half decade.

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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Since moving to Houston my go to has been an Umbrella Corporation Employee of the Month t-shirt. Though this week I did add a Saint Arnold Pumpkinator shirt to the mix.

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

I guess it will always be easier for old ball players to say 'back in my day' instead of identifying the two root causes of 90% of baseball's current problems. Professionalized youth sports and hyper-capitalism.

Just trying to keep track of the conservative definition of "children" here.

Children:
- racist Republicans in their 30s
-trans adults seeking medical care
-embryos

Not children:
-Black people under age 18
-Gazans under age 18
-immigrants under age 18
-rape victims under age 18

It's the darkest of dark humor that Ted Cruz has spent his career trying to create a government exactly like the one his father fled.

“Kids”

Microsoft Desperately Wants Users To Talk to Their Windows PCs Thought Copilot was invasive before? Watch it completely take over your PC.

Most of the time I don't want to talk to actual people. I definitely don't want to talk to my PC.

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This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

Texas official rips Alamo over controversial 'Indigenous Peoples' post "Woke has no place at the Alamo."

Calling that post "controversial" is a new low for @chron.com, which is quickly becoming a real cesspool of click bait and fear mongering.

The post in question literally just acknowledges the existence of Indigenous people, as people.

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YouTube video by Disney Tron: Ares | Nine Inch Nails | “As Alive As You Need Me To Be”

Sigh...I'm going to have to go see this just for the soundtrack aren't I?

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As of today, Nintendo’s platform game “Super Mario Bros.” was released closer to the end of fighting in World War II than to the present day.

Alex Jones is too vile even for this supreme court.

I have a friend who worked at a Great Lakes maritime museum and at least half the requests they received for public outreach talks wanted Edmund Fitzgerald to be the topic.