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Let the enshittification continue…

Nice to see this correct skeet immediately upon landing back home in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Oh, life is bigger
It's bigger than you, and you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I've said too much…

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

That “something absolutely perfect about” is *complete consistency* with what we already knew.

"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too

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AE interviews Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about abortion access and reproductive justice
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Fury as Indonesia declares late authoritarian ruler Suharto a national hero Suharto presided over a period marked by rampant corruption, nepotism, censorship and allegations of mass human rights abuses Indonesia has awarded former authoritarian leader Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has sparked accusations of historical revisionism in the world’s third-largest democracy. The award has deepened fears about attempts to whitewash Suharto’s rise and decades-long rule, a period marked by rampant corruption, censorship and accusations of mass human rights violations. Continue reading...

Fury as Indonesia declares late authoritarian ruler Suharto a national hero

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now

From #Cuomosexual to #CuomoShame

Addendum: in June, I enjoyed another horror triple-header that deserves a quick back-mention. 1. Sinners (probably the best of them all this year). 2. Bring Her Back (brutal, merciless, and unforgettable). 3. 28 Years Later (longtime fan of the series, I liked it more than most others did).

Poster image for the 2025 horror film "Weapons" depicting elementary school children running off through a suburban neighborhood and vanishing into the night with arms outstretched in the shape of an inverted-V.

3. Weapons (2025). Another entry in the "vanishing children" genre of horror. It's been a great year for horror, and Weapons is one jewel in the 2025 crown. The mystery intrigues, the villain Aunt Gladys is an instant camp icon, Julia Garner and Josh Brolin are great, and the ending is perfect!

Film poster for the Netflix film "Abadi Nan Jaya" ("The Elixir"), an Indonesian zombie film. Poster depicts a zombie hand reaching for a spilled bottle of the "elixir," which is a failed product from a traditional medicine family-run corporation that is trying to develop a youth regeneration medicine. Under pressure to escape buyout from a national big pharma company, the company rushes out their new "elixir" product, and it turns everyone into zombies, and they can infect through bites, etc. It's currently the number 1 film on Netflix Indonesia! It's relentless and fun.

2. Abadi Nan Jaya (The Elixir) (2025). There are many bonkers Indonesian horror films but I think this is a first attempt in the modern zombie genre. Relentless action, good effects, fun shocks! A dysfunctional family business goes awry, and a village in Sleman pays the price with a zombie outbreak.

Poster art for Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Tag line reads: "On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls sets out to picnic at Hanging Rock. ... Some were never to return." Drawn art depicts the white private school girls in white dresses as they set off to explore Hanging Rock where they encounter unexplained mysteries and some disappear. Fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8185613 Although it is not technically canon in the original novel and film, I chose to "interpret" an underexplored and unrealized sexual tension between the two main male characters Michael Fitzhubert (who looks like Robert Irwin to me) and Albert Crundall.

I enjoyed 3 terrific spooky season movies this past long weekend.
1. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Inchoate but barely suppresed white settler Victorian anxieties in Australia. Plot and soundtrack presage The Virgin Suicides, with clear affinities between the two films.
#PicnicAtHangingRock (1/3)

The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.

Ja'afar Hassan - They Taught Me [Iraq, Psychedelic Folk Rock] (Unknown Year)

Ja'afar Hassan - They Taught Me [Iraq, Psychedelic Folk Rock] (Unknown Year)
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https://youtu.be/LQQM5YALkoE

I loved it, and I'm shocked that so many viewers are logging bad reviews. This movie was totally seru! Good production. Relentless action. Good effects. And I really liked the big pharma takeover of the national jamu company plot line, which put them under pressure to develop "the elixir."

I approve of this plan, also because I am a political anthropologist

not in the conventional sense, but it is very much an ethnography, history, and memoir about libraries and archives: In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh

It's like she's doing Pokemon Go but with Nazi war criminals.

Humanitarianism Humanitarianism can be broadly understood as a concern with human suffering and a moral desire to alleviate it. It manifests not only through discrete acts of helping, but also through a set of practi...

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Empire State Plaza - Albany, NY r/brutalism

Okay this is a good headline

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

#WarRavagedPortland

starks early elberta peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1913

starks early elberta peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1913

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now

Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways