Plague On Words

Flying into Frankfurt & taking the train always feels like a real fuck-you return to Germany. 1st getting through a creaking warren of an airport with terrible signage, then finding yourself in that 1.5 hour wait window between trains in a busy station with the smallest toilets that close at 9pm.

What, Queen Victoria was busy? For her entire reign?

From the public that brought you Brexit...

Fair point. Mainly making an observation about how it's a really awkward format to deal with. I don't care if anyone else uses it, but I rarely see it used well. Also a grumble about clients wanting something with fairly complex graphics suddenly converted from 16x9 to 9x16.

As someone who works in video, I see the day vertical became an acceptable format of video as a very dark and stupid day.

For sure. I have had some decent enough hotel breakfasts in Germany but the German conviction that they do it the best is... somewhat misguided.

It's the most German thing ever to travel the world and complain about their breakfast buffets.

Amazed to find @sbsaustralia.bsky.social has #TheMovieShow episodes from the 1990s on demand. This show was my teenage proto movie geek training ground. I remember watching some of these reviews almost 3 decades ago. David Stratton was 100% correct, Starship Troopers was destined to be underrated.

Wish there were a #criticalmass for pedestrians. #stuttgart Germany is 1 of the most walking-hostile places I've ever lived. Its habit of fencing off park paths & closing footpaths for construction for years & the number of quiet streets with lights instead of zebra xings is on a whole other level.

Casting should inform the script too. Instead you get characters with incongruous names or people who seem way too old. I just finished Reservation Dogs and while a great series I was taken out of S3E09 repeatedly when Ethan Hawke said he was so young when Elora was born. He would have been 35!

Well I'd say fuck all the doubters. Jacob Elordi is incredible as the monster in #Frankenstein

Graph that shows electricity production from renewables, coal, gas and nuclear. In the past year renewables has crept just above coal.

This is the appropriate graphic from the paper.

Authors who do this are sociopaths. Chapters should be max 14 pages and those double line breaks often should just be a new chapter.

Jeff Hiller winning for Somebody Somewhere has made my morning and put a smile on my face. Wasn't even aware he was nominated. Wish this show had more awards love. His speech was delightful as well #emmys

I gave up around S3 ep 3, sometime after the 14th 'fuck you' Carmie-Cousin Richie exchange. It just felt tired and empty. The first episode of S3 was lovely and evocative and obvs meant as a pallet cleanser, but it was a frustrating screech to a halt when I just wanted to see the S2 fallout.

Sure, we're in a climate crisis and global politics have given up on fighting climate change, but go ahead and portray record breaking heatwaves as a frolic through urban water features, Deutsche Welle #climatecrisis

When I first watched his show c. 6 years ago, without knowing who he was, it didn't take long to realise he is a crank. I couldn't put my finger on it as it sometimes comes across as old man shouts at clouds but it became apparent he is a privileged white dude who is full of hate.

I was not prepared for the absolute insane final 25 minutes of #thesubstance.

Controversial opinion? Rewatching both #Lost & #Dexter 1st seasons. For me Dexter holds up much better. Is it the 25 eps vs 12 eps? Apart from a few solid central performances, Lost feels more messy & repetitive than I remember. Also features 1 of most unconvincing dog performances I've ever seen.

Rewatching #Lost and my main takeaway is how intolerable most of the characters are. I always found Jack to be hard work but many of the others are also needlessly antagonistic. Also MANY bad Australian accents.

My phone was still on 'bedtime mode' ( black and white), which makes this photo look stunning.

Typical economist/academic graphic that makes sense to them as they understand the working behind it but makes no effort to clue the plebs in. Even the explanatory paragraph on the side doesn't explain how the $1 cost of walking is 'paying into the system', like bus ticket/toll/car registration etc

Bring it.

"less-lethal" is quite the phrase.

#brandmauer #stuttgart

Literally a website full of articles by people who are hopeless at life.

These futurists are obsessed with machines telling them how much milk they have. Don't be weird, just look at the bottle in the fridge

Poster for 2007 film and David Fincher's masterpiece Zodiac, featuring images of stars Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Junior and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Poster for 2007 German film, and best foreign film oscar winner, The Lives of Others. Absolutely stunning film.

Poster for 1997 film Boogie Nights, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Poster for 1991 film Silence of the Lambs

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
Days 18-20 (been sick)

Poster for Call Me By Your Name. Low angle shot from chest up of stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer leaning on each other against a bright blue sky

Poster for 1982 film Blade Runner.

Poster for 2006 film Children of Men. White background, big graffiti style text in top left says "the future's a thing of the past". The title of the movie is in smaller red text in the lower right corner

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.

Days 14-17 (been sick)