I have to keep reminding myself the kid that plays Young Jesse isn’t McBride’s son. He looks quite a bit like him and nails every mannerism. He’s that good. The actor playing Young Judy doesn’t really look much like adult Judy, but she also nails the mannerisms. They’ve done a great job with the casting here

I feel like he’s gotta have some kind of small part in The Marvels considering Captain Marvel showed up in the stinger at the end of Shang-Chi and you also see them together in She-Hulk. If not, then I don’t see the point of what they are doing. Might as well have just made a stand alone movie and just let Shang-Chi…

But over the last several weeks, Disney’s done a better job at conveying what the film actually is and relating it to the real world context of its director Peter Sohn.

Frontline (I think, but it may have just been a doc on PBS) did a story awhile back, maybe a year to 2 years ago) about climate change and politics starting in the 1970s on up today. One of my main takeaways was how Exxon knew about all the science back in the 70s showing climate change, had all the resources to move…

It’d be nice if those invites flowed a little more freely

You’d think that but its probably the opposite is true. She knows she’s a celebrity so the normal rules of social engagement for us pleebs don’t apply to her ilk. She, like plenty of other famous people, just assume they are recognized by everyone at all times and accommodations will be made for them

You can’t sign up for an account on a desktop browser but for whatever reason, you can view people’s accounts if you click a link to them. I don’t know all the techno elf magic wizardry going on there but it seems like if you can view pages, you aught to be able to sign up for an account.

Yeah. If someone posts a link to their specific Threads account, I can view it in a browser but it won’t let me actually sign up for an account in a browser.

The happy endings part didn’t bother me so much. It’s the fact that everything was rushed as hell. Basically everything you touched on could have been wrapped up better had they had 6 more episodes, taking the final count from 24 to 30, to fully tell the stories they set up. Instead it felt like some exec came in and…

I really liked this series, probably my favorite in years.

Bad move. Never go full dictator. Or even half dictator. Perhaps 1/64 dictator?

I’m fairly confident the ruling will get thrown out on appeal or at the very least, severely limited in such a way that it won’t amount to much. It’s clear its just pure judicial activism with no regard for the facts of the case, technology, or the law. It’s complete nonsense. There’s been cases like this in the past…

This will (should, who knows with the courts now) entirely get thrown out on appeal or vastly reduced. The ruling is basically unworkable (covering every gov’t employee so thousands making it a logistical nightmare) and has fundamental misunderstanding of the technology at hand and from the looks of it, a…

Of all the Twitter alternatives, I find myself rooting for Spill to takeover. Everything about them sounds great (often too good to be true is business but still). Founded by two former Twitter employees laid off by Elon who happen to be POC. Inviting members of the black and LGBTQ community and influencers first to…

Spill is showing some promise but its also Invite Only right now for the same reasons as Bluesky, gotta slowly build up the base to make sure the servers can handle it

Literally my 2nd sentence starts with

I feel like whichever one opens up fully to the public first, whether its Bluesky, Spill, or whatever Meta is doing will be the one that takes over. Reading the room it seems like most everyone is ready to leave, there just hasn’t been an agreed upon landing spot yet. Wherever the large follower accounts and…

I know its not that simple due to server issues and such, but man, these Twitter competitors really need drop the “invite only” stage and open everything up. Whether its Bluesky, Spill, whatever Meta is doing, feels like whoever does it first is going to be the winner.

I wonder if that’s just the deal with Narnia whether its the books or the movies. No doubt it has its fans, but just anecdotally from friends and interacting with the general public, it seems like the majority all liked “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” but their interest wains with each successive book. I…

Depends. Say you’re a Jewish house painter and some ultra Evangelical says “I want my house painted blue”. You can’t refuse. You have to provide the service. But if they say “Paint my house blue and include a mural that says Convert to Christianity”, you can absolutely refuse because now it includes compelled speech.