All of the above, in addition to many WOC directors spend time looking for authentic, different stories that are just begging to be told instead of more formulaic Hollywood fare. That can be very refreshing for audiences and that coupled the skill required for WOC directors to break through make for some outstanding…

Hot take: everyone has been taking Star Wars way way way way way more seriously than they should have been since about 1993 at least, if not earlier, and everyone should shut up about it for a few years.

This poll has been wrong since Joe Biden lost to an innocent dog who happens to have terrible people. I wanted Biden to win the whole thing.

Or what, Neil Tyson will tweet at me?

omg BANNED!

The only.fire Leo started was in my loins circa 1995.

The culture wars are essentially a game to them. It’s not about the merit or nuances behind any of these issues—it’s about “taking back control.” Conceding any amount of reform means surrendering to “the enemy,” as far as they are concerned, and the consequences are meaningless.

I think the Coal Board was a government agency, so it wouldn’t do the PM much good to blame them when he was ultimately in charge of the board.

Be careful there, you don’t want to splinter the audience.

Once again, it needs to be pointed out that in the real world, there is one and only one superpower: compound interest.

...any large company or platform that has a lot to lose is clearly only making significant changes because they believe it will somehow improve their bottom line...I fail to see *how* this will improve Instagram’s revenue or other key metrics.

Sorry Joan, breaking in with a thread hijack

I really don’t care, do u?

Tracy: “Wait, is that a Daytime Emmy?”

Because no one wants to see the weak and powerless made fun of.

Thank you for this, I have spent all morning looking for a website to tell me who won last night’s game.

Basically it was opposed by those who reject a harm reduction approach to LGBTQ public health issues. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation dude called it a “party drug,” which is just a really bizarre characterization. The fear is that it would reduce condom use...which it probably did to some degree, but those folks miss…

Number one rule of book reviewing: Review the book in front of you, not the book you fantasize about reading.

I know I’m forever in the gray here, but . . .
There are many, many layers to what is going on here. The translation was absolutely a problem, and while it probably wasn’t intentional, in South Korean context it reads really, really badly.
Quick(ish) history:
Japan formally annexed Korea in 1910, after a couple decades…

An animated show about a horse should not have been the catalyst for me re-examining my depression, co-dependent relationships and finally going to therapy, but it was.