The Babylon 5 shitposting lemmy community on the Star Trek instance should be called !spoo.
Worf, Troi and Dr Crusher were all growing it out. Gotta go thru the weird bob phase first.
Ro Laren: Fuck you, Shorsey.
Lt Cmdr Shorsey: Fuck you Ro Laren your mom just Liked my personal log entry from 2 years ago on Risa.
Cmdr Riker: Fuck you, Shorsey!
Lt Cmdr Shorsey: Fuck you Riker. Counselor Troi loves butt-play like I love Romulan ale -- bottom's up.
This article does not make clear whether or not the new board will remain committed to its non-profit position.
I presume that’s what this whole sordid affair is all about, but no one is saying it.
...'n creatin' a nuisance.
What’s most interesting to me is how Oklahoma! is an utterly poisonous production from the get-go. Every character is a self-absorbed jerk. Judd Fry asks a girl to a dance who only agrees as a ruse to punish the protagonist, who then literally tries to convince the dude to kill himself. The entire show is fucked up.
Any director who isn’t doing something subversive with the content has their head up their own ass. But hey, it’s Texas. 🙃
The rail workers appear to be helping themselves: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155763336/freight-rail-workers-union-paid-sick-leave-bernie-sanders-csx
That's just not polluting with extra steps.
LibreWolf and the Tor browser would not exist as they do today if Mozilla was not taking money from Google and DuckDuckGo and all those ad companies to develop Firefox as free open source software that could be forked by privacy-forward groups.
So sure, it would be nice if Mozilla made a privacy-focused Firefox version natively, but if a handful of concessions (that I can continue to turn off) are what it takes to have a performant, full-featured, modern FOSS web browser, I'll take that deal.
Of these, I think mother!. The Images and vibes there are taking up the most rent-free space in my brain.
I neglected to mention Gasper Noe; basically everything he's done. But his work leans too hard into palpable horrors for me to ever actively recommend.
- mother! (2017, Darren Aronofsky)
- Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve)
- Men (2022, Alex Garland)
- Under the Skin (2014, Jonathan Glazer)
- Us (2019, Jordan Peele)
- Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau)
- The Neon Demon (2016, Nicolas Winding Refn)
- Tideland, (2005, Terry Gilliam)
And a bunch more.
Y’all need to start reading my boy Rushkoff:
https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/