Minas Tirith City Planner

Minas Tirith City Planner

@chrisker.bsky.social

Old dad who watches too many movies Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/lw5Z Movies, politics, Indianapolis, baseball (usually Cardinals related), other stuff (not a real city planner, just have a few ideas for the White City of Gondor)

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Many a bluesky replier taking this unionization news as an opportunity to let you know that cheerleading is sexist and/or question why it exists.

jen ramos-eisen@jenramose.online

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

The Brewers have just barely gotten so many hits in this game. Off the glove, off the glove, just past this guy, just past that guy, and now a ball that just barely touches the LF line. Not hating, theyre hitting it hard, just saying.

Change has slowed and not that incrementally. Congress used to pass over 400 bills every two years. These last two terms will have averaged around 100.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.

All the press about The Devils reminded me of "You're Jamming Me" by Tom Petty and how it's a real swing-voting pot smoker's list of targets. Vanessa Redgrave, but also insurance, acid rain, pension plans, Pasadena, country clubs AND Eddie Murphy. Why Eddie Murphy?

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It's a grim moment when "scam to get investment cash" is actually the best case scenario, as the alternative is bio-engineered murder dogs. This is the company that stuck a couple of genes into a wolf and claimed (/were reported to have claimed) to have recreated the prehistoric dire wolf

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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So we can tax the few percent more then?

Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.

Wild image choice here

CNN@cnn.com

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

If the tech was there, how hard would it be to put all these guys in their own San Juniperos where they get to do whatever they want and none of us have to suffer the consequences?

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES

Same

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

www.theverge.com/tech/1013320... this is why i'm never going back no matter how trendy wired earbuds might be. I am first and foremost a klutz and my headphones getting ripped out on every single handle was horrible

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Thinking about when Victor Robles was telling the Praying Mantis on his cap how many outs there were 😭

MLB@mlbbot.bsky.social

Jackson Chourio made a new friend 😭

There's a specific span of years I can point to where getting $30k suddenly would have altered my current wealth significantly. Never mind daily bank balance, lack of overdraw charges, stress, mental health, etc... I'd have flipped out if that landed in my lap.

Wanting more dramas from Hollywood and getting four simultaneous biopics is a real monkey's paw situation

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

Sony is considering releasing all 4 ‘BEATLES’ biopics on the same day in April 2028. Another idea being considered is offering a 4-pack of tickets to encourage fans to buy tickets to all 4 films at once. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)

What an own goal. Set an unnecessary ridiculous expectation for your bloodthirsty base only to publicly backtrack.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump, after bipartisan backlash, says Pentagon won't livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter. @apnews.com

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ketchup is an interesting food because i have never eaten a homemade/fancy version of it and thought anything other than "i wish this was heinz"

Nothing but respect for MY Long Days Journey Into Night

Adam Feldman@feldmanadam.bsky.social

Good news if you missed Jessica Lange’s astonishing 2016 performance in Long Day’s Journey Into Night: A film version is at the Chelsea Film Festival on Oct 15 at 7:30pm and Oct 17 at 1pm. I’ll be doing a Q&A with Lange and director Jonathan Kent after the first screening. Tix here: chelseafilm.org

I still don’t get why this leaker thinks they have leverage. Ok you leak some footage. So what? You can’t play it. You leak the full game? Who can play it? You “spoil” the story. Who cares? The best thing about these games for me was always surprises and details that have little to do with the story

Minas Tirith City Planner@chrisker.bsky.social

Congrats. You did it. I side with the corporation.

Congrats. You did it. I side with the corporation.

SavePoint Gaming@savepointgaming.bsky.social

🚨 Cyberleek claims it will release a GTA VI build containing the complete story if its memecoin reaches a US$30 million market cap. Previous footage appears authentic, but possession of the full game remains unverified. #GTAVI #RockstarGames #GTA6

Jobs left behind a corporate mandate that every once in a while Apple has to make everyone go “what the fuck is that?”

9to5Mac@9to5mac.com

It's true. The new Apple TV 4K is $299, more than double the previous model launched at and the same price as HomeView.

The best features of Bluesky are labelers and blocklists. Best labeler I use is “posts more than X times a day” Over 30 can be a red flag but it depends. Over 100 is basically a block outside somebody going viral. After that - the blocklist for people following over 10k accounts.

Reposting this today because it’s really cool (and I spent way too much time on the alt text)

Minas Tirith City Planner@chrisker.bsky.social

Went in the historic art deco Carew Tower/Netherlands Hotel in Cincy this weekend. Only thing I can say it just doesn’t quit. I took 39 pictures. My wife took 90. Starting with some doors and entrances I had the presence of mind to take photos of. Some info in alt txt.

Seems like every viral post there is a confidently wrong statement followed by a bunch of replies, 30 of which the OP either responds to with an insult or “ok haha I didn’t know”

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

last time I tooled around on a brand new X account it took me less than a minute to hit a high-octane slur, but I thought, hey, maybe John’s right and it’s changed. had a stopwatch going this time, 73 seconds