Ben

Ben

@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

love is the plan the plan is death

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Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

time to take a big drink of water and check the news [i take a big sip of water and check the news while swallowing the water normally]

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

my 'I JUST HATE HAVING THESE ENDLESS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT AI' shirt has people starting a lot of conversations that i just hate

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

what is the thing in your life that derive an inappropriate amount of self-esteem from? the thing where you're like "i know it's childish and vain and toxic to be pleased with myself about this but i really fucking am pleased with myself about this"?

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

now, the government isn't *saying* you should spend this bonfire night gooning to incest choking porn. but that will in fact be your last chance. like that party they had on the Circle Line before drinking on the tube was banned. but, uh, with incest choking porn www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.comPornography with strangulation and incest to be banned in England and Wales next monthCampaigners welcome legislation which follows recommendations by 2025 review into pornography regulation
Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

they're planning to release only combined box-office data, not individual figures for each film, so that nobody can quantify how unpopular the Ringo one is. lmao

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

Every extra detail about these films makes them less and less appealing:

hollywoodreporter.comSony Considering Bold Plans for 4 Beatles Movies Rollout (Exclusive)All four movies dropping the same day, hiding individual box office returns and a four-pack ticket are on the table for Sam Mendes’ ambitious biopics in an effort to treat each film equally and maximi...
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Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

Tarsem Singh brings you the inside of George Harrison's mind in 1969. it's four hours long. then Greta Gerwig brings us home with a feature-length animated music video for a feature-length Octopus's Garden remix.

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

no wait. scratch that last one. the Ringo one is a tense realtime unfolding of the making of a Thomas the Tank Engine episode. maybe Paul Greengrass?

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

they're planning to release only combined box-office data, not individual figures for each film, so that nobody can quantify how unpopular the Ringo one is. lmao

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

Every extra detail about these films makes them less and less appealing:

hollywoodreporter.comSony Considering Bold Plans for 4 Beatles Movies Rollout (Exclusive)All four movies dropping the same day, hiding individual box office returns and a four-pack ticket are on the table for Sam Mendes’ ambitious biopics in an effort to treat each film equally and maximi...
Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

even from a lame studio profit-maximizing perspective, why would you not want this? "go see your favourite Beatle! buy more John tickets than those losers who love Paul! make sure John wins!" would have actual potential as a marketing strategy

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

the good move would have been to make four totally different movies with four different directors in four different styles. a John & Yoko 70s romantic drama by Noah Baumbach. Sean Baker's sleazy 60s Hamburg fly-on-the-wall thing following Paul losing his innocence and learning his craft.

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

i don't have any kind of problem with it - i think it's basically good, actually - but it's really interesting that we get to observe in real time the standards around what language politicians can use in public shift completely. did Trump cause this? unsure

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

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Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

i assume nothing bad has ever come of an uninformed Englishman making pronouncements about religion in Ireland but you simply cannot be calling these cathedrals

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

ATTENTION: 21st-23rd October are IN BETA. we are exploring making changes to these days. we advise saving your game before midnight on the 20th October.

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

what

The New York Times@nytimes.com

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Ex-Scotland manager Craig Levein revealed he once attended an exorcism with former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to sign a player. nyti.ms/4hYuCz5

nyti.ms‘They were casting out demons’: Scottish manager recalls attending exorcism with Gordon Brown to sign a playerCraig Levein said the politician brought him to a church where they were "casting out demons" to meet with defender Marvin Andrews.
Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

unclear what i have done on youtube to make it believe i want an AI-generated rundown of the Gallagher brothers beef in French but i do sort of have to hand it to them

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

Nasser gotta be the most chad politician of the 20th century. he looks, unedited, like those huge-chin chad edits of Xi Jinping. it helps that he was also an actual huge chad

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

you may be interested to learn that the gentleman in question (or lady! perhaps!) fucked up his opening and resigned after 6 seconds

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

stop: could you be using the time you're spending writing a handwringing article about the death of literacy to read a book instead?

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

if you have children or are a primary school teacher then you are in a position to actually do something about this. otherwise the only person you can help here is yourself and everything else is really just content churn

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

i know this isn't, like, the point, but it's so screamingly obvious that this was "written" by ChatGPT for Khan (or rather some overworked person in his comms office). like can we at least do an editing pass to *try* and cover this shit up?

Ben
@cinemashoebox.bsky.social

i used to both work and live in a French lycee and frequently wished they would burn it to the ground while i was still inside it. which is to say, solidarité