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It is kinda funny that Bill Maher keeps trying to be Trump’s friend while Trump continues to shit all over him on a regular basis.

NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.

It's like I can't escape this movie, The Devils. It's all over my socials with people discovering it, and all over Reddit with recommendations. I like the movie but what's with this sudden surge in popularity? #filmsky

Just a multiyear campaign across multiple presidential terms to strip the citizenship of a political adversary. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!

What the actual fuck.

This weekend, my girlfriend and I watched NAZA in a small theater on the Upper West Side. It was a pretty somber experience, and the audience was mostly quiet. The most audible reaction was the gasps from the crowd when one of the IDF soldiers admitted to allowing dogs to eat dead children.

We can only conclude Trump works for Putin.

An absolute embarrassment of a human. Trump does shit like this to see who he's dog walking and Bezos is there just to lap it up.

All that money and still can’t afford a spine

You better keep Ben Rice on the Yankees at all f*****g cost. That's a threat!

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Rewatching Akira last week sent me down an Evangelion sized rabbit hole this week. I'm on episode 18 and shit is starting to get weird. Not sure where it's going but I have lots of questions that need answers. Like wtf are these "Angels" that keep getting creepier with every appearance.

It's 2026 and I've decided now would be a good time to rebuild my physical media collection. The first movie I reacquired as a 4K disc was The Virgin Suicides, and the second is Akira.

GF & I are still making our way through past Oscar winners so this weekend we watched Kramer vs. Kramer 1979) and The Apartment (1960) which we both really enjoyed. Kramer vs. Kramer is probably the best "new" movie I watched all year and Shirley Maclaine in The Apartment is incredibly adorable.

This weekend I rewatched Akira for the first time in maybe 20 years and it was an experience. The post-apocalyptic setting hits different in 2026. I also fell in love with the hand drawn animation all over again. What a masterpiece. #filmsky #animesky

A periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

This scene from Glory always gets me emotional. They're charging into certain death. The bravery in this scene is something else. What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

This year, my girlfriend and I have been trying to watch every past Best Picture winner. This weekend we did On the Waterfront (1954)(4/5), In the Heat of the Night (1967) (3.5/5), and All About Eve (1950) (4/5). #filmsky #oscars All About Eve was the surprise for me. Bette Davis kills it.

I've watched all the good home invasion movies. Any suggestions?

it's family movie night and since I'm in Halloween mode already I'm trying to come up with something good to show everyone. I might have went too far with my last pick, Angst, so I want this to be a touch harder... Salo, perhaps?

This will never happen but it doesn't need to. His low-information base will hear him & believe it. It doesn't matter that the courts won't allow it, Congress won't allow it, or that it was never possible in the first place. He mentioned it and it doesn't have to be remotely true for it to work.

Um

Again, if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing

Peter Cullen :( What a fucking legend he was.

Fuck it, we're close enough. I'm starting my Halloween marathon this weekend.

Trump personally made about $2.2 billion in 2025, while the country took on about $2.2 trillion in new debt. A 1,000-to-1 ratio, btw.

In terms of game industry news, this is pretty devastating for me. I hope Night School Studio sticks together through this. They're such an underrated team, they deserve better than this. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/netflix...

Zohran Mamdani is backing a bill to hold Amazon accountable for exploiting delivery drivers. Now Amazon is launching a $5M lobbying blitz — led by Chuck Schumer's daughter — to crush it. Instead of spending millions on lobbying, Amazon should pay and treat its drivers fairly.

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I played about 2 hours of Kingdom Hearts before throwing in the trash. I was so hyped for that game. What a mess.

As remarkable as Mamdani is, what he's doing is incredibly simple. He's a person in power unencumbered by special interests and lobbying groups. He's making the job of mayor look easy because he's simply trying to do what he said he would do.

I'm officially taking off for GTA6's release. I haven't done this in years and years but for a GTA sequel it makes sense. I'm not even the biggest fan, but this could be an industry changing event and I want to absorb it all.

Its been 3 days since I watched Grave of the Fireflies and I'm still sad. #filmsky

LeBron to the 76ers?!

Rest in peace, Sam Neill, thank you for the scares, performances and quotes.

lindsay graham was a bad person who has caused tremendous suffering. he violated every word of his oath of office every day. he betrayed our country. it's ok to celebrate the deaths of bad people.

Bye Lindsey

I recently got to rewatch The Goonies for movie night and I was pleasantly surprised by what a crowd pleaser it was. There aren’t too many movies I’ve rewatched more than The Goonies as a kid. Probably only West Side Story and Rosemary’s Baby come close. People were also drunk and it was a good time

MindsEye developers who have lost their jobs intend to protest outside the studio’s office. https://bit.ly/4wxAVPw

Just discovered Afterplay, a web based emulator that has apps for Windows, Mac and iOS. This is very cool. I just spent a few weeks organizing my ROM collection with correct media, removed dupes and quarantined proto and homebrew stuff so I’m curious about copying them onto this service.

So Mitch McConnell might go soon. He's been bed ridden for weeks and his staff is hiding his condition. Personally, I hope they take him like they did Carl Bruner in Ghost.

Employee retention and overlap should be considered when antitrust bodies evaluate a corporate acquisition or merger. What Microsoft is doing has been deeply damaging to the game industry.