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Go see Wildwood. Seriously, don’t wait—go see Wildwood. What a piece of art. The love for the manual craft, for story that doesn’t hold back, for filmmaking that is not here to answer to stockholders, it weaves all through it. Incredible stuff.

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ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

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so, Wildwood is the obvious choice for best animated picture by an incredibly vast margin. just an S tier film, a labor of love, and nothing i ever could have predicted!! ...and alsooo you should STILL GO SEE FORGOTTEN ISLAND TOO IF IT'S IN YOUR LOCAL THEATERS! SEE BOTH! they won't be there long!

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We watched You Can See Everything last night. That is the wildest piece of cinema I've seen in a very, very long time. I strongly recommend seeing it in as crowded of a theater as you can get.

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Autumn berries in the pine marten diet In autumn, pine martens feed on seasonal berries such as bilberries, blackberries and rowan. Watch this pine marten enjoying bilberries! #MartensOnTheMove #NationalLotteryHeritageFund

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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

I can’t believe that the best movie of the year is a 3 hour documentary that literally nobody knew about a week ago

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Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

I’m someone with strong ideas and will get into discussions with people about them, and if they give me a new perspective to consider, I will reconsider my opinion. One of the most frustrating things is someone saying “Let’s just stop talking about this” AND THEN they get a last word in

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Oftentimes this happens in more than a one-on-one setting, and suddenly a group of people will view me as the bad guy for “re-initiating” just because person A expressed not wanting to engage further(and then engaged further) Just because someone said something, doesn’t mean that they are doing it

I’ve learned to live my life, only holding words to mean something if action behind it demonstrates that the words said are the intention. Words don’t demand respect. Action does. If someone says they have a feeling, and then disregards that feeling, I think that says something

I’m someone with strong ideas and will get into discussions with people about them, and if they give me a new perspective to consider, I will reconsider my opinion. One of the most frustrating things is someone saying “Let’s just stop talking about this” AND THEN they get a last word in

That is not an agreement to disagree, or a recognition that we won’t be able to see eye to eye, that is someone who wants to be out of the conversation but who also doesn’t want to sit with the dissatisfaction of coming to an understanding of one another.

This has happened plenty of times in my life, where someone says “I don’t wanna talk about this anymore but one last thing:…” I don’t respect it, ever If we make a pact to both take the high road and stop arguing, and then someone brakes it, the other doesn’t need to uphold it