The Craggus

The Craggus

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A movie lover, not a movie fighter. #filmsky, I guess. #StarTrek, #DoctorWho, Movie & TV #blogger at thecraggus.com Occasional baker #craggusbakes Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/65d3 (for now…)

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This might actually be technically correct. I mean I’d certainly be considering any and all potential destinations to get away from her Britain… 🤔

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The ignorance just proudly on display here is breathtaking.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Someone check Polymarket for the odds of a Kessler Syndrome event.

Meduza in English@meduza.io

A Russian satellite made an extraordinarily close approach to a Western commercial spacecraft that provides imagery to Ukraine. A retired Russian colonel portrayed the maneuver as a warning to companies aiding Kyiv, including Starlink. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

meduza.ioRussia is escalating its confrontation with the West in orbit. Its satellites are pursuing spacecraft from companies helping Ukraine — and Starlink has been put on notice. — MeduzaThere has long been talk of “hunter” satellites and an intensifying confrontation in space between Russia and the United States. But this week brought an unprecedented escalation in the new “star…

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Henry Dyer
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Jack Ross, CEO of Turning Point UK and a former Conservative election candidate, has been suspended from the party in the wake of undercover sting by Al Jazeera reportedly showing him discussing the cost of hiring contract killers. Story from @benquinn75.bsky.social and me

theguardian.comFormer Tory election candidate suspended over contract killing claimsJack Ross was filmed allegedly discussing with an undercover reporter violent options to deal with enemies
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I saw the trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 3 last night ahead of the sublime Forgotten Island (go see it!) and I guess they’ve straight-up abandoned any pretence of linking to the game in favour of painfully generic stay-at-home Dad sitcom stuff?

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Not that either of the first two Angry Movies were masterpieces but they did at least try to build a story around the gameplay.

The Craggus
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Ended this run on a high note after a hard to swallow fish tale, an impeccably cast but ineptly made video game movie and a lazy watch because I couldn’t be bothered to find the remote.

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 👀🩸

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Sony’s war on physical media has opened a new front.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

'Sony reportedly exits UHD Blu-ray player market' www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?sub... 'Sony Japan has discontinued its last remaining UHD Blu-ray player, UBP-X700/K, seemingly marking the company's exit.'

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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This is the end Hold your breath and count to ten Feel the tongue move and then Hear my eardrums burst again For this is the end I've drowned and dreamt this moment So overdue, I owe them Swept away, I'm stolen Let the Whalefall When it swallows We will get small Digested all together In Whalefall

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A Doctor Who/ Star Trek crossover would have sucked balls, especially with the respective showrunners at that point in time.

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Maybe instead of bringing back Apu with a new voice they should have cancelled The Simpsons two decades ago and let it rest?

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Apparently it bears repeating.

Media News@media-news.at.thenote.app

Russell T. Davies says corporate pissing contests killed a Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover Russell T. Davies says corporate pissing contests killed an in-the-works Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover. #media #news

avclub.comRussell T. Davies says corporate pissing contests killed a Doctor Who/Star Trek crossoverRussell T. Davies says corporate pissing contests killed an in-the-works Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover.
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Fine but this counts as Avatar 4. You’re only allowed one more, Jim, and then you need to get back to working on something good.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

James Cameron has released official artwork celebrating ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ becoming the highest grossing film of all time, passing ‘AVATAR’.

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I did one four hour training shift at McDonalds in Aberdeen in 1992 and never went back.

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