For me, Star Wars is a beautiful, messy, incredible book & comic series crafted by thousands of artists.
The series also has some wonderful, groundbreaking, gorgeous movies and television shows that many of the stories are based on. But to me, SW is primarily printed on paper.
A guy I went to college with came out and his parents immediately cut him off, told him to never come home. He struggled but made it through school...
Years later when they were kicked out of their church due to his father's long standing alcoholism (you can't make this shit up) they came back. Told him he could come home as long as he "forgot" about the last few years. They were shocked when he told them to kick sand.
Watching 'Mountainhead' on HBO last night about tech bros destroying the world because they allow disinformation to spread on socials like this church being burned down by migrants when it was actually just a New Years Eve firework accident
@bones4918 like i do not think the jedi are going to let her fight in that outfit and then sign off on her playing the part of the slave
anakin especially, seems out of character for him to allow that
@bones4918 you know i think the problems with tcw aren't addressed as much as it should've been
there's a good few issues with tcw (ahsoka's s1 design, her in the zygerria arc, mandalorians becoming just blond blue eyed white people, etc) and i think people should talk about it
@bones4918@CobaltGreen1138 "So the job is to make all of these characters look like they were clones of this guy, okay? That's like really important. You got it?"
"Yeah sure whatever."
Absolutely astonishing.
Labour has put out a direct mail to Lambeth residents, claiming that the Greens voted against the Renters' Rights Bill. That's... simply and demonstrably false?
Every lie they tell degrades our politics and opens the door to Reform.
I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.
Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.
Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.
He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.
The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.
A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.
That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.
Reminds me— I learned recently that:
- Photographers can take a picture of you in a public place
- have you be the focal point (even labeling it with your name)
- sell the image for hundreds of dollars on gettyimages
- not give you a lick of that money
- AND it’s very difficult to have it taken down if you CAN at all