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el0n’s AI decided @1dntlikeacidrck is “suspicious” but won’t tell me why, what I did or what behaviour was supposedly problematic, so i guess i’m here for now

[Ayo @Yomiks1902]

Lmao not so fun when you're on the receiving end now

[acidrockpriv @acidrockpriv]

@rachelivias @daroachel do you possess any sense of irony at all or are you simply a bone-deep hypocrite

[acidrockpriv @acidrockpriv]

@gumpyrump @dylanthepsych @netflix and she addressed a lot of that in the clip

[jezz @JezziiB]

Government: Why aren’t women having babies??
Economists: Well, housing is unaffordable, childcare costs a fortune, wages haven’t kept up, and 37% of Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency.
Government: Interesting. Let’s blame feminism.

[Robin Lundberg @robinlundberg]

Olivia Miles, Sophie's Point, Hammon on Brondello https://t.co/vIadMgHbTq

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

[acidrockpriv @acidrockpriv]

👀

[correlation @nosyone4]

oh!

[Snowden Bishop🌻💚🤍❤️✌️🇺🇦🆘🔄🌍 @SnowdenBishop]

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’

It’s our duty to know.

[acidrockpriv @acidrockpriv]

i guess i’m here now so im not just talking to myself, idk

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[Tride @TriDeapthBear]

Actually might be the best news I've heard all week

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

We have not forgotten that ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

an absolute mess once they brought all his actors out jesus christ

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

Dude was threatening to invade Greenland a few weeks ago

[Abdul Basit @abasitpak1]

Most people around the world now want regime change both in US and Israel.

[Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬 @DrDadabhoy]

Americans are incredibly propagandized which makes them stupid and dangerous.

[Abdullah Kun @bin_zeshan]

When you listen to an Iranian diplomat, it feels like you are listening to an eligible and educated man. But when you listen to their American counterparts, it feels like you are listening to an teenage uncultured reddit incel

[Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhd]

Americans have never been carpet bombed and have no idea what is the mass loss of life inflicted by warmongers. Any American who wonders why any part of the world shouts "Death to America" is seriously deluded about their own history, crimes, and practices. Your taxes kill babies

[No Moral Cover @nomoralcover]

At a time when raving, genocidal Zionists are in full meltdown about whatever, it's important to understand where normal Canadians are at. Across all generations, Canadians support Palestinians over Israelis by a 2 to 1 margin. Women are at a 3 to 1 margin!

Source: Angus Reid

[David Brown 🇨🇦💪 @OrbitStudios]

I think we need to get ready, Canada.

Before Trump dies, they’re gonna invade as many countries as they can and they’ve doubled down on taking the western hemisphere.