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i must be loyle to my capo.

[loobles @zooblobs]

The year is 1742. I have just finished skinning a deer to keep my children warm through the winter. I hop into my cherry red convertible and

[Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit]

First day on the job and the CEO already trusts me to go get apple gift cards for him

[loobles @zooblobs]

@kleeposting If you see yourself as high iq because of chernobyl, youre perfectly matched with the love island gf

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[loobles @zooblobs]

@andrewmccalip I hate you for how good this is

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@moshespern @NYCMayor Can you explain exactly what the restrictions he made are

[varun shetty @Varun]

hey do you want to watch the knicks game at the palantir popup in the west village. heard about it via a substack i follow by someone in the new media cohort from a top vc. david protein bars is catering. there will be lots of microinfluencers talking about their daily routines.

[loobles @zooblobs]

@AwZQZaOAiaMiHZd @WOLF_Financial You have 50b?

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@kod_lyoko @zachpogrob whoa…

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@levenorion @NYCMayor @deray You know the answer retard

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@AsadFromNYC Even without that knowledge its hilarious that she believes she does harm to the neighborhood by being there, but shes fine with it as long as its not visible. Like fully a self preservation tactic, completely selfish lmao

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@taxobelllllllll @Swatch All scalpers

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@deedydas Spiritually bankrupt group of people

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@TradexWhisperer @mirhauser No, explain it

[loobles @zooblobs]

@Talibandz10_ @yourenottheguy Its disease

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@sam_kececi @andruyeung Brother williamsburg is already cooked and youre eating the scraps

[loobles @zooblobs]

Good premise completely ass backwards study. This is why we need better tech journalists

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This is really bad we desperately need transparency laws

[loobles @zooblobs]

Finally. My twitcon is relevant

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Secretary Hegseth: “And I can’t confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins…. But I can confirm they don’t.”

[loobles @zooblobs]

All to shoot uninspired simplistic images

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Christopher Nolan asked IMAX to build him a new camera. They did. Then he and Matt Damon spent four months filming The Odyssey on the open ocean, on the largest modern Viking longship in the world, with no green screens at all.

The shoot ran 91 days, from late February to August 2025. Seven countries: Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Scotland, Western Sahara, and Malta. Aside from one indoor studio in Los Angeles, every shot was filmed on real ground. In Italy, the cast and crew climbed 900 feet up a mountain every morning. Imagine walking up a 60-story building before breakfast. In Iceland, they filmed the underworld scenes by lantern light while rain came at them sideways.

The four months at sea actually happened at sea. Damon and the actors playing his crew sailed on a real ship called the Draken Harald Hårfagre, used here as a Greek warship. Nolan called the experience "primal." He said the cast and crew were exhausted in a way he had never seen before.

The cameras were the other big problem. IMAX cameras have always been too loud to record clean dialogue, which is why directors mostly save them for big action scenes. Nolan asked IMAX to fix this. They engineered a new soundproof case for the camera, a kind of quiet jacket, that lets the lens get within a foot of an actor's face while they whisper and still pick up clean audio. The new cameras also came out lighter and about 30% quieter than the old ones. To prove it worked, the lead cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema filmed a tight close-up of a child reciting a David Bowie song, "Sound and Vision." Nolan watched the test and called it "electrifying."

Damon went all-in on the role. He dropped to 167 pounds on a strict no-gluten diet. He grew a real beard for a full year because Nolan refused to allow a fake one. The crew built a full-scale wooden Trojan Horse and shot the attack scene at an ancient walled town in Morocco called Aït Benhaddou. Nolan himself climbed inside the horse with the cast and his cameraman to get the shot.

Across the whole shoot they used 2 million feet of film. That comes out to around 380 miles of it, longer than the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. At about $1.50 a foot, they spent roughly $3 million just on the film itself. The full budget was $250 million, the biggest of Nolan's career. They wrapped nine days ahead of schedule.

Tickets went on sale on July 17, 2025, exactly one year before the movie's release. That had never been done before in cinema history. Half of the 22 US theaters offering IMAX 70mm sold out within 12 hours, bringing in around $1.5 million in a single morning.

Nolan called the shoot "an absolute nightmare to film, but in all the right ways." He did not destroy a single IMAX camera. He has wrecked several over his career.

[loobles @zooblobs]

@DoesItPlay1 @BethesdaStudios Just pirate it then lol