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Pearce

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All movies, lefty NZ politics, soul music, Dracula, probably a fifth thing. Supposedly nicer in person. He/him

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Merge two films Kiwi edition: The World’s Fastest Pork Pie

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Merge two films Indiana Jones and the Last Temptation of Christ

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Bonus round

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Drop a ship not from Star Wars or Star Trek.

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Steam Powered Girls sounds like a Guided By Voices album

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Tangerines? Let me tell you something about tangerines 💥

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Colleague: what are you going to see? Me: Longlegs, it’s a horror movie with Nicolas Cage Colleague, not joking: is it a documentary?

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I very much enjoyed Longlegs, but based on the audience sample of the five people I saw it with it’ll be a bit divisive.

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Do these years come off the start, end or middle of one’s life? I’m ok with losing 2013-2014 if we get to choose.

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I just heard them say something about how stripping things of context, eg promoting a “Patrick Bateman workout” to look like a ripped Christian Bale, tend to remove their meaning and how that’s the difference between content and art. I’m delighted. They get it.

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A cultural commentator I’ve followed and respected for years until recently would casually say “content” to refer to books, movies, etc. It bugged me. It’s one of those terms that reduces art to product, to be carved up, packaged & sold like sausages. I feel the same way about “IP” and “franchise.”

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Use ‘em to make vegan cheese sauce?

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There isn't even any point to making movies like THE BROOD or POSSESSION now, divorced men no longer have to use art as an outlet for all their anger and sorrow, they have the Cybertruck.

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The only time I was ever openly offered cocaine in a bar was by someone who said she was celebrating her gay divorce, I feel like there's potential in opening up the Possession/Brood remake market

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this is a fascinating thread about the publication of Frankenstein, good to wake up to

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Read that insta post like “she has a show on 8 July and then one on 7 September but in the meantime she’s spending winter at the beach? What?” American date formats gets me every time.

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Did we ever find out the purpose of removing those nuts from that tower?

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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺's avatar Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social
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The best tweet of the day… no, the month. I really didn’t know that the neo-Nazis had these many sympathizers. If you are still wondering how millions of people perished in concentration & death camps, well, it starts with people like this guy. Yes, I’m saying it & meaning it quite literally.

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There’s no such thing as a dumb sparky imo. To me it seems like arcane knowledge.

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Fair enough regarding Golriz - I agree. I’m not sure how possible it is to look into the employer history of a candidate’s spouse or partner, to be honest. The specific cases here seem to have gone to the ERA just a few weeks before last year’s election so they were unlikely to have been picked up.

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Their biggest scandal this year was about a human rights lawyer in her third parliamentary term. There’s only so much that screening will turn up. What specifically should they have done to find out about the Dorene Tana situation earlier?

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I suspect the reason that the Greens don’t drop in polling after one of their MPs has a scandal is because they move swiftly to investigation and then tō accountability, in stark contrast to most other NZ political parties.

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And now it’s the Carpenters. This used to be the cool station where you’d hear the stuff you never heard before. All this MOR stuff is depressing.

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New low, Active 88.6FM. Rick Springfield? Really?

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Not a chance. My soul would be swallowed, and not in a good way.

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art is probably the best thing humans ever came up with

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Neither is actually doing your job apparently. In another context this could be very punk rock, but in this context it is not.

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They don’t care about people. They don’t care about evidence.

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Just remember that wherever you go, there you are.

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I have no dog in the race that the meme alludes to btw; I haven’t read King regularly for about 30 years, and have only read short stories by Martin.

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IMO anyone who says something like this should watch the short documentary “Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris” where the belligerent director complains about having to wait so long between books and Baldwin responds. Speed of writing isn’t an indicator of talent or character.

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“Today’s hero is tomorrow’s thug” - Harlan Ellison

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If at first you don’t succeed, try the same thing again

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If they copy the UK closely enough, NZ Labour can spend a mere nine years languishing in opposition until National screws up badly enough to lose on their own.

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Concerns about Starmer's terf status aside, this graphic is amusing for showing Sunak poised above a drop like Wile E. Coyote

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Wonder if Labour UK will do what Labour NZ did with a landslide victory, ie nothing

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Don’t have heroes. There are no heroes outside of fiction.

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Me aged 20: oh no I slept for eight hours on a concrete floor, better stretch for five seconds to feel limber again Me now: oh no I turned slightly funny and now I’ll be in pain all day

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I say a little prayer for you

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Someone pointed out to me that it’s now as legal for American Presidents to kill Americans as it previously was for them to kill the rest of us, and I can’t unhear it

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Does evidence show that capital punishment is an effective deterrent? No, not at all. And yet people who say “make Nazis afraid again” ignore this as much as “string ‘‘em up” tough on crime types. Don’t get me wrong, I hate Nazis, but let’s find a tactic that actually works.

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Let’s have a real life example of “killing the villain.” Did Nicolae Ceausescu deserve to die? As much as almost any murderous dictator, yes. Did his prompt execution save his accomplices from being held accountable for their own crimes? Yes, of course.

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This was literally the post above the one where I said I oppose capital punishment in all its forms. Forty years unjustly in prison is unconscionable. Having to apologise to her corpse would have been much worse. “Kill the villain” is cartoon thinking when set next to real life stories.

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I get the feeling behind this but it still makes me uneasy. Capital punishment is always racist, classist & unjust and people who kill their enemies tend not to stop at the "bad" ones, there's always someone else who "needs" to be killed. Also the flip side of this trope is Death Wish.

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