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In 1970, John Boorman of Zardoz fame wrote a film treatment of LotR. It is a STINKER of a film, although there are some legitimately interesting ideas tucked into it. I read it so you won't have to! A🧵 of the best and worst pieces of John Boorman's LORD OF THE RINGS SCREENPLAY.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

This is making me retroactively like the LOTR movies less every time a new step is taken. We can make new things. I promise you we can. I love Tolkien’s writing and his legendarium, but I don’t need diminishing returns on what is essentially corporate IP being treated like fanfic, but without love

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

"Cis Dykes for Trans Rights" Stencil spotted in Edinburgh, Scotland

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

First we came for the Nazis And I said nothing because fuck the Nazis Then we came for the fascists, and I said nothing because fuck the fascists Then we came for the billionaires and I said nothing because fuck the billionaires Then we fed the hungry and celebrated.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Odd, I thought it was us on the left who need to toughen up and take criticism and accept that people will say things we don't like and not be little snowflakes with our "trigger warnings" just for things that hurt us personally.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

I think if someone upends the lives careers of hundreds of thousands of people we should be allowed to know their name but, you know, I’m not a “government transparency advocate” or whatever these people call themselves

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

submitted 20 hours ago • 288 comments

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

submitted 19 hours ago • 42 comments

The NHS' anti trans scientific fraud given yet another kicking by actual experts. My guess is that senior Labour figures were involved from inception, which is why Labour are so keen to enact it and cover up their involvement. <stares at Deadly Wesley>

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

“I knew Wes [Streeting] when I was a student and he was the NUS president - always been a right wing lickspittle cunt”

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

This fucking sucks. If you’re trans and in Iowa, DM if you want out. Gonna try to pool some resources + knowledge to help relocate/protect people’s rights. If you’re in Iowa and can help, please also DM

submitted 14 hours ago • 20 comments

Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. They usually just go home.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

"They are targeting trans people because trans life represents the principles of dignity, self determination, and gender equality that they abhor." YES! @moiradonegan.bsky.social that sentence is so good

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov

submitted 17 hours ago • 610 comments

If you didn’t know of someone for whom the cancellation of cancer treatment trials was a matter of life and death, now you do. Especially folks in GOP districts, call your representatives and tell them you want people like Helen to have a chance to live. Thank you. 🧪

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

defy the norm. get even stranger. NO SURRENDER

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 288 comments

we have had evil and terrible people running things before but they have generally had some sort of idea for what they think the government should do, some vision by which it should operate these people have nothing except a desire to break it and hurt the people who work for it

submitted 5 hours ago • 21 comments

perhaps instead of 734 stories a week about Trump voters in diners we could try 734 stories about federal employees who love their country and were fired for no reason

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"the country is like a household and will go bankrupt" is one of the worst analogies people make in politics and it's always deployed in bad faith in favor of terrible policies it's not true! we will not go bankrupt, we do not operate like a household, we even print our own fucking money

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

A propos of recent remarks by the most overpromoted Home Secretary since all the other ones... "[The Auditor] had formulated a group of things, events and situations that she categorized as 'bloody stupid'. Things that were 'bloody stupid' could be dismissed." (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

LLMs like ChapGPT don't know anything. They don't have knowledge. So if you ask them anything you then have to properly check the answer. So you might as well just...start by...getting the answer yourself using proper research, save some time.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

unironically though, writers need to pitch this article and keep pitching it until bezos starts crying

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

A perfect example of the infantilisation of trans men and mascs. They have to pretend adult trans men are “little girls” in order to take away our agency. If they admitted they were talking about adults what they are saying would seem way more paternalistic, and downright creepy!

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

“Authorities unveiled a state-of-the-art Cybertruck fleet that police say will enhance officer safety and promote recruitment” is only the second funniest sentence in this story local12.com/news/nation-...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Who's got a line on the campaign to mail a physical copy of this report to every Democrat in office every week for the next year?

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I agree with this take. The correct thing to do if you are mad at Target is to figure out what you buy at Target and how to get it from somewhere else, and then do so. For as long as you need to.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

Tesla stock is sinking. Throw it an anvil! Hit the Nazi CEO where it hurts!! TAKE HIS $$$ #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Lol, every old British actor said no to the role.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If this goes into effect, it will crush higher ed in the U.S.: mass layoffs, slashed services, and even higher tuitions. When coupled with the government firings, it will cause a sharp recession just as the Republicans slash nutritional and medical support for the poor. And that’s the point.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Many disabled folx rely on delivery for most things, trashing that infrastructure makes life harder pic alt-txt: tweet by @Jason: 1. Pls explain which USians need USPS in the era of email, Amazon delivery, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc. 2. Pls explain why it needs to be 5 or 6 days/wk instead of once/wk

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Litigation's a fear. Another's the inevitable targeting from M*sk and his army of trolls, bots and bad actors. This shouldn't prevent action. It's a timely reminder that the slower we act, the more power abusers get. There'll always be a backlash, whenever the response. So act firmly - and fast.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

UK still refusing to recognise the existence of nonbinary people under any circumstances. Judge says it’s Parliament’s decision, which seems like a way to ensure minority rights remain really hard to get forever www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

this is the most unpopular regime in anyone's lifetime and it's been like 5 weeks, but also the fact they are willing to ignore their constituents like this already as a matter of party policy tells us they don't intend for "voter" to be a term that carries any significance going forward

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Absolutely! Transitioning isn't JUST a medical thing. It's a social thing. It's a personal thing. It's so many things. As long as you are exploring your gender, know you aren't cis, and know that you do want to change things (regardless of whether that means hormones or not), you're trans.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"hah hah hah! FOOLS!!" is something that supervillains say way more than normal people, so, as a Normal Person, every chance you get to say it is a real special treat, and you should reach for it every time www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

When Republicans say "These tax cuts will pay for themselves" reporters should treat it the way they do "Trump won the 2020 election," as a proven lie that requires IMMEDIATE refutation in the reporter's voice, to make clear that they have repeated this assertion for decades and it never happens.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Better late than never but also very frustrating as this has been a big part of their grievance around being “bossed around” under the last administration.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

The Second Cumming, if you will-

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is such a great point. One of the things that helped America prosper, in addition to the stealing land and stealing lives thing, is that we, as a nation, after we fought a war for our independence, were not saddled with debt so staggering that we are still paying it off today.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Related: this is long and if you were a 90s goth it will cause you terrible pain, but it's really worth reading. It's like slowly unwrapping a bandaged wound and steeling yourself for the damage you know you're going to find underneath. CW for SA: www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments