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Musician/writer/pop culture junkie. Probably way too invested in things. May contain traces of socialism.
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I liked the Timothée Chalamet Bob Dylan movie a lot more than I thought I would. More music biopics should have the attitude "Yes, he's a genius, but also an arrogant, obnoxious prick, who gets away with it because he's a total fuckboi"

I've wanted to talk about media I like for a long time, but I often don't get around to it or find a good angle. So screw it: Here's a continuous super-thread of media I loved in 2025 (not necessarily from 2025):

🚨EMERGENCY POD🚨 I mean kinda, it's mostly a normal episode but we talk the election results. What sucks, what we're hopeful about. Also we talk about Albanese's visit to Berlin, Hanau and Trump becoming a north Korea flag emoji poster Listen over at operationglad.io or wherever you get podcasts

For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps. This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]

So deprimierend das Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl heute wahrscheinlich auch wird, bitte lass zumindest mit Die Linke EINE echte Oppositionspartei rein kommen und verpass der FDP endlich hinter der Scheune den Gnadenschuss.

this person said it so good so here it is

companies listening to what people say they want instead of making art and just giving them something has been ruinous for games, movies and more for the last 10-15 years

The US media, the Democrats and the EU spent over a year making anti-semitism a meaningless political insult without real content and now these dudes can heil hitler on stage and journalists will be like "wow! Controversial gesture!"

Hard to believe an ICE exec is a white supremacist. I guess next thing you’re going to try to tell me is jobs that by their nature allow people to abuse poc attract white supremacists.

everytime god closes a door, he opens a window on an airplane

Ethnic cleansing continues in the West Bank. Kids forced to watch their house get demolished:

Währenddessen bei den Anti-"Cancel Culture" Rebellen:

I see the people who listen to Tom McDonald's verbal diarrhea are having some strong opinions about Hip Hop again.

Turns out for the revolution to (briefly) be televised, you have to sneak it into the background, before being subdued and dragged out by security. No better commentary on the state of things. Free Palestine! Free Sudan!

Say Drake

looks like a guy you would kill in fallout or bioshock

Just saw "Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat" - an incredible, rapid fire collage documentary about how the CIA used a concert tour of (unaware) Jazz musicians as a cover up for murdering Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba in 1960. I cannot recommend this film enough. youtu.be/_RwLdIiZk_8?...

I mean saying that trans people’s lives are worth protecting, that racially motivated mass forced migration is bad, and that DOGE is committing federal crimes all seem like layups But that requires actually believing in those things and not debating how much fundraising you can do off them.

Drake: "Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy right now" Grammys: "How about 5? 👑 OVHOOOOOOE!!! 🎉"

i absolutely LOOOVE how liberals can't perceive chickens coming home to roost; and so conclude that all this is because of other countries doing shit to the US instead of the US just imploding on its own of its own volition bc it's enshrined fascism to its core since fascism was known as colonialism

unreal cultural moment we’re living through right now. the stupidest people alive are showing everyone their entire asses and treating anyone who tells them to put their pants back on like *they’re* the idiot

Can't stop laughing at the Oscars chaos this year. It's karma for all the incredible 2024 films that didn't get a single nomination.

In a sea of mediocre music biopics "Kneecap" is the lighthouse. My favorite film of the year so far. youtu.be/FFYfp-hKxZQ?...

Nintendo just coming out and saying what everybody's thinking

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Deutscher Bundestag: 12 Uhr - Die Nazis waren schlimm 13 Uhr -...aber was, wenn wir es nochmal probieren?

All My Apes Gone (Reprise)

damn if that ain't some bars

I'm playing "Star Wars: Outlaws" right now. While I'm overall enjoying the game, it has some of the most bafflingly bad design decisions I've seen in a long time. Along with the clunky combat and stealth, it really feels like a PS3-era game that somehow released 15 years late.

If the situation was hopeless the propaganda wouldn’t be necessary.

My god! "Emilia Perez" is utter dogshit. Not that I expect much from the Oscars, but 13 (!) nominations for this self-indulgently misguided, transphobic, xenophobic musical with "songs" that sound like Starbucks Schoenberg and the most garish cinematography outside of a student film?!?