Okay let’s not get back on suggesting gender nonconformity is inherently predatory, believe it or not most horrible men come across as stereotypically normal blokes.
People are obsessed with the idea that anyone with a degenerative illness who is in public & working must be being exploited. Both misunderstands what lacking capacity means and assumes that anyone visibly disabled would be too ashamed to venture outside of it was up to them.
I remember that supposedly investigative piece about Bruce Willis that seemed to largely amount to crew who didn’t know him personally saying looking at him made them sad and they, complete strangers, didn’t think he’d want to be seen like that.
So many people I know have expressed confusion that this is being treated like new information as they had no idea it hadn’t already been formally reported on. Common knowledge for years and years.
I seem to remember drivers with ADHD are significantly more likely to cause an accident than someone who’s drunk at the wheel so this seems a pretty reasonable measure!
Thing with chronic pain is sometimes you're having a really rough sesh and think, pretty crazy it can hurt this badly and I can't go to hospital, or freak out about it, or treat it as an emergency that requires other people to pause for me, because it's just my life!
Zac Goldsmith levels of backfiring, bigoted hubris at play on this one
The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements.
"A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party. We are better than this. We have a responsibility to show it. Today we endorse Democrat Amy Acton for governor." cleveland.com/open/2026/10/w…
One of the best things about letterboxd is it's very easy to choose your own level of engagement with it. Despite what people complain, nothing is really shoved in your face, lots of different ways to use it, curating your feed is straightforward etc.
beeves retweeted
people who are too young to remember a world before letterboxd really don't understand. it's been the most significant positive force for cinephilia of the century. for all its faults, it has completely changed film culture for the better
Whatever disappointments you might have in life, consider that someone in Wales won £12,000,000 on the lottery in June and possibly doesn’t even know. Maybe never will!
The completed film would have to be absolutely wildly misjudged to not make a fortune.
The budget for the ‘ELDEN RING’ movie is nearly $200M.
A24's most expensive movie ever.
(Source: wsj.com/arts-culture/film/a2…)
imo Josh O’Connor will end up being cast as the next Bond villain. Happens pretty often with someone ostensibly going for the lead.
