Peter Jackson

@fesshole Why is it that when people boast about not having kids or being single, they always sound like a seven year old waking up in an adult’s body? “I can lie in bed and eat sweets and play games and no one can stop me!”

My friends often feel bad I'm single saying it must be hard etc, it ain't, today I'm eating a bowl of custard for tea because I can, meanwhile my friend can't play football tomorrow because he's got to cut the grass and fit some shelves, so who's the idiot?

@eternaltxts Pick up one piece of litter per day.

I’m 21. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.

@MadelaineLucyH In my experience: US author: He crossed the room, picked up the glass, and said he was fine. I watched him, then sat back and rubbed my eyes, I’d been tired from days of writing this character, and my hand was starting to ache. Did I still want to do this?

US author: he crossed the room, picked up the glass, and said he was fine. US reader: he’s fine, maybe a bit tense UK reader: he is absolutely not fine

@utahagen @Iamivy05 I don’t think that’s true: when my youngest son was about three they had a fathers’ day event in the day and almost all the children’s dads were there.

@Iamivy05 The men themselves just aren't going to leave corporate jobs in the middle of the day to have lunch at a day care center. Only a couple of fathers would show up.

when my 4-year-old’s daycare held a “lunch with mom” event, every single mom showed up. we all have other jobs, which is why our kids are in daycare. but we took off work or found a way to get there in the middle of the day. now, they’re doing an event for the dads … at 6:30 in the evening. it’s a small example, but the double standards are real.

Be honest, Which world Cup did you watch first?

@OBTKSK0908 There’s no particular shame in losing to Japan, who are a very good team, but also England played badly. Both things can be true.

イングランドに勝ったとはいえベストメンバーじゃなかったから、イギリス人はあんまり気にしてないのかなと思いきや、帰り道にイギリス人と話して「イングランドは最悪だった。日本は本当に良かったし勝利に値するよ」って言ってて、ちゃんと悔しがりながら日本を認めてくれていたのが印象的だった

@BeefButterBTC @AAStack Agreed. They’re like militant atheism, or voting for the Green Party, in 2026 it’s a way for deeply conventional people to think they’re unconventional z

@AAStack Tattoos used to be counter-culture, now everyone has tattoos. Being tattooless is now counter-culture Few

My stepdaughter just turned 18 and wants to get a tattoo. Her mom and I are against it, so I told her I’d ask people online and let the poll decide. Be honest and unbiased: Do you think tattoos on women are attractive and cool, or do you think they are inappropriate and usually regretted later?

@AAStack I’ve never seen one tattoo, on anyone, man or woman, that looked good.

@DesireeAmerica4 99% conviction rate is terrifying.

Japan is living in a different reality when it comes to crime. ​Look at this: Instead of a violent struggle, the police just pull out a green "burrito" blanket, wrap the suspect up like a package, and load him into the car. ​They maintain a 99% conviction rate. If the police pick you up in Japan, the system is designed so you almost never walk away. They don’t prioritize the "rights" of the suspect over the absolute peace of the street. ​Efficiency or Overreach?

@Sir_jaay01 Haaland, Wright, Cruyff, Clough, Schmeichel, Maldini, Gemmill, Hagi, Lampard…

Has any son of an ex footballer ever become a successful pro?

@Watchman_motto Gravel is awful. It goes everywhere and looks a mess almost immediately.

I share about 100 yards of drive way with my ~70yr old neighbors. For some reason he’s obsessed with knocking down the center grass in the middle of the tire ruts and covering it with gravel. He talks about it all the time, probably 30% of all conversations I have with him are about this. He’s asking if I want to pitch in for more gravel, etc. When I put my parents in a guest house behind the barn, my dad started talking about it too. He got some roundup and sprayed his section of road. Am I missing something here? I see no problem with it. It looks fine. It occupies 0% of my mind. I’m prepared to spend 0 dollars to remedy this “problem” What is happening?

@gregkellyusa Tattoos are like militant atheism: it’s a way for the most conventional people in the world to feel unconventional.

What the hell is up with all of these TATTOOS everywhere? “Back in the Day” only Sailors got them when they were DRUNK in the Philippines. Then it became a “Thing” with STRIPPERS in the 90s. Now I see Dentists, Teachers, Nurses, Interns all TATTED UP. My Theory: It’s an Easy, quick way to feel Distinctive and Special, WITHOUT actually doing the WORK to be Distinctive and Special. Too much “Ink” and Selfies, Not enough GRIT. #tatsaresilly

Warm colors increase your heart rate. Cool, washed-out tones lower it. Every remake you’ve watched in the last decade has been deliberately color-graded to flatten that signal. It started in 2000. The Coen Brothers shot O Brother, Where Art Thou? in Mississippi during summer, when everything was, in Joel Coen’s words, “greener than Ireland.” They wanted a dusty Depression-era look. Cinematographer Roger Deakins tried every trick in the book: chemical treatments, lens filters, old darkroom techniques. Nothing worked. So they did something no one had done before: digitally scanned the entire film and recolored it frame by frame. Deakins spent 11 weeks turning lush greens into burnt yellows. No feature film had ever been entirely digitally color graded before. Every major studio adopted the technique within a few years. And then the problems started. Modern film cameras don’t capture what your eyes actually see. They intentionally record flat, grey, washed-out footage to capture as much detail as possible. The plan is for the color team to add vibrant color back in later. But the people doing that work stare at grey footage for weeks. Their eyes adjust. One filmmaker admitted he’d bring saturation up to 120% and feel satisfied, then realized the image still looked desaturated to everyone else. He had to crank it to 200% before it looked normal. That’s just eye fatigue. The color draining also happens on purpose. Muting colors hides bad CGI. If a computer-generated background doesn’t quite match the actors, draining the color smooths over the mismatch. The Lord of the Rings extended editions look flatter than the theatrical cuts for exactly this reason: the added scenes had less polished effects, so they were washed out to cover it. Then streaming made it permanent. Bright colors look messy when video gets compressed for phones and laptops. Dull colors look consistent whether you’re watching on a 75-inch TV or a 6-inch phone screen. So studios color their movies for the smallest screen in the room. Your brain registers the difference even if you can’t name it. Your eyes are wired to perceive warm, rich colors as closer and more immediate. Washed-out tones create emotional distance. When a studio drains color from a scene, they’re dampening the emotional signal the image sends to your brain. Old film stock didn’t have this problem. Kodak and Fuji films had rich, punchy color built into the physical chemistry of the film itself. Each brand had a distinct look you could recognize. Digital cameras capture flat, neutral data by default. Getting that warm, vivid “film look” from digital requires skilled work that costs time and money. Most productions don’t invest enough of either. Modern cameras can capture a wider range of colors than film ever could. The technology has never been better. The choices have never been lazier.

@emmma_camp_ Zadie Smith released a collection of pieces she wrote during that period, writing about her experiences of lockdown etc..

Question for the group: has there been any great art about Covid? Any incredible literary novels or films? I can't think of anything off the top of my head but my cultural knowledge is not limitless.

@FT How would you know whether someone was 6’ or 5’ 11”?

If there is a status attached to height – and there is – then 5ft 11in doesn’t quite measure up. Six foot is manly, commanding. Five-11 is acceptable, unremarkable. But a near-miss. It’s the upper end of almost, the FT's Alex Bilmes writes. ⁠ft.trib.al/Cy2ronS

@JonathanPieNews I think you’ll find that’s Aslan, so…

Here are some Easter eggs from the 1980's with no mention of Easter on the packaging. My personal favourite was the Lion Bar one. Can we all move on from this now please?

@moveincircles I really don’t think your second thought is right, why do you think that?

Walked the dog last night past a house where 3 middle-aged couples were playing cards at a kitchen island, with glasses of wine My first thought: this is the world internet rightists say they want to protect My second: internet rightists would pour scorn on those people

@anon_opin I think you’re mixing up the cause and the effect.

We need to get out of this cycle of getting rid of Prime Ministers every couple of years, the most stable this country has been since the 1970s has been during 2 long standing PMs tenures

@peterboghossian @wil_da_beast630 You must have hummed ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ though?

@wil_da_beast630 I have never said "Britain" during sex.

Two takes: (1) I really don't care at all that a politician's wife or lover once said "faggot." The percentage of tolerable people who have NEVER said "cunt" during sex or Britain, or "nigga" to a hoops defender, is on the order of 3%. I am spelling out these words because "we grown." But...(2) This common sense rule has to go both ways. What was the Mamdanis' position on the Covington kids?

@ramit Arms manufacturers. You can’t rely on the supply chain for parts when buying aircraft carriers from a mom and pop chain.

I remember a friend once saying, "I would prefer to put my kids in the Wal-Mart of daycare. Big companies understand liability" What are areas of life where you prefer to deal with a BIG company, not an individual business owner? Examples: Landlord, accountant, hotel