Alby Mengele
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So weird, that movie WEAPONS. I’d gotten the impression from the promotion campaign & (planted/viral-marketing?) rumors that ‘Jordan Peele fired his management team for not getting the script’ &c that it’s this serious, thought-provoking horror film
instead it’s just HILARIOUS
I mean yeah, it’s a ‘horror film’ but barely. Mostly it’s super wacky, kind of a horror parody, several LOL moments. and Amy Madigan got the Oscar for that? not that she was ‘bad’ in that role but.. it’s like giving the Oscar to Pee Wee Herman
What am I missing what is going on
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I think it’s mostly a yearning for the rural
pnorm@paleonormie
I wonder how irritated a certain kind of person is to find that the Japanese are more fascinated and intrigued by red America than by blue America
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@Lady_Astor @captive_dreamer @OG_ETCD Sorry, it sounded sarcastic because it wasn’t meant to be data. But I actually have an uncle who was a dermatologist there for years until recently. I can ask him. If anyone should know..
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You’re adding a detail that I wasn’t aware of, that is “interesting data”. You give me new info and I add it to my mental picture of the place. I was actually there once, I watched OUATIH when it was released and I found the place cute. I learned afterwards from news and a documentary that it was a very “sexually active” place. What else can I say?
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The old adage was that as people aged, they became more "conservative" (whatever that now means). Interesting to see old people turning into retirement home libtards
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
The Villages retirement community in Florida have turned out in huge numbers for No Kings. William Steiner, our Villages correspondent, says that the turnout is twice as big as last year's.
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@Lady_Astor @captive_dreamer @OG_ETCD Dumping on the Villages, “interesting data”… Put Astor back on the line
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@Paul_Heron_ Feel the same x.com/david_____1/st…
Alby Mengele@David_____1
I see casualty figures in Ukraine, old men and children drafted etc but have a hard time squaring this with the war footage. It's just the odd skirmish or drone attack. 500k dead without one vast corpse-strewn battlefield? Hoping the numbers are off...
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These numbers are very hard to wrap one’s head around. Where are the videos of the massive battles? Typically we only get drone footage of some poor lone sod being chased across a field. Weird air of unreality about it all.
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
Stubb: We are in a situation where the Ukrainians are killing over 30,000 Russians per month. Russians are not able to recruit back. We're getting closer to the moment when there might have to be a general call from the Russian part. 1/
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@Lady_Astor @captive_dreamer @OG_ETCD Hey! My parents just bought a winter place there. It’s very MAGA—so much so that libs started that stupid rumor about STDs
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@Howlingmutant0 @Variety I had no idea she was still alive. Vertigo is my favorite movie. This is like a miracle immediately turning into a nightmare
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@Variety She looks like how South Park does Canadians
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Kim Novak Says Sydney Sweeney Is 'Totally Wrong to Play Me' in Upcoming Film About Romance With Sammy Davis Jr.: 'I Would Never Have Approved' variety.com/2026/film/news…
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Alby Mengele@David_____1
@captive_dreamer Let’s compare converts. Catholics: John von Neumann, Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Henry Newman, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, Vermeer, Dryden, Jünger, Mahler, Clarence Thomas, Vance, that hot Dutch chick Eva Vlaaadergerbroook
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@SaladBarFan @paul_hundred They try so hard to keep a lid on things, doing more and more damage to their credibility in the meanwhile, and yet they still decide it’s better than the alternative. But I’m not even sure anything would happen if they just told the truth
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@captive_dreamer Let’s compare converts.
Catholics: John von Neumann, Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Henry Newman, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, Vermeer, Dryden, Jünger, Mahler, Clarence Thomas, Vance, that hot Dutch chick Eva Vlaaadergerbroook
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Is there one single Ancient Rome account from an actual Italian?
Daily Roman Updates@UpdatingOnRome
@captive_dreamer Orthodox
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@Lady_Astor Italy is still hanging in there, but I’m glad my parents came to the US—among other reasons because it made me a native English speaker. Do you know where your family is from?
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It breaks my heart to watch WW2 movies these days. The world they fought for is gone. My great nonno was right to make his two sons leave Italy for Argentina before it began. Benvenuto was a visionary. It would have been a different story if they listened to Patton, but OSS had other ideas… (don’t get me started).
Met Office@metoffice
The first trailer for ‘Pressure’ is here, the film which tells the story of the most important weather forecast; the D-Day forecast. Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg – the Met Office meteorologist tasked with delivering the weather forecast and helping shape D-Day's plans. In cinemas 9 September. #pressuremovie @StudiocanalUK
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Alby Mengele retweetledi
#Milwaukee
“[MPD] released body-worn and dashboard camera video on Friday from an incident earlier this month in which an officer shot and killed a wanted suspect. That suspect drove off from an attempted arrest with the officer holding onto the vehicle.”
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@_DavidMorrell It’s cowardly. They race-swapped the character it’s based on so they could continue the demonization of white boys
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ADOLESCENCE shows that television/streaming can still be creative and important, even as most shows feel the same.
variety.com/2026/awards/gl…
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Honestly if they would make Hallmark Channel quality movies for men, they'd print money
Every genre that was like this has been pozzed or prestiged or both
Cheap westerns or noirs or sci-fi or swords-and-sandals. Deliberately, but earnestly shitty and low-budget
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A while ago I asked Claude about the assassination attempt on Trump, & it said it never happened.
I said its latest update was outdated, but it insisted I was being mislead by misinformation.
Today I checked back & asked what it thought now. It still doesn’t know about it:
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