Brad Stephenson

The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels. I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so. Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this). The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman. The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos. Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive. This particular scene became ICONIC. 98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist. This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.

Gay homes always have the best lighting 💅

Back when working in finance used to mean something

America moved on from this in like 2006, and then South Korea was like "let's make this our whole culture and personality"

There had to be countless meetings going over this design and no one was like “there’s nothing Ferrari about this”

@Luigi_Lanclot Looks so cool though apparently it’s man-made

@Shuttlecock I was arriving home and saw it in the sky. I wasn't sure if I was tripping out or not. Absolutely beautiful!

Aurora in Melbourne tonight??

Boooo theage.com.au/national/victo…

@IterIntellectus It’s giving Jaguar rebrand

what is this GARBAGE?! 😭

Everybody wants a nice guy until it’s time to do nice guy shit (binge watch the entire LOTR trilogy (extended edition obviously) with hella snacks on a holiday weekend)

My Fitbit app just force-updated to Google Health and it really is an absolutely horrible experience. How could a company as large as Google spend months testing this with beta testers and then still launch it unfinished? #Fitbit #GoogleHealth

@shirobon It sucks so much. So much basic info missing

My Fitbit app auto updated to Google Health and now it's forcing an AI coach on me and I can no longer add calories or custom foods? Wtfff Anyone got any recommendations for alternatives? I just wanna track my calories, steps and sleep 🥲

Case in point why raising taxes in Australia achieves nothing. $ 28million to $ 122 million. The wastage in Australia is beyond comprehension

I’ve personally met a lot more lesbians who did this to their husbands in mid-late life than gays who have done this to their wives. Also, why not rage about all the women who marry men for financial security or just to have kids before they age out of that possibility and then jump ship in their 30s or 40s? Marriage and psychology is complex across the board. Focusing your rage only on gay men who get divorced simply reeks of gay-hate.

@pk13510 I’m so sick and tired of closeted gay men continuously using women and then when they have their awakening we’re supposed to champion and support that, without realizing the dangers of being closeted, not only to the individual but the wife. It’s unhealthy & needs to be addressed

I’m so sick and tired of everyone attacking every married gay man who comes out as automatically being аbusive to the wife because he married her while being in the closet. We never hear the full context and just like you’d expect, all the posts in the replies are just trashing this guy relentlessly for using her. When you actually dig into the context it starts to make a lot more sense why this situation happened and shows a very different type of story. Caleb Shomo was in the band “Attack! Attack!” and they blew up when he was only 15 years old and barely in high school. His now/soon to be ex-wife, Fleur is 8 years older than him and she started officially dating him right after he turned 17 and she was 25. They got married 2 years later when he was only 19. A 25 year old woman isn’t going to date a Jr in high school if he wasn’t already a famous rock star making millions of dollars. It’s very likely that he wasn’t even fully aware of his sexuality when they started dating/talking. Many gay men don’t understand their sexuality till later in life. You can certainly argue that he should have ended it sooner but let’s stop pretending that there’s not more to this story. Context matters.

@imtiredtomorrow @pk13510

@pk13510 I'm not a fan of women claiming victimhood in this. Last time I checked, the culture of homophobia that shamed and drove homosexuals into false marriages was also built and fueled by women. Deceiving women into a marriage is not right, but neither is the homophobia of women.

@frozenmiller @netflix I ready enjoyed it. Consistent and solid pacing throughout and the 80’s Amblin Entertainment vibe (somehow maintained in a show set in the 2020’s) was a joy. Such a refreshing change from most modern entertainment.

Three episodes in, 'The Boroughs' on @netflix isn't too bad. Great cast. And the nice thing about it being in a retirement community, no Millennial/Gen Z mental illnesses, so no pretend genders or pronouns in sight. 5 episodes to go, though, and it is Netflix, so we'll see 😬

That time a THE PRICE IS RIGHT contestant (Alene Glover) blacked out after winning the Showcase, so the show just ran the credits while they tried to revive her lol (1976)

And this was PRE YouTube.

7-Eleven Japan founder Toshifumi Suzuki has died aged 93 He is credited as the architect behind the convenience store chain’s modern global success