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@CaroWozniacki @BarclayCard18 That makes it (extra) juicy…

lol, that’s me and my (married) friends 😂 not juicy I’m afraid lol

@s300felix @F1BigData Why who is out

@F1BigData revolving doors at AM

🚨🚨 OFFICIAL JONATHAN WHEATLEY HAS LEFT AUDI

@DailyCA_MCQs @alvinfoo Ask how he treats his own children…

@alvinfoo This is the kind of understated generosity that restores faith in people. No press release, no virtue signaling — just doing the right thing for 13+ years. Real role model material.

Brad Pitt spent years buying up every neighbouring property around his Los Feliz estate. When he acquired the home of an elderly widower named John, already in his 90s, he could have asked him to leave. Instead, he told him he could stay for free for the rest of his life. John ended up living to 105. The story only came out because Pitt’s former neighbour, Cassandra Peterson, mentioned it in passing to People magazine. No announcement, no headlines. Just a good thing done quietly.

@AnishA_Moonka Kathleen Kennedy probs has some questions to answer. Did the extra $50m for ron howard really make a huge difference to Solo.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

@CAEZMEH @KarlRholoff @BenRothenberg She’d stopped using

@KarlRholoff @BenRothenberg She sucked for several months prior to that

Big upset in Miami as #2 Magda Linette knocks out #2 Iga Swiatek in the second round. 1-6, 7-5, 6-3. It had been a disappointing start to 2026 for Swiatek; this is the nadir so far.

@BKaltenberger @aakashgupta You were in the eastern suburbs only.

@aakashgupta We were just in Sydney for several days. It's the best city in the world. Culture, food, beauty, athletic activities, sports, transportation, weather, etc

Sydney has 70 beaches within city limits. The coastline stretches 240 kilometers from Palm Beach in the north to Royal National Park in the south. The harbor alone has 317 kilometers of foreshore. More than 40% of the metro area is green space or national parkland. For comparison: Los Angeles has 75 miles of coastline but most of it is private or industrial. New York City has 520 miles of coastline but try swimming at most of it. London has zero beaches. Tokyo has artificial ones. Sydney somehow built a metro of 5.3 million people around one of the most dramatic natural harbors on the planet and kept the coastline almost entirely public. The entire 6-kilometer Bondi to Coogee walk sits on sandstone cliffs above the Pacific and costs nothing. The trade-off: median house price approaching $2 million AUD. The total value of residential property in NSW alone is $5.4 trillion. That single state’s housing stock is worth more than the entire GDP of Japan. The scenery explains the price. The price explains why a generation of Australians is moving to Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. Those three cities just made the biggest jumps in the 2026 World’s Best Cities rankings. Perth climbed 15 spots. Brisbane climbed 11. Australia is running a natural experiment in what happens when livability pricing pushes an entire generation to the next tier of cities. The answer: those cities start looking like Sydney did 20 years ago.

@CCat2001 @dieworkwear Yes.

@dieworkwear Derbies?

something i've noticed is that people who are new to something — whether it's tailored clothing or catholicism — are often very rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. much more zealous than people who have been into it for a while. not sure what causes this.

@YallLuvCris No one watches most of those movies tho unless they’re horror.

Hollywood really needs to go back to producing movies for under $100M. Not every story needs a $200M budget and a billion-dollar box office to justify its existence. Mid-budget films used to be the backbone of the industry, giving us great dramas, comedies, and thrillers. Bring back balance. 🎬

@JoshEberley Slumdog 💀

Top-3 is easy. Parasite No Country for Old Men The Departed That fourth spot is a toughy. I think Moonlight over Slumdog and Coda.

@justaflanker11 @CalTwomey @FootyonNine No one from either group is going there lol

@CalTwomey @FootyonNine The EFC need Merrett if they are looking to sign high quality free agents and out of contract players over the next couple of years.

Exclusive - Essendon has tabled a multi-year contract offer to Zach Merrett. Merrett is signed until the end of 2027 and is considering the offer, which would tie him to the club for multiple extra years. More on Footy Classified tonight👇@FootyonNine afl.com.au/news/1479712/e…

@dieworkwear Italian food is expensive in us??

My woke opinion is that some cuisines, including Vietnamese, are grossly underpriced partly because of racism. Certain cuisines, such as Japanese and Italian, are expensive bc they're part of "high culture." But Vietnamese food requires a ton of labor and tastes just as good.

@DBCWriter Free Palestine.

Hey, Javier Bardem and everyone clapping in the audience for free Palestine: You’re clapping for Jew killers. You’re clapping for the murderers of Holocaust survivors, babies, and young children. From the bottom of my heart: fuck off.

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ Who would have won them? You should email wimbledon that their major’s theyve handed out are illegitimate

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ you seem impatient - but i just want to answer your rather trivial original question. how many slams would serena/court win if they played 5? The answer is - less than 24 because as grok points out 5 sets is cumulatively demanding on the body.

Jim Courier on Novak Djokovic: “We don’t see golf compare men’s majors records with women’s majors records, so why do we do it in tennis? It makes no sense. I’m over that graphic.”

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ They are legitimate majors you are talking to yourself.

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ Many argue modern tennis is already brutal enough on bodies; longer women's matches could raise injury rates without clear benefits.

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ Ask yourself

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ according to grok it's because of historical scheduling. One way to address this, is for men to play best of 3 sets and women play best of 5. perhaps you should ask grok why they don't do that - and then let me know.

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ I dont know, ask wimbledon? They award the trophy. Its a 1000% valid major.

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ if you want to compare them equally, then why do women play best of 3 sets and men play best of 5? seems like relevant question.

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ Deflect? Those are legitimate grand slams in a graphic that says “mens and womens singles”. They even have novak listed first. Clown

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ no you cant. you can deflect all day .

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ I can stay on point all day

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ what happened to - I can do this all day mate lol

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ I dont really care tho

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ you're missing the point, you said they're the same - they are not. the next question is, not how many they could win - but why women only play best of 3 at majors.

@nftmaketwatch @DjokovicFan_ So how many to you think serena/court would have won if best of 3? Golf they play off different tees. Can do this all day mate.

@cjayjay49 @DjokovicFan_ best of 3 vs best of 5 actually. not even close to the same.