@estherzelda0514 Not even a hot take IMO. TLJ was the best of the sequels by far and all of the bellyaching about Luke’s arc was done by a bunch of misogynistic man babies.
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Owen Grover
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Owen Grover
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Digital media maven, obsessive Rangers, Mets, and Knicks fan, @truefirestudios, @pocketcasts, and @iheartradio alum, he/him
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Fun fact: Lucas liked The Last Jedi, unlike the installments that Abrams directed. The reason is simple, and revealed here—he wanted something new. Further, the crap that the worst and most negative fans pile on Rian Johnson for Luke Skywalker's arc? That was heavily based on Lucas's own original ideas—a broken Luke in self-imposed exile, haunted by a betrayal of a student, cut off from the Force, and acting as a mentor to a young female protagonist only reluctantly.
Hottest of takes here, but Rian Johnson was simply one of the best directors we ever had on a mainline Star Wars installment, and the fandom is full of childish idiots that should have been ignored. He has the originality of Lucas, respected his vision, and is innovative and the master of his craft. He managed to get more emotion out of the actors for Rey, Kylo, and Luke than Abrams ever did, and his special effects were interesting and spectacular. The throne room scene in particular was truly great.
That more people do not appreciate what Johnson did is because they are philistines. He should have been allowed to direct and write all three installments. Somewhere in an alternative universe, people there got to enjoy a sequel trilogy that wasn't childish and derivative trash. I'm jealous.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Bob Iger on George Lucas' disappointment after seeing The Force Awakens: "He didn’t hide his disappointment. ‘There’s nothing new,’ he said. In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.’ He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do." Was George right in his criticism?
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I maintain that the single most insufferable thing about New Yorkers is that they bewilderingly try to claim everything. This transcends politics—all New Yorkers do this. Yes, everyone has coffee. Everyone has convenience stores (nicer than your “bodegas”). Everyone has what you have and it’s usually cleaner and cheaper!
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani
nothing like it
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Bulletin board material for @KYDLabs cc: @KYDNimale
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Internal messages from Live Nation reveal two execs talking about "robbing [fans] blind." “These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," one says. That man is now the head of ticketing for the unit responsible for Live Nation's 150 amphitheaters.
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@MikeIsaac TAGABOW and Jesus and Mary Chain on the same bill might just rupture the space-time continuum
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goddamn. oldheads unite
gonna be the summer of shows
BrooklynVegan@brooklynvegan
Dinosaur Jr., The Jesus and Mary Chain, Blonde Redhead, Julie, Meat Puppets, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Flipper, Drop Nineteens, and more are playing Total Bummer at Knockdown Center
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Powerbroker hive ASSEMBLE
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
Manhattanite: Robert Moses destroyed our historic urban fabric Brooklynite: Robert Moses embodied systematic, institutional racism Staten Islander: Robert Moses put a dump near my Ma's house Bronxite: Robert Moses burned down my old building Guy from Queens: 罗伯特·摩西是谁?
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@LibyaLiberty It's entirely possible to condemn this vile, hateful act and leave Jews out of it. All this does is engender more hate. But maybe that's what you want?
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What if someone did this to a Jewish mayor. Wouldn’t the fbi be involved?
Joey Mannarino 🇺🇸@JoeyMannarino
Jake Lang is bringing an entire roasted pig to Zohran Mamdani’s office in the middle of Ramadan. This dude is my hero.
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RIP to a true music production legend. Roots, Tribe, D’Angelo and so many others benefitted from his mastery. Rest easy, Bob Power.
DJ Premier@REALDJPREMIER
R.I.P. to one of the iLLest Engineers of all time... Mr. BOB POWER. Thank you for your various pointers in recording from D'angelo to ATCQ'S Low End Theory, Erykah Badu's Baduizm and so on! 🫡🙏🏾🕊️
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An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇
"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.
Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.
So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.
Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.
A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."
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WILLIE COLON
Acabo de confirmar lo que me resistÍa a creer: Willie Colón efectivamente ha fallecido.
A su esposa Julia, a sus hijos, familia y seres queridos envío mi sentido pésame.
Más adelante y con calma escribiré sobre Willie y su vital e importante legado musical.
Rubén Blades
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SF guy eating a delicious blueberry: in 18 months everything will be blueberries
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@ScottParkCO Yes, and all of those things are definitionally syncretic
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The problem here is that a "culture" created NY Jazz, Chicago Blues, & Reggae. If you say NY Jazz is "culture" you are using the word to mean something that contradicts the first meaning.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
@ScottParkCO That's not what culture means.
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Excellent counter programming. "Use AI where it genuinely helps, and don't be a prat about the rest," "Ignore anyone who has a financial interest in your panic," and "Don't let anyone make you feel stupid for being skeptical" -- all words to live by.
Markos Mom@Markos_mom
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