Rocky Road to Lublin
Tabletop gamer, supernatural/period horror enthusiast, swashbuckling aficionado, vaguely leftist, but Godzilla fanboy for longer than any of those
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- Reposted by Rocky Road to Lublinits like a new york history themed superhero film. its very silly and im loving it
- So many Bluesky moderates get pissy when you criticize Dem leadership, meanwhile those Dems are doing Trumpy shit like this
- I have three types of TTRPG characters 1. Physically and morally repugnant coward sadist who eats corpses 2. Obnoxious pseud 2. LEEROY JENKINS
- Off to Sinners round 2, and this time with my wife! Hopefully I didn't oversell it.
- Don't worry though, once we retake the White House we can have a DoJ that spends four years casually pondering how it might be illegal and if they can do anything about it, instead of one that just insists it's legal.
- finally saw Inside Llewyn Davis, basically because Ryan Coogler cited it as a Sinners inspiration.
- Gozillem Dafoe
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinThe "abolish ICE" argument getting so brutally, viciously clarified as obvious and true is good cause for looking at other "want a pony" political demands that are obviously correct but dismissed for, basically, "being annoying to think about"
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinAnyway. Part of the American Heresy is the hypocrisy that fucking EVERYONE notices, they are NOT subtle: the American Heresy takes "salvation by faith alone" to the furthest possible extreme. It does not matter if you follow Jesus's teachings, you said the magic words, so you are Saved.
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinThey'll never admit it, but I bet the Conclave's final vote wasn't even close. Probably 25 or 6 to 4
- Just rewatched this over the weekend, a great piece of cinema.
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- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinI am *begging* people to look up the actual history of the Luddite movement with it being bandied about everywhere. They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
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- President Lincoln speaks to American People from beyond the grave in Florida amusement park through mechanical performance
- Reposted by Rocky Road to Lublinwhy not have a seance or a psychic participate in a legal preceding? trial by strength? witches floating or sinking??
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinYou guys are implementing a 100% tariff on movies wrong. Double the cost means you get Three and a Half Samurai for the price of your ticket, not Fourteen Samurai.
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- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinThe narrative that anti-vaxxers or QAnon weirdos will come back from the brink if we're nice enough to them isn't tenable morally and doesn't hold up empirically. Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas.
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinI feel like more queer people need to know that the best thing in professional wrestling right now is a bisexual woman playing the role of a delusional 1950s moviestar who will shout "I am here and I am queer" on national TV
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinAt this point I'm honestly just calling my reps and bluntly saying you're old between the two of us I'm the one more likely to survive an ecoli infection. Maybe do something about this.
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- Reposted by Rocky Road to Lublinevery gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease
- "Fewer than 3 friends" factoid actualy just statistical error. Zuckers Borg, who lives in bunker & has negative 8,000,000 friends, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
- I don't know what structure Coogler actually *used*, but it reminded me of how I was taught that Shakespeare plays have a 5 act structure, with all the first-half action building to the climax in the middle, and all the second-half action resulting from it.
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- Well the Sinners soundtrack isn't on Bandcamp, but several of its contributing musicians have albums on there.
- Might f around and make a video essay about Sinners and [thematically related movie]
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinI know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.
- Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
- Trump says "jump" and NYT says "how high?"
- Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
- Reposted by Rocky Road to Lublinin New Hampshire, JB Pritzker hits the "simpering timidity" of many Dems: “Fellow Democrats, for far too long we’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire,even as the flames are licking their faces"
- Too early to be sure, but I think Sinners will be living rent-free in my head in a way normally reserved for stuff I grew up with on home video.
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- Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
- Released a week ago and still selling out? Hat off to Coogler and the rest of the Sinners bunch! I guess I can survive waiting another hour.
- Since Jan 6, I've basically thought that if a literal insurrection couldn't get moderates to take Trump seriously as an existential threat, nothing will. But honestly, a threat to their fundraising might scare them more than the threat to their lives does!
- Even *if* the government were as inefficient as oligarchs say it is, it would *still* be more reliable than the whims-of-billionaires alternative.
- “‘Mommy, the guy who’s been giving money to our school doesn’t want to give it to us anymore,’” he told her. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
- Saving for once I've seen it
- My piece on Sinners, its questions and considerations of ownership and freedom, and how Ryan Coogler utilized those themes to create a legacy for himself and Black creatives. #Sinners
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinRealized recently that what Chotiner feasts on is the deeply-held belief among elites that it is unfair to consider them bad people for having abhorrent views. So he gets them to state their beliefs, points out that they're horrific, then lets them melt down in how-dare-yous for connecting the dots.
- If Dems ever do regain power I'll be shocked if it doesn't pan out exactly like this.
- Reposted by Rocky Road to LublinTalking about the "hairdresser" was right and good, actually.
- New YouGov/Economist poll out this morning finds Trump is no longer popular on immigration. This was the last issue he had a positive net approval on. This was very easy to see coming, esp bc individual components of immigration policy are so toxic: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/should-dem...
- I tried to come up with a nonsense proverb for Google AI to explain, but apparently a megachurch pastor had already coined it.
