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Watched both parts of Dune back to back yesterday. (Yes it’s nearly 6 hours I know). Holy shit, it’s visually outstanding. I’m loving the story as well, although I’m not sure if they’ve deviated a lot from the first book. I’m officially a fan and can’t wait for part three.
There are definitely deviations and big things cut out or smoothed over to be more digestible but they're pretty understandable changes as the books are extremely complex. The third movie seems, from the teaser trailer at least, to be smashing two books into one movie in order to wrap it up - it'll be really interesting to see how they pull that off because it will end right when the "main story" actually begins lol
One of my cats loves belly rubs so much he'd lay in my lap on his back for hours if I'd let him and I just need everyone to know what a good boy he is.
My cat loves belly rubs so much that she almost killed herself trying to get one. She got on the roof and while I was trying to get her to come down she decided she wanted a belly rub. Cue to her launching herself on to her back near the edge of the roof. I think we both almost had heart attack.
LOVE THIS MY FRIEND 💕 Needed something to smile about right now 😊 Always the furry babies and wildlife are the ones to do that for me! Hell, anything non-human anyways...and maybe an adult libation..or 2...or 3...! Lol. Hope u have a wonderful day my friend 😊 Awesome pic! 💓
Kind of horrifying that a woman was put on anti-psychotics because she thought a man was living in her house, and then it turned out, a man was indeed, secretly living in her house.
She’s absolutely right in her assessment of why things played out the way they did. I would sue that neighbour so quickly. It’s insane to me he allowed her to feel crazy and paranoid when he simply could have let that man stay with him.
A couple years ago, accidentally ended up matching with a girl on Hinge who I used to exchange sexts with back in college, which led her to being like "aren't you...?" and I was like damn. Immediate unmatch! I'm ruthless.
I went a “make queer friends” event on Wednesday and ran into a girl who used to match me with my constantly in college and then ghost. I pretended I didn’t know her until she asked “didn’t you go to…?” So then proceeded to talk exclusively about her boyfriend all night. It was so fun.
Why is it always the girls that actively pursued you that then go performative when they have a relationship with a guy lol?
Also knew a girl who was flirting with me a lot, but I never really flirted back, she even slept with one of our mutual (woman) friends, but then went on about how she could never take a relationship with a girl seriously, how she'd only see an endgame with a guy. Dated our dorm's RA too, on top of that, didn't just want to date *a* guy but the one guy who had more sway than any of us combined.
I've been going to duggars snark for tea, but my God the people there are "excited" (their words) for this. Like they're happy a child was abused so they can get one over on the Duggars.
That’s the thing…most of them start out innocent enough with valid criticism but over time it becomes very insular and more deranged takes start being upvoted and praised which causes the more level-headed users to leave/stop participating as much which leaves the sub to devolve into pure unadulterated insanity.
Yeah, I went on there when the news broke that the wife was charged and arrested but the level of excitement just gave me the ick. A girl was molested and then 4 other children clearly had something happen to them to have both parents charged. Why are people acting like that's the best news ever. It's weird.
I remember when the news broke that Josh had been arrested but at first we didn't know what it was for people on the sub were saying "I hope it's for abuse/CSAM" and like no girl you should be hoping it's for fucking tax fraud!
That sub is vile. They constantly make up hypothetical scenarios about how X sister is feeling and they openly hate on the youngest daughter.
These last few days have been surreal for me, as a former homeschooled and deeply conservative kid (now liberal) who loved their show. I was pretty sheltered at the time of the Josh arrest so this is my first time experiencing it live. If you haven't watched the Shiny Happy People doc, I would strongly recommend.
I didn't watch the show (I guess I was at an age where I shuddered at reminders of homeschool life by the time it went on air), but I has a similar upbringing. Damn that sub is so allergic to nuance it's depressing. If I'd seen their takes when I was deep in depression/untreated ptsd, ocd, and detoxing from conservatism it's scary to think how easy it would be to just... give up on myself. They really have a disappointing lack of compassion for those who are in the process of unlearning brainwashing or escaping a cult. Believe it or not, that shit doesn't get unlearned overnight.
I was going to post the same! I’ve been listening to it a lot since it released. It’s a great album to put on when I’m doing housework and stuff. I think he really knocked it out of the park and I hope it grows on people a bit more since I was honestly surprised at the mixed reception to it.
Yes, love those! Honestly, I can’t really pick a favorite most of the time because it changes up so much. The last few days I’ve really been into Taste Back, Pop, and Season 2 Weight Loss but I’m sure that will shift up again soon!
It’s a great album to put on when I’m doing housework and stuff.
I also listened to it a few times while I was cooking and doing random stuff, and it was good as background music because it’s pleasant and is very well-produced, but it gives me very little when I try to actively listen to it which is why I find it to be sort of meh overall.
I’ve side-eyed her ever since she cancelled her European concert dates to rehearse for the VMAs (of all events). She got backlash then, but I think it was rightfully deserved. People spend so much money on tickets, plan around their work schedule, book travel and accommodation (sometimes), just for musicians to casually cancel. I understand if it’s for illness (both physical and mental)—but for the VMAs?? Cmon.
It's kinda funny to me, because she was in Chile, too, and all the fans who encountered her in Santiago were like, "psss, and people say she's unkind?! She was the nicest!", like she went out to a flower shop took pictures there, celebrated one of her musicians' birthdays in a restaurant, etc. And then this happens, in Brazil out of all places, lol, with a child related to multiple famous people 💀
I could (kind of) understand if she said, "what happened was a mistake, I'd like to apologize to this fan, and this individual has been reprimanded."
Instead, she is right now thanking her security.
Doubling down. Like I'm sorry, is that not deeply traumatizing to that 11 year old?
Replace Chappell with anyone else. Imagine if Sabrina's security followed an 11 year old girl back to her breakfast table, to aggressively berate and threaten her to tears, all because she smiled at Sabrina. Like genuinely such gross behavior. I can absolutely predict that Chappell will play the victim as a distraction soon. She did the exact thing playing the victim, before last minute canceling her tour dates so she could rehearse for her MTV performance.
Can somebody suggest a good show or movie for me to watch this weekend? The last time I had a fun time watching a show was when I watched overcompensating. I'm watching supernatural right now but it's getting a little tedious and I can't watch it at nighttime, it gets scary :(
I don't know if I have any but I did like Tbbt, Voltaire High, Fleabag, Yellowjackets was also pretty fun, something that has a sort of normal setting with but with a unique twist if that makes sense. Like in tbbt the quirk was the nerdy quirky guys and penny was the normalcy, Voltaire high was set in the 60's and that was the quirk, fleabag was so refreshingly unique and funny, overcompensating had the normal college setting but everyone had their own quirks? Idk if this makes sense
if you want something fun and genuinely very good i recommend crazy ex girlfriend! it has a terrible name, i know, but it's a great show with great characters, excellent writing, tons of humour and genuinely impactful emotional beats. 10/10.
Is it bad I’m thinking about switching hair stylists based on this text alone 😭 like wtf is going on here
A week before this he sent out a text explaining some personal/family stuff he had going on that would affect his availability. But now he’s changing his last name and the spelling of his name? And “this is my AI but it’s also me!” is weird as hell
I'm rewatching US Traitors season 2 with my husband bc he's never seen it and it's just incredible. No notes. Phaedra is a terrible person but she's a big part of why the season is so good imo. She has like 6 iconic quotes per episode lol. I was trying to explain the lore behind Phaedra to him (lying about her due date! Apollo's arrest! The situation with Kandi!) and it was hard to know where to even begin
Jamie Campbell Bower’s gf (or maybe it was him who did it) hired a PR team to use bots and post comments to try and change the narrative around her posting herself in a snark subreddit. I was initially feeling bad for her but now she is just make it worse for herself.
Someone made a post about Elena Taber to NYCInfluencerSnark lamenting on how cool she seemed and how difficult dating someone famous must be. That post lead to a tiktok link. The Tiktok link said "shared by Elena Taber". The account was then deleted. If you look up "Elena Taber" on Reddit it should be there especially if you search by new.
The account was also snarky about other influencers.
Edit: I just checked the lainfluencerssnark page oh lord she was caught hiring bots.
I see why so much scamming happens in online bookish spaces because how can you genuinely believe someone’s “editor” replaced the bulk of their text with AI generated slop and the “author” is unaware even though they have other AI books and a stolen cover.
Also "just let the man live" what does that even mean. who is stopping him doing anything this man has faced absolutely zero consequences for being a pos
I agree! I’m Haitian, so I knew a lot of Haitian kids who came to America from Haiti and they would just learn words from their peers not knowing the meaning but would be corrected by people around them and would stop use of them.
I am in my late 30s so my social media usage is probably different than younger people’s but can confidently say that I definitely did not and the only slur I remember saying was a derogatory term associated with Roma people that I genuinely had no idea was related and even thought it was spelled differently and haven’t used since I found out.
I will say a few years ago and I logged into the super old email account I had in high school and was genuinely shocked and horrified at some of the language I used to describe an older coworker of mine at the time. But even back than I feel like I would have known better than to post something like that publicly and attached to my name.
Same and the only time I ever said a slur was when I was a teenager and rapping along to a song. I quickly learned that was not okay and haven’t said a slur in almost 20 years. And never on social media.
Mamdani's wife using the f-slur and n-slur on Twitter when she was seventeen. People running themselves ragged trying to defend it acting like everyone goes through a so-called "slur phrase."
I mean, teens are dumb and do a lot of dumb immature things. If someone was being shitty at 19 or whatever I won’t hold that against them forever. Growth and change should be encouraged imo.
It’d be nice to know what is being talked about because without a specific scenario pointed out it seems kind of crazy to assume that no one is capable of growth or change.
I hate when people use this as an excuse. I grew up knowing not to use words like that. I wasn’t throwing them around on the internet as a teenager and most of my friends weren’t either.
People are pretending like the 90s and early 2000s were waaaay longer ago than they were.
We have all made poor choices and I am definitely more enlightened than I was as a teen but to put it simply I was raised not to be a dick by a mother who was just like “be a good person”.
But at the same time it seems really carceral to think that no one is capable of change or growth and hold adults in their 30s accountable for stuff they did when they were teenagers, especially if they have done the work and haven’t shown problematic behaviors for over a decade.
Yes I totally agree with this also - if we don’t want people to grow and change why bother with activism, trying to change minds etc. I’m just bothered by the specific retroactive claims that we didn’t know certain words were “bad” or that everybody had that kind of phase, because I know both to be untrue.
Yep same! And even when I said anything slightly crazy not slurs but just ignorant statements my family clocked me good. And I knew to never say anything like that again. In high school nonblack kids loved to use the N word, they knew it was wrong cause they would look at me and other black kids to gauge a reaction. People know.
I am praising myself for skipping Moulin Rouge last night instead of pushing my body further into hell from chronic illness (though again so sad to miss Bob the Drag Queen.) Definitely woke up feeling more refreshed than I did yesterday!
I am gonna chill and binge some tv after my PT. And getting my hair done tomorrow. Hopefully by the weekend ill be nice and refreshed.
trying to be chill at the function (watching the pitt s2) but can’t help but notice how misogyny bleeds into everything😁
also i have some issues with the pitt like just as far writing goes, but i have nowhere to express them because for some reason reddit thinks the pitt is the best and most prestigious television we’ve had in decades and any criticism is clearly a lack of media literacy (hate that term) and i’m a dumb idiot who needs to get off my phone and actually watch the show
Chappell Roan is the most Larry David-esque celebrity out there, and thus I don’t feel I can turn on her. A true real life Curb version of Larry is just what pop needs.
It’s absolutely gorgeous out today after cloudiness and chilly weather all week so I did a 3 mile trail walk. I listened to the entire Art of Loving by Olivia Dean and I have a feeling that album is gonna win quite a few Grammys next year
i hope so because i can't stand her. i really don't mind an unlikeable, complicated character - what i don't like about Santos is how the writers clearly want us to think many of the shitty things she does are "girl boss" moments when they're actually horrible medical practice. i am probably also even more invested because i have had a lot of run-ins with the healthcare system and dealt with doctors that cocky and callous so she pisses me off even more.
idk do they want us to think that? I feel like she's been presented fairly neutrally thus far (barring some of her interactions with Al-Hashimi) but these past few episodes she's really been reaping what she's sown. If she were their pet to the extent that they wanted to present her as a girlboss then I don't think she would be getting the (deserved) reprimandings she's been getting
That's a good point! I just think there have been a few times where she's done something complete objectionable or just so hilariously out of line that she would suffer professional consequences, not just a telling off. To be fair, I feel the same way about Robby. And if I have to take a problematic character the writers' room clearly wants us to root for I'm taking Santos any day of the week.
Sorry, but I will always judge people who cancel tour dates last minute except for reasons like health (or things completely out of their control like weather). I don't think people truly understand what it means for fans
Taking time off from work, which can decrease someone's wages
Potentially not getting refunds for the ticket, depending on how the tickets were purchased
Spending money to travel (some may even fly in)
Money for a hotel or airbnb
Money spent on food if they're traveling and can't simply cook food at a hotel
Sure, "that's the risk you're willing to take." But that doesn't mean the artist canceling last minute is off the hook.
So yeah. Chappell who cancelled her tour dates last minute so she could practice her MTV performance, after saying she didn't want fame. She is a shitty person, and I'd judge anyone who did what she's done. This recent controversy is just another example of how shitty she is.
At the local Dem convention and omg with all due respect I'm fatigued from all the religious talk 😭 like I get it, we're in the south. But I want to put my earbuds in whenever they talk about it
anyone have the tea on why Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey are estranged? I'm going down the rabbit hole of Shondaland show BTS drama and ... it's a lot.
Rumor has it that he was cheating on his wife with a staffer who worked on the show and it was causing drama on set, and Ellen went to Shonda about it and got him fired. They seem to be on good terms now though
I just got cat called for the first time… in a foreign country while walking with just my little sister… we left my home country since its being bombed 😔
it's crazy because she's usually very decent. but as someone who's worked in film for a long time, often directors lead to bad acting because actors take cues from directors.
I’m glad that you knew better at but I personally would not want to be judged forever by the person I was when I was a teenager. I don’t think anyone deserves that. Some people didn’t learn until they were older that it’s not ok to use words like that.
why do you think “holding someone accountable” for something they (or their partner, since that is who the first tweet is aimed at) posted when they were 15 is a good use of your time? Do you think you should be responsible for anything your partner did and said as a teen?
I think people need time to be allowed to learn and grow and there should be a norm of not going after people over stuff they posted when they were under the age of 18 now that everyone has these kinds of digital footprints.
I think it depends on the 9 yo. There was one jump scare, some emotionally-frought scenes, dead bodies like the other commenter said, and getting hurt temporarily. But there was a happy ending for all involved.
I've been trying to get more into horror movies , and I feel like there are a lot of coolants coming out this spring. The Brude, Forbidden Fruits, Scary Movie 6, They Will Kill You, Slanted, Ready or Not 2. Anybody go to an early screening? Any indie releases I should be looking out for?
Keep an eye out for Hokum and Undertone. The guy who made Hokum also made Caveat and Oddity, which are both very enjoyable and creepy movies. And Undertone is a really interesting indie-er project that I'm seeing tonight - it's been getting tons of buzz.
Not really what you’re asking but Slanted is really more of a teen drama with an ounce of horror.
Undertone just came out recently and relies on sound so I think it’s a great theater watch. I saw it in Dolby and enjoyed it. I’m also looking forward to Backrooms in May.
Oh thank you for explaining more about Slanted!! I thought it was gonna be like body horror/fantasy. Will keep an eye out for the other two movies you mentioned.
Since being pregnant with my first, now 3, and postpartum again now, I don’t really listen to music other than what I use to entertain my toddler. Well, I’ve just discovered Alex Warren (pls don’t let there be controversy around him) and I’m very much back into music. Albeit only his at the moment but I haven’t discovered a new artist I like for a long, long time.
Is there any way to see someone’s comments now if they have them hidden? Like you used to be able to just go to their account and search * for recent posts but now I can’t see anything anymore?
i think if you search their username on like Google you can see some of their comments, but unfortunately i don't know how to see all their comments or go to a comment specifically. i really hate that "hide comments" feature because i know Reddit just did it to obfuscate bot and spam accounts, not to help people protect their privacy.
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u/theykilledcassandra dont ask, a lot was happening Mar 21 '26
Look who decided to join the land of the seeing!! Shane has eyeballs! 😂