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i’m not saying i don’t enjoy the movies but why is every female frankenstein take just manic pixie dead girl?

When we say no war but class war we mean that no one in Iran is poisoning our water or stealing our wages or kidnapping our neighbors. And the people who are? They're spending our money on killing Iranians

bangs complimented by a stranger at the roller rink.

Feeds, feelings, and focus: A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use - PubMed The resurgence of short-form videos (SFVs), popularized by TikTok and Douyin, has transformed social media platforms, with features like Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts fostering their widespread adoption. Although initially geared toward entertainment, SFVs are increasingly used in education, po …

basically says this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41231585/

the answer, as usual, is balance! sometimes the benefits outweigh the detriments, and it is wildly true that the quality and nature of the content is more important than the quantity. but also there is no useful control group and we need more data. there is a recent meta analysis on SFV use that

i spent most of january at work teaching health classes on social media for the second year in a row, & did a lot of reading and parsing research to prepare and then relay that to high school
students and i can confidently say that what ya’ll discuss is basically what the research says and supports

why do we have to pick seats when we bought movie tickets this is stupid.

just went to a different show and this happened again with the youth, truly middle school in line at the theme park velcro behavior, what is going on

i didn’t dislike it but, it wasn’t there.

thinking about this more and talking about it with my mom—it’s a good movie if you like vibes, but nothing about it is specific. the tree canopies and moss is good.

also the lines of hamlet the play are delivers too quickly and so clearly for the screen that i’m annoyed. performances from the mains and the children are pretty great.

cinematography is gorgeous, soundtrack & sound effects are great, it’s stupid that her hair is down all the time. besides the inaccuracy, it makes no sense for someone scraping about outside to always have their hair out, come on.

the book, for me, is much more about her relationship with her life: with her mother in law, the forest and garden, all her children, the town, her own conception of self, her husband, the world all at once. that doesn’t come through here.

Hamnet was good. my expectations were very high, and it doesn’t quite work for me as an adaptation of
the book—i think it it exacerbates the parts of the novel that aren’t as good, and as i suspected doesn’t focus as much on agnes’s internal life in favor of the marriage.

btw montauk isn’t a municipality and doesn’t have its own police dept (the town of east hampton covers montauk and it’s their pd). this is a nitpick but idc

like it still feels like s5 is an entirely different show and universe from the rest of the seasons.

anyway, they pulled it together a bit more for the finale but a lot of it is still pretty meh—there was no reason for the lead up to be that lousy and convoluted.

omg it’s maman

you mean media comprehension not media literacy, for the most part.

still ruminating on this, it’s just so bad? when it’s not inert it’s flailing, ugh.

the only good parts are joe in a backwards cap and mr. clark speaking friend to enter.

the descent of stranger things from being so good to marvel-adjacent slop that constantly recaps the episode you are currently watching for the audience who is on their phones the whole show is so fucking tragic.

we switched to sticker giant at work b/c they do die cut and have a pre-scored back.

if apple is your choice it is marginally less evil than spotify right now, but there are several other options i think are better both functionally and otherwise.

supplement that with bandcamp & other ways of buying from artists directly. there are a bunch of options to move you from spotify to any of the other options easily—i migrated to apple music w/o an issue for approx 300 playlists, hated it on there, moved to tidal and that was just as easy to port

qobuz is the most ethical at the moment, but it’s missing a lot (for me). i moved to
tidal—haven’t had anything i feel
strongly about missing, and while there are a couple of dubious issues with it, they pay artists the most and the interface works the best out of the alternatives.

i mean it wasn’t it’s own class but the word was in use in the guides to refer to some magic users (but also that’s not how the show is using it, so it’s still annoying). it’s an inconsistency that would be forgiven if everything surrounding it wasn’t such a slog

where are all the demobats? what is the point of the entire russian storyline? why did eleven’s hair grow so much in 18 mo? how did they get control
of the radio station? why is vecna skinny now?

we just finished it and are ranting in the house, it’s all such a mess.