Many thanks to Ada here for the wisdom and patience it takes to navigate these challenges. Running an instance is hard enough; throwing user politics into the mix (especially those around trans identities) makes things down right treacherous.
I'd support policies aligned with expected user behaviors and punishments for violations. Bad faith actors are going to try to burrow their way in here, and they're going to make themselves known by testing boundaries and creeping up on the lines of what counts as unacceptable behavior. I'm comfortable with those kinds of edging-trolls being shown the door.
Thank you for pointing out the full results; I'm a goof and I missed that.
I really think Dededede is suffering from mediocre translations. It feels like there's a ton of subtext that isn't making its way into the subtitles. Hopefully it'll find its way towards a fansub community to help fill in the gaps and context clues.
No Dededede? No Dungeon People? I'm disappointed.
Uzumaki (2024, dir Hiroshi Nagahama)
A town of people slowly go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes: patterns in the clouds, everyday objects, hair, insects, skin.
Directed by Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi. Detroit Metal City, Flowers of Evil). Music by Colin Stetson (Arrival, Hereditary, The Menu, Color Out of Space).
After four years of delays, the series will premiere on Adult Swim, Sept 28 2024.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/93241-uzumaki
Creature Commandos (2024, showrunner James Gunn)
Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) creates a black ops team out of monstrous prisoners.
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn will take the role of the series' sole writer and primary showrunner.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/219543-creature-commandos
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 2 (2024, showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne)
Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/84773-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power
Transformers One (2024, dir Josh Cooley)
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/698687-transformers-one
All Your Faces (2024, dir Jeanne Herry)
Original Title (FR): Je verrai toujours vos visages
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1000492-je-verrai-toujours-vos-visages
Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds (2023, dir Benoît Chieux)
Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side the girls take on the appearance of cats, and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/676696-sirocco-et-le-royaume-des-courants-d-air
Catching Dust (2023, dir Stuart Gatt)
A criminal husband and his wife hide in a lone trailer. Exhausted by her husbands controlling ways, she decides to leave. But then a trailer arrives with a couple which creates dangerous consequences for them all.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/992638-catching-dust
Chimp Crazy (2024, dir Eric Goode)
Former nurse-turned-exotic animal broker Tonia Haddix, who refers to herself as the “Dolly Parton of chimps,” spends her days caring for animals in captivity. However, her limitless love for one chimpanzee in particular spins into a wild cat-and-mouse game with authorities and an animal rights group.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/259271-chimp-crazy
His Three Daughters (2024, dir Azazel Jacobs)
When their father's health worsens, three estranged sisters (Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon) come together to try to plan for the inevitable.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1154762-his-three-daughters
I'll Be Right There (2024, dir Brendan Walsh)
Wanda (Edie Falco) finds herself juggling the complexities of life: her pregnant daughter's wedding plans, her mother's health concerns, her son's uncertain future, and her own romantic dilemmas. As Wanda navigates through these challenges, she discovers that taking care of everyone else leaves little time for herself, even though she's not sure what she would do with it if she had it.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1109946-i-ll-be-right-there
01:09: “Yer such a jerkoff!”
Perfection.
KAOS (2024, showrunner Charlie Covell)
As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/102621-kaos
City of God: The Fight Rages On (2024, dir Aly Muritiba and Bruno Costa)
Twenty years after City of God, Buscapé recounts how conflicts between police, traffickers, and militias impacted the community.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/223397-cidade-de-deus
Goodbye, Hello (2024, dir Jack Cooper Stimpson)
Nate Ryan (Jeremy Ford) returns home to Bundy Canyon to visit his dying father (Steve Guttenberg). With the help of Amal (Hollie Bahar), a compulsively unfiltered hospice nurse, Nate opens old wounds in an attempt to make peace with his incredibly unpeaceful father.
The Accident (2024, dir Gracia Querejeta and Klych López)
Original title (ES): Accidente
When a birthday party takes a tragic turn, its ripples shatter a close-knit, wealthy community — tearing families, friendships and hearts apart.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/259730-accidente
Frankie Freako (2024, dir Steven Kostanski)
After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by the maniacal rock n’ roll goblin FRANKIE FREAKO.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1127407-frankie-freako
Thumbnails and preview text not working for youtube links (on some instances)
Hi blahaj folks,
I've noticed that new posts containing YouTube links no longer import the video thumbnail or appropriate text from the destination link.
The problem seems to be occurring and ongoing on some instances (blahaj, beehaw, lemmy.ml), while other instances seem to be working just fine (lemmy.sdf.org, ukfli.uk).
I found this post in the Lemmy Support community that mentions the problem, including references to the working and non-working instances. One comment suggests that it may be a problem with a German cloud provider called Hetzner (which may explain why the preview text of each YouTube link appears to be in German).
Do you have any additional info on this Hetzner problem/fix, or perhaps a link to the admin community or discussion thread where they were discussing it?
I'd like to be able to point my instance's admin there (as we're seeing the same problem on both lemmy.blahaj.org and beehaw.org).
Thanks!
Speak No Evil (2024, dir James Watkins)
When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1114513-speak-no-evil
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War (2024, dir Patrick Reams)
The true story of Wyatt Earp, his legendary Vendetta Ride, and how his famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral gained national and international attention that nearly sparked a second Civil War.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/259709-wyatt-earp-and-the-cowboy-war
Bad Monkey (2024, creator Bill Lawrence)
A detective turned restaurant inspector in Southern Florida (Vince Vaughn) is pulled into a world of greed and corruption after a tourist finds a severed arm while fishing. And yes, there's a monkey.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/130853-bad-monkey
A Complete Unknown (2024, dir James Mangold)
In 1965, a young Bob Dylan shakes up the music world when he pivots to performing with an electric guitar for the first time.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/661539-a-complete-unknown
Skibidi Toilet is old hat by now, but this was the first I’d heard of “What the sigma”.
We're not interested in promotions for Hexbear, please and thanks.
Speaking and sharing what you’re going through rarely fixes problems, but it does help as…
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a moderate pressure release for you, by simply letting the frustration loose can help relieve the stress of hiding the emotions and behaviors,
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gives people around you context to your (likely noticeably) different behavior along with the opportunity to offer support, guidance or material help, and
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either speaking or writing an unformed idea that’s vexing you has a finite benefit by taking a fluid, nebulous, unwieldy feeling and capturing it in amber, pinning it down to something that can be refined, examined and (hopefully) mitigated.
For more on this third point, see this article on how one can use writing as a thinking exercise, helping refine and distill ideas into more-satisfying understood truths.
I really appreciate the added context here, pointing out the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership documents that were written for Regan's first term as well as for Trump in 2016.
A common talking point seems to be that this is just a wishlist, not actual policy, though high percentages of the recommendations (2/3rds) DO end up as policy.
I'll be rooting for it!
I'm in the US, so I'm making my "has it been released?" judgements with the US market in mind. TMDB says it's a German production, so I could certainly imagine it having received distribution in the EU and UK before over here.
Some select quotes:
Respectability is a prison and the gates are open and people are desperate to be inside.
You can criticize ideas, but you cancel people. And I think the cancel culture thing... I think it's the new book burning.
Another friend of mine went, "You need to just right-size this." (...) She said, "What's happened here? You told a joke and some people didn't like it. That's what happened." It didn't seem like that big a deal when you put it like that. And yet, in the moment, sometimes it feels catastrophic.
You can't have an easy life and a great character.
All of these quotes are in reference to general ideas so far as I can tell -- the overall concepts of respectability and "cancel culture", not specific instances. And I think the interview missed a huge opportunity to dig deeper on these ideas by citing specific examples to start picking at those broad takes.
Cancel culture applies to people who make choices that hurt others and are unrepentant about it. It's not about the choices; we all fuck up from time to time. It's about the lack of remorse. That's what speaks to a person's true nature. And if a person's true nature leads them to unapologetically hurt people, then they're a piece of shit person and I'm justified in wanting nothing to do with them.
Cinerama was purchased by SIFF (now dreadfully renamed "SIFF Cinema Downtown"), which is basically a local chain now (along with SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Cinema Egyptian and the SIFF Film Center).
As for true independents around here, you've got the Grand Illusion, the Beacon, the Ark Lodge, Northwest Film Forum and, of course, the Majestic Bay up in Ballard.
It depends.
I'm in Seattle, which you would expect to be a pretty popular spot for independently run cinemas, but my local (a 4-auditorium theater) is teetering on the edge of closing due to high rent and low attendance. I saw Inside Out 2 there on a weekend evening and the entire house only had only about a dozen people in it.
Meanwhile, a few blocks down the street, a tiny independent cinema with one auditorium that seats ~70 and generally only runs older and niche films seems to be doing kinda-ok.
The cinema marketplace is changing really fast compared to even 10 years ago and there are sadly going to be some casualties.
Ultimately i think we're going to get back to movie houses with one to three auditoriums, and with a wide range of uses: movies, streamed live performances, television premieres and finales, away-game playoff sports, as well as a healthy usage as rental space for public meetings for reasonable rates.
eat your own dog food
I die a little inside every time I hear the phrase "drink your own Champaign". It's agonizing, like a 40 degree day.