some personal news: i read something exquisitely, almost baroquely stupid on the internet
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publishing graphic descriptions of a guy getting beaten while making sure you don't publish any curse words is simply deranged behavior
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Breaking news: Five fired Memphis police officers jailed, charged in beating death of Tyre Nichols, ahead of release of body-camera video of arrest
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Despite having some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, California has experienced three mass killings in the past 10 days.
Today on #PostReports, talks us through the powers and limits of California's gun laws.
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We have received no clear explanation for why these layoffs had to happen.
As far as we can tell, they are not financially necessary or rooted in any coherent business plan from our publisher, who has said that he expects the company to be larger a year from now.
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this suuuuuucks
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Today, The Washington Post laid off 20 of our colleagues.
While 20 is much smaller than 200 — “a single digit percentage of the workforce,” as Publisher Fred Ryan indicated, that’s little consolation to those who lost their jobs today.
That number should be zero.
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it's still fairly crazy that Spielberg has two Oscars, the second-most Best Director nominations ever, is prob going to win his third soon and is....still.....possibly underrated by Oscar voters? kinda nuts
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with this nomination, Spielberg breaks out of a tie with Billy Wilder for the third-most Best Director nominations. he now has 9 (spread over six decades lmao), tied with Scorsese, behind Wyler.
this is the 2nd time he's had back to back years with nominations (after Raiders/ET)
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Lights, camera, action! Here are your nominees for Directing. #Oscars #Oscars95
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Todd Field has gotten Oscar noms for every movie he ever directed, that's called the Nick Nightingale effect
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NEW: Two months ago, I wrote a story on suicidal Yale students being pressured to withdraw. Tonight, Yale announced sweeping changes that allow students in crisis to take leaves of absence, keep insurance & receive help
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this is a very very good post about posting
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I will simply never stop loving the fact that Todd Field, director of TÁR, helped invent Big League Chew
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i'd delete the entire medium before i'd make such a choice
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doing this show without Niles is an affront to the very conception of god, a colossal mistake borne of hubris and callous indifference to joy, light and basic human dignity.
get Niles back and it's an automatic 10/10 would tune in etc
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well Zadie Smith on Tár is absolutely I N C R E D I B L E
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truly one of the best of the best of the best. big big loss for the Post, big big get for the New Yorker
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I don't even know where to begin about the many things I'll miss at @washingtonpost - there'll be a time for that later. That my bosses took such the time to write such a meaningful departure notice illustrates how lucky I've been. This place means so much to me.
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So much of the 2000's are probably forgotten by Colin Farrell, yet he will remember Charlie Rose annoying him by calling Miami Vice "Miami Whatever" until the day he dies, and that's beautiful to me
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god bless this championship game, it starred before 8pm and was over well before 9pm. the platonic ideal of games for people who want to go to bed at a reasonable time
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I wasn’t sure before but now I know we’ve got a masterpiece incoming, which is nice thr.cm/EuTrgDw
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always always always always hits
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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2022
a video countdown
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Hate speech is surging. Antisemitism is on the rise.
And an 11-year-old girl stepped outside one recent morning to paper swastikas with handwritten slurs: “GO TO HELL, JEW B-TCH.”
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James Cameron confirms that yes, he really did pitch ALIENS by writing ALIEN, adding an S and then turning it into a dollar sign
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Scream is now almost old enough to play a high school student in Scream
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I Photoshop paddington into a movie, game, or TV show until I forget: Day 657
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tbh i could kiss billy zane for this professional no bullshit answer about the "improvised" table flip
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i always love winding up down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and ending up on a savage dunk, just obliterating a bunch of dead people in the second sentence
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okay I’ll be honest, a lot of what’s going on with Twitter is not particularly ✌️ funny ✌️, but I am enjoying the “owner’s mom regularly chimes in to support him/admonish critics” part
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i just want to log on and see posts about AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER*, is that so much to ask
(*it rules)
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it sucks that i can't get this website to be about anything other than the implosion of this website
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I’ve been kicked off a lot of platforms: Friendster, MySpace (a few times), FourSquare, Tinder, and been suspended here at least twice in the past. But it still brings me a smile to have completely destroyed the entire Spaces functionality
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Today, we came into WaPo’s so-called town hall with questions about recent layoffs and the future of the company.
Our publisher dropped a bombshell on us by announcing more layoffs and then walking out, refusing to answer any of our questions.
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the publisher of the announced that the paper will be laying people off soon, then walked out without taking a single question
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NEW: publisher Fred Ryan refuses to take staff questions after announcing Q1 layoffs in “Town Hall”
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top gun maverick is going to get nominated for best picture, so is Tár, so is AvaTár: The Way of WaTár. in all things there is balance, etc etc.
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i'm going to assume that no matter what he says, Nolan saw AVATAR 2 and felt the only way to try and keep up with Cameron was setting off an actual nuclear weapon on camera
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Exclusive: Christopher Nolan tells Total Film about recreating the first-ever nuclear weapon detonation without the use of computer graphics in #Oppenheimer trib.al/rErsyWD
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this is the single most obvious joke on earth and i am probably the 10,000,000th person to make it but also i am only human and i don't care
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i've said this before and people seem to think i am joking, but i am entirely sincere: the reason i think Philip Seymour Hoffman is the greatest actor of my lifetime is that he could have played Lincoln but DDL could not have done Along Came Polly
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look at the person to your left. now look at the person on your right. congratulations, you now have the flu, pink eye, covid and something called "Jupiter Lung"
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