Each Benoit Blanc film takes place in a different season and classic murder mystery setting.
Knives Out: Autumn in a country house
Glass Onion: Summer on a private island
Wake up Dead Man: Spring in a small town
So the next film in the cycle needs to be set in winter on a mode of transportation.
The people yearn for Murder on the Orient Express
Stop Using Effeminacy As Visual Shorthand For Decadence And Moral Decay 2025
Want to write a story about some perfumed eunuch who's actually really clever and solves crimes or something.
Listen, all of you people mentioning Hercule Poirot or Sherlock or the guy from London Spy: let me introduce you to what I'm calling "the Caracalla Threshold" after the depiction of the Roman Emperor Caracalla in the film Gladiator 2:
If he's not at least THIS effeminate, I don't want to hear about it.
This feels like a parallel to the post about how female protagonists are too masculine and we need more feminine women protagonists "to show girls that it's okay to be feminine"... and then the examples of "masculine women protagonists" were Black Widow, Rey, and Captain Marvel.
Why. Why are we doing this. Why is the bar for "gender nonconformity" on the floor.
Hercule Poirot is not an effeminate man. He is a conventionally masculine, gender-conforming man who is snobbish. Black Widow is not a masculine woman. She is a conventionally feminine, gender-conforming woman who fights. Stop this. Stop this. Stop this. Meet some actual feminine men and some actual masculine women and reset your baseline.
Commentary by my partner: "An interesting parallel here is 'a woman is masculine if she has a skill I associate with men' vs. 'a man is feminine if he has a negative personality trait I associate with women.'"
Completely bewildering to me that *Caracalla* of all emperors was chosen to be depicted this way.
Like.
Caracalla.
Whose portraiture and presentation is aggressively masculine and soldierly. Who is one of the most recognizable emperors in sculpture because of the grumpy-ass scowl that he always has making an X clear across his face.
Like there's NO reason to make this fucking guy
look fucking femmed up unless you want to use effeminancy as a visual shorthand (and excuse? I haven't seen the movie) for his tyrannical cruelty. But he was extremely masculine, it was his whole THING. If anything, they should have gone in the opposite direction, a commentary on the excesses of masculinity, if they were going to bring gender presentation into at all.
But I suppose that wouldn't serve in a movie that I have to assume was glorifying masculinity.
Yeah, Gladiator 2 was so committed to equating manliness with virtue that it literally flipped history on its head and argues that the problem with third-century Rome was that actually there weren't enough ambitious generals declaring themselves Emperor.
Caracalla also was an African man with Punic and Arab ancestry …
Anyway, if recent events have taught us anything, it's that decadence and moral decay are actually embodied by pricks obsessed with projecting an air of muscular hypermasculinity, like Real Caracalla up there.
Schützt Eure Heimat! [Protect Your Homeland!]
To this day I still don't believe that anyone actually thought you could generate infinite chocolate via an optical illusion. That's a thing people tell themselves to feel superior
The defining feature of tumblr is not "the website where people actually think infinite chocolate is possible", it is defined by a group of people refusing to break kayfabe, another group being genuinely confused by an optical illusion (NOT the same thing as thinking infinite chocolate is possible) and a third group who is certain they are a lot smarter than the other two.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed it was the result of "over a thousand simulations."
One of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members is receiving the wrong kind of attention on social media for suggesting a supposedly affordable meal that seemed to be missing most of the meal.
During a NewsNation interview on Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed food prices were falling.
the moment you forcibly decay your ability and willingness to think, to bring the unique version of humanity that is inherently You by simply being You, you have begun creating an advantage to everyone like me.
Moreso to those whom have more expensive tastes.
Traditionally, it comes in the flavor of promotions upwards in the corporate spheres.
Influence, reputation, and quantity of people reporting to you (and their work) overshadows your actual production.
You become an expensive line on a balance sheet.
Pulling in a large check, producing relatively less for the company, and even worse, your expertise and professional resources that shield the company from threats decays.
It happens because you are no longer directly contributing to the system. You built it up, and then instead of maintaining, you continued to grow your personal corner without reinvesting.
You mentor. You don't learn. You demand loyalty. You do not offer opportunity.
You'll coast. For a while. Longer than seems logical, once you find yourself out the door, by those whom are cleaning their teeth with the bones of your once shiny career.
So yeah.
Go ahead.
Outsource the flow. Have a machine learning how to write emails from everyone to everyone about everything.
Allow your ability to know how far you can push, pull, answer, not answer, dig, etc. decay.
Composing effective emails are literally the raw bedrock basis to being effective in communication. They are the easy mode. Go ahead, let robots handle this for you.
Don't worry what percent of your job is "know how to write email."
Don't consider how long companies and shareholders will pay you to do it versus just having a robot do this portion of your job.
Or maybe I'm wrong!
Maybe it's fine!
:-)
But I doubt it.
;-(
remember that your boss signs your check
you live your life
and thus
:)
help your friends, support your comrads, build community -- all of this applies to Yourself. It is not necessarily your singular human flesh.
It is. Always. Exclusive of capital.
Never, ever, forget that.
And if you don't know it, Learn it immediately.
A federal court dismissed the Trump Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking access to California’s full voter registration database Thursday, warning that the government’s bid for the voter records “threatens the right to vote which is the cornerstone of American democracy.”
The ruling, that the federal government has no legal authority to demand the sensitive personal information of nearly 23 million voters, blocks one of the most aggressive efforts yet by the administration to centralize voter data and marks a major victory for voter privacy and state sovereignty over elections.
I love this blog so much for basically being an enormous library of interior background references but MAN. There is something Vile and Poetic about that saying being painted on the wall of one of the bleakest-looking school hallways I've seen in a long time. It's like that poem about the stars being painted over in landlord white. Incredible.
#environmental storytelling #in a way #fucking hell the rancid energy of soul-crushing depression and festering neuroses just radiates from this image #A life was taken by this building through someone's hand .#Maybe suicide #Maybe homicide #but this place is 1000% haunted by a lethal strain of cruelty and despair (via gallusrostromegalus)
Inventory space [pathfinder]
Just get everyone on the team a Handy Haversack. They cost even less than basic Bags of Holding and will be more than enough for most adventurers.
Then let the one weirdo on the team who actually likes doing inventory management worry about everything else.
(It's me, I'm the weirdo on my team)
Thinking about this message that got sent to PostSecret in 2012:
Accept, for a moment, that this is real; that there was some guy who was maybe late for work in the WTC, saw the airplane hit, realised he actually hated his life, and saw his chance.
Anyway, I would love to read a novel about the last 25 years from the perspective of this guy.
(...)listen to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins explain how to feed yourself for only three bucks a day. “we’ve run over one thousand simulations. it can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money.” great. Donny’s rip-roaring economy is going so swimmingly that we’re at the ‘let them eat broccoli’ stage. do these people ever listen to themselves? it’s a legit question to ask, because on what fucking planet does any of what Rollins is proposing make sense? and yet they pass off this ludicrous poppycock about how to get by with nothing as if it were some kind of sage advice. here’s helpful Bluesky user goldenearthgirl to illustrate just what our esteemed Secretary of Agriculture is recommending as a well-balanced meal.
oh my god, how completely fucking yummy. scrum-diddly-umptious, in fact. so that’s that cool. while Donny enriches himself off of stolen Venezuelan oil, you get to chow down on a sliver of chicken, one broccoli floret, a tortilla, and — you lucky ducky! — one other thing.
A wafer-thin mint, perhaps? (Any Monty Python fan should understand *that* reference... 😏 )
But seriously...
If you tried feeding that to a prisoner-of-war you'd be indicted for a war crime.
just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks
he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble
They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight
family album
Some of you think of Cops as kind of a symbolic figure representing "telling you what to do" & you're Posting things like "acab includes fandom discourse" and I thuink the 80% white website needs to remember the reason why we hate cops is because they kill people
We hate cops because they're a weapon for enforcing the state's interests through violence. Like, they kill & imprison people. The antis don't have a Quite Literal boot on your neck please god log off or talk to a Black person or something
To be SO fair like really generous there is something to be said for unlearning the habit of figuratively "policing" other people especially in the context of, like, not being a fucking snitch, "kill the cop in your head" etc etc, but can we not completely lose the plot re: what cops Are
"All the signals are that a US attack is imminent, but that is also how this administration behaves to keep everyone on their toes," a Western military official said.
Iran temporarily closed its airspace early on Thursday morning, issuing a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) to all flights except international ones to and from Iran with official permission, as Western military officials say US military action in the country is "imminent."
Flight tracker websites showed the airspace over Iran and Iraq emptying rapidly prior to the NOTAM's issuing. The prohibition lasted more than two hours and ended at around 2:30 a.m. Israel time.
