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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie Director: Peter Browngardt | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 2025

I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."

also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*

for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist

Kinda says something that he was able to speak for 25 hours on the fucked uppedness of this administration, specifically, without running out of things to talk about

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Fun ADHD hack is that you're allowed to just go to the library and reserve a study room for a couple of hours and make all your phone calls or whatever adult shit you need to do but can't because your house is for House Stuff and for some reason your brain has designated "phone calls for doctors and other such things" as School Adjacent and therefore refuses to do it in an insufficently academic environment. Like it's free. You can just do that.

The downside is the public library is also a very good place to play Pokemon Go...but if you are strong you can tell yourself once you're done with all your phone calls you can hang out and play games. It's a tough battle, but one you can win.

Much like a Pokémon Go raid

for anyone unaware, BDS is calling for a boycott of Microsoft Game Pass, Minecraft, and New Xbox Consoles

If you need further clarification on what to do if you already own one of Microsoft's games (like I did), here's an excerpt from this article (emphasis mine):

my ancient greek history professor is making us post memes weekly. i swear to god

heres one for you

my time has come for hyperspecific classics memes

I…I need context. I’m gonna research all this shit one day.. If I remember after work

I understand most of these!

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy

#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing

The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.

how dare you say we put jam in the printer

coming from someone who used to sweat buckets over saving and spending 45 bucks on a new video game as a teenager i cannot fucking believe nintendo has the audacity to charge 90 (ninety) (as many as nine tens, and that’s terrible) mother fucking dollars for their new games. if i had a 90 dollar game on my christmas list as a kid my mom would have broken me in half

The thing that gets me about the impending Harry Potter show is like. I'm able to, for entirely hypothetical purposes, put aside my disdain and disgust for the author's full-tilt bigotry and put myself in the shoes of someone who's still a Fan, like I would be if the author hadn't doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on being a full-tilt bigot, and even then, imagining the alternate universe where JKR remained a staunch ally and well-meaning if clueless liberal philanthropic darling, I still can't quite wrap my head around why I'd want this show to be made

Everyone keeps saying it's going to be a Faithful Adaptation Of The Series and I'm just like... okay? This isn't A Series Of Unfortunate Events that got a bad adaptation and they had to go back and try again to get it right. The majority of fans liked and continue to like the movies, a lot, and despite some minor quibbles here and there, they're considered incredibly faithful adaptations. The Fandom isn't exactly divided on this, either.

Like, I imagine a nearby alternate timeline where JKR was never hit by the Idiot Stick That Makes You Hate Women and remained normal, and I remained a fan of a flawed but influential children's fantasy series, and I can't really think of a reason why I would be excited about them trying to make lightning strike a second time. Are people really that mad about Michael Gambon saying "Harry did you put your name in the goblet of fire" animatedly instead of calmly? Or is WB just worried that the incoming demographic of theme park attendees have nowhere near the nostalgic link to the series that millennials would, and that if they don't inject the series back into the zeitgeist, the golden goose might stop laying eggs?

The thing I need to clarify here, because everyone seems focused on it, is that JK Rowling's motivations for wanting them to make this series are not at all relevant to the point I'm making. It's very obvious to everyone why any author whose books got a blockbuster adaptation with a beloved ensemble cast who all publicly despise her would want to have those movies remade with a new cast whose contracts state they can't publicly disparage her or her toilet-bowl political views.

But she isn't financing this thing herself, she isn't commissioning Warner Bros to make this series. So that really only covers the reason why she would pitch the series to the studio.

My question, all through this post (and this is kinda why I spent the whole beginning of the post asking you to imagine a world where JK Rowling's urinal cake brain, and the things she believes that normal people point and laugh at when the rest of the TERFs aren't looking, are not factors at all) is why would the STUDIO want this series made?

Studio executives are heartless amoral robots who do not give a shit about culture war nonsense, they love anything when it makes profits go up and they hate everything when profits go down. They're not interested in pushing or refuting JKR's rotbrain woman-hating ideology, they just want to make a profit.

So my thing is, a fantasy television show is an expensive thing to make, and the target audience is perfectly satisfied with the movie series that costs no further money to make because it already exists, so why exactly is Warner Bros so convinced that there is enough of a market for this to justify this expense? It's not like the Fantastic Beasts movies or Hogwarts Legacy were the moneymakers they needed to be. It's not like Warner Bros is known for taking big gambles on IPs that aren't making the money they need to make, in fact, WB is known these days for swallowing expenses rather than let established, popular IP installments release and risk making modest profits instead of record-breaking profits

The best answer I can come up with is that Gen Alpha didn't grow up in a world where Harry Potter was a cultural juggernaut, and they realize that if they don't recapture the hype the series had among young people in 2004 and let that hype incubate into nostalgia in the youth of 2026, that come 2044 they're gonna be stuck with a deeply Branded theme park that nobody under the age of 45 has any interest in.

We haven’t had bread for days… The war on Gaza continues, the blockade is suffocating us, and bakeries have completely shut down. The situation is beyond tragic—children, families, everyone is starving. We need every voice, every bit of support, every share to make the world hear our cry. Please don’t ignore our suffering.

kinda sick of all those posts that are like "my ancestors were surviving starvation and the plague meanwhile i get nervous ordering food at restaurants". as if jauffrey the woodworker didn't fumble his conversation with the fine maiden running the fruit stand and then tripped on a pebble as he left in a hurry

sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices

everyone I am happy to announce that the stevebucky fanfic author I had in mind while writing this post has officially reblogged it.

#imo the writers who write insanely good fanfic can’t file the serial numbers off because they grasped the canon so thoroughly #the shitty stuff is publishable because once you change the names you can’t recognize these people

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