SanguinePar

A pint. Preferably of a nice cold lager, but I’m open to suggestions.

I think that does change things.

I was previously inclined towards something like, “He’s your brother, and I would try and say to him that while you disagree with him as fully as it’s possible to, you will still be there because he’s your brother, and that still means something to you” or similar. Something that might get him to understand that this isn’t easy for you.

However, if you were already at his actual wedding, and this is just a party in another country, nah - tbh, I think it’d be fair to give it a miss even if he wasn’t being a Nazi apologist.

Lost in the Movies - fewer than 10k subscribers, but he deserves so many more.

His work is generally on movies and TV, usually with a more art house feel.

His major piece of work though is his 30-40 part video series (and also podcast/blog) on Twin Peaks.

None of your, “Here’s the explanation of EVERYTHING,” nonsense here though.

Instead he looks at the show, its characters and its arcs with a contemplative eye, picking out interesting visual and narrative parallels, examining the show and film as a piece of art rather than as a puzzle to be ‘solved’.

It’s exceptional and it mystifies me that it’s not more well known. He’s been doing it for about ten years now I think. If you’re a Peaks fan, it’s an absolute must IMO.

It’s worth the laugh track 😁

Not even Father Ted?

I imagine there will be a large number of people who’s first step is to futility off themselves everyday.

Possibly, although from their point of view (and going by GD rules), they would wake, kill themselves and then immediately wake again.

So, after a while of trying that, it might make more sense for them to try and make the days feel as long as possible to delay that waking up moment.

Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as “videos”.

Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.

we made literally and figuratively mean the same thing!

Only figuratively though, not literally.

I watched it for the first time the other day. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t at all what I expected, and I’m kind of surprised it has the profile it does. I quite liked the ambiguity of a lot of it though.

Interested to see what responses you get here.

is she going to fuck the mythical creature, or is she going to fuck her parents (the real “Santa”)?

Neither. She’s singing to her boyfriend (not husband - “forgot to mention one little thing a ring”) and listing the presents she’d like, plus IMO heavily implying sex as a reward.

See also.

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be. It’s easy.

I agree actually, I was only kidding because of the subject of the post.

You start correcting people when they say “your” instead of “you’re” :-)

Well possibly - I do follow people Mastadon though, and it still feels quiet to me. I probably need to spend more time finding people to follow.

Hah, neither it is, my bad! I just assumed and didn’t bother to check. Will fix that.

Having used both, here my view on why BlueSky is outstripping Mastadon:

• It is instantly familiar in operation to anyone who has used Twitter. It looks and feels almost the same to use in a way that Mastadon doesn’t (arguable whether that’s a good thing or not, but it makes for a comfortable transition).
• There’s no messing around with instances to negotiate - you go to bsky.app BlueSky.com and it just works. Hard to overstate how important that is in retaining people who take a look at a new platform.
• There are a lot of people on it, it doesn’t feel empty like I have often found Mastadon.
• There are a lot of relatively influential people on it, media people, authors and actors and comedians, who have largely shifted as a single mass (probably due to the three above reasons) - so for non-famous people there’s a sense of being in touch with what’s happening.
• It’s riding a wave of positivity about itself, which Mastadon never had - this touches on your point about media coverage of it, but whether that’s really due to money being paid to news orgs or just due to journalists seeing what they are doing as being important for others to know about is open to question.

I think the various high profile organisational defections to BS have been a big part of it too. I only looked at BS for the first time when I saw the story about the Guardian newspaper quitting Twitter.

I took a look, created an account and was posting and following people within seconds, it was just really, really smooth. Again, that was not the case (for me) with Mastadon, where it took a while to figure some of it out, and it all just felt a bit fiddly and complicated.

Much like Lemmy in fact, after leaving Reddit - but again there was enough of a swell of new people shifting as a mass that it felt like it was worth the hassle.

Ha, fair enough - if it works for you, then ok :-)

Or maybe it won’t happen at all.

I’ve been using it a couple of weeks and loving it. It’s just the way Twitter used to be - fun, quality content, from the people you choose to follow.

No algorithm trying to feed you recommendations. No paid-for blue ticks. No hate-filled bile being ignored or endorsed by those in charge. If someone’s trolling you block/report them and they’re gone, just like that.

At the moment it’s more or less everything Twitter should be. It may or may not last, but for the moment it’s great.

Fair enough. Doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good art - just like the blue rectangle, it depends what the artistic intent was, and how well it was carried out.