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Cake day: July 17th, 2025
  • Turns out lots of people can be shitty at once.

    It also wasent a single tweet. It was tweets/comments plural, with him also talking about how the GOP was immune from the influence of big tech (ultra mega LOL) and would take them to task (a stunningly, knee slappingly stupid statement), that the GOP was the new “party of the little guy (holy fucking shit was that tone deaf),” then him using right wing phrasing and talking points to defend himself before finally defaulting to the same defense as Mullvad just did. “We are a political company that should not say political things, I.e. we have shitty political opinions that will cost us money once people find out about them so we will shut up now.”

    The proton CEO has not once apologized or said he was wrong about the Trump admin, even after they fired Gail Slater in the first year, the person he praised in his first effusive tweet about how great the incoming Trump admin was.

  • Widows bay. Its honestly a mix of ethereal, cosmic horror and parks and rec style comedy.

    It doesn’t sound like it should work, but it entirely does. Its not “good comedy with okay horror” or “good horror with okay comedy.” Both genres are excellent and they mesh in a way thats believable, very human and horrifying.

  • I hated it the first time I watched it because it felt trite and asinine. I watched it again years later in a different headspace without the same expectations and it clicked for me.

    Its a movie that mixes the deeply mundane with the deeply absurd on purpose, and it does it very well. It has a main charector that is boring as hell as a person but also an iconoclast that is immune from consequence, which the movie just amps up and up and up into mania, all while “the dude” just drifts through it. That conflict is where most of the humor lies, alongside just stunning acting from basically everyone in the movie.

    The movie just moves from iconic moment to iconic moment between these insane people doing insane things in sometimes day to day ways, mixing up what normalicy is as a whole. Is it paying for half and half at a grocery store with a check you know will bounce in your bathrobe? Is it offering to blow strangers by your pool for 10k? Is it strapping yourself to a harness and screeching at a painting you fling yourself at to add a new layer of paint? Yes, it’s all normal and its all absurd, just like the rest of the human experience.

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