For decades, greens in the West have urged poor nations to go organic and fully embrace ESG. Only Sri Lanka did. The result was catastrophic food shortages, a radical drop in tea production, and a financial crisis that has brought down the government.https://t.co/En6rbDrsYu
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) July 14, 2022
I knew Pollan was a fraud a decade ago. Where y’all been at? HUH?
holy fuck was the alien coming out of that dude improv pic.twitter.com/IZW3K71k3G
— T$E CHUN ➡️ GREMLINS @ SDCC (@thetzechun) July 16, 2022
Not improv in the traditional sense, but the cast did not know what was going to occur or exactly the effect that would be used. They were as shocked as all the viewers were the first time they saw the film. The director wanted to capture their actual reactions so, no, they did not know the chestburster was gonna do some chestburstin’.
As horrific as the case of the 10yo Ohio rape victim who had to go to Indiana for an abortion, and as horrific as the Christian zealots' reaction has been, it is important to say abortion is a human right to all who want it and not just in the most horrific of circumstances. https://t.co/J1xGpo4UdP
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) July 14, 2022
Exactly. Bodily autonomy is the primary basis of all other rights.
I still hate smartphones. Could’ve been great.
Weren’t.
Someone told me the other day that I looked like Chester Bennington* from Linkin Park. I’m not a real Linkin Park fan, but do like a few of their songs, particularly “In The End.” I think this cover captures the feel of the original while being completely different.
A lot of people who cover that song don’t really understand it. Gordi does, so the cover works even though nearly everything about it is musically changed up.
*Yes, I know he’s dead.
I’d forgotten how excellent Mary Stuart Masterson is in the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful. Mainly because I haven’t seen that film since 1987. She acts her heart out in that work.
Underrated 1980s movie. Goddamn, 1987 feels like such a foreign place now. I remember it pretty clearly and while I wouldn’t want to go back, I also could not go back; I’d no longer have any idea how to operate there anymore. I could speak the language but not exist with the assumptions and expectations that they (we) aligned with then. I’d be an alien even more than I was when I was actually there.
One of the big changes that is that music was extremely important to us in a way that is just not now. It wasn’t just background noise, or a time filler, as it is currently. It was a passion — there’s a reason that they made Watts’ character a drummer in the film and why the movie is just saturated with music. I think there is a lot of great music now, don’t get me wrong, but it just doesn’t take up nearly as much cultural space, or hold the same import, as it did back then.