@mcneany-matthew
He/Him. Tortoise posts, anarcho-socialist tendencies, physical sciences by education, British by nationality. “I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free." (*aspirational, tortoise levels may vary over time)
A top 6 off the top of my head (w/ ratings out of 100)
1. Dune (2021/4 - 98, 98)
2. LotR (97, 98, 94)
3. Shawshank (96)
4. Thor Ragnarok (95)
5. Kingdom of Heaven (director's cut version) (93)
6. Baby Driver (92)
It's decent, but I'm not exactly the core target demographic 😅
It's a good film/story in itself, it's excellent if you have any interest in period accurate Napoleonic or Age of Sail Naval history.
One of the most detailed and accurate historical movies ever put to film. Almost every detail of the ship and crew is accurate
Tell 'em Jens 🐸🔉🔊
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This is mine', and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. — Rousseau 1754
Bettany opposite Crow in Master and Commander arguing Hobbes and Rousseau is so good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRF9...
I maintain that one of the reasons A Knight's Tale works is that it's the second best performance of all the (male) lead actors in the film:
Heath Ledger (Batman)
Paul Bettany (Master and Commander)
Mark Addy (Full Monty)
Alan Tudyk (Firefly/Serenity)
If I were Cherie Blair, I wouldn't be mouthing off in public about who does and doesn't deserve to face a trial.
We have a tortoise eating lunch.
A Knight's Tale is probably my 9th or 10th favorite film of all time. Silly when it needs to be silly, sincere when it needs to be sincere and it basically never misses at either.
Old enough to remember that the most scandalous part of Wikileaks was the video of the American military killing civilian with wanton disregard for the rules of war.
"Tough on Crime" types don't actually care about what reduces harm, they just want to do something to make themselves feel better and we on the left should say this more often and more loudly.
I dunno, I think the soup could be bigger. 🤔🐸😋🍲
Tort! 🐢🙌
Do we know if all giant burrowing frogs are this happy or just this guy?
Today's frog is the giant burrowing frog.
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Excellent choice. 🙌🐢☕
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Mam: There's no football on tonght?
Me: None that's important enough to be on [freeview] TV.
Mam: It seems like there's football on every night of the week.
Me: Even amongst people who like football that there's too much football isn't an uncommon opinion.
Whatever brings you joy. 🙂
Just to be clear my original tweet is meant to be satire of the right getting mad about things that aren't really happening. 🙂
Expensive way to buy chocolate that tastes just the same a any other, no?
One of these is a more serious suggestion than the others.
Additional polices I expect from the Bank of Woke:
- Renewable pennies.
- A target for Net Zero interest rates by 2050.
- Bank notes made of 100% recycled Bank notes.
- Reparations for Slavery.
- The Mint to be officially declared non-binary.
Watching some of the least curious people in the world have to learn the reasons for the certain logistical aspects of global oil distribution from first principles in real time is making me chuckle.
BBC explainer: Why do we transport heavy goods by boat anyway?
A lot of the failings of our democracy are that this kinda broke down at scale as the voting population rose over the last 250 years (I would argue)
Most of democratic institutions are fundamentally based on members of the public bothering elected officials until they sort something out. Like it's mostly designed to work that when people could raise an issue directly with an MP or in the case of local matters a Councillor.
