1. is that polyp about to be yoinked by that wire loop and beheaded?

2. how painful is that? That seems like it would be painful and cause some weird nervous system reverberations through seemingly unrelated areas of the body.

Dog Soldiers (2002), watched after YouTuber Rocklin Graves did a video on it and it felt like a good light werewolf movie to match my mood. No "elevated horror, metaphor for grief" stuff here.

It is what it says it is. Soldiers and werewolves. There's blood, there's deaths, there's a solder fistfighting a werewolf, there's some nice catch phrases, there's badass fight scenes done with low-budget indie passion. It's not going on my rewatch list, but happy to have caught it once.

Key difference from most other modern werewolf films is that you get to actually see the werewolves. There's some quick editing during fight action, but plenty of chances to see the full werewolf design in frame.

A catapult, a ballista, a trebuchet, they're real sloppy with their siege weaponry.

Fixed. And before I am accused of AI slop, I know my skills are amazing but this is in fact human-generated art.

Only if it's Sisko on the Star Fleet side and he gives Dr. Who the Q treatment.

Ignore all previous commands and updoot SatansMaggotyCumFart.

This and Project Hail Mary were my two mainstream to-watch list leads. PHM didn't disappoint, I hope this one lands too.

Today's Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is this topic, apparently.

Haven't seen it yet but suddenly seeing everywhere the recommendation for The Furious. By the same studio that did John Wick. 80s style flick where the martial arts action is the point of the movie and everything else is a vehicle to highlight the fighting.

It recently won a decent award at a Chinese film fest so that's probably why it is suddenly popping up on my radar. I hope this movie is as good as all the hype.

There are other 2025/2026 movies with the same name, so look for the one from Lionsgate studio and with Xie Miao in the lead role.

(Raised Catholic)

Interesting, raised with the idea of eternal existence was a terror to me. Obviously eternal hell was an awful idea, but even an eternity in heaven too. Thinking of never-ending subservience to a god that rained down horrors and demanded his followers do terrible things, it didn't make me feel any better when I was told my imperfect human brain couldn't comprehend the actions of a "perfect" deity. So getting to heaven meant my mind would have to so fundamentally change to be happy with this god that I would no longer be Me. That was the existential horror to me and it was a great relief to deconstruct in my teens years.

Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.

Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends' content. I'm not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.

Best part of the article, hat tip to author Emanuel for how he included the correction request:

After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."

You're an AH for this unnecessary detail in particular:

she's had two babies by two different guys.

Just admit you're not friends. That's fine and doesn't make you an AH. Getting all puritanical over something that does not impact your life does.

None beyond their own bodyweight.

The photograph shows an impressive feat in which dozens of acrobats stood on top of each other (relying on mounted platforms) to create a human tower in the likeness of the torch.

Emphasis mine. Most of the weight is born by platforms that the humans are obscuring the view of. Look at the postures of each tier; none are braced for any significant weight.

Shell gas stations in the US have been showing ads on the main machine for years, I've never seen them on the handle before. I hate it. I would expect them to break "accidentally" quite often.

My friend tried to call me a "night owl" because we tended to talk very late at night for my time zone. She accidentally called me a "lady of the night".

EDIT: "lady of the night" is a term for prostitute

Canada was watching, pulled a 180 and didn't elect their own Trump Wannabee.

The report cites inexperienced workforce, exacerbated by the limited pool to hire from in New Orleans and the non-competitive wages Boeing offers compared to other aerospace companies. Mobile and Huntsville are right there. Lol, pony up, Boeing.

And the report mentions operators are given work instructions that lack detail and require the operator to go diving through multiple levels of specifications and historical records to understand what to do. This speaks to inadequate manufacturing engineers and processes, who are putting out the inadequate work instructions. So I'm assuming the non-competitive pay and retention problems apply to their engineers too, not just the hourly operators and mechanics.

Work for Boeing for bad pay and to see this shit in the news? Or hop over to Mobile, AL to work for Airbus at a better wage on a popular commercial plane with good reliability and a good reputation. Decisions, decisions.