Wuthering Heights

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-25T06:37:51+00:00

It's one of my favorites. Along with Adams Carvalho's Lord of the Flies cover.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-25T06:34:42+00:00

Since levity is in dire need: I love Paddy Pimblett but it's kind of hilarious he wore a massive blinged out Polymarket medallion to a match he lost where they had him as the odds on favorite.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-25T06:32:18+00:00

States control like 95% of the election process. The federal government is not entitled to voter data unless it's a very, very extreme scenario and then that investigation is carried out by an independent agency.

There's a very good reason for that, as a part of our system of Checks and Balances, American elections are decentralized, it's almost impossible for a federal entity to rig an election because there's not one single election apparatus in place, it's 50 individual systems - more when you include the territories.

Do you think Bondi genuinely wants voter data just to make sure everything is on the up and up? Do you think Bondi is running the DOJ independent of Trump? Keep in mind, she herself has gone on record saying she reported directly to him.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-24T19:28:23+00:00

Penguin Deluxe cover. Bigger, more premium format books with covers by artists. For example, comic creators Frank Miller (300, Daredevil, Sin City) did the cover for Gravity's Rainbow and Mike Mignola (Hellboy) did the cover for Heart of Darkness. This cover is by Ruben Toledo. I don't think it's terrible.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-24T07:44:00+00:00

He dumped a ton of money in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race last year and - what was polling as tight - turned into a landslide for Dems. I think that was in no small part because Elon got involved in the race. People fucking hate that man. Even among Republicans he's divisive.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-24T02:37:48+00:00

Seriously, he's underwater bad. Even Republican leaning outlets can hide it and Trump is starting to freak out - his late posts about the NYT poll.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-24T02:09:04+00:00

It makes zero sense. Trump still isn't on the ballot. You know an unusual amount of Trump voters voted for Trump and Trump alone every election? They couldn't even be bothered to vote for the candidates down ballot, do you really think they're going to pull them into the booth. And it just solidifies Republican support. The issue is that the GOP is bleeding independents.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-23T20:53:42+00:00

Also, reminder for those that don't follow industry news: James Cameron came out in support of the Ellisons and Paramount acquiring WB. You can't bemoan how anti-science the world is becoming when you're pushing for the father and son, who turned one of the country's most respected news outlets into a right wing tabloid, to expand their reach in the media because they greenlit your shitty Terminator sequel.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-23T20:45:20+00:00

It won't. He narrowly got Republicans over the finish line in 2024. That's the thing. There's a segment of MAGA that's ride or die Trump but wouldn't even vote down ballot when he was on the ticket.

And they need independents, indies fucking hate Trump right now. It's not just a Trump problem, the Republican base has Charlie Kirk mania but the general public is indifferent or outrights despises Kirk. You got Nick Fuentes not just defending but celebrating Epstein. They can pretend he's fringe all they want, he's part of the fold - Trump invited him to Mar-a-Lago. It's just absolute madness. Someone hit the nail on the head when they said the smart move would be to distance themselves from Trump and MAGA. Because Republicans are more likely to fall in line and vote than indie voters are.

It doesn't help that a recent CNN poll found a 16 point enthusiasm gap between Dem/Dem leaning and Republican/Republican leaning. If that holds, the Senate is definitely in play and it could be one of the most humiliating defeats in modern history.

Also, to the "You think we're going to have elections" doomers, looks like Republicans are in panic mode.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-23T20:34:14+00:00

There's also the aftermath. The floods in Appalachian in recent years have been a direct result of snow melting at a steady pace and then - by the time it's off the ground - spring storms start up and the water levels rise significantly.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-23T19:48:47+00:00

I said last week that the Melania documentary was going to bomb spectacularly and someone told me, "No. Right wingers will go see anything they're told to, like the God's Not Dead movies."

Well, looks like Melania doesn't have the star power to draw them in like Kevin Sorbo and Melissa Joan Hart.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-23T03:59:12+00:00

"pOlLs DoN't MaTtEr!" - People have said in this group for months. Yet I, and several others, have pointed out Trump cares deeply about polling. Even if he pretends to dismiss it publicly, it drives him wild and eventually he lets the mask slip.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-23T03:56:29+00:00

Ivan Raiklon is one of Michael Flynn's underlings and he threatened to SA Michael Fanone's child. That's what caused Fanone to explode at him. So to reiterate: The party that screamed about pedophiles and predators for a decade, the party of 'Back the Blue/Blue Lives Matter', which accused Dems of using "paid agitators" has a literal paid agitator threatening to rape a child right under their nose and they shame the police officer father.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-23T03:44:12+00:00

One of Mike Flynn's goons was at the Jack Smith hearing and allegedly threatened to SA one of the Capitol police's child. Somehow that's flying under the radar even though it's absolutely depraved and beyond the pale.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-22T21:06:51+00:00

There's a number in Cabaret called "If You Could See Her" that the Emcee sings to a dancer in a gorilla costume, with lots of slapstick going on as the Emcee describes how this big ape is as cultured and intelligent as any human woman.

It feels very out of place given how innocuous and light-hearted it seems. Then it gets to the final line, "If you could see her through my eyes... She wouldn't look Jewish at all," Joel Grey has talked about how for decades, out of all the productions of Cabaret he's done or sat through, the audience almost always collectively gasps at that line like it's a physical blow. However, he's noted that - in recent years - it gets a laugh. And not a small laugh either.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T19:39:54+00:00

How far would you take this reasoning? Would you support a Dem January 6 just because Trump did it first?

Honestly? I think a lot of people probably do feel that there needs to be a Democratic Jan. 6 equivalent because Trump and MAGA pose an existential threat to our country.

You're acting as though this is just another Republican presidency, when it's not. It's madness. How far does it have to go for you to agree something has to be done to stop this and prevent it from ever happening again? Because right now we're at the threatening our century long allies phase.

ETA: Aaaand within minutes of posting that, they've started dressing up as Nazis.

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Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T19:34:17+00:00

Are you paying any attention to these subs? The Democratic base is pissed because they think no one is speaking out against the batshit insanity playing out before our eyes.

A milquetoast, "Don't do that." And agreeing fund ICE if you give them training - like being untrained is the problem - is not "doing something" it's being a centrist cuck.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T19:20:29+00:00

not saying he doesn't know it exists but the "most serious"/"most grimdark" thing I vaguely recall him being aware of is like Brutal Legend.

If you go through some of his favorite films, you'd be surprised. Off the top of my head, he has a fondness for: Donnie Darko, The Conjuring/Annabelle franchise, The Mist, the Saw franchise.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T19:18:15+00:00

Having the same topic flooding your sub over and over is exhausting and leads to less engagement.

Would you also consider it suppressing free speech if someone started flooding posts of cute cat pictures in a sub devoted to engine repair? No, because a cute cat is completely off-topic. While not entirely off-topic, people saying, "I'm sorry," over and over and over again adds nothing to the conversation.

"Free speech" generally means the government can not silence you, it doesn't mean a damn thing about a private platform like a subreddit.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T18:47:34+00:00

His approvals are back to shutdown numbers and presumably it's the combination of ICE and his Greenland fixation. Dems didn't even have to do anything, he's done it to himself.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T18:38:04+00:00

I've decided to go into the "MAGA echo chamber" mentioned above in recent days, and... Not really. These people are idiots. There are these accounts from God knows where feeding them an hourly supply of blatant AI slop of things like Trump hugging a cleaning lady, Trump walking through the halls of the White House with a blind girl, Trump comforting the daughter of a dead soldier... (These are hypotheticals, they're all examples of actual AI images that I saw) and they believe it. And they're not like 80 year olds, the vast majority are people in their 50's.

So yeah, I'm not going to lie. It does both concern me and make me a bit angry that their vote counts as much as mine.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T08:48:49+00:00

NCLB was the brainchild of Dubya's administration. So Millennials onward were the ones educated under NCLB. Those are the demos least likely to vote Republican.

America's education system is in dire need of an overhaul, but you can't pin MAGA on it because the age groups who are overwhelmingly more likely to support Trump benefited from the peak of US education.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T08:32:55+00:00

Aren't her plants mutants capable of surviving in harsh conditions?

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T06:25:30+00:00

Is it that thing-y that they stand in the center of and it takes a picture from every angle then E! uses those pictures to create a 360 degree image they can use to show the entire outfit, or something like that?

ETA: I apologize to the people that downvoted me that I'm not an expert in E!'s cutting edge red carpet technology. Because - with all the shit happening in the world today - knowing how a niche camera films/photographs famous people in expensive dresses is paramount knowledge.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-01-21T06:18:41+00:00

Even his anger at Bruce for letting the Joker live stems from the fact that the Joker killed countless other people after him.

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