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Things I wish I could tell my past self as they came out, a thread:
1. People will leave. They didn't befriend this new person any more than you would your old self. It's not personal.
2. Take bold steps. You'll ruminate on doubt. That will metastasize into auto-transphobia. – at Chicago, IL
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Sylvester Stallone is opening up about his "millions of regrets" about doing his own stunts through the years:
"Let other people do their job. Don’t be a stage hawk, or whatever you call it, a showboat. I know a lot of people are thinking about doing stunts … don’t. Don’t. Let the pro do it,. You cannot beat gravity; when you hit the ground, you lose, and it’s going to come back.”
He continued, “I mean, just ask every football player in the world. So yeah, and people go, ‘Aren’t you proud of them?’ No. I think I’m an idiot for doing that. I’m proud that I broke myself in pieces. Like, duh, no.”
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Ben Affleck says he spent 3 years at home playing StarCraft after becoming famous
“There was a game called StarCraft that probably took the most life out of me for a period of time. I had just got famous and all I did was stay home for three years and play StarCraft”
“I love Valorant. It's a great game. The problem with that game is that with kids that have been raised playing, I just get f**king rocked. I'm like, ‘Are you f**king cheating?’ And I get mad. It's very humiliating”
“I love 2K. I love Madden. And the early Doom, when I first played that game, which then gave rise to Quake. We played that endlessly for hours when we were doing Good Will Hunting. I remember writing and taking these long breaks to play Doom”
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RJ Mitte reveals how he was financially exploited at just 17 while trying to protect his Breaking Bad earnings.
“I’ve paid more in taxes than I got from Breaking Bad. As a young kid, I had a big team, traveled the world, and spent money keeping my career going. Everything went back into the business.”
A bad business manager made things worse.
“During the last four years of my highest-earning series, I wanted to protect my money. I was 17 or 18, and everyone was telling me to get a proper accountant.”
Instead, he got scammed.
“Dude, I got eaten alive.”
He says the woman targeted 14 other actors, including people with disabilities and older performers.
“I’d write a check to pay my taxes, and instead of paying them, she’d send me a fake tax filing and keep the money.”
He still takes responsibility for what happened.
“At the end of the day, though, it was my negligence. The IRS doesn’t really care about you.” 😔
Rip Rj 🕊️
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Nicolas Cage says he hasn’t agreed to ‘NATIONAL TREASURE 3’ despite director Jon Turteltaub saying otherwise.
“You got to get these microphones out of these directors' hands… Ben Gates is going after the Epstein files. I'll make that movie.”
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Here's what's going on with Digger:
Western culture has conditioned audiences to view films as a frictionless commodity designed purely for comfort. When a film disrupts that comfort, a total freak-out is guaranteed.
Most mainstream films use predictable structures, clear good-vs-evil dynamics, and spoon-fed answers. Digger breaks this contract. It forces viewers to sit with discomfort and watch an unlikable protagonist.
For years, we've reviewed films based entirely on how they made us feel. We fail to judge them by what the filmmaker was actually trying to achieve.
The critics tarnished Blade Runner, Miami Vice (2006), The Village, The Counselor, and Tenet upon release. Yet time was on their side, rewriting their legacies.
Digger will be no different.
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In 1985, Carl Sagan sat before the US Senate and described the weather of 2026. Not as a prediction. As physics.
Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.
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Guillermo del Toro: “Be very angry about how the world is being fucked, how your craft is being pulled away from you, how people are trying to move you away from the arts and tell you they’re not important. Be angry that things are being controlled by socially barely functional people that have a lot of money. Be angry about something. Be enraged about something” (Video: anakinspadawan / TikTok)
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Florence Pugh speaks out on the Cornell University sexual assault case and calls out Instagram for originally hiding her statement:
"This is really the moment where we need our men to be as horrified and as sickened as us. You need to be leading conversations about how we change the allowance and complicity of this behavior as much as we are. How can you expect us to trust that it’s 'not all men' when in moments like this, many of you stay quiet?... Colleges/schools/universities repeatedly fail women around the world. You build men that get taught through time and time again that they can do extreme harm and that they won’t be harmed in return. I’m no longer tired – I’m enraged by schools protecting boys, in fear of their futures being wrecked..."
variety.com/2026/film/global…
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Florence Pugh calls on more men to speak out against violence on women in response to the Cornell University group sexual assault case:
“This is really the moment where we need our men to be as horrified and as sickened as us. You need to be leading conversations about how we change the allowance and complicity of this behaviour as much as we are. How can you expect us to trust that it's "not all men" when in moments like this, many of you stay quiet?”
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Florence Pugh’s latest post condemning the horrific sexual assault committed at Cornell College has now been censored.
Do better @instagram.
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A lot of men are saying the Cornell woman has no proof.
Congrats, you've figured out the big problem with rape cases: Unlike most other crimes, there often simply isn't much proof beyond the woman's word.
If a person is mugged, no one's gonna argue they voluntarily gave up their wallet.
If a person gets assaulted, no one's gonna say they were into that.
But dudes text other guys "Free pussy" & "You can just whip your dick out"?
People are gonna argue she was into it even if she says she wasn't.
And I freely admit false rape accusations exist. I don't pretend they don't.
But how on earth is a woman supposed to prove rape if her word isn't enough & all too often, the crime scene of consensual sex looks the exact same as rape?
The answer is she usually doesn't.
Less than 4% of reported rapes, sexual assaults, & child sex abuse allegations in the US ever result in a sex crime conviction.
This % doesn't surprise me at all, cuz not a single woman I know who's been raped had her accuser go to jail :/
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This guy also worked at Anthropic and quit. Excellent video warning about AI. Fantastic watch. 🤖
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Hello, Twitter.
We’re a group of former campaign & Senate staffers for John Fetterman who are disgusted with what he's become.
If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
It's even worse than you thought.
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‘SPIDER-NOIR’, starring Nicolas Cage, has been canceled after one season.
• The show received 11 Emmy nominations, the most of any Prime Video series this year
• It also received critical acclaim, earning 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
(Source: variety.com/2026/tv/news/spi…)
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Director: hey guys did you finish the sequence introducing the pollution monster?
Animators and Tim Curry: sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked
Director: what
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went in to order the cardamom ginger chai. she said "we don't make that" i said oh, it's on the sign. she said "that's chatgpt" they got me kids they got me
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Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will Cost 4,500 L.A. Production Jobs, Report Finds variety.com/2026/film/news/p…
