Leraje

Capitalist democracies all over the Westernised world are transforming. I don’t say collapsing, but transforming. We’ve all been force fed a steady diet of fake freedoms, culture wars and bullshit nationalism pretty much since the end of WW2 to spread uncertainty and fear. It’s all coming to a head now because populations are panicking (by design) and turning to fascist ‘strong man’ populist leaders like Trump, Farage, Meloni, Orban etc who are all financed and propped up by our next set of leaders - the billionaire’s who will operate a worldwide network of oligarchical fascism, whilst the herd are all distracted by manufactured outrage at trans people existing and what an actors politics are and how the immigrants are simultaneously taking all the jobs and draining us dry on the dole.

Neither is it terrorism by any rational definition of the word.

SchildiChat Next is a Matrix client for Android (on Play and F-Droid) that fully supports Element X. SchildiChat also has a desktop version for Win/Mac/Linux and a web version. Its honestly so much better than the ‘official’ Element clients.

Destiny is a GUI for a Magic Wormhole client. Its a way to transfer files between devices that are anywhere online. P2P, E2EE etc. Its cross platform (Android version also available on F-Droid).

Metadata Cleaner - works on images, PDF’s, docs etc. If the fact its currently unmaintained bothers you then there’s Mat2 which also has a web version.

Are any US news outlets talking about the fact a 15 year old was working at Trump’s adult spa in the first place?

Strange 2 would’ve been better if they left Sam Raimi alone to make it a proper horror movie. He clearly wanted to and with those 2 characters it could’ve been epic. But thats what I mean about marvel constantly making ‘franchise’ movies - everything has to ‘lead in’ to the next movie. I’d really like for them to make an actual movie thats good without the need to keep it PG and keep it focused on the wider arc. The MCU has become more and more like an increasingly predictable soap opera.

EDIT: when we left the cinema after Thunderbolts people were talking about the post credit scenes and F4 which kind of illustrates what I’m saying - shouldn’t they be talking about the movie they just watched?

Superman is, IMO, a better movie because the story is a lot stronger but its not a truly great movie to me. The pacing felt really weird. But some of the shots of Supes flying in particular were really great and looked like a comic book come to life. I guess it was a promising start but flawed.

Haven’t seen F4. Thunderbolts was OK but a typical Marvel feeder movie where the story feels less important than setting up the sequel/next team up. Superman was a more interesting story but needed more room to breathe. It needed better editing and to slow down a bit.

I mean, they’re superhero movies, so the bar is low. No ones expecting a deep experience and maybe I’m experiencing superhero fatigue but as an old fart, my bar is the Donner Superman movies and the Nolan Batman movies. Maybe I need to go into them with less expectations.