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we are also on the verge of reinventing 'gay is a phase for college kids' britslop from first principles because heated rivalry type stuff may become the only thing young men appear in?

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i think we're saturated with holmes/inspired by holmes media but i would have preferred that version during the house-sherlock-elementary peak of it for sure

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 2h

mid-30s, watson having been in the army for a while and them being about the same age is retained from the books

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It's notable that we never gotma Sherlock Holmes that was in his early twenties, despite the fact that "young men should be masters of the universe if they're good at deductive reasoning" was the early conclusion from Facebook's success. He fit the zeitgeist

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i actually respect robert de niro for taking a lot of grandpa parts. that's what men should be doing

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or ben shapiro, which is the same idea

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The only acceptable "youth" is, say, Pete Buttigieg

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they kept talking about a hannibal barca (about 30 at the outset of the conflict) movie with denzel (71) until really recently, he is also 20 years older than his character macrinus in gladiator ii was at death

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Technocrats in their ending years are unaware or apathetic towards the fact that there are whole generations raised only knowing their rule. And how it's failed.

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napoleon, cortés, most of the us founding fathers, even leo's character in killers of the flower moon should have been early 20s

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edward said talks about how colonial adminstrators in india were rotated out before they got too old so that the local population would never see them age or die. now we have the opposite, every historical man is depicted as old and 'experienced' because men must never be shown as dumb kids

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 3h

it is nothing but a karmic record of all our sins, but especially redditors' and youtube commenters'

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Just found out that Taiwan claimed sovereignty over Mongolia until 2002

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22h

I do not want tech dweebs to be making these kind of existential humanitarian determinations in their free time, actually

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prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 16h

so the flap is very much its own thing unrelated to the D for me, clustered with T and glottal stop

prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 16h

like, kitties is a flap, kiddies is a slight pause and then the D you'd have at the beginning of a new word

prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 16h

i say the D differently from the flap so i flap pretty much everything except 'important', which is a glottal stop for a lot of americans for some reason (and for me)

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Checking in on Jacobin

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prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 17h

oh, i thought you meant the vowels. i think some british people would flap it though (clear t/glottal stop probably more common)

prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 20h

wait, what? isn't it pih-lah-teez everywhere?

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 22h

The radical democratization of advanced weapons technology and the breakdown of norms against large states invading small states means the international system will structurally incentivize every mid-sized state leader to asymptotically approach the habits and mannerisms of Abd al-Malik al-Houthi

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prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social · 23h

conflicted because i am not a fan of hetslop but i love jail

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in the 2000s people couldnt get enough of movies about serial killers who are the good guy because theyre obsessed with alan rickmans daughter or some bullshit like that

well, i don't think the world needs hot cortés, but bernardeau should be getting the kind of work banderas did when he was that age and even younger, it would make me feel like i didn't live in a dying hyperpatriarchal world

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imagine a world where people remember that miguel bernardeau exists and is significantly older than banderas was when he crossed over into hollywood. imagine a world where ridley scott would have considered casting chalamet or adriano tardiolo as 22-year-old napoleon instead of a 50-year-old man

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nearly 70 year old antonio banderas playing mid 30s cortés. even reddit is like "i don't think la malinche is going to be 70..."

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certainly the level of identification with mainstream media images of men is at an all-time low in some spaces (while trump has sucked up much of the worst baggage around the mainstream)

professional help might be wise, please keep sharing with people at least

well, you have to spend 30k a year on your appearance and be born into one of those rich families that starves its daughters for whatever reason, and now we are going to mock you for not being a blue-collar hero like shane gillis or graham platner

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another feature of the one-sided appearance shaming in the creative fields is that it fuels the 'men are proletarian and women are bourgeois' narrative that everyone loves

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it's been going on for longer in certain branches, to a point where it may even be fueling the backlash against him because he doesn't look the part

i hope gymnastics and the other ones where the tastes of pedos are explicitly front and center die first and hardest, but it's too much to ask for i know

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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the military as well, one of the only places where men are equally or more affected, has nothing to do with actual performance either

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Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services with pastoral responsibility for US soldiers issues statement saying Catholic military personnel are morally obligated to refuse to participate in a potential livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan. www.milarch.org/archbishop-b...

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Archbishop Broglio Issues Statement on Proposed Execution Livestream - Archdiocese for the Military, USA

Archbishop Broglio has issued a statement on the proposal to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad.

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i don't mean this, though, if you only let skinny men into the public eye you just end up with a million houllebecqs and pierres d'alancaisez . the same thing has happened with women, which was a major avenue of fash attitudes into 2010s culture

i've said this before but i have mild shock every time i see a man express insecurity related to being fat or old, since every single aspect of pop culture encourages them to think that this is something that only happens to women (and at extremely low ages and weights too)

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and rooney sees all female bodies as crimes punishable with one-sided semi-consensual sex with a cis man. can we just stop this? if we can't fix this "be on red scare or we'll kill you" thing with women can we at least start bodyshaming and oldshaming men

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i liked death in her hands but moshfegh in particular has one of those anna khachiyan style careers where she takes out her insecurities by calling women of any ethnic group remotely related to hers (eastern europeans, middle eastern people, iranians specifically, all jews) fat landwhales

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he's catholic in scandinavia which can't be easy so i'm not coming for him directly but the number of times i've seen this lineup on book review pages in magazines and newspapers

sex work for a jabba, epstein type, no less

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ozempic may 'democratize' things slightly but as long as this continues, with men allowed to look like shane gillis or michel houellebecq as much as they want, it's just the same incredibly demoralizing "all work for a woman is primarily sex work" that everyone's been browbeaten with forever

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this is a deliberate tactic to keep women as a minority in every creative field, because most people are not underweight naturally, maybe 5%

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directing films...well it was always bad. music, mostly always bad

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