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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly, basically anything starring Jim Caviezel is a red flag.

Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 1h

If Sam Altman, and everybody who works in the AI business were to wake up tomorrow transformed into a cockroach like Gregor Samsa that would be sad for their friends and family, but a net positive for the world.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 2h

It probably also bothered the Star Trek writers since they really wouldn't pick up the plotline with the alien parasites until an offhand reference in Lower Decks.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 2h

This TV promo for a first season episode of TNG petrified me as a preschooler. It gave me the impression that "Star Trek is really scary" a notion I really wouldn't correct until DS9 was on the air.

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Star Trek TNG Promo S1E25 Conspiracy 1988

YouTube video by Rewind Me

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 3h

I believe that Jason Kelce can afford 16 televisions and a very large house, but "people are scattered throughout the house watching different games on different TVs" hardly constitutes a party.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 5h

There's so much ostensible comedy in the 90s (see also the third Naked Gun) where the transphobia is almost entirely motivated by riffing on "THE CRYING GAME" which was inexplicably in the public consciousness.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 6h

That fixed it! Thank you (and also for making the podcast) and sorry for bothering you.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 6h

I was using Podbean, and I'm following "Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe with Dylan & Dalton". Is there a different name for the correct feed?

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 6h

I have literally never found a new podcast from algorithmic "recommendations" but I have found them from like "podcasts advertising on other podcasts". I think discoverability is the big bugaboo of the medium.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 6h

@thepoduniverse.com Is your old bootleg Dark Universe saga still available somewhere? I wanted to revisit it for spooky month, and I found the new feed on my podcatcher but I keep getting a 403 forbidden error when I try to download or stream.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 7h

Most people I know who "watch" video podcasts will just open it up in youtube and tab away to something else. I think it's the platforms that generate the additional reach, not the video component.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 7h

Look- most working clowns are genuinely kind and generous people who do a lot of their work to cheer up sick kids. I want to stick up for clowns!

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's spiritually related to like "when a video game inelegantly insists that the player is the villain" but it's less "you're bad/stupid for buying a ticket" and more "poor fools are just going to eat up whatever narrative a powerful person dresses for their consumption, and we owe them this."

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think what would be needed for the specific narrative conceit of DIGGER Is some humility apparent in the production, something that will never be possible with either Tom Cruise or Alejandro Iñárritu involved, let alone the one with both that has enough ego to blot out the sun.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The trick/sleight-of-hand DIGGER is trying to play would be interesting if it was in something like a $1.6m movie with no-name, but talented actors and an up-and-coming director. It is exasperating in a $200m movie by an award winning director and possibly the world's most famous actor.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely this feels like gambling but with extra steps.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At one point they, only obscured by the flimsiest of metaphors, turn to the camera to explain that it doesn't matter that this isn't funny because the hogs (i.e. you, the audience) love slop.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So I've seen it. It's a very good looking movie with some solid performances, but it's billed as a comedy, is completely unfunny, and is as far up its own ass as any movie I've ever seen. It also has a truly infuriating twist they instructed critics not to mention.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is honestly the most I've thought about Craig James in 14 years (the last time I thought about him was when he got 3.9% of the vote in the Republican primary in 2012). Is he at the game or something?

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the only film of its ilk that has aged anything close to gracefully. I suspect that might be because it was directed by a woman so it avoided much of the minefield.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

THE APARTMENT (1960) is a rare comedy to win Best Picture, Billy Wilder at the height of his power, decades ahead of its time, touching, moving, funny, *and* the best Christmas movie. Shirley MacLaine is magnificent.

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The Apartment Billy Wilder

ALT: The Apartment Billy Wilder

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Why don't people eat clowns?" You can either go with "Because they taste funny" or "Because cannibalism is a cultural taboo" depending on the response you get.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a corollary of the "everybody is 12" theorem.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kids don't really get a lot out of Warhammer.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I confess I probably did not have the intended reaction to the Prince of All Rats as was intended by virtue of being an honorary Cat. Still, Light Fingers players are generally more invested in (unconventional) parenting than romance.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The jug for Minnesota fans is unlike other traveling trophies. It's been hilariously lopsided, but it's not like they can ever stop playing for it because it was the first one.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's not going to do this no matter what happens in the midterms.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They got slippery footballs in Starkville today.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But one of the reasons that this guy got chosen to be Pope was that the Church understood it needs to deal with its insurrectionist faction "Opus Dei" (which is largely an American thing now and Leo is American but not of America), and Vance is unlikely to be spared in whatever action is to come.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The funniest part is that AI freaks mouthing off at the Pope is certainly not going to make him more favorably inclined to treat JD Vance's ilk gently.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is absolutely not worth it to get arrested at the bougie mall, I would recommend against it.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like genuinely a lot of clocks automatically update themselves anyway. So I have to figure the whole push for this is "permanent summer time really screws over northern states, which are mostly blue."

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's been like 60-70 years since the last "institution" that was plausibly cruel closed down, modern psychiatric medicine is more about "here's a nice quiet place for you to be safe." Give me the horrible thing that's going on underneath that!

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Specifically he's just found out his wife is cheating on him, but has to put on a play about a man whose wife is cheating on him, and his wife in the play is his actual wife, and the play is supposed to be funny. It ends in a double murder.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Vesti la giubba" - Canio discovers his wife is cheating on him, but nevertheless needs to perform. It's from Paggliaci.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My pick for that is "WAITING FOR GUFFMAN".

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ever think about how one of the most iconic arias in all of opera is about a clown psyching himself up (or beating himself down) to perform despite what's going on in his life?

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think it's an interception if the defender catches it before it hits the ground when the ball is thrown in any direction.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honestly, his media career peaked at "trolling the home fans when announcing a pick on day 2 or 3 of the NFL draft" since it basically involves "cutting a wrestling promo" but not requiring any skill at or knowledge of wrestling.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had seen the Nicholas Cage one first and on seeing the original I thought "why would you bother remaking a perfect movie?"

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Gotham University team is also the Knights. Somehow in the next 500 years "amateurism" returns to college football and Booster got in trouble for betting on his own team to raise money to pay a relative's medical bills, a thing he could have just done himself if he was a pro player.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So "we're on the 40" implies he's playing offense, and "being eligible to catch a pass" means he's a receiver, running back, fullback, or tight end. I'd assume one of the latter two and it just comes down to "how tall he is" (TEs and FBs are "blocker/catchers" and mostly separated by height.)

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was it ever established what position Guy played? Based on his personality (and the whole premise of the character), and the fact that his backstory was established in the 70s-80s era of football, I would assume he's a linebacker.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One star. There's not a lot more irritating than a movie that thinks it's a lot smarter than it is, but that might be an ostensible comedy that is not only not funny but takes pains to explain why it's not funny. Huge swing- didn't make contact.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seated for DIGGER and the new trailer for EBENEEZER seems to imply "this is just A Christmas Carol"(visited by three ghosts and all) so the early marketing for this now makes no sense at all.

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