Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Thematically it needed a bit more of a punch, more along the lines of the Cap and Winter Soldier TV show, which had a great thematic discussion of nationality and American imperialism. Not that they needed to retread that, but a harder look at nationality and race would have been timely. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I expected more from the script. It was essentially a rehash of CA: Civil War with an eighth of the cast. There were a few twists, but all of them in the first half of the movie. If it's going to be a twist movie, you gotta hold a big twist for the end. Ultimately it was very A to B. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 22/02/2025The secondary cast delivered. I warmed a lot more to Danny Rameirez's character than I thought. Xosha Roquemore commanded the screen admirably, and Shira Haas played enigmatic and powerful perfectly. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Saw CA:BNW and you know I have thoughts. (No spoilers) Anthony Mackie is one of the top actors of the MCU. The man can do anything. Carl Lumbly always delivers a top performance, so glad they gave him a solid role. Harrison Ford seemed to be having a lot of fun, he gave it 100% 110 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Lock screen. To use the 2 lumens it emits to shine on the stairs at night so I don't trip and break my necks. 010 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I think every man remembers where he was and what he was doing when his wife/husband/gf/bf/SO looked up from their phone and said, "Babe, how often do YOU think about the Roman Empire?" I think about that moment several times a week now. #romanempire 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025So while pure anarchy may not be desirable in practice, it may be something to add into the mix when devising fair systems of social order. Honourable mention: there is a #ChristianAnarchy movement which aims to worship Christ outside of any hierarchical system. 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025However, if a nation suddenly decides to do what they want, or to pull out of the social contract, it becomes difficult to get them to fall back into line. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025where no one nation is above the others (hey, I said in theory) and all nations police the other nations and all nations must decide what the best course is for the good of all nations. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025An anarchic society would therefore need to have laws, but the weakness comes in enforcing those laws without a dominant power, such as police or a sanctioning body. IN THEORY the realm of international politics is a pure anarchy... 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Communism usually demands paying all resources into a central bank for fair distribution by the state, and libertarianism puts individual rights above most considerations and relies on state enforcement for those rights... anarchism advocates that community rights override those of the individual. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025There have been various attempts at creating intentional anarchic societies, usually on a small community level, and there have been unintentional anarchies, which are transitionally violent. There are some ideological overlaps with #communism and #libertarianism, but anarchism is not these. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025You can get a flavour of the idea of it in something like jury duty-- at any time you may be called upon to serve the society in a fair, decision making capacity, as an equal member of that society. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Anarchy does not always mean pandemonium or an animalistic free-for-all, it simply means that society does not allow any person, persons, or system to be in rule above it. Politically anarchic societies are very demanding of its participants to be engaged in the political running of the society. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Let's talk about #anarchy and why we may want some of that when we start rewriting and restructuring society, and how anarchy can be democratic. Anarchy is, by definition, a "rule (governance) of none", as opposed to monarchy, a rule of one; plutarchy, a rule of money; or oligarchy a rule of a few. 110 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I did the same for my laptop. Windows couldn't run more than my open source word processor, and even that lagged. Installed Linux Mint and everything runs quickly and easily. And startup time is seconds, not minutes. 010 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 17/02/2025"I can't see the fourth blockbuster Captain America movie because my car isn't charged," may SEEM like a complaint, but this is the life that I dreamed I would be living when I was fifteen years old. 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Seemed past time to watch this againyoutu.beGOP JesusYouTube video by Friend Dog Studios 000 0
Reposted by Ross LawheadRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/02/2025The president made a show of temporarily postponing a regional trade war after Mexico and Canada promised him things they were already doing.rollingstone.comTrump Claims Victory Over Canada, Mexico After Getting ... Basically NothingDonald Trump temporarily postponed tariffs against Mexico and Canada, who mostly agreed to continue existing programs. 25449100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025There's something appealing in that prospect rn 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025As for police... the penny only dropped when Existential Comics pointed out that if you steal $20 from your employer, the police will be there in person for you. But if your employer withholds a week's wages from you and you report them... they'll laugh you out of the building. 120 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Whatever he's doing to exploit the system right now, you can be assured that it's a hack job. Which is another layer of terrifying. 010 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Good article. Something that needs to be highlighted is Musk's incompetence. He's not rich because of his decisions, but his ability to graft other billionaires and investors, not to mention the US government itself. Eventually his crash will be so big even the treasury won't be able to bail him out 110 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I remember arguing with someone who bought that 8 spiders bit. Doesn't make a lick of sense, they couldn't find any sources to back it up, let alone remember any time in their life that they or someone they know woke up with a spider in their mouth... and still they walked away not convinced. 010 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025media.tenor.coma man wearing a top hat and a white shirt is saying `` no , stop , dont '' .ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a white shirt is saying `` no , stop , dont '' . 010 0
Reposted by Ross Lawheadseven @handle.invalid · 28/01/2025I'm *not* going to say that if you get detained by ICE you should have a rubberducky disguised as a usb thumbdrive that loads ransomware in their system/network when they load it up to see what's on it. Related errata. hackmag.com/security/rub...hackmag.comTurning a Regular USB Flash Drive into a USB Rubber Ducky – HackMag 341216194 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Post a cover from your favorite @gailsimone.bsky.social comic others may not have read. I loved Villains United and the sequel mini series is just as good. The interplay between all the characters sizzles & the plots are so unpredictable. When I had the chance I got the author to sign issue 1! 031 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025But two things are certain. First, he's laughing himself silly over this. Second, he's in the lookout for an even more outrageous thing he can Do For Real in order to get the cynical and fleeting approval of the worst type of personality on the Internet. 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Because, to quote a popular movie, "The sanity of the plan is of no consequence." Oh really? Why's that? "Because he can do it!" Is Elon a f*scist in his heart? It doesn't matter. He walks like a f*scist, he talks like a f*scist. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025It's pathetic because not only does it expose musk as not having wit or intelligence, it also exposes him as not having friends or self-confidence. His whole life is reduced to likes for his own dopamine rush. And that's not to say that he's not dangerous. He is. Very dangerous. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025and that is the Doing The Thing For Real. As in Doing The Sink Thing For Real... and having people not get it. Or doing a not-z salute for real and having people react. Or buying the government. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025To overract to it; by saying, "I don't get it," or by getting angry or confused about it. That gives you your superiority over the "sheeple", because you understand something simple, and they don't. Now, in edgelord land, there's only one thing that can top the dopamine of catching normies out... 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Part of the appeal of edgelord humour is the snort you give when you think, "that's dumb," but the real dopamine hit comes from riling up the normies. That's the whole point of being edgy is getting other people who aren't in on the dumbness of the joke. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This is where edgelord humour comes in. There's very little originality in edgelord land. What wit there is is usually extremely facile. And while I could say it's because these people aren't very bright, and leave it at that, that's part of the appeal and how it achieves it's effect. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025because you don't reword or refine a meme, you repost it. But the performance aspect of it is important. It's not just that he referenced it, and it would have been infinitely easier to just post the meme itself rather than source and carry a sink himself... it was about DOING THE THING FOR REAL. 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Which would be grammatically correct, and would "land". OR if he wanted to preserve the syntax, he could pay a picture of the sink outside the doors and write, "Let that sink in." The second thing is... this isn't HIS joke. It's a meme. An old one. That's why he's butchering the deliveryknowyourmeme.comLet That Sink In | Know Your MemeLet That Sink In is a catchphrase and pun referenced in memes, typically image macros, playing off the expression "let that sink in" but in a literal sense 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025On his first day as twitter's boss, he posted a picture of himself carrying a sink through the doors, with the caption, "Let that sink in." Two important things to note. First, he absolutely butchered the delivery. If he's carrying the sink, he should be writing, "Let THIS sink in." 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025generate humour, the only thing he can do is take credit for other people's humour, and he also seems to REALLY GET OFF ON the edgelord practice of "doing the thing for real." Let's look at the "sink incident". 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Elon's "humour"🧵 I've read two books now on the Twitter takeover, and paid attention to the news, and something that keeps getting said is, "Elon is a funny guy, he likes to laugh." Except he's not a funny guy. He's not funny in the sense that he is witty. He can't make jokes, he can't actually 100 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I've read 15. Need to get around to the others. 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Yeah, I don't buy that horseshoe nonsense either. 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Let's make it different this time. Pandering and rolling over for the slime of humanity will buy you nothing. 000 0
Ross Lawhead @rosslawhead.bsky.social · 20/01/2025We all grew up with stories that were warnings-- King Midas, The Emperor's New Clothes, the goose that plays the golden eggs, and those that do deals with the devil. Why didn't enough of us listen to those stories? More in my substack. Free to read.open.substack.comWhat Happened To The Promises Of Youth?The 80s prepared us for a better world--why didn't we make it? 000 0
