La Palma (2025, showrunner Kasper Barfoed)
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A Norwegian family checks into a hotel in La Palma. But when a young researcher discovers alarming signs from the volcano located in the center of the holiday paradise, the mood quickly turns chaotic when it is feared that a volcanic eruption will trigger the world's largest tsunami.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/242977-la-palma
Aberdeen (2024, dir Eva Thomas and Ryan Cooper)
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An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s (Gail Maurice) hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-based Aberdeen is in survival mode. The last remaining stable parts of her life begin slipping away — her reliable brother Boyd (Ryan Rajendra Black) is ill and gives up Aberdeen’s grandkids to the foster care system. Then she loses her ID.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1320805-aberdeen
Her Body (2024, dir Natálie Císařovská)
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Original title (CS): Její tělo (Her Body)
A successful athlete, member of the Olympic team, after a vertebra injury and the forced end of her sports career, becomes a successful and well-known porn actress. Based on the real-life story of Olympic diving champion Andrea Absolonová.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1109402-jeji-telo
Over the Garden Wall is pure essence of autumn.
It's not a movie, but its complete runtime (ten 11-minute episodes) is under 2 hours and has all the eerie, melancholic silliness that your soul needs while dealing with family.
Kid (2025, dir Ryan J. Smith)
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An ambitious music producer races to finish his debut album under a make-or-break record deal, all whilst navigating a tumultuous family life.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1371163-kid
Meeting with Pol Pot (2024, dir Rithy Panh)
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Original title (FR): Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists (Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin and Cyril Gueï) are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare.
Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker's account in When the war was over.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1257400-rendez-vous-avec-pol-pot
The Summer Hikaru Died (2025, showrunner Ryohei Takeshita)
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Original title (JP): 光が死んだ夏 (Hikari ga shinda natsu, The Summer When the Light Died)
Two best friends living in a rural Japanese village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. Growing up together, they were inseparable… until the day Hikaru came back from the mountains, and was no longer himself. Something has taken over Hikaru’s body, memories, feelings… and everything they know begins to unravel.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/278196-the-summer-hikaru-died
Squid Game, season 2 (2024, showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk)
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Original title (KR): 오징어 게임 (Ojing-eo Geim)
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
Season 2 picks up three years after the deadly games in Season 1. Consumed by a desire to dismantle the sinister organization behind the games, Gi-hun hunts down the elusive figure who recruits participants by playing ddakji in the subway. However, as he delves deeper, he discovers that the path to ending the games is fraught with even greater dangers, forcing him to re-enter the lethal competition.
Season 2 premieres Dec 26, 2024.
A third and final season will premiere in 2025.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/93405
September 5 (2024, dir Tim Fehlbaum)
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During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American broadcasting team is thrust from covering sports to reporting a dramatic hostage situation involving Israeli athletes. A young producer, unexpectedly leading the live broadcast, faces difficult decisions as time runs out, rumors spread, and the hostages’ lives hang in the balance.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1211472-september-5
Sujo (2024, dir Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez)
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When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1214508-sujo
Death of a Whistleblower (2024, dir Ian Gabriel)
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When an investigative journalist is killed, it falls to his colleague (Noxolo Dlamini) to expose the corruption that cost her friend his life.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1163184-death-of-a-whistleblower
Inheritance (2025, dir Neil Burger)
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When Maya (Phoebe Dynevor) learns her father Sam (Rhys Ifans) was once a spy, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an international conspiracy.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1297860-inheritance
With the mayor and council effectively robbing the JumpStart fund, why not?
A Legend (2024, dir Stanley Tong)
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Original title (ZH): 传说 (Chuánshuō, Legend)
An archeologist (Jackie Chan) noticed that the texture of the relics discovered during the excavation of a glacier closely resembled a jade pendant seen in one of his dreams. He and his team then embark on an expedition into the depths of the glacier.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1116465
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 4k restoration (1964, dir Jacques Demy)
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Original title (FR): Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5967-les-parapluies-de-cherbourg
Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World (2024, dir Julio Palacio)
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A teen with autism unlocks a joyous world of self-expression as she shares her voice for the first time using a letter board.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1214685-makayla-s-voice-a-letter-to-the-world
Sisterhood (2024, dir Nora El Hourch)
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Original title (FR): HLM Pussy
Amina (Leah Aubert), Djeneba (Médina Diarra) and Zineb (Salma Takaline) are three inseparable teenagers who find themselves in hot water when they post a video on social networks identifying an assailant who attacked one of the three. The video draws a public outcry, and they will have to choose between continuing their fight or giving in to pressure.
Context note: The original title's "HLM" comes from Habitation à Loyer Modéré -- large towers that form a low-income housing project typically found in the outskirts of French cities, where Djeneba and Zineb live.
Lilo & Stitch (2025, dir Dean Fleischer Camp)
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A fugitive alien helps to mend a lonely Hawaiian girl's broken family.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/552524-lilo-stitch
Rocky's Galaxy: A Totally Mundane Christmas Adventure (2024, dir Joshua Weathersby)
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Rocky (Zuri Starks) has to juggle indecisiveness and dissatisfaction while also dealing with love and her crazy coworkers. Through the course of a single day, Rocky must finally overcome her demons and insecurities and embrace what she truly wants.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12689862/
Breathing In (2024, dir Jaco Bouwer)
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1901, South Africa. As the Second Anglo-Boer War rages on, a wounded General (Sven Ruygrok) seeks refuge in the small home of a woman (Michele Burgers) and her young daughter (Jamie-Lee Money).
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1190462-breathing-in
Queer (2024, dir Luca Guadagnino)
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In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee (Daniel Craig), an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.
Based on the William S. Burroughs novel, directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers, Bones and All).
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1059128-queer
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024, dir Jeff Fowler)
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Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/939243-sonic-the-hedgehog-3
That's just an omegaverse bench that's received its life mate.
Bathroom design advice: don’t hang mirrors facing toilets.
There was that whole Duck Tales episode about inflation as well…
Agreed. It's a good thing that "no victory laps yet" is not the same as "it sucks".
"No victory laps yet" means "the work isn't done yet." You only get what you demand and are willing to fight for.
MA law doesn’t force insurance providers to cover gender-affirming hair electrolysis, so most don’t. Trans women with facial hair and cis women suffering from hirsutism are all expected to live with their beards and hairy shoulders.
Washington, Oregon, California and other states have laws on the books making it illegal for medical insurance providers to deny coverage of treatment for these conditions.
MA doesn’t get to do victory laps for its progressive bone fides until it gets with the program and takes care of its women.
Answering the unasked question “What if Edward Snowden, but Jack Bauer?”
You got it right the first time: ribbed tanks; still bringing the machismo and big trans-masc energy. :)
Ahh the New York Times, never missing an opportunity to throw trans folks under the bus.
Gov. Beshear talks a big game about vetoing anti-LGBTQ legislation, but the article they even link to about it points out (in the headline no less) that every one of those vetoes were overruled (and that doing so is trivial in Kentucky). He is describing a pantomime of concern for the queer community, wrapped in dog-whistle language (“all children are children of God”), while functionally doing as little as possible to actually help them.
This is a lesson for despondent Democrats in how they can softly give up on protecting a persecuted community to get what they want.
As a trans person, I agree the Democratic party’s messaging on trans issues has been lackluster and easy to counter.
The kids sports talking point was so effective because is brought up a good point that blanket trans acceptance hadn’t considered. Testosterone is literally a performance enhancing drug, so maybe going through male puberty makes someone ineligible to compete on a women’s team. That sucks, but in the same way that it sucks that other medical conditions would also keep you off the team. Being trans is not a disability, but the disqualification can be a point of disappointment as opposed to actual injustice.
I’m a late-transitioning trans lady, and I’m willing to concede that. These are the kinds of discussions that I’ve had with conservative family members that are very compelling, but they get bulldozed by broad, non-nuanced talking points that the media slaps against one another.
I’m also not a politician or an expert communicator. It is so frustrating that the people I literally rely on to do those jobs for my benefit are doing this so poorly.
Any discussion about rights for transgender people that starts with the roster choices on children’s sports teams is a bullshit discussion. It’s incendiary rhetoric designed to unsettle people who have never engaged with transgender people.
The counter-argument for that should be “do you know how many kids that affects? This is not a serious issue. You know what is? Trans victims of discrimination and hate crimes. That’s what we should be talking about, not some kids’ soccer league.”
Start treating this talking point like the ridiculous corner case that it is and pivot to the real problems.
Spoiler: It's a bunch of embedded twitter posts, without the courtesy of providing screenshots. If you have twitter blocked, nothing is visible.
Curious.
I keep a close eye on the job listings posted to Mozilla's job board. They don't post new job openings very often, so I always want to be tuned in when new listing pop up. All of a sudden, a lot of new job openings have appeared for a company that just laid off 36 people...
Oct 30 2024:
Oct 31 2024:
Nov 1 2024:
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- Senior Software Engineer, Services
- Staff Test Engineer
- Senior Director of Product, Firefox Growth
- Senior Product Manager, Sync Ecosystem
- Staff Software Engineer, OS Integrations
- Senior Data Engineer
- Client Analytics Manager
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, øDin GenAI Bug Bounty
- Staff Desktop Systems Specialist
- Staff Fullstack Engineer, Anonym
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fakespot
- Staff Mobile Product Manager
Nov 4 2024:
- Senior Staff Fullstack Engineer, Solo
- Senior Software Engineer
- Senior Staff Product Manager, Search
- Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
- Senior Front-End Engineer, Firefox
Nov 5 2024:
fucking hell i hope not
Historical blessings from the internet of yore.
I chatted with Boeing strikers about this.
The contract proposal was announced on Halloween, with the strikers getting contract details in a conference call that night (while many were either out trick or treating with their kids or otherwise having fun). The vote was scheduled for Monday, the day before a massively monumental election.
They didn’t get the pensions they wanted most. This entire thing was timed for maximum anxiety and distraction.
The timing of this is very suspect: Halloween Eve, when people are out with kids or having fun, calling for a union vote literally the day before a massively consequential presidential election.
Both sides are getting desperate. Keep hanging on for that pension!
This is what voter suppression looks like.
I grew up in Missouri before moving to Washington state. When I reached voting age, it was (and still is) ridiculously common to see polling places in rural and suburban areas with no waiting to vote. Meanwhile, in the cities (which happen to vote more democratic), you’ll see loooong lines extending outside. When voting facilities and staff are not proportionally distributed to accommodate voter density, you get shit like this; voters in different districts receiving different treatment. And people who live there never know any better to ask for something different.
This all blew my mind after living first in a suburban area, then an urban one, and now living in a state that has done voting my mail for decades. I love voting by mail. It’s unconcionable to me at this point for people to stand for in-person voting anymore.