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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Imagining that it was perfectly rational to keep a complete set of women's clothes in the house just in case you end up having someone over who has somewhere important to be the next day and no clean clothes to wear.

 

A small group of 23-year-olds attempt to make it in their respective art careers all the while dealing with love, loss, growing up, and reality.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1483654-song-three

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 8 hours ago

Filings show Seattle Strong responded to Nestlé, saying the petition is “an ill-fated effort by a large multinational company to control the use of the name of the city ‘Seattle’ in coffee-related products in an attempt to bully a small, local coffee company from Seattle.”

The filing in question: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92087959-CAN-4.pdf

 

Following the revelations in the season one finale, John and Quiet find themselves entering the deadly TWISTED METAL tournament, a sinister demolition derby hosted by a mysterious man known as Calypso. As they try to survive an onslaught of dangerous new foes and familiar faces alike, including the murderous clown Sweet Tooth, things get complicated for John when he reunites with his long-lost sister, the vigilante Dollface.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/133748-twisted-metal

 

A musical documentary celebrating the life and work of glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan, combined with a behind-the-scenes look at the tribute album of the same name.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/965361-angelheaded-hipster-the-songs-of-marc-bolan-t-rex

 

A show about a family, over time. It's about the shared history, the inside jokes, the old wounds. If you've ever had a mother, father, sibling, partner, or child, this is the show for you and by the way would it kill you to call them?

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/262375-long-story-short

 

Original title (KK): Гибель Отрара (Gibel' Otrara, The Death of Otrar)

Kazakh New Wave director Ardak Amirkulov’s The Fall of Otrar is a hypnotic epic about one of world history’s crucial military battles. In the early thirteenth century, Genghis Khan conquered Otrar, a major city in the old Persian kingdom of Khwarazm and a gateway to the West. This victory marked the fearsome warrior’s first campaign beyond traditional Mongol territory—and the opening salvo to his near complete domination of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Evoking the dynamic pacing of Akira Kurosawa, and the hallucinatory sensuousness of Tarkovsky (aided by a deft alternation among color, black-and-white, and sepia film stocks), Amirkulov follows the buildup to war through the eyes of Unjukhan (Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev), an audacious Kipchak soldier who tries to convince Khwarazm’s ruler (Tungyshpai Zhamankulov) of Khan’s imminent invasion. As a former Mongol scout, Unjukhan well knows Khan’s canniness and brutality, but when his pleas are taken for insolence, he must escape imprisonment to stop an escalating diplomatic crisis and to avert a clash of civilizations. With a panoramic scope that covers the intimate details of palace intrigue as well as the merciless sweep of battlefield carnage, The Fall of Otrar is a masterful imagining of the seismic changes of history—and a terrifying, electrifying feast for the senses.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48683

 

Original title (TR): Geleceğe Mektuplar (Letters to the Future)

In 2003, Fatma Ayar, a teacher at a private high school, assigned her Literature Club students to write letters to themselves as part of PTT's "Letters from the Past" campaign. These letters, intended to be delivered in 2023, were accidentally discovered by Fatma Ayar's daughter, Elif. As these forgotten letters resurface and impact the lives of their original recipients, Elif also faces a truth that will drastically change her own life.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/278006-gelecege-mektuplar

 

SpongeBob travels to the depths of the ocean and faces off against the ghost of the Flying Dutchman.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/991494-the-spongebob-movie-search-for-squarepants

 

A filmmaker chronicles her mother’s last 6 months in a 5-star nursing home exposing the systemic, deadly, profit-over-people business model. No Country For Old People is a scorching documentary posed to set the long term care industry, policy makers, and the country ablaze. Shining a much-needed light on what is truly a national human emergency, it is a clarion call for serious change.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/292155-no-country-for-old-people

 

The Little Things explores the staff, families and children within the walls of Derian House Children’s Hospice. Their personal stories highlight the profound impact of the support offered whilst breaking down prejudices surrounding children’s hospice care, illuminating the enduring power of hope and resilience in the face of life's most profound challenges.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1356682-the-little-things

 

After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. During a visit to a porn theater, he encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion, oscillating between exploitation and protection, jealousy and complicity.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1274746-baby

 

Original title (JP): シャリ (Shari)

Welcome to Shari: a small town on the north-east coast of Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, on the Shiretoko Peninsula where the Sea of Okhotsk meets Russian shores. Here, we meet hunters and bakers who love venison a few ways; flying squirrel enthusiasts and a collector known for his “Hall of Hidden Treasures.” At the heart of it all is the conspicuous absence of drift ice and fish in this crucial winter season. Meanwhile, the Red Thing, a yeti-like creature, sanguine “like a throbbing blood clot” rampages through the scenery where folklore blossoms from the meeting between human and nature... the latter now skipping a beat.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/924248

 

A group of strangers flee captivity through an unfamiliar forest hunted by masked killers.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1120869-run-from-hell

Additionally, the stars and moon actually exist.

The restaurant was Mioposto in Ravenna.

Here's the article from a website that isn't owned by Sinclair media:

https://seattle.eater.com/restaurant-news/87265/mioposto-pizzeria-car-crash-injuries-july-4

A July 4 dinner service at the Ravenna location of Mioposto came to a bizarre and sudden end around 8:20 p.m. when an SUV ran a red light on 35th Avenue Northeast and crashed into the dining room.

“This car just was like maximum speed through the glass wall,” Vania Kurniawati told Nonstop Local News. “It kind of looked like it was a movie. And then next thing you know things came crashing down and I felt glass shards everywhere.” Kurniawati was one of three people taken to the hospital after the crash. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to the restaurant.

After the Chevy Tahoe smashed through the wall it began to leak gas, according to KING 5. The restaurant staff sprang into action. “Our team’s response that evening was nothing short of heroic,” says Robyn Nielsen, the director of marketing for Sound Restaurant Family, which owns Mioposto. “Jolyn took command of the space, organizing guests and guiding them out through the back door. Garret and Evan physically helped carry people out of the restaurant. Diana reentered the damaged building to retrieve guests’ belongings, and Victoria along with others consoled shaken guests and staff. You never know how you’ll react in a traumatic moment like that, but we’re not surprised our team met it with bravery and care.”

Police say the driver was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to the Seattle Times, and was not arrested at the scene. The driver “may face significant financial penalties in civil court,” a police spokesperson told the paper.

It’s unclear when Mioposto’s Ravenna location will reopen, as the full extent of the damage isn’t even known. (Mioposto has three other locations in the Seattle area, and a new restaurant in Eastlake opening later this summer.)

“Right now, our top priority is supporting our Ravenna team,” says Nielsen. “Their jobs are secure, and we’re committed to taking care of them throughout this closure.”

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is very valuable context.

For citations, the only references I see to "pronouns" in their github project is in a section called "Human language policy" in CONTRIBUTING.md (link). Here's the relevant part:

In Ladybird, we treat human language as seriously as we do programming language. The following applies to all user-facing strings, code, comments, and commit messages: ... Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.

That sounds pretty cash-money to me.

There's one additional reference in a pull request discussing whether or not to use "we" when referring to recommendations of the engineering team (as in "we recommend" vs "it is recommended"). Minutia.

I'm not as interested in litigating this matter than I am in putting it to bed (along with any and all definitive citations and evidence such that I can refer back to this comment thread in the future when the question inevitably comes up again.)

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think this may be the issue to which you are referring:

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

While this is troubling to read about, this narrative’s lack of evidence or references keep me from accepting it at face value. Old mastodon chatter (and perhaps deleted posts or scuttled instances) may be difficult to retrieve, but GitHub discussions shouldn’t be hard to find.

So I’m withholding judgement for the moment.

UPDATE: Commenter lime!@feddit.nu wrote this terrific comment that provides confirmation of the above narrative, corrective action that the LadyBird engineering team has taken taken, plus some vitally important context of the entire kerfuffle. A+ work.

The ~~best~~ horror movies of 2025 (so far)

The Shrouds was a genuine disappointment; vaguely spooky trappings and an eye-catching pedigree churning out a dull mystery about the expansion challenges of a budding multinational corporation.

I don’t know what people were seeing in Companion, either. I just didn’t see the magic in it that everyone else did.

It’s nice to see Dead Mail and Best Wishes to All make the list, though. They deserve the attention.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (55 children)

For those holding out for a hero: https://ladybird.org/

Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render the modern web with good performance, stability and security.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I honestly think the use of u-haul trucks is a fluke. Future deployments will have them showing up in vans and buses.

It’s the elusive search for multi-quadrant musicians that will be palatable to country music fans along with literally any other audience.

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