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@sameoldstory.co Like movies are so short you should have most lines of dialogue accomplish two or three things (eg move the story along but also give you insight into the character) and lots of lines in these movies do zero things

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@sameoldstory.co The dialogue gives them nothing. Like we all mock Hayden Christensen’s lines about sand but how exactly is he supposed to emote such a banal observation? Have him complain about something tangentially related to his childhood as a literal slave instead maybe??? Nah didn’t think of that

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@sameoldstory.co Every good actor does such a bad job in these movies it’s obviously mainly a directing issue (except for Palpatine who is reviving a character he played before!). All the green screen stuff is brand new to them too

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@sameoldstory.co yeah it’s weird that Bluesky imports the markdown formatting from micro.blog and other sites, but we can’t use it natively??

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@sameoldstory.co Tbh my kid LOVED there being a little kid protagonist (easily her favorite character even before she found out he becomes her other favorite, Darth Vader) so kinda like Wesley Crusher this maybe does make sense in retrospect. The entire second movie though is agonizingly boring

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@werrrp.bsky.social I feel like most parents wouldn’t actually mind this IF you are like “oh that was easy with my kid” and not “I have cracked the code about how to make a small child eat/sleep/whatever, why doesn’t everyone just do this”

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@laurasaurus.bsky.social yeah even with my first easy eating baby it was very apparent I couldn’t MAKE her eat

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One thing I am grateful for is I was extra sure not to be smug when I was the parent of only one single baby, because those parents can be as bad or even worse as the “when I have kids” crowd. Oh “it’s not that hard”? Yeah, I bet it isn’t!

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Hot off the needles, these baby socks took me an absurd amount of time, like six months. They still fit him though! 🧶

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@sameoldstory.co This is a general observation but I was reminded today by a local issue, he appears to be freaking out about working from home, which feels like a moral panic that blew over 18 months ago?

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I will never understand Gavin Newsom’s (lack of?) political instincts.

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@huge-jackedman.bsky.social Sometimes an ineffectual senator falls in love with a horrible war criminal, tale as old as time

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Watching: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 🍿 Going through these movies with our oldest kid is really forcing us to confront how bad they were

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@figgityfigs.bsky.social And interest gap, because of the city he represents I hear about Mamdani approximately five thousand times more frequently than my own mayor

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@hellabarnes.bsky.social if people alt text it somewhat consistently a normal mute will actually work

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@willkeats.bsky.social It’s weird that it is because nobody I know irl appears to use it (and I connected it to my IG so I should know!)

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@sameoldstory.co I 💯 blame the media for this and agree it’s a factor but I suspect the media is picking up more signals from the general public than maybe we want to admit sometimes

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Reading on Micro.blog definitely makes me rethink my habits of “engaging” with a post via like or RT.

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@sameoldstory.co yeah, this is not actually specific to trans people or anything. It’s just a general “i told you i’m outside the system mannnnnnn” kind of person (lots of communists behave the same way, and I think it’s going out as a social group identifier but lots of music fandoms used to do this too)

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@sameoldstory.co It’s definitely not goodbye

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@sameoldstory.co I extremely hate the media too but I do think the public generally knows that Trump was corrupt and so were W Bush and Reagan

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@sameoldstory.co Yeah this is exactly what I think it is. Republicans are white dudes making the hard choices and doing what they must. But Democrats are women and minorities (or white dudes who are serving women and minority interests) 😱

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@sameoldstory.co Really if you think the public doesn’t cut Republicans tons of slack I think the burden of proof is on you because that’s the straight line explanation for event in 1980 to Donald Trump being president today

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@sameoldstory.co This has been going on my ENTIRE life as Michael illustrates here so I’m not sure this can be explained as a missteppy triangulation problem

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@sameoldstory.co Like we have a lot of complicated theories about framing and the media and politicians and who’s taking what for granted but what if the public just thinks crimes are more defensible/at least less of a big deal when Republicans do them

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@eleanor.lockhart.contact It’s really frustrating watching people (in that thread and elsewhere) try and make these sweeping statements about politics and struggle and their place in the world that basically amount to “but my friends think harassing those guys is fine”

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@shoe.bsky.social Basically all my favorite Metallica songs have embarrassing I’m-14-and-this-is-deep lyrics. Fade to Black is incredible and only even has lyrics for half the song but

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@sameoldstory.co I’m really frustrated by the Stancil Wars so I’m probably going to peace out for a while, maybe even deactivate. More out of irritation than anything else but I really don’t like how this gestures wildly is going!

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My sister surprised me with a Mudita Kompakt and I am definitely intrigued.

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@djdynamic.ca I’ve tooled around with Claude to see What The Hype Is and Anthropic has never asked me for money. I wonder how much would I need to be asking for in order to spend rent-numbers

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@sameoldstory.co Like it definitely wasn’t weird for parents to turn on The Wizard Of Oz or Mary Poppins or any of the Disney movies when I was a kid! Those movies were very old at the time!

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I’m getting a new hard drive for Mother’s Day! 💽 Can’t wait to load that bad boy up with junk I find on the Internet

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I desperately want to make myself a pair of striped summer socks but I promised myself to get at least three WIPs done before I even consider it 🧶

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Someday, maybe years from now, I’m going to need to do some calculating and I won’t have my phone but I’ll be wearing this watch, and I’m going to be so smug about it

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I’m becoming enough of a #chess sicko that I find myself looking forward to matches against much higher rated opponents as I learn a lot about new attack strategies and weaknesses in my own defenses ♟️

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Unexpected consequence of permanent contacts* is I’m having trouble sleeping. I had gotten used to using my own blindness like a sleeping mask

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*I’ve stopped saying “fixed my eyes” since through this process I’ve learned more about severe myopia and how poor vision is just one of my problems ☹️

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🌱 My favorites from today’s bonsai show (put on by the Sacramento Bonsai Club.

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Time to fix my second eye!

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Shopping locally is kind of stressful. One specific guy makes our favorite yogurt. So much is riding on him!!

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Just tested at 20/20. Wow! I’m not in any pain either. Next eye is Tuesday! (After it’s all over I think I might write up my whole ICL experience for the benefit of future patients, since it’s not as common a procedure.)

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Watched: Elio 🍿

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This was cute but evidence of its time in development hell is pretty obvious. Major plot points are slow to start; big set pieces are irrelevant and don’t go anywhere. It’s just okay in the end.

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Waiting to get wheeled into the OR for my (left) eye procedure! 😱

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I have a 48 day streak on chess.com and I think with playing everyday and doing three puzzles most of those days I’m actually starting to improve♟️

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My ICL surgery was delayed but only by 48 hours, and so it didn’t make sense to last-minute change my PTO plans to work only Tuesday this week; nevertheless I feel like I’m playing hooky from work (I am 40 years old)

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We are home from San Francisco, but had a really great time!

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My micro.blog Reading List display is just irrevocably screwed up for some reason. Doesn’t matter if I change themes, or even plug-ins, it displays the exact same awful way

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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚

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Wow. I read this in an evening and I’m not entirely sure what to think about it even still. To me this is pretty obviously a (perhaps subconscious) metaphor for the Holocaust, but most of the commentary online doesn’t mention it, which surprises me

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My new watch didn’t really help me use my phone less, because I love it so much I became briefly obsessed with finding out everything there is to know about Casio digital watches. I might have to find out more about watches in general now.

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Step 1: Set the kids up in front of the TV so I can organize the toys in their room

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Step 2: Become increasingly irate they have ever spent one single second watching TV when they have this many toys

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Bonsai show today 🌱 Courtesy of the American Bonsai Association

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