Film critic for Vital Thrills, former president of Houston Film Critics Society. Writer / publisher @AmpComics, Currently KULIPARI for @Netflix.
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Joshua Starnes retweeted
Today we lost Walter Koenig.
Some thoughts about a fine actor and an exceptional human being...
That’s definitely not what is happening. The only thing jeopardizing rights are purity tests that will put republicans in charge.
They’re not mad because they’ve turned towards right wing voters on trans issues, they’re mad because they haven’t and criticism is unwarranted
People probably should have listened to @hecubian_devil more
Are European airlines crashing a lot?
Matt Yglesias wants you to die in a plane crash, apparently. nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opini…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Yglesias argues US 1500-hr pilot rule (vs Europe ~200) is job protection raising fares, not safety. Europe has comparable safety per IATA. He says he wants no crashes, just to end a pretextual rule. Colgan pilots exceeded 1500 hrs.
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I get the reluctance to bring in too much former WWE talent, and that really is a niche TNA fills, but this could have really helped AEW women’s tags.
For all the nihilist saying all you need is ‘a good guy with a gun’ this does not seem like an optimum outcome
NY Post: Oregon school shooter "tried to enter through the school’s front door but was blocked by two bystanders, including a dad of two little girls at the school...The man opened fire on Griffin with a concealed weapon he was carrying, thwarting the teen’s attempt to go in the front, sources said. Refusing to give up, Griffin ran around to the school’s back door and blew off its lock — which was designed to prevent such tragedies, sources said. He entered the school and headed straight for his former special-needs classroom and opened fire, killing three students, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher, while also injuring a 7-year-old in a wheelchair and a 54-year-old teacher before being gunned down by the gun-toting dad who had spotted him out front."
nypost.com/2026/10/16/us-new…
I promise you Jolt Cola was easy to find in the 90s.
I spoke to STREET FIGHTER director Kitao Sakurai yesterday, which happened to be right as reviews were posting. I had a lot of questions about this movie. indiewire.com/features/inter…
I don’t know why they’re surprised, she was obviously going to do this. Crank’s gonna crank.
(NYP) Zohran Mamdani’s team “pissed” over Darializa Avila Chevalier’s calls for Tisch to be canned: “Direct undermining of Mamdani”
nypost.com/2026/10/14/us-new…
Joshua Starnes retweeted
It’s fun watching these losers realize “co-governance” is not a thing and DSA elected officials are accountable to the whole electorate like all other officials
There’s a lot of truth to this, moreso on Twitter than outside of it.
I am not anti film critic. I love film criticism. It is essential to have smart brains giving real analysis on the most dominant art form of our lifetime. However, the field is muddled with groupthink and ideological dogma, not to mention a mass infestation of Dunning-Krugerism. Politically the line starts left of center, and only grows more acceptable as the graph goes left. It's bad for movies but, more importantly, it's disconnected from half of the country, if not the world.
I doubt all of these credentialed critics are as party line as their collective would make them out to be. They are under the same pressures of being cancelled as any other job, if not more due to the need for readership. But there's no excuse. You chose to to be a public voice, and if you calibrate one word of it to placate employers, audiences, and your paycheck out of repercussions, you are the sellout you accuse many filmmakers of being.
Film criticism is very important work. It frames the mass hallucination of our time - moving images - and the basic rule is to keep it honest. The most honest person in the room is often the least popular. They exist, they are few, and yes, they are unpopular. Anyway if your thinking is groupthink, either you don't have the skill to realize it, surpass it, or you're faking it.
The fact that so many people in film twitter think the best relationship with finders and makers of film is a kind of renaissance patronage rather than a business does not speak well of the health of the business.
This is partly true but I think they also resent when a movie seems to be looking down on them, which iniarittu films tend to do. As much as it reminds me of Megalopolis it reminds of Joker Foliex au Du that way.
Reaction to the movie will remain divided but this should be a big part of Tom’s reel forever. This should get a rightful place alongside his definitive performances.
Probably he means metric ton because a lot of freight, even liquid freight, is measured and priced in weight and not volume that way. The conversion to barrel is around 7.4 and then 42 gallons per barrel.
To give some necessary context, and assuming the President means US Tons of already refined diesel:
One US Short Ton is 2,000 pounds. 300,000 US Short Tons is 600,000,000 pounds. One gallon of diesel fuel is around 7 pounds. Meaning 300,000 US Short Tons is a little over 85M gallons of diesel.
These are approximate numbers since diesel usage is measured in volume, not mass, since density can change based on things like temperature.
For reference, the United States uses about 160M gallons of diesel fuel per day. Globally, that number exceeds 1B gallons of diesel per day.
Even if Russia supplied all 4,800,000 Tons of diesel as claimed, that would be just 1.37B gallons of diesel reaching market. Or, roughly, one day of global use when you factor how much diesel is burned just to deliver that diesel.
Not that Russia can even supply that much diesel with close to 50% of its refining capacity destroyed or disabled.