The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

🎬 Peter Jackson

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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

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I don't think people truly understand the gravity of Rafah being bombed.

There is nowhere left to go.

The lowest cost is $5,000 USD to flee to Egypt. There has been people paying over $10,000 USD.

That is the only option

Pay or die.

Rafah was the only place in Palestine promised not to be bombed. That promise is broken.

1.5 million people have nowhere to go!

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also I love that Grover gets separated from the kids and immediately starts playing mind games with a god. he's like finally I don't have to be a good role model for a second. let's talk brutality.

yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

This is even WORSE.

To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,

You can only reblog this on the 3st of January

the 3st huh?

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it’s just… Social media. That’s it. Social media and news sites. And I’m tired of social media and I’m tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

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ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose

Another one that I just found recently is this, which is a whole collection of blogs, organized by topic!

Look guys the real internet IS STILL THERE I’m going to cry

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a tech company saying "we know change can be scary" in the midst of user backlash has the same energy as "the Titanic is virtually unsinkable"

so I guess they just don't teach buisness majors about the New Coke fiasco

It's genuinely kinda weird to me- I recently graduated in UX and a lot of the major issues I've got with the new layout is not that it looks different. The information architecture of the app genuinely means that navigating the app takes more work (more taps/button presses in this case) than the previous layout.

Nothing in an app or site should take more than 3 taps to get anywhere. It kinda just tells me they didn't have any concurrent users testing it (WHICH THEY SHOULD BE- AS THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE) prior to pushing the changes. Yes it might be Prettier and seem better organized than before, but switching between a server and a dm was 1 swipe 1 tap before, now its:

Swipe to bring up the menu, tap the dms menu, tap to pull up the unread dm, and your previous dm that you were looking at no longer pulls automatically too.

And that's not mentioning you can't search for a message server-wide on mobile before. You have to check each channel painstakingly instead of having a full peek at the entire server.

On voice it is much harder to pull up the conversation to mute my mic if needed, I just needed to swipe up before, now pulling the nav bar is a double tap and a swipe up (unsure which because it's barely responsive for me). Additionally, maybe my friend just couldn't find it, but they may have removed mobile push to talk as well.

And the fact that we can't swipe right to pull up the other side menu and must instead click the header when in a chat channel? It isn't intuitive. The reply function is given priority over an entire side menu. That doesn't make sense to me.

Anyways the point is. They committed one of the major sins of UX by rearranging their information architecture. The user has to work more to navigate the app period. It's not an issue with adjusting to the new layout. It is actually SIGNIFICANTLY more work to navigate the app.

Sorry to have a huge rant over this I'm just very passionate. If anybody has any questions you can ask me though. 👍

@lotr20 | Day 7 ↳ 20th anniversary of The Return of the King

i'm seeing people losing hope for palestine i'm begging you seriously please don't. the death toll is high but there are still people alive, there are still journalists risking everything to make sure the world sees what is happening. please continue protesting if you have the option to, keep demanding for a ceasefire and keep talking about palestinians both alive and dead. you have to keep going until the very end or else you really did fail them.

Reminder that before all this, the population of Gaza was approximately 2,300,000. The current death toll is around 15,500 - possibly as many as 20,000. That's horrific, yes. But that means that there are still at least 2,280,000 gazans alive and kicking. There are 2.28 million people who would benefit from a permanent ceasefire; for an end to Israeli hostility; for increased aid and reliable access to food and water. There are still 2.28 million people that Israel has not managed to kill.

So keep making noise. Do whatever you can to help those 2.28 million living people, and to remember and honour the 15,000-20,000 lives that have been taken. Giving up on Gaza helps no one but Israel.

If you fucks actually go through with not voting on your next USA president elections and subsequently lead Trump to power again.

Yes. Yes I'm going to blame every single American for that. Collective responsibility and all that jazz.

Explaining in simple terms: if you don't vote for Biden because "he is murdering palestinian babies", you will get Trump as a president, who, being an open and proud islamophobe, will murder even more palestinian babies.

It is no good situation when you have to choose between two shitty candidates. But you have a two-party system.

russia has previously aided trump during elections, and they will do so again. A call to boycott the elections = a call to support trump

You are in no position to afford the privilege of being idiots.

Also this.

Also, a lot of his goons have been filling a LOT of important spots in the military and civilian fields to have positions available for trump to fill in with his loyalists and to easier do a hostile takeover if he wins the election.

IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR BIDEN YOU WILL GET A DICTATORSHIP BY TRUMP AND WE WILL ALL BE FUCKED

I don't know how many times we have to tell people to make everythingin their power to stop Trump from coming to power again. USA will be fucked. Ukraine will be fucked. Palestine would be fucked. We don't know how many other countries will be fucked.

Trump's presidency already gave cart blanche for the international far right rise, and I don't think we need to spell out to people that the state of the world today is directly credited to Trump's presidency, his incompetence, him being Russian puppet, etc etc.

As much as I am actually an opponent of the whole idea that USA is responsible of everything in the world, it does have a huge influence on international politics scene.

SO GO VOTE.

And since USA is a democracy, then, again, y'all are responsible for the president you elect.

Also, in 2016 Russia went hard on surreptitiously spreading propaganda to get people not to vote for Clinton. We already know that Russia is using bots to spread misinfo about the Israel-Gaza war. I don't think it's a coincidence that we are suddenly seeing tons of posts about how we shouldn't vote for Biden in 2024. You are not immune to propaganda.

People have the wrong idea about what propaganda is, and how it works.

They think that propaganda is basically brainwashing, having ideas you abhor forced into your head against your will A Clockwork Orange style, but that's not how it happens.

The most dangerous propaganda sounds 80% like what you already believe, and the last 20% gives you an obvious-seeming leading thought that gives you an excuse not to think.

"We need to pressure our politicians to protect Palestinians!"

Good, yes, agree with that

"...and therefore if you vote for democrats you're complicit in genocide."

And there's the thought-terminating cliche, designed to get you to behave in a way that's useful to the people writing the propaganda. In this case, not voting for left-wing candidates in upcoming elections out of a desire to punish them.

Its hard to stand up for your principles when you're pushed with an emotionally-charged attack designed to make you either look like a monster for wanting to think critically, or give in to groupthink and agree with the mob that says voting is stupid and pointless.

I'm starting to believe that the most important skill in the information age is knowing where your opinions come from. Did you come to that conclusion yourself? Or were you agreeing with a trusted friend? Or did an anonymous internet account shame you into going along with it for fear of being accused of supporting violence?

Every electoral system involves sorting the electorate--directly, or via their elected representatives--until a majority or a large enough plurality are able to agree with each other to form a working coalition.

In a parliamentary system this sorting takes place after the election, as parties that all represent a small portion of the electorate figure out who they can stand to work with, and who it's impossible to find any compromise with.

In a system with directly elected representatives, but a ranked choice ballot, this sorting takes place via the election itself--the ballot lets each voter decide who they are willing to be in coalition with and who they are not.

In a system like that of the U.S., which combines direct election of representatives with a winner-take-all ballot, this sorting happens BEFORE the election--like a game of Red Rover, two parties exchange voters on their fringes. Blocs of the electorate associate themselves with one party or the other.

This system--well, firstly, it sucks, I'll say that right away. But we're not going to be able to overhaul it by next November. But it also invariably leads, not just to a two-party system, but a two-party system where neither party is liked or trusted--not even by their own voters. This system DOES NOT CREATE CONDITIONS in which most voters are able to feel they are well-represented by either party. The parties are the results of trying to divide the entire electorate--every political position that every voter in the nation holds--into two parts that can agree with each other well enough to work together.

What this has always meant is that putting together a majority, for either party, means assembling an uneasy coalition of people with deep disagreements with each other.

WHAT THIS MEANS right now, when one party has openly espoused fascism, is that the other party takes in everyone who is not a fascist.

Whatever other--extremely valid!--disagreements they have.

The Republicans have made the 2024 elections a referendum on the question "Should the U.S. be a fascist dictatorship?"

The good news is that the set of "everyone who is not a fascist or enabling fascists" is larger than the set of fascists.

The bad news is that that set includes people who do not agree with you on literally anything else--and that structurally, until the fascists are driven out of public life, you and them are both stuck using the same party to try to advance your interests.

my estimation is that the reason the calls for global strike tomorrow (dec 12th) seem uncoordinated is because they're coming from inside palestine and were shared by palestinians inside palestine instead of being organized independently by each country. they seem most focused within the west bank and jordan.

however, we've seen a lot of people worldwide take up this call and several organizers within the US and other countries do it in their own way. one of the primary asks is to just disrupt the global market. if you can't call in sick and must go to work, then don't use your credit card tomorrow. some have said don't log into facebook and instagram—sure. that too. if you can participate in protests after work instead, do that. if you are not an essential worker, if you can shut down a store, and bookstore, if you have a small business, make sure to let people know you are not working because you are striking for palestine. if you're a student and you can, don't go to class. if you're a teacher and you can, call in sick. if you have exams (as many do) you can just refrain from buying anything, join a protest after, or share the boycott news. one student not showing up may not do much—three students not showing up reminds people that there's a strike. talking about it, even if you won't participate in it, helps. talking about it, even just to say "oh there's supposed to be a strike today" helps.

it is a flexible form of disruption. the priority is disrupting businesses and the flow of commerce, so more than not going to work, not using your credit card is far more important.

consider this a trial run in disruption on behalf of those inside palestine. yes bigger and more organized global strikes that can coordinate with local groups are needed. but small chain reactions like this also create disruption, increase pressure, and remind people that the genocide is on-going. they also build up to bigger and more sustained strikes.

crying because an elf prince, dwarf lord and a fucking king of men dropped everything and ran over 100 miles with barely any rest, to rescue a couple of halflings (who were worth nothing outside the shire, and functionally little more than a burden) because they were their friends.

screaming and throwing up because the golden boy of gondor, the steward's eldest son and his pride and joy; noble heir of the house of húrin, sacrificed his life for those self-same halflings

I think the reason so many LOTR ripoffs fail is because they make their Aragorn analogue the main character, when the entire point of Aragorn is that he’s “the person the villains think is the main character, but is Not.”

Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.

Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.

And it works! Sauron is so fixated on defeating his Legendary Destined Archenemy with Extreme Main Character Energy that he completely overlooks the two ordinary little guys who were the real threat to him all along.

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

i'm seeing people losing hope for palestine i'm begging you seriously please don't. the death toll is high but there are still people alive, there are still journalists risking everything to make sure the world sees what is happening. please continue protesting if you have the option to, keep demanding for a ceasefire and keep talking about palestinians both alive and dead. you have to keep going until the very end or else you really did fail them.