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Jbrown
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Filmmaker. Animator. Bad knees. rattlesnakefilms.ca
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Director commentaries were a huge part of my education as a filmmaker, so I decided to record one for my short film Dragon Fruit. It ended up being a emotional walk down memory lane, but (I hope) an interesting listen!
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DRAGON FRUIT - Short Film - DIRECTOR COMMENTARY
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When he speaks for the U.S., he's generally not talking about the government.

He's saying he will prohibit U.S. businesses from exporting American products, while preventing Americans from buying European products. This isn't a slap at the EU. It's an attack on American businesses and consumers.
Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU
September 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Not beating that “telling Canada who we can trade with” accusation is he?
Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU
September 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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When no one believes a country can pay back its debts, people stop buying its bonds. And if that happens, it starts to mean the currency or money is worthless because the markets stop believing it has value. The belief that the US was a stable country meant we could basically spend what we want.
The bond market is signaling trouble ahead. This is why you should pay attention
Many people don't pay attention to bond markets, but they should — especially now. This is why they matter and why the drop in bond prices is signaling investor concerns about the U.S. economy.
www.npr.org
September 16, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.
September 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."
September 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM
lol
Just had an interesting discussion with the 23yo on the subject of: if an attack substantially similar to 9/11 happened tomorrow, would the US response be any more wise or judicious than it was to 9/11?

What do you think?
September 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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There are not many days that I don't remember this scene from Deadwood, and it resonates with me to the core.
September 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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The Fed just voted to raise interest rates, so expect Trump to end all trade with Wakanda
Trump says he will cut off all trade entirely with "some nations" unless the Fed lowers interest rates
September 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Of course he won't. He's not even a full participant on the team at this point.
September 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Everything's falling into place
September 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
lol
Vance's midterms pitch: "Give us another chance. Give us another couple of years"
September 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Then they have to leave the EU too
September 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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"We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face."

Active military personnel reveal widespread damage to multiple US sites in the Middle East from Iranian strikes. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Photos show widespread damage at US sites from Iranian attacks
A wrecked air force plane and destroyed buildings are among the images obtained by the BBC's partner CBS News.
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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"60 Minutes. More like 60 viewers!"
September 16, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Does this mean we can live and work in the EU now?
September 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
September 16, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ Premieres in North America as Director Calls For People to “Stand Up and Resist”
Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ Premieres in North America as Director Calls For People to “Stand Up and Resist”
A polite but outraged crowd greeted Alex Gibney’s epic four-hour Elon Musk documentary at the Toronto Film Festival Monday night, marking the film’s arrival in North America and offering a glimpse into how the investigative grenade might land in theaters when it’s released in October.“I found it very overwhelming. And that’s a compliment,” one of the people in the audience said.That filmgoer would know — she was Katie Drummond, global editorial director of Wired and a key voice in the film, who was seeing it for the first time. “What stands out to me is how all encompassing [Musk’s] reach and power really are,” she said from the stage, standing next to Gibney.As documented in a Hollywood Reporter cover story two weeks ago, Musk is a four-hour dive into the growing economic and social influence of its polarizing title mogul, sweeping through his fiefdoms that range from AI to social media to automobiles to outer space and questioning both the credit given him and the lack of skepticism about the power he has accrued. One standout section focuses on the secrecy-clouded four-month DOGE period in Washington in which Musk and people who worked for him potentially collected intimate data on tens of millions of Americans, possibly even for later political use.Gibney keyed on that aspect at the Toronto premiere. “Shadow president of the United States,” is how he referred to Musk at one point speaking from the stage, and added, “I think we’re recognizing that a few billionaires are trying to take control of the world and it’s up to us to stand up and resist.”
bit.ly
September 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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It's funny how much more badass Ms. Rachel is than basically all rock/pop stars.
September 15, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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I, personally, would never want Ms. Rachel to be disappointed in me.
September 14, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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watching this ad was enough to convince me that Wolf Of Wall Street was the most unintentionally harmful movie of the 21st century
September 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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“Worst person you know” meme
Alright, I realize this website is not going to be full of Stephen Harper fans.

But for him to stand up before the global finance community and say this is seismic.
September 15, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
September 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Now opening for Ed Sheeran: KIIIIIIIIIIIIIID ROCK!
September 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Wild that there must have been enough cases of bestiality in their potential recruits that they had to loosen hiring rules to get enough of them in.
PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it

KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?

P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them

K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.
September 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
September 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM