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TV and MediaLove, Lies, Bleeding Review
So my girlfriend and I watched Love, Lies, Bleeding last night.
It was like a lesbian version of a mashup of 80's style Rambo, Dude Where's My Car, and Quentin Tarantino Movies. If they were going for a female audience (which I would expect Kristin Stewart to do) they failed. If they were going for a lesbian audience, they already failed with women, so this sentence is redundant. The muscle growing, vein popping cuts were... beyond gross. The violence was too much for my girlfriend and she was shutting her eyes until I said, "when." What the hell were they thinking...? If the aim is to have movies with lesbian characters that are subplot of a larger story arc, this is not hitting the mark. I feel like I was duped into watching an action movie with gratuitous violence and gratuitous lesbianism for the male gaze.
The only good thing was that the characters on the surface were lesbians in the non-performative femininity sense, but they still fucked it up. We were comparing it to Duckbutter for it's levels of cringe, absurd, and gross by the end, and that is NOT a movie you want to be compared to. And Love, Lies, Bleeding is female written and directed. You failed at lesbian media to the levels of a male, Rose.
One star.
The question is if that would be allowed. They don’t allow white supremacy etc. Now the question is if they lump us in with Nazis. The failing effort to remove Jesse Singal from the platform makes me think they don’t. Minds are changing.
At the moment they seem to moderate by mob consensus. As more "normies" join up, this will probably change. At the moment the furries and fetishists and techbros outnumber the normal people but as Twitter becomes increasingly unusable more people and brands will migrate.
Over the last couple days there’s been a lot of BS promotion here. It’s strange.
Post-election, some more people finally followed through with moving to BlueSky from X, and it seems to have finally gained some mainstream relevance. It's basically like the old Twitter, but not at its peak.
I'm not sure how available self-hosting Bluesky is just yet. There's work done on that front and I'm not up-to-date on it, but I think it's still missing features.
That being said, Bluesky isn't all that different from any other self-hostable microblogging platform. You could do the same with mastodon - it's just a different protocol.
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Do other instances on ActivityPub actually federate with Spinster, or is it blocked? I only very briefly tried out Mastodon a few years ago, but I think I remember whatever instance I was on blocked tons of servers they considered objectionable so that they couldn't be seen or interacted with at all. I would assume being rad-fem would be enough for typical server owners to block a server
I'm sorry but I wouldn't even want to support that website
What do you dislike about it?