Bit of an unfocused grab back this morning -- one of those days where I just sit and type for ~5 minutes.
Glass Onion, the follow-up to Knives Out, is phenomenally good, in ways both expected and unexpected. I went in knowing effectively nothing (I think just one promo shot?), and while you don't strictly need an information vacuum to enjoy this... it's really good so just go watch it.
Well, 'go watch' is a bit weird here. One of the things I didn't know about the film was that it's a Netflix thing, and will be up there on 23rd December. BUT it is/was having a limited run in cinemas before then. I stumbled across the opportunity to go see it entirely by chance, while looking for something else. I have a very high activation threshold to actually go to a cinema, but the two films I've seen there in the past ~3 years (this and Everything Everywhere All At Once) have just left me buzzing for days.
I deactivated my Twitter account last week. I'm already -- technically -- back on there, and this blog will probably get auto-syndicated, but I don't see that as a long-term thing. I really don't know what, precisely, to do with it. I had to dive back in for some work-adjacent messages, and it's hard just to cut and run after 14 years on the site, even if I don't use it much and really don't want to be there any more.
Musk has decided that it's a good idea to extend a general amnesty to anyone suspended for non-illegal reasons, which seems... yeah, bad. I don't see the upside for anyone except Musk, really (and even then, this is probably just another one of his 'famous brain genius' moves that maybe makes sense in a parallel universe where all cows are spherical and Elon Musk is actually smart). I guess it'll drive activity on the platform for a bit 🤷♂️. But good luck with that with a decimated moderation staff.
Anyway, go see Glass Onion.
I've, separately, been listening to the soundtrack for Bones and Al, which came up on my Apple Music alerts because: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It's an odd one, in parts, but another great soundtrack from them.