cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/51443

Two-thirds of Americans want action on climate change, but people vastly underestimate public support for climate solutions and policy. Historically, U.S. news outlets overrepresented views on climate change that went against scientific consensus. If news outlets are similarly overrepresenting opposition to climate policy, it could explain the discrepancy between public support and perception.

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Acclaimed, award-winning animation from 2025

• IMDB with trailer
• Wikipedia

IMDB with trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32649961

Wikipedia

I haven't watched it yet, but I'm excited to. The look is amazing.

It's mostly shot with real effects, no wires or computer stuff. The actors had to ride horses, fight in the midst of real fire, do everything the old-fashioned way.

For maybe 4 or 5 years, I haven't voluntarily consumed any USA news, books, or entertainment.

I've made exceptions where it was socially expected of me (e.g. the niece wanted me to see Avatar 3 with her) but only a few per year.

Some changes in my psyche –

• My mind doesn't ask "Is this Western or non-Western?" as a first reflex. I don't see 'Western culture' as a unit. Some things from the so-called West are weird; some things from outside it are comfortable. (I'm also in China and Africa a few times a year; NoYank isn't the only factor.)
• Lots of world culture I don't get, it's too weird for me, e.g. Nollywood and Bollywood. But other things, e.g. African literature, do feel familiar.
• Yanko pop culture seems MORE strange and exotic to me than many things that are further in time&space. I read 14th-century Tibetan philosophy and it feels normal, homey, human; Anthony Robbins seems too culturally distant to understand.
• NoYank makes me read more, consuming video-form content less. It is very expensive to make film (Seedance might change this) so more film is made by well-capitalised entities. Books are often written by broke people. Film is made by corporations; a book is the self-expression of an artist.
• Related: I am far from any internet addiction. I spend more time on the sports field than on the internet.
• People at the pub talk to me about Republican or Democrat, I roll my eyes thinking "who cares, they're all yanks". They all think they can dictate to us without understanding or respect. If I'd been watching their internal struggles on the news I'd be more conditioned to see the difference.
• Related: culture war shite. I don't make the distinction between [politically correct side of culture wars] and [alt-right side]. The dialectic I make is [people who've had their brains broken by culture wars] vs [normal people].
• Irish casualties of propaganda annoy me a lot. It's mostly ages 15 to 25, vulnerable minds who've been broken. They open their mouth and foreign propaganda comes out; their highest purpose in life is to be a propaganda-repeater, very sad.
• The mad notions of Yanks I meet pop out to me. They make a virtue of lying (if you lie that means you are clever). They will openly sneer at people for being working-class ("OMG, I'm not hanging out with a bus-driver ew"). I look at them and think they're quare fish; those notions might be normalised if I yanked myself silly for hours a day like some people do. And holy shit they are obsessed with race, they can't go three sentences without mentioning race. Both actual yanks and East Yanks with broken minds. It's notable that they can sneer at class so outrageously while also being so hypersensitive to race.

a phenomenal - and I contend, the best - spy thriller series.

no james bond shit and minimal "magic" hackings, endemic to the last 20+ years of TV and film production; if you're not into that sorta stuff, won't bother you none.

stellar cast, led by the fantastic Mathieu Kassowitz, exceptional showrunner with a great script, tight direction and very competent professionals.

1st season was remade last year as "the agency", with michael fassbender. pas mal, but stick with the original.

available wherever you get your torrents.

Watch: https://tankie.tube/w/p/r1SJitizsHSYn4nCE5dMj3

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1973/seventeen-moments-in-spring/

https://breezewiki.com/historical-films/wiki/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring_(1973_miniseries)

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1973/seventeen-moments-in-spring/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069628/ (rated 8.8)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36733027/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_(2025_film)

The little pig demon decided to leave Langlang Mountain and form a grassroots team with the toad demon, the weasel demon, and the gorilla demon, to start the journey to the west.

Southern Chronicles (2024), a Lithuanian black comedy set in the early 1990s, during the country’s post-Soviet period of austerity. A working-class teenager who cares only about hustling and rugby becomes infatuated with an upper-middle-class girl and starts reading poetry to woo her. Hilarity ensues as he gets up to all sorts of mischief in the bleak economic landscape of the era. This is the only notable work to date of director Ignas Miskinis. Currently the top-rated Lithuanian film on Letterboxd.

Southern Chronicles: https://tankie.tube/w/uv2ubV5Nve7ZxpezRqBZfu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura_(TV_series)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34570673/

Four sisters face turbulence when their father's affair is exposed. Embodying the tumultuous "asura" demigods, they clash over differing outlooks on love yet find moments of connection amid conflict and growth.

a backlash against the encroachment of U.S. technology is boiling over.

While Gaza burned, Disney’s CEO donated $2 million to Israel — and Marvel prepared to release an Israeli Mossad “superhero.” Actors who say “Free Palestine” are silenced. IDF soldiers become Disney stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_Just_an_Accident

DON'T CONSUME IT

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tcZOEys5NtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcZOEys5NtA