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peter_mcmahan

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Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University
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peter_mcmahan, to Montreal
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"[Superior Court Judge] St-Pierre appeared unconvinced by [McGill's lawyer] Darche's claim that the university's convocation plans were "urgent" when compared with the rights of the protesters to demonstrate peacefully."

https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/

peter_mcmahan, to Palestine
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Kudos to La Presse for this article with a proposition that seems unfathomable to the McGill administration: listening to the protesters.

"Et si McGill négociait au lieu d’appeler la police ?"
"What if McGill negotiated instead of calling the police?"

https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chroniques/2024-05-06/et-si-mcgill-negociait-au-lieu-d-appeler-la-police.php

fraying, to random
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Reminder: every company that runs a site that wouldn’t exist without user participation that decides to feed the AI beast is selling out its users. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/stack-overflow-signs-deal-with-openai-to-supply-data-to-its-models/

peter_mcmahan,
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@fraying I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Is there any use deleting my contributions to that site, or will they still sell them?

peter_mcmahan, to spiders
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With this intro, I'm hoping Kingdom of the Spiders is precursor to Tremors in the "Western Horror" genre

peter_mcmahan,
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Webs!

peter_mcmahan,
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Both the score and the diegetic music in this one are genuinely fantastic.

peter_mcmahan,
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Is this a surprise Bechdel pass?

peter_mcmahan,
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I can't tell if Shatner's accent would be more or less tolerable if it were more consistent

peter_mcmahan,
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A mayor, a vet, and a cop walk into a bar ... i mean a porch

peter_mcmahan,
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Shatner, to an entomologist: Are you telling me this was a snake bite?

peter_mcmahan,
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I appreciate that we are all collectively refusing to use William Shatner's character's name to refer to him.

peter_mcmahan,
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I am very glad that this otherwise stellar dog actor was unable to keep from breathing while playing dead.

peter_mcmahan,
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Waiting for one (1) redeeming moment from Shatner

peter_mcmahan,
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Oh it's DDT? I was hoping it was the high-tech chemical toilets from the Colorado couple that was causing the Spider Problem

peter_mcmahan,
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Where are they going with the Shatner romances? Is one of these women going to die or are they going for a thruple?

peter_mcmahan,
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That's a bingo square (spider on them but they don't notice)

peter_mcmahan,
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Human wrapped in spider silk! (bingo square)

peter_mcmahan,
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I like that the monsters in this aren't mutant spiders or alien spiders or something. They're just spiders that are kinda fed up.

peter_mcmahan,
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Trying to bomb the spiders is pretty close to "guns prove ineffective" on the bingo card, but not close enough...

peter_mcmahan,
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So far Kingdom of the Spiders ranks about 7 out of 10 on the "rooting for the monster" scale

peter_mcmahan,
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Wait in entomology school do they really cover the "many theories" about what would happen if "the insect world turns on man?"

peter_mcmahan,
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Though I will credit this movie with spurring me to learn that tarantula is a family, not a species, and that they are found in Arizona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula

peter_mcmahan,
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I'm super not ok with the spider abuse in this one. Seriously.

jonny, to random
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Posting from one account to reply from another account to be on the feed without polluting the local feed. others who wish to do the same but don't have an alt can reply to this as well (but untag me)

peter_mcmahan,
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@jonny

It was more than once in this movie that I hoped for the spiders to Voltron into a mega spider, Hundreds-of-Beavers style.

peter_mcmahan,
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@jonny @Zerofactorial

hero shot of @jonny nobly, selflessly trying to stack tarantulas

strangefour, to random
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Soon... Will is gonna... climb up to the Kingdom of the Spiders. Yeah.

video/mp4

peter_mcmahan,
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@strangefour

Honestly that line was so well delivered.

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