I remember when this movie first came out, Mark Kermode (uk film critic) was reviewing it on his podcast and noted that Flatley had won “Best Actor” for this movie at the “Monaco Streaming Film Festival”. Kermode pointed out, that for this to be true it must mean that it competed against at least one other movie, which somehow had acting worse that Flatley’s. So Kermode went on a quest to learn more about this film festival and the other films in the competition. Each week on the podcast he gave updates on his quest. He was able to get in touch with someone from the festival who could confirm that yes, it was a real festival and that yes, there were other films in competition. When asked about these other films, the correspondent couldn’t directly provide any information and would need to consult “the archives” (for a film festival that had taken place 4 months prior). The back and forth went on for weeks, but ultimately Kermode had to give up. We never found out what films had worse acting than Flatley in Blackbird…

I only recently updated my android phone so I won’t be jumping on this immediately. But I am very excited to see something like this arrive in the US. Will definitely be keeping an eye on it.

Between this and the Framework Laptop it seems like we can be hopeful about having more repairable devices. I hope this is a trend that catches on.

Most folks here are tech savvy and don’t mind the kbin name, but I don’t expect some of my friends to ‘get’ it.

To be honest, I don’t ‘get’ it either. Does kbin mean anything? Is it meant to be like ‘cabin’ or something…

Yeah, Feedly is great. Been using it for years and very happy with it.

It’s kind of a bummer that RSS never took off the way it deserved. It is kind of a precursor to what we have now with Fediverse/ActivityPub.

Oh, that’s too bad. I’ve been using Stitcher for years and was pretty happy with it.

What other podcast apps for Android are people using that they would recommend?

I’ve tried using Spotify previously for podcasts, but I find it frustrating since the app is primarily designed for music. It works well for music, but the podcasts experience is awkwardly grafted on and does not work well for me.

The production design on this movie looks incredible. It’s like kitsch turned up so high it becomes fine art. Can’t wait to see this. Never imagined the Barbie movie would be my most anticipated movie of the year…