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Beach Week is a 2018 black comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.^[1] The film stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Root, Josh Brolin and J. K. Simmons with William Zabka as Jeff Flake.^[2] It was released in the United States on September 28, 2018, and in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2018.

Beach Week Theatrical release poster Written and Directed by Joel CoenEthan Coen Starring George ClooneyFrances McDormandTilda SwintonBrad Pitt Release date September 30, 2018 (2018-09-12) (United States) Budget $420,000 ^[2] Box office $50,375,838 ^[3] Legerdemain Rob Beschizza^[4]Boing Boing Plot

Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Gary Oldman) has a difficult relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump (Stephen Root), whose incompetence and sheer vulgarity has made the party deeply unpopular. Looming midterm elections are expected to favor Democrats in a landslide, but the retirement of a Supreme Court justice presents a last opportunity for the GOP to remake America's political landscape for decades to come.

The party leadership is concerned that their ideal nominee, Amy Barrett (Tilda Swinton), is too conservative to pass muster with a closely-divided Senate. So top GOP aide George (George Clooney) concocts a plan to nominate a stalking horse candidate, Brett Kavanaugh (Brad Pitt) who party chiefs know to have a dark and disqualifying past. Read the rest

"FINE," Adobe said in a press release. "I hope you're goddamn satisfied."

Adobe’s chief product officer of Creative Cloud Scott Belsky confirmed the company was working on a new cross-platform iteration of Photoshop and other applications, but declined to specify the timing of their launches.

“My aspiration is to get these on the market as soon as possible,” Belsky said in an interview. “There’s a lot required to take a product as sophisticated and powerful as Photoshop and make that work on a modern device like the iPad. We need to bring our products into this cloud-first collaborative era.”

Adobe refused to do so until now, claiming that iPads could not replace traditional computers for creative work. But Affinity Photo made a fool of it. Read the rest

Sir Jedi Panda gets it right in this mockup of a spaghetti western-styled poster for an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie. I think what I love about it is how completely un-western a character Kenobi is. [via] Read the rest

Brides Throwing Cats is a site dedicated to "photoshopping cats in place of bouquets" in shots of brides (and occasionally grooms) hurling bouquets.

No cats were harmed in the making of this tumblr and we certainly don’t encourage anyone to throw a cat ever, let alone on their wedding day. Still reading? Well one last time, seriously, this is fake.

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Cool hedgehogs don't look at explosions

I believe this may be photoshopped, or perhaps clipped from a forthcoming blockbuster reboot of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. [via] Read the rest

By Happy Toast, from the B3ta Brexit Challenge. Read the rest

Redditor Isaac_2 didn't just morph actors Hayden Christiansen (Young Anakin) and Sebastian Shaw (Elderly Anakin/Vader), but carefully photomanipulated the result for anatomical credibility and Star Warsyness. Some people see David Bowie; others see a more athletic George Lucas. See the working process at the Star Wars subreddit. Read the rest

Hugh sends us this "beautifully made mashup video of the Republican candidates as Munsters." Read the rest

He spent $125m of other people's money. It was time to pay the debt.

RE: Jeb Bush tweets picture of engraved gun with the title "America" Read the rest

I knew the new Pluto images reminded me of something!

The originals: Frank Frazetta's legendary painting "A Princess of Mars," and "The Rich Color Variations of Pluto," published by NASA. Read the rest

The National Sushi and Space Administration's @Spacesushipic account is your best source for keeping track of the stirring imagery of our program to launch delicious raw fish into space.

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Jim Munroe writes, "We've put our science fiction visions of Toronto's future together in a 2015 calendar called FALLEN TORONTO as a new Kickstarter reward for backing our neo-noir sci-fi webseries HAPHEAD. If you live here you can shiver in nameless dread all the year round, and if you live elsewhere you can revel in schadenfreude at the fall of our socialist den of iniquity." Read the rest

The freaks at B3ta are photoshopping extra eyes into kittehs and pugs (pug by Shlvng), and it's wonderful.

D'awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Read the rest

Can't remember much after about 8pm last night, but just found these on my desktop, so it must have been a good evening.

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Hubble Ultra Deep Field Cat. So many galaxies! Read the rest

Shoop: XJ

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