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Brilliant Maps has a page with two terrific images, one “a colourful map of Toronto’s most widespread languages” shown together, and another, “54 Languages in Toronto,” with separate (tiny) maps for each language showing where in the city each is spoken; they “are both the work of Alex McPhee, aka Pronghorn maps,” and there’s a link to his site, where you can buy copies if you so desire. I do love this sort of thing, and there’s a lot more information at the Brilliant Maps link.

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The Last of Us Game Creator Steps Away From HBO Show

Neil Druckmann stated he’s moving his focus to overseeing Naughty Dog, the developer behind The Last of Us and other games.

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Published on July 2, 2025

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The show has done well, with <a href="https://reactormag.com/the-last-of-us-will-return-for-a-third-season/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">HBO picking up the show for a third season</a> before the <a href="https://reactormag.com/the-last-of-us-season-2-trailer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">second season even aired</a>, but it looks like Druckmann will not stay on and see the series through.</p> <p>“I’ve made the difficult decision to step away from my creative involvement in <em>The Last of Us </em>on HBO,” Druckmann said in a statement published on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DLnTjIKswP3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Naughty Dog’s Instagram</a>, the company that developed the video game, which Druckmann serves as studio head for. “With work completed on season 2 and before any meaningful work starts on season 3, now is the right time for me to transition my complete focus to Naughty Dog and its future projects, including writing and directing our exciting next game, <em>Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, </em>along with my responsibilities as Studio Head and Head of Creative.”</p> <p>Druckman added, “Co-creating the show has been a career highlight. It’s been an honor to work alongside Craig Mazin to executive produce, direct and write on the last two seasons. I’m deeply thankful for the thoughtful approach and dedication the talented cast and crew took to adapting <em>The Last of Us Part I </em>and the continued adaptation of <em>The Last of Us Part II</em>.”</p> <p>Mazin had a statement as well, as printed in <em><a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/neil-druckmann-exits-the-last-of-us-season-3-hbo-1236446316/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Variety</a></em>: “It’s been a creative dream to work with Neil and bring an adaptation of his brilliant work to life on HBO. I couldn’t have asked for a more generous creative partner. As a true fan of Naughty Dog and Neil’s work in video games, I’m beyond excited to play his next game. While he focuses on that, I’ll continue to work with our brilliant cast and crew to deliver the show our audience has come to expect. We are so grateful to Neil and Halley Gross for entrusting the incredible story of <em>The Last of Us Part II</em> to us, and we’re just as grateful to the millions of people around the world who tune in.”</p> <p>The <a href="https://reactormag.com/the-last-of-us-convergence-review/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">second season of the show ends on what could be called a cliffhanger (or an incomplete ending)</a>, leaving significant story from the <em>Part II </em>video game for season three. 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Given the volume of video game adaptations out there, it's kind of shocking how few of them are any good. The Last of Us managed to break through in a big way, becoming a critical hit as well as a buzzy audience favorite. It has done The Walking Dead one better in its portrayal of our zombie-infested future (well, in this case, our fungal future).

The show's third season is confirmed, but still without a release date—and given the way these things go, I wouldn't expect it to arrive before 2027. In the meantime, here are 10 shows you'll enjoy if you find yourself missing Joel, Ellie, Dina, and all the rest of your post-apocalypse pals.


Silo (2023 – , two seasons)

No zombies here, but this futuristic neo-noir (kicking off, as it does, with a murder mystery) is of a piece with the dystopian post-apocalypse vibes you'll encounter on The Last of Us. Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette Nichols, an engineer who gets wrapped up in an investigation involving the local sheriff (played by David Oyelowo). The usual stuff—except that the characters all inhabit a massive silo, 144-levels deep, protecting the remaining 10,000 humans from the allegedly poisoned world above. Those running the silo have managed to convince everyone left that only strict adherence to rules and procedures will keep them safe from the dangers outside. Like The Last of Us, it's a prestige drama that incorporates elements of horror, mystery, and science fiction to tell very human stories about fear and control. You can stream Silo on Apple TV+.


Chernobyl (2019)

If the gloomy aesthetic of historical drama Chernobyl seems familiar, it's no accident: both shows come from writer/director/producer Craig Mazin, and they really do feel like two sides of the same coin. Of course, the one is dystopian fiction while the other is based on a true story, that of the titular 1986 nuclear meltdown in Ukraine. From its opening moments, there's a sense of creeping dread that only increases as the series goes on and, as in Last of Us, the personal becomes political as the failing Soviet culture of deception, censorship, and obfuscation first contributes to the disaster, and then hinders the response to it at every turn. Luckily we don't have to deal with that sort of political incompetence and institutional collapse in modern day America! You can stream Chernobyl on HBO Max or buy it from Prime Video.


American Primeval (2025)

Mark L. Smith, screenwriter of The Revenant, created this historical-fiction miniseries, which may well give you as sense of the tone. Set during the 1857 Utah War—an armed clash between Mormon settlers and the U.S. government—the show stars Taylor Kitsch as Isaac, a mountaineer who, against his better judgement, agrees to help shepherd a disabled boy and his mother (Betty Gilpin), who is wanted for the murder of her husband, across an unforgiving landscape. The harsh setting and haunted nature of the characters will be familiar to The Last of Us fans, as will the sense that other people are a greater threat than the wilderness. You can stream American Primeval on Netflix.


Kingdom (2019 – 2021, two seasons and then some)

Another series that tackles zombies (or the "infected") from a wildly different perspective, Kingdom is set in a fictional version of Korea in the 17th century and follows a struggle to contain a viral outbreak in the years after a series of Japanese invasions. With real historical trappings, it flips the themes of The Last of Us on their head in many regards—we haven't encountered much in the way of formal political authority in that HBO series, whereas Kingdom is almost entirely focused on the elite, the destabilizing influence of the outbreak on the ruling dynasty, and how decisions made at the top carry down to the population at large. The zombie plague is initially believed to be smallpox, which serves as a reasonably good analogy, and the show deftly combines horror and medieval-esque political intrigue, making it something wholly unique to either genre. It's based on a webcomic series authored by show creator Kim Eun-hee, and is Netflix’s first original South Korean series. You can stream Kingdom on Netflix.


The Underground Railroad (2021, miniseries)

The harrowing miniseries, based on Colson Whitehead’s award-winning 2016 novel, blends real history with fantasy (or, at least, a sense of magical realism) to imagine the historical Underground Railroad as a literal railroad, rather than metaphorical one. Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora Randall, and enslaved woman from Georgia who is working her way up through the subterranean network, with each episode representing a different stop. Helmed by Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins, the series offers lush production values and is often gorgeously filmed, and feels incredibly evocative of the experience of someone like Cora—a young woman traveling through an unfamiliar, and almost entirely hostile America. The Underground Railroad makes a strong case that the dystopian trappings of of The Last of Us have long been a reality for many Americans. You can stream The Underground Railroad on Prime Video.


Fallout (2024 – , renewed for second and third seasons)

Like The Last of Us, Fallout is a rather shockingly effective video game adaptation, albeit with a lot more color, vibrancy, and quirky humor (in the world of Fallout, the aesthetic of the 1950s hung on for a lot longer than it did in ours). The background is a little complicated, but not belabored in the show itself: It's 2296, on an Earth devastated two centuries earlier by a nuclear war between the United States and China. Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) emerges from the underground fallout shelter where she's lived her entire life in order to find her father, kidnapped by raiders. The aboveground wasteland is dominated by warring factions, each of which considers the others cults and believes that they alone know the correct way forward for mankind. Amid this conflict, the landscape is also overrun by Ghouls, Gulpers, and other wild radiation monsters, with Lucy just about the only human with any lingering belief in humanity. You can stream Fallout on Prime Video.


The Leftovers (2014 – 2017, three seasons)

The premise of The Leftovers is brilliantly subdued: Around 2% of the world's population disappears without explanation, and it's enough to upend just about everything. Politics have adapted to the new normal, religions have collapsed and reformed, and families have had to make peace with the inexplicable loss of loved ones. The first season revolves around the Garvey family. led by Kevin (Justin Theroux), a sheriff whose wife (Amy Brenneman) left him to join a cult, while subsequent seasons broaden the scope to bring in other characters in other locations. Showrunner Damon Lindelof also co-created Lost, and the two series share some similarities (including a relatively grim tone), but where Lost spun out of control, The Leftovers recognizes that complex plotting and the search for answers really the point. You can stream The Leftovers on HBO Max.


Z Nation (2014 - 2019)

Where The Walking Dead and The Last of Us made prestige television out of the zombie apocalypse, this SyFy channel original is all about zombies as a campy, gory good time. Things kick off with a soldier who’s been tasked with transporting a package across country. The package in question is actually a human being, a survivor of a zombie bite who might be able to help create a vaccine (sound familiar?). The show comes from the schlock-masters at The Asylum, purveyors of infamous B-movies like Sharknado, which should tell you all you need to know about the tone. You can stream Z Nation on Tubi, Peacock, Shudder, and AMC+ or buy it from Prime Video.


Station Eleven (2021, miniseries)

The miniseries, based on the Emily St. John Mandel novel, was released at either the best time or the worst possible time—the story of a flu pandemic dropped on HBO Max right in the middle of the first wave of COVID. The show follows Kirsten Raymonde, a young stage actor whose performance in a production of King Lear is cut short by the onset of a virus with a 99% fatality rate. We meet Kirsten as a child at the outset of the pandemic, protected by reluctant caretaker Jeevan (Himesh Patel); we then jump 20 years into the future, and a world very much changed. It’s a slow burn, but ultimately, the series makes a moving case for the value of art, even (or especially) in moments when survival is on the line. You can stream Station Eleven on HBO Max.


The Decameron (2024)

I'm going a bit out on a limb with this one, ans it's entirely unlike The Last of Us in tone, and lacks any zombie analogues whatsoever. Nonetheless, I think it's a near-perfect thematic match. This funny, very dark, but surprisingly humane show loosely adapts Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century short story collection with hints of Bridgerton-esque swagger. With the plague ravaging Florence, a bunch of nobles and attendants make their way across a dangerous landscape to hole up in a countryside villa to wait out the emergency while draining the liquor supplies. Rules and mores are turned upside amid in this small-scale apocalypse, particularly by servant Licisca (Tanya Reynolds), who kind of accidentally kills her lady on the way to the villa and then decides to take her place. Despite being about how hell is other people, the show makes for an entirely addictive binge experience. You can stream The Decameron on Netflix.

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1) As part of [community profile] sunshine_revival's first challenge: "Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community."

I just shared some necklaces I made a few months back over at [community profile] everykindofcraft. I did a lot of beading in the first 13 years after I took it up, but things have been rather start and stop in the last 10. A craft store closeout + a challenge from a relative got me making some new things in the last few months. That probably also contributed to my starting [community profile] everykindofcraft here, because I saw various people posting wonderful stuff that not many people were seeing, whereas on Pillowfort some general craft communities there are always getting posts.

Hopefully we can get more crafters sharing here!

2) Have been watching a slew of Apple+ shows as our subscription cutoff nears. The miniseries Disclaimer was framed in an interesting way, one which I suspect had a lot more clarity in multimedia than in the book, but perhaps not. It uses multiple narrative voices and POV for the narration, including second person, first person, and some omniscient narrative. This was pretty relevant because of who was being framed (literally) and who actually got to have their voice(s) heard. Read more... )

3) Surface is a story told in a much more straightforward manner even though it also involves an unreliable narrator of sorts in that our central character had memory loss and is trying to piece together her past which also involves a parental mystery. Read more... )

4) Also saw the movie Wolfs, which is fine but largely a vehicle for us to watch Pitt and Clooney do fun stuff. Read more... )

5) Finished The Big Conn and Cowboy Cartel, two documentaries about big crime. I found the former much more interesting, even though I'd heard about the case before. What was probably the most striking about both was the role of the media in precipitating change. Read more... )

6) Careme was marketed as the story of the first celebrity chef, who served Napoleon, Tallyrand and others. It was certainly about far more than cooking. Read more... )

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Last month we talked about unusual work perks and here are some of my favorites that you shared.

1. The peacock

At the factory I used to work at, we had a peacock. He just turned up one day in the carpark. We tried to find his owners and simply couldn’t… so we kept him. He had a little heated house, we would all go and eat lunch with him and he became a real mascot. He eventually died of old age – RIP Boris!

2. The move concierge 

One job offered a move concierge. A couple of days before you were due to move, you gave him your keys and he packed all your stuff, emptied the apartment, cleaned it, took any final meter readings, returned the keys to the landlord and handled inspections, then drove to your new place, picked up the keys, cleaned, unpacked, and restocked your fridge. For £20 he would also make all the phone calls to transfer your utilities to the new place. The company would then put you up in a corporate apartment for the couple of nights he was moving you. Bliss.

3. The slide

My office has a slide! I’m not working for a big tech company at all, we are at most 40 and located in France. The ground floor is an open space. The floor above is smaller, so there is enough place to have a slide to go down. And it’s regularly used!

4. The Day of Pudding

One summer in college, I temped at the headquarters of a large food distribution company. About once a week, they would have some type of quality testing where they’d get a large delivery of some sort of food and they’d open it up, cook it if needed, and lay out all the different options and permutations and flavors that the food came in, and then invite all the staff to come in to the kitchen and sample it. It was such a great perk! I remember it was the first time I tried jalapeño poppers – multiple iterations of jalapeño poppers, in fact!

But the best day ever was the Day of Pudding. There were 30 or 40 different vats of pudding. Containers of pudding that were bigger than a child! So many different brands and flavors, filling the room with puddingy goodness. Everybody grabbed a bowl and spooned in multiple flavors. Have you ever taste-tested and compared five types of chocolate pudding in one sitting? I think I went back for fourths. The office was on a sugar high that day!

5. The bee hives

My company has bee hives (for environmental reasons). The honey is available only to employees as part of an annual charity raffle that takes place on World Bee Day (no, I didn’t know either). It comes in nice jars and tastes good too.

6. The car detailing

I’ve recently started a wonderful new admin job with an electrical contractor. We have a few semi-normal perks that I’ve never had – snacks, drinks, beer fridge, flexible hours, some WFH, etc. The one that I love the most is that we can have our vehicles detailed each Friday if needed/wanted (we drive in a good bit of gravel lol).

7. The Christmas Elves

I worked in a multinational organization for a number of years, and they had what I called The Christmas Elves.

Basically, it was traditional for every representative from each country to send Christmas gifts to their counterparts from other countries. It very much became a matter of national pride, an opportunity to show off the best your country has to offer. A whole smoked salmon, a flat of local chocolate, a bottle of obscure Eastern European liqueur that could burn your chest hair off, a (full-size) bottle of whiskey, an entire smoked ham, etc.

There was literally so much of it going on that, basically for the entire month of December, “elves” would go around the entire building, delivering mail carts worth of gifts to each office. Given the number of countries represented, you’d wind up with 30-40 gifts per year.

It also spawned a bustling after-market trade, where we’d trade amongst ourselves (I, for one, am not a pork eater, so the ham usually went for 2-3 bottles of wine).

8. The cruise of your choice

At the holiday party, they draw names and send a person and their chosen plus one on a cruise of the person’s choice. You can only win it once during your tenure at the company, and you have to have worked there for a full year to be eligible, but it’s super cool.

9. The on-site nurse

Long ago I worked for a small agency with an occupational nurse on-site. Headache? She’s got you. Feel something coming on? Her drug cocktail would kill anything (one Allegra, two Sudafed, two Motrin, and a shot of Robitussin; it’ll cure what ails you!). She would also close an exam room, turn off the lights, give you a blankie, and set a timer for a catnap if you just needed a little snooze to get you over the 3:00 slump.

International travelers needed immunizations, so she’d regularly offer the leftover doses. “I’ve got two doses of yellow fever; schedule an appointment if you want one.” I worked there during the tetanus vaccine shortage and was able to get a shot after an all-staff email went out, “Who needs tetanus?”

10. The pinball machines

I worked at a place where the CEO’s hobby is pinball. He started collecting, repairing, and restoring pinball machines as a teen. As a result, he has hundreds. There are many scattered throughout the facility. All are either free, or there is a bowl of pennies on the machine to turn it on. The company has a lot of pinball experts as a result.

11. The bespoke shoes

I did some work for an Italian fashion brand, who decided that we needed to truly understand their craft. So boss lady and I got to spend a weekend at their (top secret) shoe workshop learning about their process and came away with a beautiful pair of designer heels handcrafted to fit my feet. No sky-high stiletto has ever been so comfortable – I could wear those all day at work and still chase down a cab at the end of the night.

12. The baby cougars

I used to work for the local zoo (summer day camp for grade school children) and the zookeepers would give the camp counselors lists of planned enrichment for the different animals in case we wanted to watch. I remember dragging my campers to the Pacific Northwest exhibit first thing in the morning, and they were all groggy and grumpy that we were pushing back snack time, but they all shut up as soon as the keepers announced we were about to see the baby cougars get their first carcass. There was growling, playfighting, tug of war, and even purring. One cub climbed up in a tree with their food and dropped it on their sibling.

We got to see at least one cool enrichment every week, but this one was probably my favorite.

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Another Repeat Bundle - The Dark Eye

Jul. 2nd, 2025 07:09 pm
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This is a repeat of a 2023 bundle offering material for one of the oldest fantasy RPGs - The Dark Eye, a German system from from Ulisses Spiele, which has been in print since 1984 and has a ton of support material. This offer covers the 2016 English translation of the system, and is aimed at newcomers to the system. Some of it has been in previous bundles:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2025DarkEye

 

In 2023 (and on at least one previous occasion) I said "I'm not hugely into fantasy RPGs, I played way too many in the eighties and sort of lost the plot, but this looks pretty good, the art is excellent, and you get a huge amount for your money. And some things look like some actual thought has gone into them - for example, most of the depictions of women show them wearing sensible clothes for adventuring, with the balance of the sexes roughly even. The rules look comprehensible, though a little more complicated than I like, and (I repeat) you get a hell of a lot for your money. Recommended!

I wonder if there has ever been a German version of this offer - it might be interesting for linguists etc. or (of course) for German gamers, but since these bundles are organised by Americans I won't hold my breath waiting...


I don't see any reason to change any of this - it's not a system I particularly want to use, but it's very good value, and well worth a look if you're into fantasy RPGs. My main caveat considering that it has been in bundles several times is that it may be worth checking how much of it you already own, and whether it would be cheaper just to buy the bits you don't have and will actually use. Incidentally, the current offer explicitly states that no German versions are included.
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Texting between iPhones and Androids used to be a slog. That's because Apple limited its users to SMS when messaging Androids, which stripped away many of the modern chat features we've gotten used to—like, say, functioning group chats.

That radically changed once Apple rolled out support for RCS: This messaging protocol had been standard on Android for years, but by allowing iPhones to use it rather than SMS, suddenly "green bubbles" conversations weren't so crummy. On the contrary, RCS adds most of the key iMessage perks you might expect, like typing indicators, high-quality image and video sharing, and, of course, functioning group chats.

But the transition isn't complete yet. RCS actually supports more features than these, though just not on iOS. That includes end-to-end encryption (though some Android-to-Android chats are also not encrypted), and message editing, or the ability to adjust a message after you sent it. Luckily, that's now changing.

As reported by Android Authority, cross-platform message editing is now rolling out to Google Messages users. That means if you text an iPhone user via RCS in Google Messages, you'll have the option to edit that text for up to 15 minutes after it was sent. Android Authority confirms the feature works when texting iPhone users running both iOS 18.5 and the iOS 26 beta. That goes for group chats as well as one-on-one messaging.

This is of course a great update, but it comes with some big caveats. First, it appears to be rolling out in limited testing. While Android Authority's Mishaal Rahman has access to the feature, it does seem like Google is making this a slow launch, so you might need to wait before seeing it on your end. To that point, if you have an iPhone, you won't see it on your end—at least, not yet. At this time, this is only a Google Messages feature, and not something that Apple currently supports. In fact, edited messages appear as a brand new message to iPhone users, with an asterisk at the top to denote that something was changed.

iMessage itself supports message editing (and end-to-end encryption, for that matter), but since iMessage only works between iPhones, it's yet another feature that won't appear when you're texting your Android friends. I'm hopeful that as RCS advances and Apple adopts more of its features, we'll see more cross-platform support for these features. Maybe soon, you'll be able to text Android users via RCS knowing your messages are protected by end-to-end encryption, or be able to edit a message you sent from your iPhone to any contact, not just your other iPhone friends. Right now, however, it looks like Google Messages user have the advantage here, while us iPhone users will need to read their edits as another entire message entirely.

The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso

Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:09 pm
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The Obsidian Tower

3/5. Fantasy about the woman who is the one with apparently necromantic magic in a family of vivomancers, and what happens when the door her family has guarded for thousands of years (they have a stupid rhyme about it and everything) is opened.

I picked this up because I liked her more recent release. This has many of the same good elements: bisexual heroine, complex webs of relationships, actual politics, and interest in friendship and teamwork. But I did not like this one nearly so much. I am generally in a bad mood right now, so take this as you will, but the protag’s repeated emotional victimization by two-thirds of the people in the book (including herself), and how she takes on guilt for basically everything, and her self-sacrificing tendencies really irritated me. I imagine the arc of this trilogy will be towards better relationships and some actual self-worth but meh, I’m not along for the ride.

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For hedjog is going floppp.

Travel troubles today: being unable to see where the hell the alleged railway station near hotel was, and taking a taxi instead; railway out of order this evening, Ubers were summoned to take participants to hotel.

Yr hedjog was Living Bit of History in opening roundtable.

And in later sessions, there was a certain amount of That There Dr [personal profile] oursin going on in the questions/comments....

Some good conversation - even if hearing aids not too helpful in crowded rooms - but have noped out from evening meal, feeling too tired, will go for light meal here and early night (I hope).

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Movies & TV the old guard

The Old Guard 2 Delivers the Same Thrills and Fervor as Its Predecessor

If they could just keep making these movies forever, that would be great.

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Published on July 2, 2025

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Charlize Theron as Andy starring at Quynh in The Old Guard 2" srcset="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-2-740x392.jpeg 740w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-2-1100x582.jpeg 1100w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-2-768x406.jpeg 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-2-1536x813.jpeg 1536w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-2-2048x1084.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /> </figure> <div class="post-hero-caption post-hero-caption-horizontal [&amp;_a]:link"><p>Credit: Netflix</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </post-hero> <div class="wp-block-more-from-category"> <div> </div> </div> <p>Normally, I would begin with some introductory thoughts about the first Old Guard film that segued seamlessly into further discussion of its sequel, but trouble is, I would like to complain instead? It’s been five years, Netflix. You made me wait for five years for a sequel to this absolute gem of a movie. Marvel drowns us in films and television several times a year, and it’s been <em>half a decade</em> since I saw my favorite immortals.</p> <p>Of course, the film itself picks up exactly six months later. Good thing all these actors are strangely ageless…</p> <p>We pick up precisely where the first film left us in its final scene: Quynh (Vân Veronica Ngô) has found the exiled Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), and clearly means to locate Andy (Charlize Theron) after centuries of torment locked in a coffin at the bottom of the sea. At the same time, Andy’s crew are getting used to having Nile (KiKi Layne) around, and using James Copley’s (Chiwetel Ejiofor) intel to hit more useful targets in order to benefit the world. The current hits are all associated with running very powerful weapons to an unknown buyer that the team can’t manage to track down.</p> <p>Oh, and Uma Thurman is running around. Her name is Discord, and she’s apparently the earliest immortal, even before Andy. We learn this through immortal librarian Tuah (Henry Golding), who has some other fun theories due to the legends he’s pieced together about their kind over the centuries. Theories about Nile, and why Andy’s immortality ran out, and what Discord might want. Whatever you may think of these reveals, the library is gorgeous. I have a lot of questions about how it was maintained over the years or created in the first place, but I would like to live in that library, please and thank you.</p> <p>Do these different conceits all jive together as a cohesive mythology? At the moment, not even close. Do I care? Not remotely. I’ve got my immortals back, and they’re just as precious as I remember. We begin with an action set piece that involves boats <em>and</em> car chases <em>and</em> guns <em>and</em> swords <em>and</em> incredibly tasteless artwork. (There’s neon glock signage? Various aged statues painted garish single colors? Terrible satin pajamas?) The action sequences are gorgeous as ever, maybe even a step up from the previous outing, especially where Andy and Nile’s skills are concerned; Andy always looks like she’s dancing when she fights, and while Nile is less experienced, it hardly matters for her efficiency.</p> <p>Speaking of action sequences: Victoria Mahoney steps into the vacancy left by previous director Gina Prince-Bythewood, and does her proud across the board here. The transition feels seamless, Mahoney taking the vernacular of her predecessor and keeping everything that works, while offering a stamp all her own. Here’s hoping this opens the door to many more projects going forward—Mahoney’s work with this crew should be recommendation enough, and that’s without getting into the fact that she was the first woman to ever direct any bit of Star Wars (she was a second unit director on <em>The Rise of Skywalker</em>). One of Mahoney’s forthcoming projects is supposed to be an adaptation of Octavia Butler’s <em>Dawn</em> with Ava DuVernay. Maybe this will give Amazon the nudge to get things moving on that front…</p> <p>I should mention that there’s a lot of convenience in the plot of <em>The Old Guard 2</em>; Tuah’s existence has been kept from Andy’s crew because he supposedly asked her to do so, and it’s hard for the setup with himself and Discord not to feel contrived. But because all of the actors are so strong in their roles, so believable as ancient beings with wisdoms and desires beyond what mortal humans want, it’s hard to be bothered. And what’s more, the (somewhat understandable) cruelty of Booker’s fate from the first film is addressed in a way that befits these characters—because as we see over and over, rather than an insistence that immortality makes a person callous and disconnected, the Old Guard maintain an empathy for humanity and each other that is staggering and beautiful.</p> <p>Oh. Oh, <em>that’s</em> what <a href="https://reactormag.com/what-if-we-unpacked-chloe-zhaos-eternals/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Eternals</em> was supposed to do</a>. (And didn’t.)</p> <p>The dialogue doesn’t always serve these moments, but the cast manages to show the underlying emotion regardless. This is particularly true of Andy and Quynh&#8217;s reunion; the betrayal Quynh is feeling runs too deep, making it hard to put into words, but Ngô and Theron infuse those scenes with so much anguish and longing, you can see where they’re headed. It’s heartening, too, that the sequel never balks at the setup that immortality also begets queerness—Nicky (Luca Marinelli) and Joe (Marwan Kenzari) are going strong as ever, Andy and Quynh are locked in their perpetual comrades/girlfriends/soulmates/wives situationship, even Tuah has a moment where he gives Copley the a-okay (Ejiofor plays it off <em>adorably</em>).</p> <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large"><img decoding="async" width="1100" height="564" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-1-1100x564.jpeg" alt="The Old Guard 2 (L-R) Luca Marinelli as Nicky, Marwan Kenzari as Joe, Charlize Theron as Andy, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Copley and KiKi Layne as Nile in The Old Guard 2. Andy and Nile have a contest, staring each other down while their friends laugh" class="wp-image-817491" srcset="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-1-1100x564.jpeg 1100w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-1-740x379.jpeg 740w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-1-768x394.jpeg 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-1-1536x787.jpeg 1536w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/old-guard2-1-2048x1049.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Image: Netflix</figcaption></figure> <p>Thurman’s Discord is the only character truly underserved in all this—she’s simply evil and egotistical to the max. It’s still fun to watch her and Andy go toe-to-toe, though. And while certain mechanics of the previous plot are repeated in service of sequeldom, there’s one thing these films do that I’ll always appreciate: The women are the ones constantly driving the action and rescuing everyone, and the script flip never feels contrived on that front. They’ve simply put all their female characters in the most powerful positions, while the men get to be infinitely soft and kind (even when they’re wrecks, as in Booker’s case).</p> <p>The unique style of action helps <em>The Old Guard</em> films to stand out, but its heart lies in the quiet moments between its characters. Connection sustains its story—in many ways, these films remind me of the <em>Sense8</em> television series, which is some of the highest praise I can offer a piece of fiction. Stories about the beauty of knowing people deeply, of loving them beyond reason or doubt, and of the incredible things we can do when we allow those relationships to populate our lives. <em>The Old Guard 2</em> ends on a cliffhanger in the hope of more films, and while this formula stays true, I’ll never say no to at least one more adventure.</p> <p>Oh, and that Joe and Nicky prequel, remember Netflix? We all want it? It &#8216;s maybe the only time folks really do need and want a prequel? Any time you would like to get on that…[end-mark]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/movie-review-the-old-guard-2-delivers-the-same-thrills-and-fervor-as-its-predecessor/">&lt;i&gt;The Old Guard 2&lt;/i&gt; Delivers the Same Thrills and Fervor as Its Predecessor</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/movie-review-the-old-guard-2-delivers-the-same-thrills-and-fervor-as-its-predecessor/">https://reactormag.com/movie-review-the-old-guard-2-delivers-the-same-thrills-and-fervor-as-its-predecessor/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=817448">https://reactormag.com/?p=817448</a></p>
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Posted by Jake Peterson

Texting between iPhones and Androids used to be a slog. That's because Apple limited its users to SMS when messaging Androids, which stripped away many of the modern chat features we've gotten used to—like, say, functioning group chats.

That radically changed once Apple rolled out support for RCS: This messaging protocol had been standard on Android for years, but by allowing iPhones to use it rather than SMS, suddenly "green bubbles" conversations weren't so crummy. On the contrary, RCS adds most of the key iMessage perks you might expect, like typing indicators, high-quality image and video sharing, and, of course, functioning group chats.

But the transition isn't complete yet. RCS actually supports more features than these, though just not on iOS. That includes end-to-end encryption (though some Android-to-Android chats are also not encrypted), and message editing, or the ability to adjust a message after you sent it. Luckily, that's now changing.

As reported by Android Authority, cross-platform message editing is now rolling out to Google Messages users. That means if you text an iPhone user via RCS in Google Messages, you'll have the option to edit that text for up to 15 minutes after it was sent. Android Authority confirms the feature works when texting iPhone users running both iOS 18.5 and the iOS 26 beta. That goes for group chats as well as one-on-one messaging.

This is of course a great update, but it comes with some big caveats. First, it appears to be rolling out in limited testing. While Android Authority's Mishaal Rahman has access to the feature, it does seem like Google is making this a slow launch, so you might need to wait before seeing it on your end. To that point, if you have an iPhone, you won't see it on your end—at least, not yet. At this time, this is only a Google Messages feature, and not something that Apple currently supports. In fact, edited messages appear as a brand new message to iPhone users, with an asterisk at the top to denote that something was changed.

iMessage itself supports message editing (and end-to-end encryption, for that matter), but since iMessage only works between iPhones, it's yet another feature that won't appear when you're texting your Android friends. I'm hopeful that as RCS advances and Apple adopts more of its features, we'll see more cross-platform support for these features. Maybe soon, you'll be able to text Android users via RCS knowing your messages are protected by end-to-end encryption, or be able to edit a message you sent from your iPhone to any contact, not just your other iPhone friends. Right now, however, it looks like Google Messages user have the advantage here, while us iPhone users will need to read their edits as another entire message entirely.

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently touted his agenda to get all Americans using a wearable within the next four years. This vision is sorely misguided, at best. Still, although wearables are no replacement for actual healthcare, understanding how to leverage your FSA/HSA funds for fitness trackers has never been more relevant. The reality is that yes, you can use these pre-tax health dollars for fitness trackers and smartwatches—but it's not as straightforward as the marketing suggests.

How to use your FSA/HSA funds to buy wearables

According to the FSA store, if a device is necessary for treating or monitoring a specific medical condition (and not just general wellness), it could be eligible to purchase with your health dollars.

There is a catch, though. You need a Letter of Medical Necessity (LMN). The IRS has ruled that fitness trackers and other devices of their type are used to promote one's "general health" and are only medically necessary under special circumstances. Your LMN is basically a doctor's note required to classify certain purchases as qualified medical expenses under IRS guidelines, proving that the device will be used to treat a legitimate medical condition, such as obesity or a heart condition. As long as you submit an LMN to your benefits administrator, it will most likely be covered.

Some health-tracking devices are eligible without an LMN because they're clearly essential: Think glucose monitors, fertility trackers, or blood pressure cuffs. On the flip side, you might have a tough time getting your FSA administrator to approve a new Fitbit. Smartwatches that are meant to track or simply contribute to general health and overall well-being don’t quite meet the threshold to qualify for purchase with pre-tax dollars. That being said, you might be surprised at what kinds of devices are indeed HSA/FSA eligible—assuming you get your hands on an LMN.

When it comes to securing your LMN, you might not even need to make a doctor's appointment, thanks to third-party players like Truemed. When you browse sites like Coros or Amazfit, you'll see the option to “Pay With Truemed” at checkout. From there, as Truemed explains it, you'll be asked you a few questions about your health circumstances, and you’ll be matched with a provider to determine your eligibility. If you qualify, you’ll get an LMN that will allow you to use your HSA or FSA funds to complete your purchase—all without ever having to meet with your primary doctor.

The fitness trackers you can buy with HSA/FSA funds

Here are some of the major brands offering HSA/FSA eligible fitness trackers.

Garmin

Sadly, no Garmin watches are HSA/FSA-eligible. Still, the following products are eligible for an HSA/FSA purchase:

You can filter by HSA/FSA eligibility and browse all eligible Garmin items here.

Coros

Coros offers FSA/HSA eligibility for all their watches and heart rate monitors through their partnership with Truemed.

Amazfit

Amazfit recently launched its Helio Strap, the third of the three once-rumored Whoop-like trackers to be officially announced.

Amazfit is another brand partnered with Truemed, meaning that like with Coros above, it might be easier for you to get that LMN proving your need for a smartwatch, sleep tracker, stress monitor, or other screen-less fitness band. For instance, here are some of Amazfit's FSA/HSA eligible items:

You can filter by HSA/FSA eligibility and browse more Amazfit options here.

Whoop

While Whoop does not accept direct FSA/HSA payments at checkout, you can submit reimbursement claims for their 12-month subscription, Whoop 4.0 battery pack, and Whoop 5.0 wireless power pack and basic charger. Whoop's focus on strain and recovery data may help support medical necessity claims. There are several ways to file a claim/submit a reimbursement—see them all here.

Ultrahuman

Ultrahuman's Ring AIR—designed to track deep health biomarker like heart rate variability (HRV), sleep stages, and recovery patterns—is marketed as HSA/FSA eligible, along with their Voyager Ring Charger and Cardio Adaptability PowerPlug.

Ultrahuman is partnered with payment processors Sika and Flex. However, according to Ultrahuman's site, their smart rings offer continuous health data that is always FSA/HSA eligible, meaning there’s no need for an LMN to purchase.

Withings

Withings positions their smartwatches as FSA/HSA eligible, emphasizing medical features like ECG monitoring and sleep tracking. Their approach leans heavily on the medical device angle, which may strengthen LMN justifications. Eligible watches include:

Filter by HSA/FSA eligibility and browse more Withings options here.

The bottom line

FSA/HSA eligibility for wearables is real but restrictive. Some employers' FSA administrators may scrutinize wearable purchases more closely. Companies like Coros are most transparent about facilitating the required medical consultation, while others market eligibility without clearly explaining the LMN barrier. For consumers, this means budgeting not just for the device, but for the healthcare consultation and documentation process required to justify the purchase. Still, the promise of using pre-tax health dollars for wearables is real.

And remember, the most important aspect of shopping with HSA funds is record-keeping. Make sure to keep every receipt—and LMN—for every HSA purchase you make.

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Posted by Not Always Right

Read When Your Manager Is Very Closed-Minded

Being as I've gotten in trouble at my previous workplace because the clocks weren't synced up properly, I asked whose clock, 9 PM sharp, was being judged by. My manager told me not to worry about it. On my first shift, I discovered why.

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Posted by Not Always Right

Read Wish We Could Filter Customers

I work in a photo lab. A customer is at the counter holding a stack of glossy 6x4 prints.
Customer: "These are too bright."
Me: "Too bright?"
Customer: "Everyone looks fake. My granddaughter’s face looks like it’s made of plastic!"

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Posted by Ask a Manager

Here are four updates from past letter-writers.

1. I work in a sleep clinic and some patients want to sleep naked

I’ve been sitting on this reply to you because my experience as a brand new sleep tech student trainee went horribly awry. It was such a hostile and abusive work environment I felt forced to leave/pushed out. It was so bad I was advised by a third party to pursue a court case against my employer, but at the time I did not have the spoons or funds to do so (they’re a world-renowned health and learning institution).

My formal request for hospital gowns was denied by the manager. Some of the more senior level techs vocally supported my request at the team meeting, but one senior-level tech invoked the ol “Back in my day…” speech which completely dismissed my concerns of sexual harassment by patients. However, a newly hired supervisor, who is much younger than our senior techs and more understanding of the problem, was able to procure a package of robes from the hospital for us to use, and they were used.

As of this moment, I am at a crossroads of sorts. I get anxiety when I think about working in a hospital again. I drove by the building the other day and my entire body went stiff. The problem wasn’t the patients or the scope of the work itself, it was the people I was forced to work with for 12-hour night shifts. They were so mean and downright nasty, and none of it was necessary. I did request a change to day shift or move to another office, but HR just made everything worse.

I paid a significant amount of money for schooling to change careers, and I put in an incredible amount of work to get comfortable working with patients- I absolutely loved working with my patients (and I was good at it for the most part). It would be a shame to abandon all of that training due to some emotionally immature, poorly trained, and abusive people. I’m lucky enough to have a good group of techs who will provide recommendations for me, but the anxiety is REAL. I’ve been gritting my teeth while writing this email. I really don’t want to give up.

2. Coworkers are very concerned that I’m not wearing a coat

This became less of a problem as the weather got warmer, but I did take your advice and start mentioning to my well-meaning colleagues that I run hot and the comments tapered off. It was really helpful to me to reframe their concern as something that they would express to everyone. I’ve also tried to take my age in stride in the workplace and offer perspectives that my older coworkers maybe haven’t thought about and I’ve been really thriving since I wrote to you in January! My youth comes into play quite often in my job as I am a youth services librarian — something I didn’t mention in my original letter since I guess part of me already knew that my proximity to kids probably also made me seem younger than I am to my coworkers.

I was in the comments section briefly the day my letter was published, and I do live in an area of the U.S. that tends to get snow in winter and drop to chilly temperatures after sunset, so I do keep a spare coat in my car that I don’t touch, haha. Thank you commenters for your kind words!

3. How can I push for a standard fee that wasn’t in a contract? (#5 at the link)

I’m the writer who asked about trying to get my cancellation fee from an organization who didn’t use contracts.

The update is short and sweet — they paid me! I replied to them and simply said, “You’re likely aware that [old org] has not historically executed contracts. Instead they create agreements with speakers according to their own internal system, which I’m assuming you all intend to honor.”

They said yes, and a while later the check came. Fast forward to a few weeks prior to the conference, and about a third of their line up withdrew, citing ethical concerns over the board’s handling of the previous President’s misconduct. I was grateful to already be done with them before needing to do the same.

4. Can I ask to have the red wall in my new office repainted? (#4 at the link)

The red wall lives on in my office, despite my best efforts. I’ve done what I can to cover it up — strategic furniture placement, art, giant bulletin boards — but it still makes its presence known.

I have students dropping by daily and they always mention how comfortable the space makes them feel … and then immediately add, “Well, except for that giant red wall.” Thankfully, they quickly add that they can tell I didn’t pick it because it doesn’t fit my ‘vibe.’

So, for now, the wall remains — an aggressively bold and unwelcome conversation piece.

Nothing short of an in-person inspection can convey how truly terrible corporate chili pepper looks when it’s looming over your desk like a hostile deadline.

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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

Listen, we love technology, we love the internet, and we would never want to go back to the times when we didn't have the entire world's knowledge resting in the palm of our hands.

We would, however, love it if people would stop assuming that just because they can reach out to us at every hour of every day, it means that they should. We don't have to be available for everyone's beck and call, even if, technologically, we have the option to.

This can be said about many situations, but we mainly refer to the workplace. Years ago, the minute you stepped out of the office, people from work could not demand anything of you anymore. Your work was left behind at your desk, or at the stationary PC that could not be moved, and everything you worked on had to wait until the next day to be continued. You were never expected to read emails at midnight or on your commute to work in the mornings. You only worked when you were physically at the office.

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Posted by Brad Dickson

Obtaining your driver's license and first car is a significant milestone in the life of any teenager. But, just when you think you've finally carved out a bit of freedom and individuality, and that you might actually be considered cool now that you don't have to take the bus to school, along come your little siblings to burst your bubble, demanding that you give them a ride, taking your chances of ever sitting with the popular kids once they see that snotty little brat climbing out of your car. (As if the mere presence of the car was going to change anything in the first place.)

Your parents aren't much help either; to them, the solution seems practical, and what's more, with you as your little sibling's chauffeur, they no longer have to worry about being pestered themselves. Of course, it's important to be respectful of other people and their things, even your siblings. So this is a good lesson for the younger sibling also to learn to respect people's things, even their siblings. 

Upon first viewing the subject at hand here it's easy to jump to the conclusion that the older teen who posted the thread is just been a stuck-up teenager who wants nothing to do with their sibling, but after reading through their account their request that their sister not wear their chronically dirty footware is quite reasonable.

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