New York Post simultaneously pretending the manly-man action hero movie star said something they would approve of, and trawling/trolling for outrage clicks.
Also is the plan even to have a female James Bond, or to have a new female character take over as 007? And I will block you if you tell me you always thought that "James Bond" was a codename that came with the number. It's a ridiculous theory and I don't need to know you like it.
Every James Bond movie -- like every movie in every franchise -- takes place in its own self-contained universe with its own timeline, in which it can be assumed that things similar to some of the things that happened in some other movies also maybe happened, as necessary/useful.
Coming up with a fun headcanon like "What if 'James Bond' is a codename that gets passed down?" only works to explain the surface level detail that it's not the same guy in the role each time. Applying it to the series as actual analysis creates more holes than it fills in.
The first two Craig movies are a fairly tight duology. The second one takes place in a universe in which the other movie basically can be assumed to happen as we saw it.

But Skyfall, in the interest of franchise jubilee and nostalgia, retcons Craig into having "olden days"...
...where he drove an Aston Martin with an ejector seat. Is that *impossible* given what we saw in the preceding two movies? I mean, no, not directly. But it doesn't tidily fit with the universe(s) in which those movies happened.
It only happened because we're meant to understand, in the moment that we see it, that at least *some* things very like some of the events of the pre-Daniel Craig Bond movies happened to this James Bond, in the universe of Skyfall.
Anyway, having two movies in a row where the events of one depend on the events of the previous movie isn't something that first came to the Bond franchise with Daniel Craig.
The way Quantum of Solace follows from Casino Royale isn't the innovation for the franchise. It's the way Casino Royale presents a clean break, dispensing with the assumption that anything like any of the previous movies happened in this universe.
I expect that even if we get some movies with "the new 007", eventually someone will decide the money is in making a new James Bond movie and we'll get another soft-focus-continuity-reset.

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Pffft. "Follow back" as a social convention is such a bonkers idea. I'm in charge of who I follow. You're in charge of who you follow. I follow people whose tweets I want to see. I trust you're doing the same. That's how it works. That's how it should work. Text from a tweet: "If...
If you're choosing to follow back everybody who follows you because that's just how you meet new people on here, that's your choice. I'm not here to tell you that you're doing social media wrong. That's my whole point: you pick who you follow and why.
Also I note the person who tweeted that out has about 1500+ more followers than they have people who they're following, so they're not exactly being the change they want to see in the world.
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The phenomena of weird nerds jumping in front of criticism of Elon Musk online is easier to understand when you see how many Tesla drivers posting horrific firsthand accounts of Tesla ownership in character as the "This is fine." dog.
Yeah, I used to have a reply guy following me who would respond to anything negative about Musk with "But can you name one person who is personally doing more for the environment?" and it's like, that's not actually relevant to the criticism?

I harbor my reservations that Musk is actually doing that much on the environmental front vs. that being a cool marketing angle for his line of expensive hobby toys, but say it's true that he's personally helped the environment more than anyone else.
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After two days in a row of sequestering the cats in the back office (or in it and the bedroom it connects to, when they're being too cagy), Tommy has been coming up to me like, "Hey, when are we doing the thing?" and Tony took the initiative to shut herself in on her own.
NBL We're not doing the thing today, the plumbing stuff is over and done with, though there will be more clean-up and repairs down the line it's all outdoors so we don't have to sequester the cats.
...that was supposed to be "NB:". This is apparently my most consistent typo.
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Nope, for so many reasons. The uncontrollable muscle spasms are a big one, but even if I had total control of what my arms and legs do at all times... I don't know how to tell how long it's going to take another moving object to reach a certain point. It's magic. It's witchcraft.
Sometimes when I'm in the front passenger seat, the person driving will be like, "Tell me if anything's coming from that way." and it's like I can tell you if literally any vehicles are visible in that direction or if none are, that's it.
Because sometimes I'll be like, "There's a truck" and they'll look and be like, "What? That was way far away, we had plenty of time." but you didn't ask if we had time (which I don't know how to judge!), you asked if anything was coming.
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This method ends with me closed in with her, but that's okay, the cats are calmer when I'm around them.
The easiest time I ever got them in isolation was when I just carried Tony into the room like a baby and then called Tommy's name. It was only ever that easy once.
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STRUMMING MY PAIN WITH HER FINGERS

SINGING MY LIFE WITH HER TWEETS

KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HER THREAD

KILLING ME SOFTLY

WITH HER THREAD
This is why I'm so brittle and prickly on here. This is why I have no patience for people who correct jokes, who "jokingly" do annoying things on purpose, for people who are annoying jerks and have "LOL I'm an asshole deal with it" in their bio...
...for people who reply to tweets about my preferences or experiences with "I think you mean [the other person's preference]" or "This is [thing the other person likes] erasure". None of these things would ruin anybody's day on their own... but they aren't on their own.
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