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A Scanner BOO!ly
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writer: Nightscript, @DimShores.bsky.social @ThinkingHorror, @weirdfictionrev, film crit. @ patreon.com/ascannerburkely | mulchsack left. most likely to be mad online, class of 2000. he/him.
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 11h
I've made this essay free for the Halloween season. I hope you find something of value in it and consider supporting my film and fiction habits!
www.patreon.com/posts/115766...
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 5m
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 21m
The Beyond, since we just watched The Void and those folks are clearly fans of this one
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The Beyond (1981)
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3h
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 1h
This movie: assaulting sheriffs is back in a big way
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 2h
Stabby stab
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 2h
Now watching boxd.it/d93S
The Void (2016)
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a ske...
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 2h
If you have hallucinations about my posts I assure you that's something that can stay inside
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 3h
Does "wrestling match" count as a film genre
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 3h
Greatest genre stew of all time? We have SF(both then-modern and classic), horror, action, comedy, Western, maybe a bit of noir, what else
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olivia ❤️💀 @fixurheartordie.bsky.social · 3h
its a front-facing moe smiling
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 3h
There has got to be a version of the Bible where “Nate silver kind of admits he’s wrong” is one of the four horsemen
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6h
AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over
Nate Silver @NateSilver538 • 5h •.° I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 3h
One thing AI is good for is reminding people how even the very worst movie they’ve ever seen is better than AI “movies”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):
She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.
Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
projects.propublica.org
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 3h
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 3d
In which we're tsidetracked by a tsunami, chroming our chrskull, and clowning around with reactionary clods

Today for patrons I've some archival writing on the films Vinyan, Laid to Rest, and Terrifier

www.patreon.com/posts/140716...
Vinyan: A woman stands on a path in the jungle Laid to Rest: A tall shadowy figure carries a body between two cars on a green-lit and foggy night. Terrifier: An obnoxious blonde tempts fate by sitting on a stoic Art the Clown's lap for a selfie in melodramatic pose inside a restaurant.
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 5h
Maybe my favorite Carpenter movie
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 6h
One of the most irritating things I frequently encounter from transphobes is oddly similar to anti-vaxxer logic. Namely, that scientific evidence which contradicts their opinion is simply dismissed outright. When confronted with evidence about gender identity, the response is always utter denial.
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 5h
"You can't change your gender"

Yes, finally you get it.

"Wait, what?"
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 5h
Now rewatching boxd.it/20lm
They Live (1988)
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 5h
is this running the government like a business. do businesses do this normally
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 6h
BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 8
One party promises to end abortion rights, points to state level victories in doing so, and says "we spent 40 years to do it there, here is a 12 step plan to do it nationally."

The other party, doesn't.
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 5h
It would be extra appreciated because I'm being accused of being a bad writer by someone who is manifestly a bad reader but angry about it or something
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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 13h
October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.
Dr. Demento
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A Scanner BOO!ly @ascannerburkely.bsky.social · 11h
I've made this essay free for the Halloween season. I hope you find something of value in it and consider supporting my film and fiction habits!
www.patreon.com/posts/115766...
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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 1d
An ongoing thread of short story collections coming in 2026, of work weird/surreal/dark/uncanny/unsettling/ghostly/ghastly, across genres, so that they're all in one place that I can refer back to when I inevitably forget what books I was meaning to request review copies of:
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