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Dennis B. Hooper

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tall gay nerd. he/him. advanced degrees in height, gayness, nerdness. reality show editor, work seen on a&e, bravo, quibi. maker of goofy photoshops and questionable victorian detective satire. writing, etc: https://linktr.ee/dennisbhooper

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi everyone, I’m a reality show editor who also writes things for fun. You can find examples of my work in this thread. The first is a quick and deeply silly piece of flash fiction in the style of a Hollywood memoir:

Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Aug 20

ANNOUNCEMENT: So for the last few months i’ve been hard at work on a novel, and therefore don’t have anything new in the way of detective stories, or anything else.

But I wanted to put *something* out there, so this is a quick little 5 minute humor piece.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 5h

“…spell lede. Is it seriously lede and not lead? I feel like somebody’s playing a prank on me and I don’t like it, you guys…”

oliverdarcy (on Threads)
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to
staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you sp...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

Part of the reason the right aggressively demonizes George Soros is to dissuade any other left-of-center wealthy guys from doing actual politics the way every right wing billionaire happily does.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 18h

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 12h

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 19h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 12h

it takes a lot to make a stew

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 18h

June, 1993. I exhale loudly and pat my brow. The desert is punishingly hot but we’ve had a magnificent expedition so far. Specimens we never could have imagined, and the best possible team. Yet nothing makes me happier than the chance to share my work with my son. He’s struggling a bit at school, being bullied over his weight and so forth, and trying out a new, more combative personality. It’s not totally working, if I’m being honest, but I’m glad he’s asserting himself. In any case, science requires confidence, and Dr. Grant, our team leader, will make a marvelous role model. But wait, what’s this? I look over and see Dr. Grant giving some personal attention to my son! And he appears to be showing him a dinosaur claw! Incredible! I can already tell that this is going to be one of the best weeks of my son’s life

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

Absolutely going to get fed into an LLM with a "tell me who to fire, I want to reduce headcount at least 50% so I can replace with people who I can rely on ideologically"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

Here's the full memo.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 1d

Last two lines of a poem

Google:

People also ask, what is the sun’s real name?

How much longer has the sun got left?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 21h

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 1d

Overgrown

A linocut print of a girl carrying an oversized carrot on her back. It's printed on off-white paper with black and orange ink.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

A columnist still at WaPo.

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 1d

Last two lines of a poem

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Feb 29

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 2d

Meowlignant (2021)

A woman with long brown hair and a vest seen from behind and the cat is being carried in the vest with only its face showing at the back of the woman’s head, reminiscent of Gabriel in Malignant (2021)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

No creativity or ingenuity in thinking of ways of how to fight Trump but infinitely amounts of creativity and ingenuity when it's time to brainstorm reasons why it's actually smart to do nothing.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 3d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 2d

Staring at this comment about Taylor Swift until I can taste my feet

It’s funny all these people criticizing her, and forget she wrote a song about haters. LOL. She really isn’t moved by criticism. She is just doing her thing…

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 2d

I realize this was a decision at the executive level but I’m choosing to read this as “the audience refused to watch her a second time”

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

for a henchman, there’s nothing better after a long day of guarding a small chest than standing with your back to a field of waving grass just tall enough to hide a crouching human being

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 2d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

A really old trick conservatives use is to accuse liberals of supporting an idea that would make sense under liberal values but that liberals don't actually support for tactical reasons. So you face a choice of either accepting the false accusation or you argue against your own values.

Rot Economy Critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 2d

Saw a CBS ghoul trying to hound Hakeem fucking Jeffries about whether “illegal aliens get the ACA subsidies” by reasking the question multiple times after Jeffries said it wasn’t true. You’d think he was interviewing a Nixon staffer about watergate.

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