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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1h

Carry On Films Ranked boxd.it/PtCGi

Carry On Films Ranked

My ranking of the Carry On films as I watch them

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1h

My ★★★½ review of Carry On Jack on Letterboxd boxd.it/bkUR7z

A ★★★½ review of Carry On Jack (1964)

It's a brisk comedy, and Bernard Cribbins makes an appealing lead, but there's something...conventional? about it? Maybe it's most of the regulars missing but it just feels like a slightly clever acti...

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 2h

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Finit

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, good, CARRY ON JACK opens on a fag joke...

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 3h

My ★★★★ review of Carry On Cabby on Letterboxd boxd.it/bkQ9It

A ★★★★ review of Carry On Cabby (1963)

This is magnificent. A "battle of the sexes" comedy can so easily descend into tired misogyny, but the heart of this is a fantastic performance by Hettie Jaques, playing a warm woman who just wants a ...

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 4h

They could have so easily played this as her being a nag, but no, she's a lovely woman married to an ungrateful asshole, and it's so FRESH for this type of comedy.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 4h

It's the last bachelor weekend before being in Europe for two weeks with the husband, so its Lego and Carry On films, and Hettie Jacques in CARRY ON CABBY is breaking my heart as the neglected wife.
Stop putting good subtle acting in my bawdy comedy.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 6h

As good an explanation of Engineer Syndrome you're likely to find

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 8h

Humanities majors know that they don't have the knowledge base to do engineering; but engineers don't know that they don't know enough to do humanities.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 17h

Post was sent to the farm upstate, too many likes from people who don't follow me

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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 20h

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

I'd make a "Look kids, Larfleeze!" joke but I unironically kind of like Larfleeze.
He's not evil, he's just a dick. I respect that

preternia @preternia.com · 1d

McF DC Winter 2025

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, block early, block often, and remember strangers are not owed your time or attention.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, got a "it's good to give Peace Prizes to people who think it's ok to extra judicially bomb civilians" defender trying to call me out for having restricted comments, thus again proving why it's good to restrict comments.

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 2d

My GoFundMe is still open. PLEASE help me reach $5000 if you can. I'm desperate.

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 2d

I just got a call from my loan officer that because I had to spend my down payment on rent, I may no longer qualify for my mortgage loan

I need to come up with at least $5000 asap or my house search will be for nothing and my mom and I will be homeless in under 2 months

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Those are "Twitch is demonitizing you" numbers.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

RACISM

RACISM is why "a bunch of you yelling for 10 minutes" got my 24 hour account spam ban reversed

and why ALL OF US SCREAMING FOR LINK for DAYS has done nothing

the mods are transphobic, but they're more racist

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

I can only assume these were the best "gets" she could find after her assistant told her Kissinger was dead.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

I'm hard pressed to think of three people who I want to hear from less.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.