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Drew McWeeny

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Caustically optimistic. Potty mouth. FILM NERD 2.0. Netflix's VOIR. MASTERS OF HORROR. '80s ALL OVER. FEAR ITSELF. I helped break the Internet. Sorry about that. Keto for life. Visit drewmcweeny.com for all my shit.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 20d

Support human art. Support the plurality of voices. Trans rights are human rights. We are all in this together.

Resist what you know is wrong.

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Edgar Wright @edgarwright.bsky.social · 7h

Survive 30 days while the world hunts you down. Check out the New Poster for The #RunningManMovie – Only in theatres November 14 @runningmanmovie.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 8h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Nightmare Junkhead @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks to Screenland @barbaracrampton.bsky.social and EVERYONE who came out for Reanimator!

Introducing Reanimator at Friday Night Frights!

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

For TIME I went long on the bumbling white men at the heart of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, EDDINGTON, and THE MASTERMIND.

How the White Savior Became This Year’s Cinematic Punchline

Several of this year's notable movies, including, One Battle After Another, Eddington, and The Mastermind humorously critique the political role of white men.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 22h

I don't buy it!

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

I just didn't think it went anywhere. It's two hours of generalized anxiety that adds up to "being a parent pretty much sucks, especially when you make catastrophically shitty decisions about everything."

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

So wasn't Cameron Monaghan supposed to be some big secret reveal in TRON ARES? Was he?

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Claire C. Holland @clairecwrites.bsky.social · Sep 7

New My Favorite F***ing Movie is out! September is Halloween Eve, so today’s screed is horror-adjacent: I’m delving into the weirdo girls and hot goths that helped me through my teen years.

Likes/shares/subscribes are all super appreciated!
open.substack.com/pub/myfavori...

I Wanted To Be Bad

On Weirdo Girls & Goths, Plus a List of (Personally) Important Goth Girls

open.substack.com

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Michael Seth Prell (aka Monday) @lolmonday.bsky.social · 1d

These dudes are definitely in The Christmas Adventurers Club.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 1d

If I were a DC reporter, I’d consider maybe pressing Johnson on how he reconciles these two statements.

@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, l'm a very patient guy, but l've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ..."

@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "People have got to stop framing simple policy disagreements in terms of existential threats to our democracy. You can't call the other side fascists and enemies of the state and not understand that there are some deranged people in our society who will take that as cues to act."

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 1d

THIS IS SO AWESOME.

Please follow my gifted friend @alexsegura.bsky.social and support this book!

Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 1d

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

Different for everyone. I just saw OBAA again and it makes me giddy.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

If I was in a room with one of these weirdos and they started talking about the Antichrist, I would not just sit there and nod. These people are fucking deranged and should be called deranged at every opportunity.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

Fine? It's not much of a role.

Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

Every year, there's at least one big movie that people love that I bounce off of. It's inevitable. Not everything is for everyone. I think Rose Byrne does a lot of acting in it (not completely a compliment) but IF I HAD LEGS, I'D KICK YOU left me cold. I don't see the film everyone's raving about.

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

i wrote a book about a small press getting cursed with an unsolicited manuscript submission. it's very scary. you should read it.

buy a signed & personalized copy here: ghoulish.rip/product/i-be...

the jacket art for i believe in mister bones

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 1d

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

First look at "Primal" Season 3 (by Genndy Tartakovsky).
Coming January 2026 on Adult Swim.

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Short Queen Dew 🇵🇸 🇨🇦 @shortqueendewie.bsky.social · 1d

Heyooo feminists of the world

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ILLINOIS Candidate for Congress @abugai.bsky.social : “You said Prizker & Johnson need a history lesson - I’d like to give you one: when masked men are kidnapping entire families, naked, zip-tying their hands and throwing them into U-haul trucks… they’re usually not the good guys.”

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himham @himham.bsky.social · 2d

This is a fantastic insight into how ideas in media are workshopped with 10 unbearable people in the room telling you what to do.

Your favorite artist works in this kind of environment too.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 2d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 2d

I think everything should be ready by Friday or Saturday, but in the meantime...

www.drewmcweeny.com/a-little-war...

A little warm-up while we wait

Some thoughts on how this place is going to be different from Substack.

www.drewmcweeny.com

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