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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

@liammci.bsky.social

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He/Him. Screenwriter/TV writer living in Toronto. Open to work/connections. I’m autistic and bisexual. Insomniac. I read a lot so I post about that. Star Trek/Simpsons fan. Intersectional anti-capitalist. Hostile to transphobia & AI on sight.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Before you follow me, I highly recommend you read everything that’s in my bio CAREFULLY.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 15h

A bit unexpectedly sad about Diane Keaton.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 15h

It’s funny because one of the most boring old movies I’ve ever attempted was famously in colour.

a man with a mustache is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie and looking at the camera .

Alt: Clark Gable in Gone with The Wind.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think it’s that much of a coincidence that more of these guys started getting more media coverage during the War on Terror.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly I think I broke myself of this when I 1. Started reading about the history of religion and how much it interacts with wider historical phenomena and 2. Realized how much atheism seemed too quickly to want to justify oppression & imperialism (*cough Bill Maher Christopher Hitchens *cough).

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 22h

Ultimately what it comes down to is a worldview that denies the very notion of any right to bodily autonomy, which can only lead to sexual predation. There’s really nowhere else it can go

That’s why fighting it *has* to be about bodily autonomy, which is why it’s inextricable from trans liberation

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 23h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22h

How do regimes do when the soldiers don’t get paid? Does anyone know of any concerning historical precedents that this evokes

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

Chappell Roan is awesome.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 22h

My favourite (by default) performance of his is in Blade Runner 2049 because he’s playing a giant creep with some great dialogue and Villeneuve had to settle for Leto due to David Bowie having cancer.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h

People are SHOWING OUT for today’s Protect Rogers Park ICE protest at Clark and Lunt!

There are a lot of great resources here:
- sign making
- school watch group chats
- ICE Watch newsletters
- KYR posters
- and more!

Drop by before 3!!

A perspective of a crowd that is at least 150 that is protesting ICE.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 23h

Like even in his good movies, he’s BY FAR the weakest actor in Requiem for a Dream.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 23h

Given that Jared Leto is the closest thing to a real life vampire possible and he still couldn’t carry something like Morbius, maybe he just doesn’t have it.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe. But I feel like even that would only go so far given how the film industry is nowadays.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 23h

It’s also funny that I’ve never encounter IRL fans of his “Poor Man’s version of U2” band.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 23h

Him winning an Oscar a decade ago might be the thread his career is hanging onto. Lol.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

(Elaine casually eats a bagel and nods in agreement while pretending she understands)

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 1d

George: They Morbed Tron!
Jerry: They Morbed Tron?
George: They Morbed Tron.

(Kramer rides into the room on a lightcycle and explodes)

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

Rudeness aside, I would think the sheer awesome power of the universal rule of quiet would overpower any urge to yell at anyone.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

This movie also admittedly was kind of ahead of it’s time for depicting a gross misogynistic nerd who’s just as bad as the jocks.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

Rewatching Carpenter’s Christine (1983) and would it be too much of a reach to suggest that Christine represents the spectre of the American auto industry?

a man in a brown sweater is drinking from a white cup

Alt: a man in a brown sweater is drinking from a white cup with his pinkie in the air.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

Rewatching Carpenter’s Christine (1983) and would it be too much of a reach to suggest that Christine represents the spectre of the American auto industry?

a man in a brown sweater is drinking from a white cup

Alt: a man in a brown sweater is drinking from a white cup with his pinkie in the air.

media.tenor.com

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

I knew Mike Pence would turn up somewhere eventually.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

I dare you to go ask someone over 50 about what they think this means.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

Oh by that standard, yeah, I can see your point. Lol.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe bronze, IMO. Lol.

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