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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 26m

bring back fucking shame

Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 9h

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 1h

Had a blast guesting on this episode. I think we were very fair with an incredibly influential movie (that I've seen a dozen times over the years) that had some of questionable fallout (and questionable gags).

Listen, jerks!

Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 3h

FOLKS, it's my anniversary! As a gift, check out maybe the best episode of @boxofficegross.bsky.social we've done. Two beloved guests return, Kevin Gray and @dougtilley.bsky.social, to sort thru the complicated experience of watching THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN in 2025. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 2h

This might just be the most aesthetically, politically, and culturally impactful film we cover this year...

Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 3h

FOLKS, it's my anniversary! As a gift, check out maybe the best episode of @boxofficegross.bsky.social we've done. Two beloved guests return, Kevin Gray and @dougtilley.bsky.social, to sort thru the complicated experience of watching THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN in 2025. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2h

U SPELLIN': AWFUL

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3h

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 2h

Patreon bonus episode WHEN

Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 2h

I sheepishly reveal how many projects from this crew I've missed, we discuss how molten hot Catherine Keener is in this, we discuss a bit character played by a murderer, I regale the group with the plot of SOUL PLANE, and I delve into the plot of the extremely real porn film SPACE NUTS.

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 2h

so it was!

Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 3h

It's a really fascinating discussion with two of my favorite guests, and we just have SO MUCH to say here, it was really so much fun, and I can't wait for you to hear it! CHECK IT OUT

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 3h

We also go deep on the complicated experience analyzing this film in 2025, the balance between the humanizing kindness the film does to its characters contrasted with its oafish, casually relentless homophobia, which is simultaneously more and less thorny than the lazy sexism of WEDDING CRASHERS.

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 3h

We discuss the seismic effect that this film had on comedy, pop culture and the careers of basically everyone who participated in it in the ensuing years, from Judd Apatow to Steve Carell to Seth Rogen to Paul Rudd to Elizabeth Banks and a bunch of folks in between.

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 3h

FOLKS, it's my anniversary! As a gift, check out maybe the best episode of @boxofficegross.bsky.social we've done. Two beloved guests return, Kevin Gray and @dougtilley.bsky.social, to sort thru the complicated experience of watching THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN in 2025. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 4h

Hard to overstate the damage the wannabe frontrunners are doing to themselves and, far more importantly, any broader sense of opposition by specifically calling attention to themselves with speeches or memes, then dutifully assisting the regime.

thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 4h

if I were Gov Pritzker and I actually opposed Trump instead of just bring a meme candidate, I would simply order my state troopers to stand down and not defend ICE.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 4h

A real good day, followed by eight years and counting of almost entirely good days.

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 4h

Everybody say "happy 8th wedding anniversary Brian and Amber" <3 <3 <3

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 13h

!?

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 14h

Having Ed Gein talk to Christine Jorgensen about being trans while they play a recreation of THE SCENE from Silence of the Lambs, and then have her tell him he's not trans by paraphrasing a line by Janice Raymond is certainly a choice

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

This new Monster season is like what if Ed Gein's life was actually an adaptation of Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs and not the other way around.

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Joel Zombied 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 14h

Seeing you got a new follow but it's from someone already following like 100,000 other people

a bottle of ketchup sits on a shelf in a kitchen ..

ALT: a bottle of ketchup sits on a shelf in a kitchen ..

media.tenor.com

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Izandra 🔪🩸 @izandra.bsky.social · 15h

Seattle’s closer Andrés Muñoz is a super cat dad. His girl is Matilda and has her own IG account.

Muñoz pitching in Seattle’s navy and silver uniform. A photoshopped white Persian cat with a Seattle baseball cap sits near his back foot.

A navy baseball mitt with an embroidered cross-looking white Persian cat and the name “Matilda”

A navy baseball mitt with white kitty paws embroidered on it

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah and don’t get me wrong, I still consider Discovery one of The Great Albums and is basically perfect,‘there’s just a lot of the best things about it that were already there, it’s chill

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 14h

I remember finding out that basically all the cool things about “Harder Better Faster Stronger” were just things from Edwin Birdsong’s “Cola Bottle Baby”

spooky season for a new instance @o-c.bsky.social · 15h

I suppose they had to listen to a *lot* of stuff to even find the records to sample, but man, Daft Punk basically stole artfully to create 'Discovery'

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 15h

This fanbase has been so loyal with absolutely jack shit to show for it. Any other context I’d be all in on Toronto, who also have an amazing fanbase and decades of frustration, but they also have Joe Carter, and the Mariners haven’t even won a pennant, a thing the fucking Rockies have done

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 15h

We were just chillin

Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 15h

My only argument is, yes, the Blue Jays haven't won a World Series since 1993, but they have won two World Series. The Mariners have never participated at all.

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 15h

Although maybe it's not that fun to point out that in two of the three prior ALCS series they've participated in, they've won Game 1 on the road and lost the series, so, hmm lol, Go Ms

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 15h

They did also win the first game in the 2000 ALCS for the record!

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walt denver @waltdenver.bsky.social · 15h

Tim Hardaway Jr is 1-9 on threes this preseason and Cam Johnson is 2-10.

Get it out of your systems, boys.

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