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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2h

An inverse situation of why I hate soccer switching to shootouts for elimination games.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 10h

I have zero skin in this game, and my nerves are jangling.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 11h

My Mariner fan friends, please remember to breathe.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 14h

When you get your pitch, you hit that motherfucker out.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

New @cityweekly.bsky.social for this week's very full slate of new theatrical & streaming releases: TRON: ARES; ROOFMAN; A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE; SOUL ON FIRE; KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5; JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME; THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10; VICIOUS. www.cityweekly.net/film/movie-r...

Movie Reviews: New releases for Oct. 10

Tron: Ares, Roofman, Kiss of the Spider Woman, A House of Dynamite, Soul on Fire, John Candy: I Like Me, The Woman in Cabin 10, Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, Vicious

www.cityweekly.net

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 20h

Surprise entry for DoesTheDogDie.com.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 20h

I wouldn’t put it past this administration to specifically seek out someone named Sullivan to sue the New York Times for libel, just for the lulz.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 20h

If I were watching a movie in which the victim in a rights-violating police action was named Miranda, I’d roll my eyes at it being too on-the-nose. Yet here we are.

Grant Smith @grantmeaccess.bsky.social · 22h

“Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

The officers struck Miranda from behind, which caused him to collapse before he was taken away in an unmarked van.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 22h

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

There’s quite a reasonable argument to be made that no American President in history has ever had hands bloodless enough to warrant earning a Peace Prize, but some people aren’t ready for that conversation.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

No Nobel?
Oh no!
Oh well.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Not a night to remember for Philly sports fans.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball … Now more than ever

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

New @cityweekly.bsky.social for this week's very full slate of new theatrical & streaming releases: TRON: ARES; ROOFMAN; A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE; SOUL ON FIRE; KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5; JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME; THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10; VICIOUS. www.cityweekly.net/film/movie-r...

Movie Reviews: New releases for Oct. 10

Tron: Ares, Roofman, Kiss of the Spider Woman, A House of Dynamite, Soul on Fire, John Candy: I Like Me, The Woman in Cabin 10, Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, Vicious

www.cityweekly.net

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to be a Gen X straight white guy basic bitch, but … Elvis Costello.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

The most obvious thing you can glean from the way non-writers talk to writers about AI is that everything they think they know about the creative process, they gleaned from misunderstanding Dorothy Parker’s quip about hating writing, and loving having written.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSd...

Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages

YouTube video by DefLeppardVEVO

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of things are "here to stay," but we've been able to determine that they are far more harmful than beneficial, and consequently have made choices to minimize their damage rather than allow them to proliferate unchecked.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

The movie version of the ROOFMAN story leaves out this detail from his case, which I guess falls under the “who would believe it” category.

Wikipedia entry for ROOFMAN subject Jeffrey Manchester, describing how the only fingerprint found in his hiding place was on a DVD of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 2d

Here in Utah: "sale," "feel"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Matt’s question and the assertion posed by the article’s title are very different things. There are many terrible sequels to great movies, but not one of those great movies was ever “ruined” by its inferior follow-up. JAWS remains perfect, the existence of JAWS: THE REVENGE notwithstanding.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 3d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to the American Presidents who didn't... (checks notes)... hate Americans.

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Editor’s Corner: An “18-year veteran” and an “18-year-old veteran” are *not* the same thing.

Screenshot from ESPN.com story about Joe Flacco being traded to the Cincinnati Bengals, mistakenly referring to the 40-year-old quarterback as an “18-year-old veteran.”

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 3d

Unsolicited junk mail from retirement-planning companies: "We are here to make you feel old as fuck."
Unsolicited junk mail from local mortuary: "Hold my embalming fluid."

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Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 4d

I think it’s time for Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence to return to his previous job as the Beast’s human form.

Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t think I’ve seen a more concise, perfect description of AI slop than Zelda Williams’ “the Human Centipede of content.” Sorry it took people spewing fake shit about her dad at her to come up with it.

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