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Media archivist. Elder millennial. Exiled Californian. Avatar is Jennifer Connelly from Dark City on 35mm. Banner is a bunch of vintage TVs. he/they/any/all

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm down to 100 movies and 130 days left in my quest to log 4,000 movies on letterboxd before I turn 40. I should hit that goal comfortably and will now be making a thread of the final countdown

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 55m

Begging these losers to take one Media Studies course

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 1h

Veitch was doing some really wild stuff at the time. Brat Pack is worth checking out to see him totally rip into DC characters. Fair warning it is also deeply of it's time with it's sense of humor

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 1h

Been dealing with smug assholes who scoff when you can actually articulate your thoughts my whole life too. Must be nice to have so little going on

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 2h

Picked up Walter Murch's new book on editing, Suddenly Something Clicked. The very first page has a link to a Lumiere short with a bunch of AI crap on it. The point is about all the tools available now, but it sucks to see plagiarism taken seriously. A lame start to an otherwise great read

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 2h

It's an era of cinema I am still quite fond of

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 2h

in honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone on your profession would understand

“our ILS has crashed”

eek @pokestarwind.bsky.social · 7h

in honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone on your profession would understand

“new district mandated assessments”

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 9h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“papers in IEEE format”

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 2h

Even then. I refuse to be bound to only one genre of nudity

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 2h

She definitely looks ready to fight Milla Jovovich with a sword

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 8h

Feeling deeply vindicated right now

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 11h

I can't do an all horror movie October because I get resentful if I have to stick to one genre of film for too long.

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 11h

Our modern day Zapp Brannigan

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 12h

Everybody dunking on Tron as though people didn't predict the same thing about Pirates of the Caribbean before it exploded. Disney's secret is that they actually have no idea what is successful and it's why they have entire lost decades where the studio barely survives.

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joshuatj @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Woohoo! Great #digipres story @makethecatwise
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 13h

That's why ive memorized the rules of attraction lest I be mistaken for some sort of American psycho. Lunar park.

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 14h

#88 Captain Blood

No Robin Hood, but what could be?

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 15h

I love a good forest green like that of a 1995 Ford Taurus

A promotional image for a green 1995 Ford taurus

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 16h

10/10 would let crush my windpipe with it's radthighs

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 17h

Behold: my first ever car decal

The back of a car, with a decal of the flag of the New California Republic

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 18h

In much happier news:

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 21h

Lost Prophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison

Ian Watkins was serving a 35-year sentence imposed in 2013 after admitting 13 child sex offences.

www.bbc.com

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 18h

Once again asking people to reconsider following people who comment on posts like these without actually reading it to see it's click bait

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 18h

Thinking how my dad is probably honoring Diane Keaton with his favorite movie of her's: The Other Sister. The movie that made me realize in the theater that we had very different taste

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 18h

My favorite story about him is that he will adopt the most stereotypical traits when talking to anyone who isn't white. Like bowing to Asian people or taking on AAVE to Black crew members on set

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 23h

We could've had a world with Artemis as Wonder Woman, Jean Paul Valley as Batman, and five permanent supermen

useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 23h

They dropped Diana working at a fast food joint wayyy too quickly

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