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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t believe my new favorite photo of me was taken at a work event. xoxo @pluto.tv & @paramountplus.com

BJ Colangelo wearing an orange and black striped shirt and a harness stands in front of an array of VHS horror tapes from SLASHBACK VIDEO.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 10h

I just did this myself and moaned.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 10h

🥹🥹🥹

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 21h

Shout out to my wife @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social who is as intelligent as she is hot and refuses to take her foot off the necks of people who profit off of transphobic Gein propaganda.

www.them.us/story/ryan-m...

Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monster’ Tried To Avoid the Transgender Killer Trope. It Didn’t

Ed Gein wasn't transgender, but that hasn't stopped Hollywood from indulging in the transphobic narrative that inspired Psycho and Silence of The Lambs.

www.them.us

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 23h

We love this movie and I love this episode. @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social has had some ✨thoughts✨ recently about the state of transness in America, and all of those feelings came out during this podcast episode.

ENJOY!

This Ends at Prom @thisendsatprom.bsky.social · 23h

NEW EP: BIT (2020)

How do we exist in a world that treats us like monsters for existing and what do we do when we're finally given power? This week is an especially political discussion so strap in and get ready to kick some ass and bite some necks!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

The This Ends at Prom episode announcement for Bit 2020 featuring Nicole Maines as Laurel washed in bisexual lighting. the quote "we're made to be monsters, so let's be monsters. let's be gods." is underneath it as well as the patreon.com/thisendsatprom link.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone at the premiere tonight heard a “THAT’S FUCKIN’ RIGHT!” yelled during the end credits of BLACK PHONE 2 where it declared that the movie cannot be repurposed to train AI, that was me.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

There’s an interview going around about AI, so before there are any questions, let me state unequivocally that BLACK PHONE 2 is 100% organic. AI was not used at any stage of the filmmaking from idea generation, research, look books, writing, onscreen images - anything. We’re old school and love it.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 1d

We need execs to start saying “AI SUCKS SHIT” and that be the only statement. Anything else? I don’t wanna fucking hear it.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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HorrorGirl Problems @horrorgirlprobs.bsky.social · 1d

Working for Fango is literally a childhood and lifelong dream fulfilled. I am especially honored to be here for this incarnation under our EIC @philnobilejr.bsky.social who I witnessed taking the mag in a direction I deeply wanted to be a part of.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

These fools don't use logic!!

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

I think he's deliberately not signing the other bills so that they'll automatically become law without his having to put his name on them. That way, when he runs for president, he can have plausible deniability to cater to conservatives when they discuss his legislative career.

HE SUCKS.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw a job posting looking for writers to help train AI that pays more than double what I currently make.

A redheaded Ginnifer Goodwin as Beth Ann Stanton dressed like a 1960s housewife smiling with the quote "I need to buy a gun." It's a meme made out of an episode of Why Women Kill.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

I just stared at her before I was finally like... "Ma'am, fruits cannot range." And she laughed and was like, "I just mean, they weren't grown in a factory or something, right?" And I just smiled and blinked.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

I once worked at an indoor playground, and this super crunchy mom asked me if the organic fruit snacks were free range. She was dead serious.

People are just out here saying words.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

Keep your eyes peeled because I'm writing something about it :)

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not officially rating/reviewing the film anywhere, but reading this really gave me a new appreciation for some of the stuff that initially irked me and made me bump it up a half-star in my mind.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

It's never too late, Drea.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

I’m gonna let them continue screaming into the void 🥰

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

I have never seen this Curious George reaction before and it made me actually laugh out loud.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

NO CLUE. They've been messaging me on and off for months now. I have never interacted with this account, ever.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

Normal time in my DMs as usual.

OK???? GOOD BYE
I followed your account for a while, but you didn't follow and you didn't reply
I don't know what your problem is with my account?
I followed your account until now
Can you follow my account?
I am waiting for you and will follow up immediately
Thank you in advance
God bless you
Always successful

I am waiting for you and will follow up immediately
Can you follow my account?
OK???

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 3d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 3d

Welp. #TronAres is a movie that plays with sci-fi tropes that tech bros learn the wrong lessons from w/ rad action sequences, but is bogged down by charisma vacuum Jared Leto.

Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith are why it ever comes close to reaching the heights it’s striving for.

NIN music RIPS.

Jodie Turner-Smith as Athena, wearing her red grid suit and helmet while holding a laser gun in TRON: ARES.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 3d

I've been very lucky to have gotten to know her over the last few years and the fact this cycle keeps repeating is unsurprising but so fucking deranged.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 3d

Zelda has been sounding the alarm on the dangers of AI for YEARS, long before the technology got to where it is now, because she's:

1) brilliant (go watch Lisa Frankenstein).
2) ridiculously smart.
3) experienced first-hand how fucking WEIRD people are about her Dad.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 3d

Meat is unfathomably hot as Eddie.

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