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Elizabeth Cantwell
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high school teacher, horror-lover, poet, Bright Wall/Dark Room editor, parent, person
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shout out to all the former eating disordered kids who have fond memories of avoiding all food at Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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“What the huh?” is indeed a Cooper Cantwell classic. Also our 3yo loves these comics so much, I end up reading them to him at 6:30 am over coffee. Highly recommend.
ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 12h
Today in THE FLASH #27, the 1908 Tunguska Blast EXPLAINED!

Max Mercury gives Wally a SLAP!

Mean people in their 20’s with POWERS!

TRAINS!

And Impulse directly quotes a weird phrase used by my 12-year-old son to AVOID SWEARS!

From me, Mark Waid, Vasco Georgiev, Matt Herms, & Buddy Beudoin!!!!1
Impulse, caught by Darkseid Legion member XS. Art by Vasco Georgiev. Cover to The Flash 27 with Wally West and Impulse running from screaming angry Cosmic Boy, art by Dan Mora
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I really enjoyed reading this relevant, thoughtful, lovely essay.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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rewatched Top Secret with the kids last night & even though its style of humor has never totally been my thing, I would like to nominate Val Kilmer’s performance as among the most “wow, this is a movie star”-feeling first film appearances by an actor
Val Kilmer in Top Secret singing into a microphone
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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clouds are killing it today
A church, trees, clouds Sunset clouds above a neighborhood
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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It’s been a tough week for me and this is exactly how I need to be entering the weekend
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 6d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I had so much fun chatting with @oneblakeminute.bsky.social about this movie that I love!
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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This post I just saw on Instagram instantly made me into the Joker
Your Thanksgiving dinner will be cheaper this year washingtonpost Here's one thing to be grateful for this holiday season: A typical Thanksgiving dinner is more affordable this year than last, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. This is the third year in a row the price has declined after reaching a historic high of $64.05 in 2022. The average cost of a Thanksgiving feast for 10 people - including turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls, peas, cranberries, a veggie tray, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream — will cost $55.18, or $5.52 per person, the group found.
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Joe basically exists as a blue force ghost in my head and heart now, but it was nice to see such thoughtful and insightful kindness from Lee about the show this many years on. Feeling couldn’t be more mutual.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Top 5 film genres:

Man pursues an obsession to his own horrific detriment

Man pursues an obsession to his own horrific detriment and it’s sexy

Paranoia destroys a community or unit of people

Paranoia destroys a community or unit of people and it’s sexy

Oh fuck, a monster/oh fuck, a ghost
mousterpiece.bsky.social Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 10d
Top five film genres:

Movies about making movies

Tom Cruise entertains the world via death-defying stunt work

Ungainly surrogate families as a commentary on America and its evolution

The unironic Disney musical

Uncompromising character studies about single-minded artists
labuzamovies.com Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 10d
top five film genres:

lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man

warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master

the camera moves!: an experiment

the folks in this building is a reflection of all america

immigration as a vibe
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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just teaching my 3yo about disorienting shots in cinema at 8 am
A small child craning his neck to try to understand a shot from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Listen. I teach 15-year-olds. And I know I'm preaching to the choir on Bluesky, but ... they are children. And I hate to get all "as a father of daughters" here but ... as a teacher of 15-year-olds this makes me feel ill and angry and even more protective of my students than I already am.
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 12d
A quote from Megyn Kelly:
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): As for Epstein, I've said this before, but just as a reminder, I do know somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything. Not everything, but virtually everything. And this person has told me from the start years and years ago that Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile. This is this person's view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. And I realized this is disgusting. I'm definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I'm just giving you facts, that he wasn't into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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living in LA means looking at this and a) feeling visceral relief about fire risk, but b) realizing you are going to have to try to not drive anywhere for 10 days
LA area weather forecast showing lots of upcoming rain
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This trooper made it through surgery and we are hoping it buys him a more comfortable end stage of his beautiful life. Send him some love.
An old dog lying on a towel on a couch, tired after surgery
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I know literally everyone else has commented on this but the email syntax and composition style of this monster is literally insane
seancasten.bsky.social Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14d
Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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I am seeing everyone’s Northern Lights photos and WISHING they could drift down to LA …
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I had one of those teaching days where everything went wrong and I do not feel I actually effectively taught ANYTHING. So: tomorrow has to be better, right?
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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how is your Monday morning full of rage going
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I’m “strongly remember wrapping all my school textbooks in brown paper or contact paper” years old
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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now that it gets dark early it’s the season where I want to watch Eyes Wide Shut at least weekly
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide.

These judges want dead trans kids.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20d
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I love this dog and I know no dogs can be immortal but man is loving a pet hard!
ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 20d
Having a 16 year old dog means 3100 dollars in sudden medical procedures which is actually WAY BETTER NEWS than discovering his kidney disease has advanced so far he can’t undergo the surgery, the scenario where the doctor started saying phrases like “end of life options” and I cried in the office
Our 16 year old dog Albee is gonna have major expensive surgery but have a healthier holiday and hopefully another year or two of life. ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Tried to make small talk with my hairdresser today about movies & discovered they do not watch movies because they find movies “too long” and they “get bored.” Guys, phones have officially fried everyone’s brains
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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This is a great read! And made me want to rewatch Bad Lieutenant.
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM