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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2h

I love so many of you wild weird Seppos individually, but America as a whole is well above my pay rate to figure out

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2h

A goddamned bullet to the chest

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2h

ADORE YOU ××

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3h

"What you talkin about, Willis?", but to the entire concept of the United States

Snowden St. @snowden.st · May 14

Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 7h

The only 2 people I want to hear talk about BIT aside from Elmore himself are @bjcolangelo.bsky.social and @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social

BIT is everything, and as an aside it is a serious reflection of how dogshit this industry is that Brad didn't get a fucking open chequebook offer after making it

This Ends at Prom @thisendsatprom.bsky.social · 15h

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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This Ends at Prom @thisendsatprom.bsky.social · 15h

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!

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

I would literally have dealt better with news that he died

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

<Tony Soprano voice> He's dead to me

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘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...

www.theguardian.com

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

Ok that is ADORABLE

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

I saw Tron: Ares with a truly mortified 14 year old whose only response to was "why are Gen X-ers so embarrassing?". They've made it today's mission to talk anyone their age out of seeing it.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

GOD YES

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

I went to a press screening and still want my money back!

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

The music slaps and Scully is hot, but Tron: Ares is nothing more than corporate whitewashed AI apologia. Yet even that pales next to the ethically bleak desperation it has to rehabilitate Jared Leto's much-deserved reputation as an actual piece of shit. Fuck him, fuck Disney, and fuck this film.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

When I hear Nine Inch Nails in TRON: ARES

Vs.

When I see Jared Fucken Leto in TRON: ARES

Anna Nicole Smith, upset and furious, points angrily in a courtroom witness stand

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘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...

www.theguardian.com

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

When I hear Nine Inch Nails in TRON: ARES

Vs.

When I see Jared Fucken Leto in TRON: ARES

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

Phil you enormously adorable baby, you look EXACTLY the same xx

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 2d

Fay Wray was almost 7 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand II was assassinated and she could also have listened to the first Franz Ferdinand album.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

Possibly not what you are after, but La Linea used to get a thrashing on the ABC and is fucking SUPERB www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBCP...

La Linea Series - Episode 01 | Lineman Series - Part 1

YouTube video by La Linea Series

www.youtube.com

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

SAME! I have a whole theory on why its pissed people off, only wish I had time to write it up. Super keen to hear your thoughts!

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

I literally gasped reading this - I really loved it too, thought I was alone! Can't wait to listen to this. I legit think in 15 years time we'll be talking about Him the way we talk about Jennifer's Body now in terms of how poorly it was received on its original release, despite being a banger...

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K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Truly amazing that this is a massive open secret that continues to be ignored.
airmail.news/issues/2025-...

Jared Leto's #MeToo Moment

Rumors of the actor's inappropriate behavior with younger women have swirled for decades. Now, nine people have come forward with their stories.

airmail.news

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 3d

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Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 3d

With TRON ARES about to hit, here’s a bit I wrote for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social on the original TRON and it’s fabulous composer, the amazing Wendy Carlos

Pixel Perfect: How Wendy Carlos Gave an Extra Dimension to Tron

How synthesizer innovator Wendy Carlos created a combination orchestral/synth score for Disney’s big-budget adventure ‘Tron.’

crookedmarquee.com

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 3d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 3d

I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it.

bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

bookshop.org

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

"Here lies Dr Idiot. She died how she lived: idiotically"

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

The SXSW Sydney screening is gonna be amazing, both because and despite me running up the aisles for the entire session screeching "AVALON FUCKEN RULES"

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

These are all *superb*. When I got my PhD, my 6 year old said in a loud booming voice "CONGRATULATIONS, DR IDIOT!". Its now my family nickname 💜

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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