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The Ghost of Halloween Past

@jxilon.bsky.social

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All My Best Skeets Has Typos. Just keeping the same thing as other places, probably should be updated: Dad wearing a lot of odd-job hats. Writer. Photographer. No longer a teacher. he/him

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · Nov 9

Ok - will bring up one specific I love and, this is something of a spoiler. Ok? Spoiler here.

In the last act this movie had a choice: embrace the ethics of Seargent Farrell, or embrace the ethics of Major West. Most movie makers would have chosen the Major. Danny Boyle chose the Seargent.

The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · Nov 8

Showed the kid 28 Days Later today and it was even better than the last time I watched it. 5 star movie. I love it so much. I could probably do 10,000 word on all the ways it is great and interesting. Might be a top 3 all time horror movie for me? Hell, it might be the best. Its in the conversation.

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Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 1d

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 1d

It's like if the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse had a loser buddy from high school that they just can't bring themselves to cut off, so they let him do all the shit jobs no one else really wants like and egg him on to talk shit to others for their entertainment.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, you’re much kinder to it than I am to Heat, lol. (If you want a De Niro teams up with fellow superstar and top class director for a meditative heist action flick watch Ronin and be happier for it.)

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 14d

Travis Chapman

Painting of a raccoon water skiing being pulled by an alligator that has got to be swimming very fast indeed there are boys are markers the sides of the river marking out a slalom course that the raccoon is skiing

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I have never bought a book from seeing a professional promo only account. But plenty from seeing an interesting/fun/real-feeling persons’ account.

The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 7d

I am seriously struggling with the fact that the scold here has baked in the assumption that social media must be a 24/7 professional space and yet somehow think that it is *other people’s brains* that have been ruined by it.

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 7d

Going to be so fun next year.

The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 8d

Damn, I don’t even know what the 6 7 thing is (and I’m ok with that) but I feel so called out right now.

Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 9d

The same people complaining about 6 7 spent two years shouting "wazzzzup" to each other

The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 8d

Did I just have the most important job interview of my life? I did! Honestly, not enjoying the feeling of that fact. Lol.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 8d

I’d love it if the next big thing in publishing is people buying lots of books.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 8d

My senator, Jeff Merkley, is on *hour 16* on the Senate floor, breaking down Trump's tyranny and authoritarianism.
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

www.youtube.com

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 8d

Why do I have this terrible worry that in their minds they were thinking “but AI could just do it for me…”

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 8d

Ugh. Every time someone reminds me the Folio Society exists I have to go look. Just saw their Murakami books. Is $177 Canadian plus shipping *really* too much for one book, I ask myself?

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 10d

If you don’t, you normalize making prominent politicians officially above the law and free to act without fear of consequences.

James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 10d

Normalize making prominent politicians answer for their crimes.

The Economist @economist.com · 10d

The fact that a former president, in office from 2007 to 2012, will be imprisoned, let alone while still on appeal, has shaken France—and divided it

The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 10d

What is the best if I’m a poseur who’s really just kind of into the concept but still wants to look a little fancy?

The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 10d

I’m not sure why everyone is worried about the museum heist. In a week or so the thief will return what they stole so they can commit to a relationship with the hot insurance investigator who is already after them.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 12d

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 13d

Realizing how many American conservatives want to be Catholic not for *any* reason of faith, but because they think all Christianity is supposed to be their cult of prosperity-bible bullshit and think of Catholicism as being like the old, prestigious country club version so, the status one to join.

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St. Simeon the Pumpkin Spice Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 13d

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 14d

October 16, 1968

John Carlos and Tommy Smith raise their fists on the medal stand at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Peter Norman looks on

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 15d

Yep, there is nothing quite as weak and pathetic and fragile as a "tough guy" or "alpha male" who thinks of themselves in those terms.

Greg GORY Andree 💀🎃 @gregandree71.bsky.social · 15d

These people are so small. Sure, arrest the singing giraffe. So strong. So alpha.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15d

"Medical gaslighting as a service" is not a use case I anticipated! Doctors seem to enjoy that part of the job so much, why would they outsource it to an app?

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 15d

Pain does not work like this.

Nothing works like this. There's a reason lie detectors are inadmissible bullshit machines.

But even if it did, those thermometers mentioned in the first sentence? They don't work properly on Black skin. Same with pulse oximeters: they don't work on melanin, either.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15d

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 16d

And any media person running with the idea AI maybe *could* let you fantasy cast and replace actors and actresses into your favourite movies “for real” is either too incapable of basic comprehension of ideas to be deserving of a job being paid to write words, or is a lying con artist on the take.

The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 16d

Of course, if you’re a soulless piece shit yourself who only thinks of the people you see on screen as an image and not as a human being whose countless choices, thoughts, experiences and interactions with is intrinsically wrapped up in what you, the audience, sees then maybe you don’t get that.