Kent M. Beeson
@kentmbeeson.bsky.social
Creator of AGAINST THE '70S (https://againstthe70s.blot.im/), a blog about mashing together '70s cinema & today's TTRPGs, and manager of The Best Album Brackets (@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social).
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I Wrote a Svengoolie Fan Script? - Against the ‘70s
Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of posting in the last couple months. (It’s only been four months, but it feels a lot longer than that.) There’ll
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Hey everyone - I did something no one else was foolish enough to do, and wrote a Svengoolie fan script, tied to the made for TV film THE HORROR AT 37,000 FEET. If you’re into Svengoolie, and even if you’re not, give it a read! You can download it from the link below or elsewhere in this thread.
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OBVIOUSLY do not use AI, at all. AT ALL, for anything. I don’t wanna hear about the theoretical good version, it’s not what they’re pushing on us. The absolute worst people in the world have gone all in on this shit, and it needs to be starved out as much as possible. AI: not even once!
Sec. Hegseth rolled out the U.S. military’s new AI platform, GenAi.Mil, with a link to an empty website. trib.al/tbCJAkT
Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.
Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
OBVIOUSLY do not use AI, at all. AT ALL, for anything. I don’t wanna hear about the theoretical good version, it’s not what they’re pushing on us. The absolute worst people in the world have gone all in on this shit, and it needs to be starved out as much as possible. AI: not even once!
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
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If you enjoy Dwight Yoakam-style country, be sure to check out The Mavericks, WHAT A CRYING SHAME. A great, great album. RIP Raul Malo.
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What A Crying Shame - YouTube
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December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you enjoy Dwight Yoakam-style country, be sure to check out The Mavericks, WHAT A CRYING SHAME. A great, great album. RIP Raul Malo.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I’m assuming this was commissioned by @sabinastent.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’m assuming this was commissioned by @sabinastent.bsky.social
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'I should ask Chat GPT'
December 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
'I should ask Chat GPT'
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What happens when you frighten a guy from Boston?
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
What happens when you frighten a guy from Boston?
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
VERMEER: someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
TIL that Vermeer put his whole family into debt because he refused to stop painting with one particular hyper-expensive shade of blue
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
VERMEER: someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
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I Hope You Get To Live Your Entire Life As A Human
I thought this was going to be a review of my time with Santa Ragione's Horses, the controversial art game recently banned from Steam and the Epic Store. To some extent, this will be that but after...
transgamerthoughts.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment.
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...
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The furnace broke. It's very cold, so we're having a sale on an appropriately chilly game!
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The furnace broke. It's very cold, so we're having a sale on an appropriately chilly game!
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Daily reminder that this poll to determine the release date of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT goes until 12:01AM CST Mon Dec 15. Be sure to get your vote in!
Here it is: the poll to determine the release date of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Please read the entire form, consider the arguments, laugh at the jokes. The poll runs until 12:01 AM Mon Dec 15. You can change your vote anytime before then. I have tried to turn off the results so that you vote blind.
YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT: 2001 or 2002? An inquiry.
Here are the facts as we know them:
In late 2000, Wilco entered the studio and began work on what would become YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. It was completed in early 2001, and was submitted to their label, ...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Daily reminder that this poll to determine the release date of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT goes until 12:01AM CST Mon Dec 15. Be sure to get your vote in!
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The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.
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oh man, @markrichardson.bsky.social is so predictably good here pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom
Read Mark Richardson’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
oh man, @markrichardson.bsky.social is so predictably good here pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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this may be a case where not even critical unanimity is enough to get the Academy to watch a five-hour movie, but I hope the NYFCC and LAFCA wins will get more people to watch this gripping, sobering, essential film
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this may be a case where not even critical unanimity is enough to get the Academy to watch a five-hour movie, but I hope the NYFCC and LAFCA wins will get more people to watch this gripping, sobering, essential film
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As someone who caught SPARTACUS on the big screen yesterday, there’s just some shit you need to see in a theater.
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
As someone who caught SPARTACUS on the big screen yesterday, there’s just some shit you need to see in a theater.
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I think a lot about how now the Pop Tart Bowl includes a mascot that is the flayed, partially devoured remains of the previous year's mascot watching the same fate befall their successor.
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I think a lot about how now the Pop Tart Bowl includes a mascot that is the flayed, partially devoured remains of the previous year's mascot watching the same fate befall their successor.
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Here it is: the poll to determine the release date of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Please read the entire form, consider the arguments, laugh at the jokes. The poll runs until 12:01 AM Mon Dec 15. You can change your vote anytime before then. I have tried to turn off the results so that you vote blind.
YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT: 2001 or 2002? An inquiry.
Here are the facts as we know them:
In late 2000, Wilco entered the studio and began work on what would become YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. It was completed in early 2001, and was submitted to their label, ...
forms.gle
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Here it is: the poll to determine the release date of YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Please read the entire form, consider the arguments, laugh at the jokes. The poll runs until 12:01 AM Mon Dec 15. You can change your vote anytime before then. I have tried to turn off the results so that you vote blind.
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I regret to inform everyone they have homework. I’m gonna have to ask that everyone read this terrific post from @nanette.bsky.social. You don’t have to agree with it, just be familiar with the argument. Thanks!
apparently I have strong opinions on this pressing issue
Best Album of 2001: Nanette’s thoughts on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Today’s topic du jour among the Best Album nerds (laudatory) is the appropriate release date of dad rock stalawarts Wilco’s album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. My initial thoughts about this album were ind…
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December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I regret to inform everyone they have homework. I’m gonna have to ask that everyone read this terrific post from @nanette.bsky.social. You don’t have to agree with it, just be familiar with the argument. Thanks!
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Sorry for not mentioning earlier: miss me with this shit please
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Sorry for not mentioning earlier: miss me with this shit please
jesus christ the angles in this episode of BATMAN are so canted I’m getting vertigo
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
jesus christ the angles in this episode of BATMAN are so canted I’m getting vertigo
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Hey everyone - I did something no one else was foolish enough to do, and wrote a Svengoolie fan script, tied to the made for TV film THE HORROR AT 37,000 FEET. If you’re into Svengoolie, and even if you’re not, give it a read! You can download it from the link below or elsewhere in this thread.
I Wrote a Svengoolie Fan Script? - Against the ‘70s
Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of posting in the last couple months. (It’s only been four months, but it feels a lot longer than that.) There’ll
againstthe70s.blot.im
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey everyone - I did something no one else was foolish enough to do, and wrote a Svengoolie fan script, tied to the made for TV film THE HORROR AT 37,000 FEET. If you’re into Svengoolie, and even if you’re not, give it a read! You can download it from the link below or elsewhere in this thread.
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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Paperbacks from Hell are BACK! The next title, Richard Haigh's super-rare THE FARM (1984), is now up for preorder on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-farm-198... Website preorders should ship in the spring!
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Paperbacks from Hell are BACK! The next title, Richard Haigh's super-rare THE FARM (1984), is now up for preorder on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/the-farm-198... Website preorders should ship in the spring!
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More new Paperbacks from Hell! Sandra Scoppettone's rare 1980 horror/thriller SUCH NICE PEOPLE is returning to print with a new intro by Grady Hendrix! Preorder now on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/such-nice-pe...
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
More new Paperbacks from Hell! Sandra Scoppettone's rare 1980 horror/thriller SUCH NICE PEOPLE is returning to print with a new intro by Grady Hendrix! Preorder now on our site: www.valancourtbooks.com/such-nice-pe...