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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 45m

Who knew that giant inflatable frog costumes were the perfect protest outfit because they can deflect pepper balls while also making anyone who gets mad at you look like a huge doofus?

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 7h

Looking for a deep hole I can climb into and just be in forever.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 8h

Salt is on every table in every culture because salt is everywhere and makes stuff taste good.

Pepper is on western tables because we think it's fun to make your food look like it has little bitty dirt on it.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 15h

Fastest buy I've ever buyed

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Jul 27

A huge artbook celebrating 20 years of LAIKA Studios is coming.
240 pages of artwork, photography, and interviews from Coraline to Wildwood.
Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't know about Midnight Pulp! Very cool. Glad it has some free stuff in there.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

1. Tubi
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4. the other ones

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War and I just kept feeling like "Oh so that's... Oh... OHHHhhh... oh okay... So then that happened because... OH!"

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm mostly watching modern ones, but documentaries made at that time combined with modern ones is the best option because then you get to have the 20/20 hindsight as well as a big dose of people living through it at the time.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

This is me watching documentaries about Rodney King, history of the Cold War, some 2000's celebrity's life, just on and on.

As a kid and up through your early 20's, you often don't have the full context of what led to what led to what and getting it makes you feel equally enlightened and stupid.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

I highly recommend watching documentaries that are about time periods from when you were a kid because man, they are eye opening. Just all these things that you suddenly are like "Oh THAT'S what was going on... oh THAT's why that happened..." just over and over again.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

90% of this is because they have a section called "Italian Horror & Giallo" and the rest of Tubi is good because having this section proves they know what else you're gonna want.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

1. Tubi
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4. the other ones

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

turning up the volume on my phone cause I'm chewing too loud

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

Agree.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

It's too annoying to be like "I saw a tweet, well it wasn't a tweet because it was on bluesky, so I saw a post that said..."

I'm gonna call these tweets. It's just easier. I'm not calling them skeets because I'm not 14 years old. I am too old for all of this.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

wtf so there's still time to contact him?

On the downside: that was some very doom-y reporting?

On the upside: cool!

I called and left a message: (916) 445-2841

All I did was say who I am, where I live, and listed off the names of the bills I support. Very easy:

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

I feel less bad about this now because of this specific moment in this behind the scenes breakdown with Todd Vaziri:

(11:22 through 13:50)

youtu.be/ERKEsIzTFas?...

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't matter. I'm just not a camera guy. For years I've tried to get cameras to work how I want and they just don't. This is not what I am good at and I need to accept this.

Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

Me with my actual, very expensive, professional digital camera that is used by massive studios to create perfect cinema masterpieces: "This autta do it!"

Me looking at it later: "This looks terrible!"

Then I just film it again on my iphone and it looks mostly fine.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

Me with my actual, very expensive, professional digital camera that is used by massive studios to create perfect cinema masterpieces: "This autta do it!"

Me looking at it later: "This looks terrible!"

Then I just film it again on my iphone and it looks mostly fine.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 2d

There should be a button on @letterboxd.social called the "Someone posted a clip of this movie online and you thought it looked cool so you came here to put it on your watchlist but it turns out you already did that months ago and you just forgot so you should really prioritize this movie" button

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 2d

Josh Johnson is killing it.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 2d

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 2d

What are some examples of movies for kids like 5-12 that are lean more sensitive? Movies that aren't really violent or have guns or fighting? Stories that solve things a little more internally or through emotional growth?

Off the top of my head:
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ponyo
Spirited Away

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