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Jeffrey Stackhouse

@shadowlandonline.bsky.social

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Loud LGBTQ supporter w/ Trans kids in NoHo, Progressive. PAGE Winner with a bunch of other awards for *amateur* Horror Screenwriting at https://www.shadowlandonline.net/ Strange you can believe in.

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Shadow (he/him) @shad0.bsky.social · 3h

Tony also thinks you should stop doomscrolling.

A male orange tabby cat getting his chin skritched, eyes closed in bliss, with one paw on the foot of the skritcher as if to hold him there

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Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 4h

Fun and informative; goes 13 deep.

Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s how my 1st ever GENERAL meeting went…

Exec: I read Joint Custody; I’m a big fan!
Me: Thank you.

Exec: How long have you been in LA?
Me: 3 years.

Exec: You work on The Office - what’s that like?
Me: Fun.

Exec: My assistant will be in to validate your parking.
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#Scriptsky #Screenwriting

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 6h

TRON [1982]
Not only the visual and SFX were way ahead of its time, but legends of art & illustration worked on it. Here some concept art from Syd Mead and Moebius and some behind the scene photos of Jeff Bridges & Cindy Morgan in costume.

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Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 5h

Photographer: Ralph Eugene Meatyard
(American, 1925–1972)
“Sitting boy with mask and masked hands”. 1960.
#Halloween #Mask

B&W photograph of a boy sitting on a rock with an overlarge gruesome mask (blackened lips over irregular teeth, large wrinkles around eyes, tuft of "hair" on top) with enormous rubber hands mit gnarled fingers.
I SO wish I could find documents on this mask.

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Let’s TACO bout it @playwithdirt.bsky.social · 21h

A poster depicting ICE agents with helmets and riot shields confronting a cartoon frog says “RESIST” across the top. Based on a photo of ICE confronting a person in a blow up frog costume in Portland.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 9h

See, I think what it was missing is the gravitas Langella would have brought. And would have elevated it to tie more strongly to the Corman.
Different strokes, & still a terrific series o' stories.

Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 1d

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Nobel Prize Total Landscaping awards President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s the lovechild foretold in South Park.”
(“If this was behind Biden *once* MAGA would’ve been holding prayer circles daily outside the White House”)
lol

In a gold-dripping room with Rubio and Hegseth seated to either side, Trump is framed with the golden bald eagle statue placed behind him creating the 'illusion' of a halo of horns on his head. The photo was taken Thursday during a cabinet meeting attended by Trump and a number of high-ranking officials in his administration by photojournalist Jim Watson, formally a photographer for the U.S. Navy.

Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 2d

If you want some great Hallowe'enish images in yr Feed for October, go follow this gent. And his ALT game is sublime.

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

In this self-portrait by Pieter Van Laer (known as Il Bamboccio), ca. 1635–37, the artist portrays himself performing a magic ritual and, to his own horror, having summoned up some kind of demon. The sheet music has his signature and the words “il diavolo non burla” (“the devil doesn’t jest”)

"In one of the most remarkable self-portraits ever created, Pieter van Laer reacts with horror to the frightening claws of the devil that have suddenly come to claim him. Dressed in the black cloak and cap of a magician, the artist, with bulging eyes and open mouth, has witnessed this apparition while standing behind a table filled with books, some with alchemical notations, a variety of vessels, a snuffed-out candle, and a skull resting on hot coals" (Leiden Collection) https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/self-portrait-with-magic-scene/

Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful posting; made me "follow." And your ALT has shamed me into putting more care into mine. Salud.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 3d

Trauma/PTSD. Sorry you had to go through that again.
Thanks for making their life as lovely as they made yours, and for being there at the end.

Jeffrey Stackhouse @shadowlandonline.bsky.social · 3d

And undoubtedly, by someone who needs to go to therapy.

Judas frog, let people "evolve" in whatever ways they can, especially since we seem to be in a deliberate devolution cycle.

It's brave to seek assistance. Salud.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 16d

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 4d

Two years after Hamas attack, Israel's economy weakened by its international isolation flip.it/kaveTE

Two years after Hamas attack, Israel's economy weakened by its international isolation

Having long sold itself as the ‘start-up nation’, Israel is now in economic turmoil, with the war it is waging in Gaza resulting in the withdrawal of long-standing partners. Declining growth, a brain…

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 5d

Bulfinch’s The Age of Fable was once the Victorian handbook of myth. Schoolchildren and scholars alike met Theseus, Cupid, and Odin in its pages, bridging classical lore and English letters. #MythologyMonday