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Tara Clarkson

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"She seems old-school internet and has her shit generally together." -Ninja Turtle Power Hour 🇨🇦

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · May 31

I don't know if there is a better. They all do such a good job in their own chosen themes.

TOS = morals
TNG = ethics
DS9 = consequences
VOY = duty

Sophie Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️ @mooncalfe1.bsky.social · May 29

Is Voyager better than Next Gen? 🤔

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 5d

Logline for The Matrix.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 7d

Immediate visceral terror. 🔥👍

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 9d

I like the end bit. It's close to what I was thinking - you don't go Nazi if the most fundamental things you have to lose are things they can't take away.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 13d

This is pretty much how a dysfunctional group dynamic centered around a narcissist works. 🤷‍♀️

(The 'narcissist' in this case probably being white supremacist ideology - which will happily use whatever parts of the political spectrum it can get its tentacles into.)

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 15d

100% it's Full House - but I didn't notice until the second destination episode. 😂

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 17d

Just so! 💯

Andrew Leamon @aleams.bsky.social · 17d

You will learn more from your immediate peers than from the top names in your field. Why? They understand your place and your current challenges as well as you.

Lean on your peers/friends. And most importantly, let them lean on and learn from you.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 17d

Chutzpah!

Daniel Kalban @dkalban.bsky.social · 17d

Help lift up Jewish storytellers and diverse Jewish stories!

Support the Chutzpah Anthology today!

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CHUTZPAH! A Jewish Celebration In Comics

A comic book anthology celebrating Jewish stories and Jewish joy by Jewish creators!

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 17d

Awesome!! Backed! 💕

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 18d

I've been working on reading 'The Roman Revolution' by Ronald Symes for about five years. It's so good, but I don't think I've managed to get past page seventy-five yet. 😂

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 19d

The Thing About Lady Catherine's Windows with @crawfits.bsky.social! 🪟🪟👀

Episode 110: The Thing About Lady Catherine's Windows with guest Dr. Emily Davis-Hale

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 19d

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 20d

Half for the revolution, half for me. Can't have too many peaches!

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 20d

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 20d

Oh no, that's definitely Too Much Mayo. Mayo belongs on less than half of all extant sandwiches.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 20d

For me mayo is a problem of degree, not of kind.

I like mayonnaise, but *too much* of it is horrible in a way that no other food can touch.

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 20d

I've had The Blob (1988) on my mind a lot lately.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 21d

Was it a fine balance of coffee, wine, and terror?

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 21d

I got an honest laugh out of "a time when the left, not the right, was doing the cancelling."

"Gosh fellas, those lefties almost took cancel culture away from us for a second there, but don't you worry - we got it back."

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 21d

"Might a Phil Dick have learned to revise his first drafts instead of flinging them despairingly into the marketplace if The Man in the High Castle had been recognized by the literary critics of 1964?"

That's a legitimately funny line.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 21d

Factual.

Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 22d

"But Matthew, I don't know where Langley is or even what it looks like!"

Actually, if you've seen television in the last, oh, 20 years, you know what Langley looks like. This is where we make all your shows!

Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 22d

Hey, if you're in Langley B.C./Metro Vancouver/western Canada in general, it'd be great if you'd consider following @advancetimes.bsky.social, the paper where I've worked for 20 years.

Local news outlets are suffering, and eyeballs on our stories never hurt.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 22d

Brendan Carr: US Federal Communications Chair, Totalitarian Architect, Shameless Liar. 👍

Not a classy move, ABC.

Newsclip: 'Following his comments, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr took aim at the late-night host and targeted ABC claiming in an interview with YouTuber Benny Johnson, “it’s past time these [affiliates] themselves push back and say, ‘Listen, we’re not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out because we’re running the possibility of license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion.’ So I think again, Disney needs to see some change here.”'

Newsclip: 'After Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce pressured cable providers to answer to concerns that television programming contributed to misinformation about the 2020 presidential election in a letter, he described the letter as a "chilling transgression" of freedom of speech.'

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 24d

Oh, not one of mine, I don't think. 😂

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 24d

OMG what was his name?

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 24d

Wow, they invented a new circle of production hell!