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thebaxter.bsky.social
Baxter
@thebaxter.bsky.social
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Film analyst, big fat socialist, pansexual spokesthing, 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️INCLUSIVE feminist. She/Her. Available in podcast form (Paid in Puke Podcast; Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast). 🖤 cats, Lestat, & Florence Pugh. https://boxd.it/2l7qr
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · Aug 5
I interviewed these two smart women about their fantastic new film, Year of the Fox: a coming-of-age story set in Aspen and Seattle in 1997. Fortunately/unfortunately, the themes of gender politics and the untouchable upper crust are still very relevant today.
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · Aug 5
HtN fave Megan Griffiths' new film YEAR OF THE FOX is in limited release now before hitting VOD on August 19. Jessica Baxter goes DEEP with Griffith and screenwriter Eliza Flug...
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A Conversation with Megan Griffiths & Eliza Flug (YEAR OF THE FOX)
Megan Griffiths’ latest film, Year of the Fox, is a coming-of-age drama that takes place in 1997 Aspen and Seattle. Ivy (Sarah Jeffery) is a young woman on cusp of finishing high school, when she gets...
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 5h
I’m “I need my special travel pillow” years old.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 1d
In news that would have chuffed my younger self beyond measure, I interviewed Crispín Glover about his new film and lots of other stuff!
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 1d
The GREAT Crispin Glover has a brand new film he's touring around the U.S. complete with a Q & A after the screening. Jessica Baxter spoke with him about his work, David Lynch and more!
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A Conversation with Crispin Glover (NO! YOU'RE WRONG. or: SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE
Many actors have added multi-hyphenates to their resumes, dipping into other facets of auteur filmmaking. But no one has done it quite like Crispin Hellion Glover. For that, and many other reasons, he...
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
I really enjoyed that Bad Bunny SNL episode. I’d laughed at like 70% of it, which is kind of a staggeringly high amount for that show. I probably would have liked El Chavo too, if I’d ever seen that show. The Inventing Spanish and Jeopardy skits were my favorite.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
Cars piled up behind me. In the end she made 5 cars wait.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
I feel like Mr. Eddy rn.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
I’m so tired of this shit. You’re not the main character. Roads are for driving. Maybe your passenger has to walk a few feet to get to your car that is parked in a legal spot. That’s better than inconveniencing everyone who happens upon you. Not to mention the dangers of this behavior. 😡
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
Someone stopped to pick up their child by parking their car diagonally across the entire road, as the kid was loading their backpack with items from a pile on the ground. They waved out the window at me but did not pull over & I had to wait for their passenger to get situated before they left.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
I was turning left behind an uber driver who barely got through the intersection before he suddenly stopped IN THE LANE. I honked, which prompted him to turn on his hazards, instead of pulling forward to a loading zone. As I drove around him, he was simply looking at his phone.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
A package delivery person blocked my driveway &, when they finally got back to their car, & saw me waiting to leave, they moved it… in front of the next driveway.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
An egregious lack of consideration continues to plague drivers of Seattle. The following things happened to me just now on a 30 minute commute to pick up my child from school:
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
This is such a good analogy because a lot of us don’t even know whose car that is but we have to listen to it anyway.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 6d
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
“It’s giving…”
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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · Jul 1
The whole thing looks a bit like: what if the confederates stole the 1860 election, then implemented a comprehensive illegal overhaul they had been planning for 20 years, and the northern states just complied and stood down with no effective means of resistance
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 4d
Is SNL had any guts, they would sell that They K. Rowling shirt.
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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 6d
“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”
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Giorgio Murderer 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 6d
Taylor Swift can redeem herself and make the world Way Cooler by covering Fuck the Pain Away
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 8d
No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 8d
Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role
Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood
The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.
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Bikini Kill @theebikinikill.bsky.social · 7d
Good morning! It is Bandcamp Friday again and this time we are raising funds for @ndlon.bsky.social's Immigrant Defense Fund! We have a couple of very special, limited edition cassettes for it: bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch
Handmade flyer. Blue lettering on a hot pink paper with a lighter pink background on turquoise paper. It reads BANDCAMP FRIDAY BENEFIT FOR IMMIGRANT DEFENSE FUND
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d
The so called advice being offered by those in the know is that people save money in anticipation. Just absolutely CLUELESS when most people don't have $1000 to spare for an emergency.
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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 8d
My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia
It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 7d
it would be an incredible bit to start claiming to tyler cowen that we've slept with this clanker.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 8d
🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood.

Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 9d
Fuck NO
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NPR @npr.org · 9d
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.
Could 'the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman' be an AI avatar?
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 9d
New review! If you have ever had any interest in Rocky Horror, you’re gonna love this doc!
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Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 9d
Jessica Baxter pounds on the castle door in her review of STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR, the documentary on the little indie that changed people's lives. In theaters now!
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STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR
(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror movie review, it’s in select theaters now! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If you’re reading thi...
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Baxter @thebaxter.bsky.social · 16d
One episode into the show The Girlfriend, and so far I am rooting for the girlfriend.
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Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast @reallyweirdstuff.bsky.social · 21d
Part 7 does an awful lot of table setting for the doozy that follows. Plus, Laura Dern steals the show and a man sweeps the floor for two and a half minutes! Special guest Chris Brugos.

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Twin Peaks the Return: Part 7 - “There’s a body, alright.” — Really Weird Stuff Podcast
Really Weird Stuff Episode #38 - The one where the man sweeps - w/ Chris Brugos.
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