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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a fascinating story but I’m not sure why the syntax is so off — it feels like it’s been put back and forth through Google Translate several times.

But now, the company is at the center of swirling milieu on Wall Street and beyond over the loans that fueled its rise and the questionable accounting, some of its creditors say, that preceded the fall.
Some well-known firms in international finance have been swept up in the fallout from company's collapse, in some combination of losses, finger-pointing and embarrassment at having missed the signs of danger. That group includes Jefferies, the New York investment bank that arranged much of First Brands' financing; UBS, the Swiss bank that provided a big chunk of the money; and BlackRock, which funneled money to an intermediary that lent it to the company.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22h

I think he always looked like that -- this recent NYT profile was very funny for the reveal that not only was he a personal trainer before he got the part, he's *still* a personal trainer.

He May Be a ‘Slow Horse,’ but He’s in Peak Condition

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

On the most recent season of “Doctor Who” there was a guest character who was a soldier, and I was thinking “that guy is incredibly charismatic, and I feel like I’ve seen him before” and was floored to look him up and discover it was Roddy Ho. He’s got range!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 2d

(Walter Hill is still alive! I bet he would oversee a director’s cut!)

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 2d

Slightly off topic but I still think about the story of Walter Hill being forced to cut 25 minutes out of “Another 48 Hrs.” one week before its release. I’m not saying it was ever going to be “Citizen Kane” but I bet there’s a better movie on a shelf somewhere at Paramount.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 3d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 2d

I’m… pretty sure it’s over a billion meals and not a billion kids, unless there’s a LOT more going on in California these days than I know about.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

California made history by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from meals served to over one billion California schoolchildren annually. https://cnn.it/4ofH9zD

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, this is literally the first time I've ever encountered this phrase. I know there are a lot of TV showrunners on this site -- have any of you ever heard of this before today?

Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 3d

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 3d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 3d

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 3d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

“We want to host robust debates”

(immediately lists a long series of firm limits on the terms of said debates)

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

Pat Monahan, hair dyed pure jet black and dressed 20 years too young, addressing a stranger as "soul sister" and asking that question is the absolute most divorced-dad any pop musician has ever been.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

Richard Page's son going, "Please, Mister Mister lives in Florida. Call me Mister."

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

The correction was on a different story, about a different judge, and not the one whose house was set on fire. You can see it here:

x.com/Acyn/status/...

Acyn on X: "Watters forced to read a correction on a statement he made previously https://t.co/P4aOHnDKYf" / X

Watters forced to read a correction on a statement he made previously https://t.co/P4aOHnDKYf

x.com

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

FYI: If you saw this post yesterday making the rounds, it’s not true, and has since been quietly deleted. (Reposting it now only because it seems like a LOT of people believed it, or wanted to.)

A post claiming Jesse Watters had to apologize for smearing a judge whose house was then set on fire — it’s not true

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

The woman with the collectible cups who’s about to be evicted!

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

I still think about the guy in “Cinemania” who had looked up the phone numbers for the projection booths at every New York repertory theater so he could yell at them without leaving his seat.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

I got an email today asking if I want to be part of a class action suit over Film Forum supposedly overcharging patrons for online ticket fees, and filing a class action lawsuit over online ticket fees is the most “regular Film Forum patron” behavior I’ve ever seen in my life.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

I have family in Austin so fly there a fair amount, and TSA is always miserable there—haphazard at best, incredibly petty at worst. I never understood why until someone told me it’s a training airport for agents. You’re getting trainees who are both making mistakes, and scared of being too lenient.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 4d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 4d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

If we can put a man on the moon, then we should be able to put a Peaky Blinder on the moon.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

Unlike the “Fast & Furious” producers they have the good sense to never apologize for this.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 4d

A regrettable thing about being a parent in these times is that so many public figures’ names fit perfectly into “Baby Shark” and once you mentally hear it, even once, you can’t read them any other way.

Anyway. Bari Weiss.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 5d

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a serious answer that I am incapable of saying without sounding like an old man shaking his fist, but I legitimately think the answer is video games and YouTube.

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