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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻

@whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social

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he/him, nerd, dad, philosopher, mostly water here for camaraderie re: indianapolis, star trek, tv & movies, parenting, bicycling & transit, collective liberation, gaming, technology, etc i say thank you, congrats, 🫡, and hit the fave button a lot

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · Dec 6

i faved your post because it brought me some amount of fulfillment for some amount of time, and what else is there? thank you 🖖🏻

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 18m

I hadn’t seen them before. I have been turning on a lot of action movies lately while grinding an RPG game. Anyway they were fine! First one got me more engaged than the second.

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 27m

Honorable mention to the movies that were pushed off the list: The Beekeeper, The Accountant, The Accountant 2, and Enemy of the State

👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 29m

screencap of my letterboxd four most recently watched movies and the star ratings I gave them:

Hancock (2.5/5 stars)
Death Becomes Her (4 stars)
A Serious Man (5 stars)
Strange Brew (3.5 stars)

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 4h

I know I'm one of the only ones on here who's put the helmet on in the last week so let me tell you - that thing is slop central. The dead Internet is real and you can jankily walk around and throw weightless objects in it.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Emily Hopkins is reporting for Mirror Indy @emilyhopkins.bsky.social · 5h

Book it to Proof, Indy’s literary fest
mirrorindy.org/proof-midwes...

Book it to Proof, Indy’s literary fest

Catch writing workshops, author talks and fun activities with fellow book-lovers Oct. 10-11.

mirrorindy.org

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Emily Hopkins is reporting for Mirror Indy @emilyhopkins.bsky.social · 4h

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“These panels so rarely result in advancing policy discussions that they are simply unnecessary. And yet the state continues to spend money on them year after year.”

@nkellyin.bsky.social on interim committees

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/10/i...

Interim committees need overhaul or elimination • Indiana Capital Chronicle

More than 25 years of monitoring the Indiana General Assembly has taught me one clear thing — it’s time to eliminate interim study committees.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 5h

This is the sort of sentence you read in a book about the Gilded Age

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 6h

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 7h

ah thank you friend, enjoy your sleep! 🖖🏻

👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 8h

Man, what an infuriating mixture of cool and great and lame and stupid that movie was!!! I love that space battle but I am just not often willing to deal with the movie on either side of it.

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 15h

plagiarizing the last 15 years of simpsons jokes because nobody’s ever heard them

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14h

Probably the coolest shot I’ve ever seen

Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 15h

OH NO. HE. DIDN'T!!!

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BooSlice👻🔪 @twosense.bsky.social · 13h

Japanese Maple

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8h

Inigo Montoya first draft

morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 9h

You have killed someone dear to me. It is a mistake you will not live to regret.

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 15h

young* Ian Mcshane just showed up in Columbo

*: not quite 50

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 16h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 16h

finishing Strange Brew in bed

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watching Strange Brew in bed

👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 16h

damn! I use it for voice chat in some gaming but I have never given the app any real personal info. I am not deep enough in for the verification stuff.

👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 16h

The Out of Office message has been set, my time off is real now.

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 18h

Whole family went to see 6 together, that’s a magical memory.

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 18h

It’s the first Trek movie I went to see with my dad in the theater and I was too young to be critical - I just saw Star Trek at the movies for the first time! - and he was so tactful about my enthusiasm for it 😂

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 19h

The Undiscovered Country is peak Star Trek:
- topical/relevant and *actually has something to say and says it loud*
- great cold war adventure/espionage movie even though it’s star trek
- funny!
- too many Shakespeare references
- Spock makes a Nixon joke

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 19h

That Uhura scene changed my understanding of myself. Up there with Linda Hamilton in T2 for awakening moments.

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 19h

Great example of a movie I really do like but would not ever defend !

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 19h

3 is another one I like more than most people although I watch it a whole lot less since my blonde son was born. 😬 Hmm, watchability order hmmm. I am going to say:

4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 1

Whereas my preference order is

6/2*, 1, 4, 3, 5

(*You can’t make me choose!)

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👾 eldritch millennial nerd daemon 👻 @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 19h

As for Star Trek I think the TMP problems mostly stem from the transition from it being a new TV show to being a movie instead.

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