The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen
@zhandlen.bsky.social
Writer, actor, weirdo
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Autism is not a disease, you fucks.
…it really bothers me that this insipid line should end in “us,” not “we”
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
…it really bothers me that this insipid line should end in “us,” not “we”
Edgar Wright makes YA movies. i can't defend this opinion, but it makes intuitive sense to me.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Edgar Wright makes YA movies. i can't defend this opinion, but it makes intuitive sense to me.
trying and failing to think of a less interesting thing to talk about than Star Wars. i would _welcome_ people arguing about Marvel slop again.
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
trying and failing to think of a less interesting thing to talk about than Star Wars. i would _welcome_ people arguing about Marvel slop again.
i'm not going to "rank" Star Wars movies. i have no interest in sharing my truths with the vile rabble.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
i'm not going to "rank" Star Wars movies. i have no interest in sharing my truths with the vile rabble.
This is where the fish lives.
It’s thanksgiving week so I wanna see some MST3K posting, quotes, pictures, clips, gifs! Meanwhile I’m going to go to a department meeting and try to pay attention while I wonder if there’s beer on the sun
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is where the fish lives.
i wonder if i'll ever actually play through all of The Witcher 3. Or Baldur's Gate 3. I think those are my two biggest "Everyone loves these, and I really want to be able to enjoy them myself, although I don't know if I'll ever be in the right headspace for them" games.
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
i wonder if i'll ever actually play through all of The Witcher 3. Or Baldur's Gate 3. I think those are my two biggest "Everyone loves these, and I really want to be able to enjoy them myself, although I don't know if I'll ever be in the right headspace for them" games.
so, this weekend's Welcome To Derry was particularly bad, and what miniscule faith I might have had that the show was going somewhere interesting is gone.
Review: It: Welcome To Derry, "29 Neibolt Street" | Season 1, Episode 5
The sewers aren't the only thing that stinks
www.episodicmedium.tv
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
so, this weekend's Welcome To Derry was particularly bad, and what miniscule faith I might have had that the show was going somewhere interesting is gone.
Udo Kier: master of showing up in a movie and making you feel like your skin is crawling and should I be turned on?
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Udo Kier: master of showing up in a movie and making you feel like your skin is crawling and should I be turned on?
finally got around to playing through Inscryption. It’s neat! But boy do I really struggle to follow video game stories.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
finally got around to playing through Inscryption. It’s neat! But boy do I really struggle to follow video game stories.
Watching the 1968 adaptation of M.R. James’s “Whistle and I’ll Cone To You,” and, while this is an odd thing to praise, in addition to being terrifically eerie, it it has some of the best “solitary pompous old man” acting and writing I’ve ever seen.
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Watching the 1968 adaptation of M.R. James’s “Whistle and I’ll Cone To You,” and, while this is an odd thing to praise, in addition to being terrifically eerie, it it has some of the best “solitary pompous old man” acting and writing I’ve ever seen.
It turns out when you have very little executive function and just want to be a novelist, “getting a library job in college and sticking with it until you become a librarian by default” is one of the better ways to end up.
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It turns out when you have very little executive function and just want to be a novelist, “getting a library job in college and sticking with it until you become a librarian by default” is one of the better ways to end up.
This is beautiful in its simplicity and decency.
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is beautiful in its simplicity and decency.
I wonder how much it bugs Bill Hader that he slightly fumbled the amazing “i roll with a crew of problematic bachelor” line. That clip gets posted a -lot-
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I wonder how much it bugs Bill Hader that he slightly fumbled the amazing “i roll with a crew of problematic bachelor” line. That clip gets posted a -lot-
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Temporarily back to promote the upcoming Duckstream 12/12, 12/13, 12/14, 48 total hours, starting at 6PM PST on that friday. Website to come.
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Temporarily back to promote the upcoming Duckstream 12/12, 12/13, 12/14, 48 total hours, starting at 6PM PST on that friday. Website to come.
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
The boss has fallen in love again.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The boss has fallen in love again.
this abominable piece of human garbage. this vile nullity. this murderous fifty pounds of manure in a ten pound bag of skin.
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly upda...
defector.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
this abominable piece of human garbage. this vile nullity. this murderous fifty pounds of manure in a ten pound bag of skin.
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Promoting stuff, uh, probably goes better when I remember to actually link the piece! www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
Baby Steps is one of the best single-player multiplayer games ever made
Baby Steps is one of the best single-player multiplayer games ever made
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Promoting stuff, uh, probably goes better when I remember to actually link the piece! www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
as someone who enjoyed Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy with some pretty serious reservations about the third book, is the Book of Dust worth a look?
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
as someone who enjoyed Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy with some pretty serious reservations about the third book, is the Book of Dust worth a look?
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Here is something we could do: what if we stopped being fucking weird about autism
We can laugh about how stupid this is, but at the end of the day, a not-insignificant number of parents will believe the CDC and refuse to vaccinate. And some of their children will die because of it.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Here is something we could do: what if we stopped being fucking weird about autism
kinda impressed he spelled "seditious" right
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
kinda impressed he spelled "seditious" right
Nixonland. It’s like a James Elroy novel where the main character is “American voters.”
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nixonland. It’s like a James Elroy novel where the main character is “American voters.”
oh hey, i wrote this! ...like a decade ago. dear god.
50 years ago, Miloš Forman and a stacked cast adapted One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest into an Oscar-sweeping smash. From the archives, we compare the film and its novel source:
www.avclub.com/in-source-an...
www.avclub.com/in-source-an...
In source and adaptation, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest looks for hope in madness
The book and movie of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest work together well, balancing rich inner lives and with off-putting details.
www.avclub.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
oh hey, i wrote this! ...like a decade ago. dear god.
...so it kills the genre? because, like--that's the thing about shooting zombies in the head. it kills them. (i _think_ they're going for a pun on "shot in the arm," but you can't do that when the "pun" already means something else.)
Daisy Ridley’s New Zombie Movie Gives the Genre a Shot in the Head
Daisy Ridley’s New Zombie Movie Gives the Genre a Shot in the Head
The 'Star Wars' actress stars in 'We Bury the Dead,' which is coming to theaters on January 2, 2026.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
...so it kills the genre? because, like--that's the thing about shooting zombies in the head. it kills them. (i _think_ they're going for a pun on "shot in the arm," but you can't do that when the "pun" already means something else.)
have run out of anxiety meds, now in the fun place of checking every new emotion to see if it has knives buried in it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
have run out of anxiety meds, now in the fun place of checking every new emotion to see if it has knives buried in it.
still chuckling about that SNL sketch where Sydney Sweeney gets lots of tips at a Hooters restaurant. what -will- they think of next?
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
still chuckling about that SNL sketch where Sydney Sweeney gets lots of tips at a Hooters restaurant. what -will- they think of next?