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Chris

@agent326.bsky.social

Movie theaters forever!

Concerns about a film being screened in the wrong aspect ratio in Godard's Masculin féminin (1966).

December 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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RTL3

@russelllatshaw.bsky.social

Our modern subscription hellhole is aggressively anti-ownership and the kids know it

Declan says the main selling point of DVDs is the cases
While some people scroll endlessly through Netflix in search of their next watch, 17-year- old Declan prefers the more traditional approach of having a DVD in his hands.
He grew up surrounded by his gran's collection and later bought his own after visiting a shop with a friend.
"The main selling point for me is the cases," he says.
"There's something about really clean cases that I love."
Streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ dominate the market but Declan says he values ownership.

"It's nice to have something you own instead of paying for subscriptions all the time," he sayS.
"If I lost access to streaming tomorrow, I'd still have my favourite movies ready to watch."

December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM

Chris

@agent326.bsky.social

Fuck Ted Sarandos.

HumBoog @dreaddbound.bsky.social · 2d

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

December 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM

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Writers Guild of America West

@wgawest.bsky.social

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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dom griffin

@allnewdom.bsky.social

I didn’t make enough in time and had to cover a day of the room at an increased rate to buy some time. I have until tomorrow but now I need $520 to cover everything. Anything helps. Thank you again to anyone who has donated or shared thus far.

dom griffin @allnewdom.bsky.social · 5d

Reposting this one more time. I have until the morning to raise $700 to keep our room. I’m sick and have no sick time and have to go to work tomorrow. I need to try to secure our lodging thru til I get paid next. Anything anyone can spare would be tremendously appreciated!

dom griffin @allnewdom.bsky.social · 7d

Reaching out for mutual aid to keep our room for the next week as well as some other expenses. Any dollar helps but sharing and reposting is also extremely beneficial. Really cannot overstate how grateful I am for all the support. I know how rough it is out there. Thank you!

December 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM

Chris

@agent326.bsky.social

December 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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clyde bruckman free link's ghost of xmas future's last repost

@ultralaser.bsky.social

early contender for worst xmas ad that misses the point of the source material is all the whos down in whoville using the walmart app to buy christmas at a store

November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Casey Explosion

@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

Dario Argento to George A. Romero about who should score the Dawn of the Dead soundtrack:

Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 12d

Believe in Goblin

November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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Tom Coombe

@calmtomb.bsky.social

Not to trot out the “people will tweet anything” meme, but…

An ad referring to the 2025 movie “The Carpenter’s Son” as the “first faith-based horror film.”

November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM

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Art!

@punsultant.bsky.social

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.

November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

chow yun fat in A BETTER TOMORROW is the coolest a dude has ever looked on film

November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social

Love those classic Looney Tunes? Thrill and delight as Porky Pig is flattened between two sheets of glass!

A four panel comic with big letters at the top that say "love those classic looney tunes?
Thrill and delight as Porky Pig is flattened between two sheets of glass!"

We see porky pig.
His body begins to bulge and deform.
His body bulges further, the ink that makes up his colors begins to eject from ruptures in his outline.
Porky pig is now reduced to a collection of blobs of color, his face sticking out of them, saying "at what level of abstraction do I stop being myself? Do I have a self? Do I persist as long as I am remembered? But then- can you really tell the difference between a memory and a dream?"

November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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dom griffin

@allnewdom.bsky.social

I’m down to needing $450 by the morning! Anything anyone is able to spare would be greatly appreciated!!!

dom griffin @allnewdom.bsky.social · 18d

Bumping this one last time. Still need to get $550 together by TOMORROW MORNING! Thank you again to anyone who has donated or shared or just sent well wishes. Any dollar helps but so does reposting.

dom griffin @allnewdom.bsky.social · 20d

I’m reach out for mutual to pay for our room for the next week. I’ve got an insane stretch of work coming up and pretty desperately need to have lodging secured through it. We need to raise $800 by the end of the week. Any dollar helps but so does sharing this when you see it!

November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM

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Jeff Lester, Party Person

@jefflester.bsky.social

Finding out Marvel is kickstarting one of their books is like seeing an HMO run a gofundme.

November 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM

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caitlin

@trustpunch.bsky.social

All the time, I think about Paul Westerberg’s obit for Alex Chilton archive.is/DNJf

HOW does one react to the death of one’s mentor? My mind instantly slammed down the inner trouble-door that guards against all thought, emotion, sadness. Survival mode. Rock guitar players are all dead men walking. It’s only a matter of time, I tell myself as I finger my calluses. Those who fail to click with the world and society at large find safe haven in music — to sing, write songs, create, perform. Each an active art in itself that offers no promise of success, let alone happiness.
Yet success shone early on Alex Chilton, as the 16-year-old soulful singer of the hit-making Box Tops. Possessing more talent than necessary, he tired as a very young man of playing the game — touring, performing at state fairs, etc. So he returned home to Memphis. Focusing on his pop writing and his rock guitar skills, he formed the group Big Star with Chris Bell. Now he had creative control, and his versatility shone bright. Beautiful melodies, heart-wrenching lyrics: “I’m in Love with a Girl,” “September Gurls.”
On Big Star’s masterpiece third album, Alex sang my favorite song of his, “Nighttime” — a haunting and gorgeous ballad that I will forever associate with my floor-sleeping days in New York. Strangely, the desperation in the line “I hate it here, get me out of here” made me, of all things, happy. He went on to produce more artistic, challenging records. One equipped with the take-it-or-leave-it — no, excuse me, with the take-it-like-I-make-it — title “Like Flies on Sherbert.” The man had a sense of humor, believe me.
It was some years back, the last time I saw Alex Chilton. We miraculously bumped into each other one autumn evening in New York, he in a Memphis Minnie T-shirt, with take-out Thai, en route to his hotel. He invited me along to watch the World Series on TV, and I immediately discarded whatever flimsy obligation I may have had. We watched baseball, talked and laughed, especially about his current residence — he was living in, get this, a tent in Tennessee.

November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Chris

@agent326.bsky.social

All That Heaven Allows (Dir. Douglas Sirk, 1955)/A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (Dir. Seijun Suzuki, 1977)

The melancholy image of Cary Scott is captured in the reflection of her soon to be leaving children's gift of a television set in All That Heaven Allows (Dir. Douglas Sirk, 1955).

The artificial image on a television set of Reiko and her brother at home is surrounded by flames in A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (Dir. Seijun Suzuki, 1977).

November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Richard Wells

@slipperyjack.bsky.social

Scanning the crowd at that Pope Leo film thing at the Vatican. Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett sure, but front row seat for Dario Argento 💥...

Screen stars Cate Blanchett, Monica Bellucci, Chris Pine and Viggo Mortensen were among those invited to the private Vatican audience, along with award-winning directors Spike Lee, Gus Van Sant and Sally Potter.

November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM

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Asher Langton

@asherlangton.bsky.social

man, I'd be really embarrassed if I had spent all day yesterday defending the principled integrity of the NY Times newsroom

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 24d

what the actual fuck

A headline from the New York Times:
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love

The article lede:

By Jacob Bernstein
Reporting from Los Angeles
Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his
"particular complications and particular darkness."
But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby.
He promised to take a bullet for her.

November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM

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Dare Obasanjo

@carnage4life.bsky.social

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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m a x 🎄

@maxgrobinson.bsky.social

The new 4K blu-ray of Obayashi’s The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (with my visual essay “A MOVIE: Obayashi’s Cinematic Life”!) is now available for pre order from @orbitdvd.bsky.social! www.orbitdvd.com/products/pre...

November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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public health guy

@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Nov 7

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Nov 7

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM

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dom griffin

@allnewdom.bsky.social

I still need to raise $600 by the morning. I have no more stopgaps left and just need to make sure our lodging is secured for the week before I have to come back to work. Literally any dollar helps get us closer but sharing helps a ton too. Thank you!

November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM

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dom griffin

@allnewdom.bsky.social

I didn’t make enough in time but I had enough reward points to buy us another day. Still need to raise $650 by TOMORROW MORNING to keep the room for the week. Any dollar helps, but so does just sharing this post whenever you see it. Thanks again to all who’ve helped so far.

dom griffin @allnewdom.bsky.social · Nov 3

I know that things are bad all around, between the gov’t shutdown, the SNAP crisis and every other awful thing happening in the world at the moment, but we could really use some help again to keep our roof for the next week. Anything helps, even if it’s just sharing this post!