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Amos Posner

@amosposner.bsky.social

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Writer, director, occasional actor, Badger, New Yorker.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · Jun 20

It never feels like the right time to promote anything frivolous, but my birthday is tomorrow and it appears I'll be stuck at home sick, so I posted my short Concept High publicly. It's under 6 minutes and played the Austin Film Fest last year and I dare say it's fun www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05s...

Concept High

YouTube video by Concept High

www.youtube.com

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16h

Weird how Antifa never asks me for money. Everyone else does, but Antifa is very quiet.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 15h

Yep. I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who line up to be toadies thinking they won't be screwed over and dumped on the side of the road like so many before them.

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 15h

I'm bracing myself for the seven figure book deals for people who share juicy details of knowing and enabling all this stuff.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 16h

Burgundy Street outs plenty of people

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like New Orleanians would need to clear their schedules to give all the answers to this question

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 20h

After we met through a mutual friend, my wife slid into my Twitter DMs, so it actually helped make the *greatest* thing in my life happen.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d

I think merely hearing the words "Fireball Blazin' Apple" was enough to worsen my health

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d

Carrying water for powerful fascists will work out great for Bari Weiss for a very long time. Her career definitely won't be dumped by the side of the road by people whose use and tolerance for her will run out in less than two years.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d

When I graduated from Wisconsin my mom told my dad they had to go to Baraboo to see one of the world's great crane populations.

He said, "Can't we wait another time and go see the best crane population?"

She said, "Any time you want to go to the Korean demilitarized zone."

He went to Baraboo.

Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 9d

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

Flat, graphic poster of a Whooping Crane standing in the negative space of many Sandhill Cranes. The poster reads "The Great Midwest Crane Fest - Nov. 15-16, 2025 Baraboo, Wisconsin.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 4d

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 4d

Strom Thurmond’s whole deal is pretty damn public

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 4d

Once you start seeing the parallels between One Battle After Another and Finding Nemo, it’s very hard to stop.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 4d

Criticizing people’s actions and statements isn’t anti-human. If you want to say people shouldn’t harass people, OK. If you want to say criticizing AI or the people who peddle it are anti-human, that’s self-serving nonsense.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 4d

this is why I call it abuse at scale

Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 4d

I really think a lot of people voted for abusers because they’re used to being abused, and it’s the perverse way they feel safe.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 4d

Way to rainbow wash the hallucinating plagiarism machine

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 4d

In this case his niece, but same energy

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 5d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 4d

The rise in autism diagnoses is alarming because there definitely didn’t used to be many people with autism. Anyway, here’s a description of Brian De Palma from The Devil’s Candy (1991).

Directors are intimidating by the very nature of their job, though some assume the position of authority more gently than others.
These approachable types openly welcome comments from their collaborators and make an effort to appear warm and friendly.
Others, however, abuse their power, using it as an excuse for outbursts of sarcasm and hysteria, even cruelty.
De Palma was neither approachable nor abusive. He never ranted and he rarely socialized, which made him all the more forbidding. At work he was the remote patriarch, the leader whose very aloofness made his approval especially hard to discern and especially desirable. Few people could read him. Was he simply rude, or was he so absorbed in his own thoughts about the day's work that he couldn't be distracted by ordinary civility? When he remembered to be polite, the words sounded awkward, as though he were lip-synching phrases from a foreign language.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 6d

Mia, the bodega cat across the street, queen of the block

A smush faced runty pale yellow cat sitting on a sidewalk in front of a flower display.

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