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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 44m

godDAMMIT what are they DOING

Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 1h

The best part about walking your dog during a Dodgers postseason game in LA is that you can check in on the game through the windows of your neighbors’ houses

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 2d

I got nervous there at the end but just nervous enough to make life fun!!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 2d

God I love the Dodgers

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 2d

I know everyone is feeling something similar right now, but it is SO bizarre to have to flip from watching videos of military troops beating citizens to, like, washing dishes and grading papers

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 3d

this got me

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 3d

Both films are about daughters who have to find a way to be who they are inside despite what their fathers think they want for them.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 3d

The Hours and Candyman are on constant rotation for me. So perfect.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 4d

That movie has some GENUINELY scary scenes. The seance really messed me up.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 4d

It’s all for you!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 4d

Totally in the realm of possibility!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 4d

Once again pondering what scary movie to ambush my kid(s?) with this October … we always do a classic monster movie but I’d love to push the 12yo just a little more. He’s done Poltergeist and Jaws and Evil Dead II and Terminator (not horror but totally horror adjacent) …

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

WHO did it, CNN? Actice voice, please.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 5d

I know the school I teach at my not be a great test case (private, in LA) but when I told the kids today that I’d seen One Battle After Another and loved it, MANY of them said they had also either just seen it or were seeing it this weekend. Seems like a good sign for the youth and for the movies!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 5d

the best

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 5d

maybe part of it is that they know the youth are more susceptible to unnecessarily buying merch and to attending overpriced concerts at any cost?

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 5d

Got momentarily sad in the shower this morning thinking about how incredible Philip Seymour Hoffman would have been as a member of the Christmas Adventurers Club

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 5d

Finally saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Holy shit what a
MOTION PICTURE.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 7d

Postseason Kiké is not disappointing!! Also I absolutely love that Halloween season and baseball postseason happen at the same time, it’s all of my favorite things

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 7d

Going into a unit on theories of labor/critiques of capitalism so we started watching Modern Times today and I do not regret to inform you that several teenagers called it "genius" and many laughed out loud.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 8d

Classic.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for reading!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 8d

Posting again for the evening crowd. Maybe put on “Right Back Where We Started From” while you read.

Slap Shot (1977): The Courage To Teach

One could criticize Reggie Dunlop (Newman), “player-coach” of the Charlestown Chiefs in George Roy Hill's chaotically raunchy Slap Shot, for a wide variety of character flaws & professional failings—b...

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you to @carriecourogen.bsky.social and @chadperman.bsky.social for the very helpful edits AND to @garymillsfineart.bsky.social for the incredible art!!

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