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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1h

Blum's argument is stupid because the people who don't care about AI, also don't care if a work isn't AI (or care about much of anything), but using it means losing the people who do care. Not using it keeps everyone happy.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 5h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 2h

Criticizing Dolly Parton for her plastic surgery is a great way to tell the world you're an asshole who needs to be blocked without actually saying so directly.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 3h

Watching an interview with Desmond Child, the songwriter behind "I Was Made for Loving You", "Living on a Prayer" and "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and I gotta say, I hope I'm looking like this when I'm about to turn 72.

Screencap of Desmond Child in a baseball hat, hipster glasses, with a trim neat beard. Des[ite being born in 1953, he could easily pass for someone in their late-40s, early-50s.

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Dial M for Martha @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 4h

Social media is like being drunk. It doesn't make you into someone else, it reveals who you are inside.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 4h

I actually think the reason why I have a relative healthy relationship with social media is because I almost never use it via my phone. For me, it's something I do on my laptop, so if my laptop isn't in front of me, I'm not on social media.

Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 4h

This is a baffling question to me because I've experienced far more good than bad because of social media. It's like asking, "Has anything great happened in your life because you read a book?"

Made a lot of friends.
Became co-host of a podcast.
Became a writer for xoJane.
Got my current job.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 4h

Luck was on my side.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 4h

This is a baffling question to me because I've experienced far more good than bad because of social media. It's like asking, "Has anything great happened in your life because you read a book?"

Made a lot of friends.
Became co-host of a podcast.
Became a writer for xoJane.
Got my current job.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 5h

This is like a politician in 1967 going, "It's a shame they went with The Beatles, when they could have gone with someone with broader appeal like Laurence Welk."

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 5h

This is like a politician in 1967 going, "It's a shame they went with The Beatles, when they could have gone with someone with broader appeal like Laurence Welk."

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 5h

They hate it when we call them weird but then they do shit like insisting a cringey one-hit wonder who is only popular with people with objectively terrible taste has broader appeal than one of the biggest superstars in music today.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6h

Hats off to one of the most craven dolts ever to do it. variety.com/2025/music/n...

House Speaker Johnson Calls Bad Bunny at Super Bowl ‘a Terrible Decision,’ Says It Should’ve Been Someone With ‘a Broader Audience’ — Like Lee Greenwood

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is 'a terrible decision' to book Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl, saying Lee Greenwood would have been a better pick.

variety.com

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 7h

It's more than worthwhile. It's one of the Bee Gees' biggest hits!

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 9h

🎶Thicker than
A deep dish pie
Joints are sore
Blood pressure high
Pudding, flan
And crème brûlée
None are safe
From the Green Beignets🎶

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 23h

TUNNEL VISION.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen KFM a dozen times, so I know all of its specific skits, while with TGT and TV, I remember the basic vibes and not-so-much the actual jokes. 😂

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 1d

and it mimizes the actual pain & loss while projecting onto a future that is a fantasy.

It's really okay to just deal with the fact that something is sad and bad and allow it to be that. Face the reality along with the person going through it and allow them to grieve the things they are grieving.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to add "And Betty Thomas in a g-string and pasties" but then I checked and that's TUNNEL VISION, which is essentially the same movie in my mind.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

I should pick this up. I'm just as curious to see how Callow measures up as a biographer as I am learning more about Laughton.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else have "Travis goes after the Heinz 57" people on today's bingo card?

Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing how the person who invented A1 steak sauce nailed it on the first try

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

It's just your face muscles stiffening via rigor mortis.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

Way to spoil the movie, TV Guide.

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

Still my favourite moment in reality TV history.

Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

It's completely fair to "hold both parties to equal scrutiny". The problem comes when you magnify minor issues involving Dems while minimizing major issues involving the GOP because one party is clearly and objectively more criminal than the other.

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

My fave Rich Little fact is how in interviews he'd claim that the one impression he never did was Bob Hope because he had too much respect for the man. But then SCTV's Dave Thomas wrote that Little asked him how he did his famous Hope impression because he had never been able to crack it himself.

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Esmaimed Grey @stepfordcuckoo.bsky.social · 1d

“Let’s do the fucking news.”

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Half-Allan, Half-Mott, All Monster @houseofglib.bsky.social · 1d

Let's do the news!

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