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Writers Guild Rips ABC’s Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ From Air: “The WGA Stands With Jimmy Kimmel and His Writers”

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 21d

would you look at that, I happen to have lunch at 12 PM and I'm working down the street 👀

Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Join us TODAY at 12 PM at the main Disney Gate at 2201 W Alameda Ave in Burbank to protest ABC and tell them to bring back #JimmyKimmel.🚨 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

SAG-AFTRA also released a statement following the news, noting, "The decision to suspend airing 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone’s freedoms."

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Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 22d

Marvel editors and VFX contractors after being called in to work OT tonight to string together the most hype Avengers Doomsday teaser for Disney to release in the next week as a distraction

ALT: a man wearing headphones is making a face

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Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 22d

This country is so far gone that I don't even think the Kimmel news will make a ripple for normal people. They still had to clock into work and stress over bills today so the regime will only get more authoritarian

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Reposted by Michael Culbertson

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22d

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

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Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 25d

maybe it’s the unfortunate privilege that comes with being a minority in America but it is VERY easy to pick up on when a high profile internet personality “””secretly””” skews right wing

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 25d

One of numerous examples that reminds me that we all live in different realities is reading Tik Tok comments saying “I was heartbroken to unfollow [white influencer] after they shared sympathy for MAGA🥀”, and then I go to the influencers profile and it’s like… yeah? That’s their entire vibe?

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 27d

Illumination's Mario is now canonically a Charlie Kirk sympathizer

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 28d

LMAOOOOOOO everyone's broke as fuck

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 28d

WSJ: Paramount Skydance is preparing a majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that is backed by the Ellison family.

The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio

www.wsj.com/business/med...

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing in front of a red curtain with his eyes closed .

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 29d

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Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 29d

ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing in front of a red curtain with his eyes closed .

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Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 29d

oh fuck another video popped up, he's fucking dead

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 29d

holy fuck he might actually be dead, that was super precise

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 29d

regardless of how I feel about him or how much he may or may not have deserved it (and come on guys, y'all should know), this is collectively not gonna end well

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · 29d

holy fuck he might actually be dead, that was super precise

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Sep 9

and this isn't even real discourse, it's just being confidently incorrect and hoping that others agree

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Sep 9

There's discourse around Sinners saying the "post-credits" scene should've been moved up into the main movie, despite said scene happening 30 seconds into the credits, and happening soon enough that if you don't have the attention span of a gnat, it flows with the movie anyway

we're cooked man

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Sep 5

average day in a comedy writers room

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Sep 1

and they’re doing all of this and doubling down just to cancel it by S3 when Zaslav realizes more seasons cost more money

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Sep 1

Gavin Newsom’s account is gonna break character if/when he dies to share genuine condolences in regular case isn’t he

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Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Sep 1

I think I do my best to refrain being opinionated on other projects that peers could be working on (nothing nice to say don't say anything yada yada) but J.K. Rowling's #4 on my personal shit list so

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Sep 1

The problem with modern IP development: "We want to explore new areas of an old franchise!" while being too chicken shit to actually move forward with new faces because of the small chance older audiences don't return, making you wonder who this is even for

Also fuck J.K. Rowling

IGN @ign.com · Sep 1

Warwick Davis, star of the original Harry Potter movies, will once again play Professor Filius Flitwick in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter TV series. https://bit.ly/3HFvH0C

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Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Aug 31

(no idea how “that” turned into “trust” from text to speech lmao)

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Aug 31

It’s funnier to assume trust any pic or video of him after this weekend is AI generated

Michael Culbertson @mikenike16.bsky.social · Aug 30

THE ENTIRE MOVEMENT FUCKING DIES WITH NO CHARISMATIC BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTER, IT'S LITERALLY THEIR ONLY UNITED GUIDING FORCE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE