mynt marsellus
@myntaford.bsky.social
Doctoral candidate in cinema studies at the university of Toronto - studying authorship and ordinary language philosophy.
https://myntmarsellus.wordpress.com
https://myntmarsellus.wordpress.com
The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping is an all time top ten Christmas song
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping is an all time top ten Christmas song
imagining Brian De Palma doing this is very very funny to me
[on the set of Scarface]
AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten]
DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT
AL PACINO: say hello to my little friend [opens jacket to reveal a tiny kitten]
DIRECTOR: son of a bitch CUT
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
imagining Brian De Palma doing this is very very funny to me
this conversation is fascinating, particularly as a psychoanalytically inclined thinker because I feel like Beyond the Pleasure Principle would blow their minds youtu.be/HDNa17t-CEA?...
Could You Explain Cold to an Alien? - Hank Green
YouTube video by Alex O'Connor
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December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
this conversation is fascinating, particularly as a psychoanalytically inclined thinker because I feel like Beyond the Pleasure Principle would blow their minds youtu.be/HDNa17t-CEA?...
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My thousand-yard stare is not the result of some deeply buried trauma. I’m just trying to pee in your pool
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My thousand-yard stare is not the result of some deeply buried trauma. I’m just trying to pee in your pool
We need a Paramount decision for the 21st century
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We need a Paramount decision for the 21st century
This really is the actual question plaguing us
Why is everyone trying to invent an all powerful orb that tells them what to do
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This really is the actual question plaguing us
this whole thread is incredible, but this one is by far the best
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
this whole thread is incredible, but this one is by far the best
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“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...
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Ben Shapiro: The Dumbest Man Alive
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ben Shapiro: The Dumbest Man Alive
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We cannot see Christianity or Newtonianism or the Romantic movement or political liberalism as a tool while we are still in the course of figuring out how to use it. For there are as yet no clearly formulatable ends to which it is a means.
CIS p.55
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
CIS p.55
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We cannot see Christianity or Newtonianism or the Romantic movement or political liberalism as a tool while we are still in the course of figuring out how to use it. For there are as yet no clearly formulatable ends to which it is a means.
CIS p.55
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
CIS p.55
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary
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‘The Death of the Author’ and Ordinary Language Philosophy
Visit the post for more.
sites.cardiff.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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This year’s volume features:
Hilary Thompson on Roland Barthes and Sumana Roy;
Mynt Marsellus on Barthes and Ordinary Language Philosophy;
Lennard J. Davis and Trevor Pateman on studying with Barthes in the 1970s;
David Johnson on inspiration, photography, notebooks,
and the beginning of writing.
Hilary Thompson on Roland Barthes and Sumana Roy;
Mynt Marsellus on Barthes and Ordinary Language Philosophy;
Lennard J. Davis and Trevor Pateman on studying with Barthes in the 1970s;
David Johnson on inspiration, photography, notebooks,
and the beginning of writing.
October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This year’s volume features:
Hilary Thompson on Roland Barthes and Sumana Roy;
Mynt Marsellus on Barthes and Ordinary Language Philosophy;
Lennard J. Davis and Trevor Pateman on studying with Barthes in the 1970s;
David Johnson on inspiration, photography, notebooks,
and the beginning of writing.
Hilary Thompson on Roland Barthes and Sumana Roy;
Mynt Marsellus on Barthes and Ordinary Language Philosophy;
Lennard J. Davis and Trevor Pateman on studying with Barthes in the 1970s;
David Johnson on inspiration, photography, notebooks,
and the beginning of writing.
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This actually helps, thank you
well, at least Drake lost a ton of money tonight
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This actually helps, thank you
it is 5am in Paris and I am watching via anxiously refreshing the game page/bluesky
![two frames:
- first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?"
- second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vc7f4oafdgxsihk4cry2xpze/bafkreig5uzy6ezdmsey5ykembgorvrvib52jmdtskvbwgkv3vuccpks534@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
it is 5am in Paris and I am watching via anxiously refreshing the game page/bluesky
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so, the Louvre, yeah, 100% worth spending an entire day developing deep blisters to see as much as you can
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
so, the Louvre, yeah, 100% worth spending an entire day developing deep blisters to see as much as you can
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A treasure trove!
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online
The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.
www.filmbuffonline.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A treasure trove!
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Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren in a publicity still for the 🇬🇧British gangster movie "THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY" (1980) dir. John Mackenzie
October 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren in a publicity still for the 🇬🇧British gangster movie "THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY" (1980) dir. John Mackenzie
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Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
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Misanthropic Thoughts
What follows is not quite something I believe, nor even something I fear. It is something I fear I believe, my worst tendencies as a think...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
There's been a lot of great music this year, but it's pretty likely at this point that my favourite song of the year is this: youtu.be/6dcfVnz9Mg8?...
"TikTok Baby!" FULL SONG (Leaking Our Own Track)
YouTube video by OCT
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
There's been a lot of great music this year, but it's pretty likely at this point that my favourite song of the year is this: youtu.be/6dcfVnz9Mg8?...
Is Idris Elba the first actor to play both the Prime Minister of the UK and the President of the United States in the same calendar year (or ever??)
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Is Idris Elba the first actor to play both the Prime Minister of the UK and the President of the United States in the same calendar year (or ever??)
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1) Know your values, frame the debate
2) Repetition is key to persuasion
3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...
2) Repetition is key to persuasion
3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...
October 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
1) Know your values, frame the debate
2) Repetition is key to persuasion
3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...
2) Repetition is key to persuasion
3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...
My favourite part of the NYC mayoral campaign has to be how progressive New Yorkers look at Sliwa and say "Yeah he's an idiot, but he's our idiot! That man is a true New Yorker."
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
My favourite part of the NYC mayoral campaign has to be how progressive New Yorkers look at Sliwa and say "Yeah he's an idiot, but he's our idiot! That man is a true New Yorker."