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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 18h

Over in FilmStack, there's 100 days of filmic inspiration going. @hopeforfilm.bsky.social started it, and I did day 52 today...

THE BEAUTY AND INSPIRATION OF TANGENTS

DAY 52 - FILMSTACK DAILY INSPO

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Shane... Tori can always haul me out of "art retirement"

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 2d

For the better part of a year, my dear friend @toriamos.bsky.social has been talking about this new project. It's absolutely her most ambitious project to date, so I was very proud and honored to be asked to contribute the key art for the album and tour announcement!

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 2d

*nods*

Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 5d

Got my ballot for California Prop 50... Alrighty let's fucking do this.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 6d

I'm helping to produce an original play about the Finnish/Russian Winter War. First up is the Live Reading, which they are running a small Kickstarter for. This is a true story that is vital for the times we are in, and a little support means a lot at this critical stage.

Roar of the Grain: Stage Reading

He defended his nation, now he must defend his name. A new play, inspired by true events. Written by Satu.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 7d

I've been moving my daily online time away from FB and BlueSky, over to longer form writing and interactions on Substack, where a lively indie film community is developing. This includes my monthly media consumption survey.

MEDIAFEED - SEPTEMBER 2025

What Rantz has been putting in his veins over the last month.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 15d

I was just about to say that...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 16d

Holy cats!

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 17d

There's 2/3rds of a great movie there. I'd recommend TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID or RAW over it.

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 17d

It does. Proven over and over. We choose to do this, to punish the sin of poverty. We pay extra for the cruelty.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18d

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 19d

Like... READ THIS.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 19d

Have I told you this book is great? I'm not even to chapter 10 and have gasped/sobbed aloud multiple times. Goddamn... It's really great. The last line of chapter 5? Perfection.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 19d

Or... Bear with me... Maybe the person is a double shitburger on a moldy conman roll?

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 20d

Offered for no reason whatsoever...

Donald Duck | Der Fuehrer's Face - The Song | Disney Anti-Nazi Propaganda

YouTube video by Kjell Axel Östman inc.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 20d

I had the same experience. Very light tenderness on the arm the second day. Other than that? Aces.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21d

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 25d

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 26d

I'm a big fan of it myself.

Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 26d

OOOH!

Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 27d

They've clumsily copped every action from Germany and Italy in the run up to WWII, so... Yeah I think Trump needed a Horst Wessel and found himself one.

As always "Cui Bono?"

It sure ain't ANYONE on the left.

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 28d

Also... How do you solve many problems at once?

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28d

Charlie Kirk said the Epstein files should be released, prior to his assassination, which made a lot of MAGA and Trump’s circle angry.

"The DOJ should immediately move to unseal all the Epstein...Every file should be released to the public."

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Rantz Hoseley @rantz.bsky.social · 28d

I will fully admit that, while I'm not a conspiracy guy, my first thought was "Trump needed his own Horst Wessel, and so he made sure he got one that would have the most impact in terms of perception, with the least impact to his plans and operations"

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Nell Scovell @nellscovell.bsky.social · 28d

A truly remarkable legislator, wife, and mother of two--gunned down in her prime while police cowered scared outside her home.

Remembering Melissa Hortman: Republicans and Democrats say her power came from her selflessness • Minnesota Reformer

“She wasn’t about the bullshit,” Rep. Aisha Gomez said. “The TV cameras or the next higher public office. Or about being glorified or having everyone like you. She was about doing the best she could d...

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