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Alan Smith
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Gamer, dog-lover, and avid animation fan.
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animatedantic.bsky.social
Zootopia 2 has now surpassed Inside Out 2 at the box office and has become the highest-grossing American animated film of all time, only being behind Ne Zha 2. I had a feeling this was gonna be a big film, but even I'm amazed how quickly it broke the record in a short time.
January 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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filmbrainbmb.bsky.social
Back to the Past: Time traveller Louis Koo is forced to protect Qin Emperor Raymond Lam when Michael Miu goes back to take his place in this Hong Kong sci-fi actioner, continuing from TV show A Step in the Past. Plot specifics lost me, but seeing terracotta warriors fight guns and bikes is silly fun
January 18, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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doctornerdlove.com
I know my brain is profoundly broken because I see this cover (from the Heated Rivalry series) and my immediate thought is "I need to get Photoshop again and put Sam Reich on here..."

(in b4 "He was here the whole time...")
The cover to Rachel Reid's Game Changer, showing flat illustration-style images of a brunette barista next to a blender and a blonde man in grey sweats and a blue hoodie, holding a smoothie and a hockey stick, leaning against the counter, in front of a powder blue background.
January 18, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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ladyemily.nebula.tv
John Goodman is always a good actor but if you ever see John Goodman in a Coen Brothers movie you’re guaranteed to get a transcendentally great performance. They know how to bring out a wild energy from him that very few other filmmakers manage to get
January 18, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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radiodeadair.com
Racist Earth dipshits in the 22nd century half-assed making a Vulcan/Human hybrid out of fuck all and it almost lived.

It was possible for Worf and Jadzia to conceive in the 24th Century.

All humanoids in the Milky Way share DNA.

A 32nd century Jem'Hadar/Klingon hybrid? Easy.

I hate fake fans.
gaghyogi49.bsky.social Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 2d
To be clear: Lura Thok in #StarfleetAcademy is Klingon on her mother's side and Jem'Hadar on her father's side. If you can believe that Humans and Vulcans/Klingons/Betazoids can have offspring, you can also believe that in 800 years the Founders/somebody else created Jem'Hadar who could be fathers.
January 18, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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tonygoldmark.bsky.social
When Renée Good was helplessly bleeding to death from her bullet wounds, I have to wonder if she reflected on everyone in 2024 who told her, "We'll survive another Trump term."
January 18, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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shadowtodd.bsky.social
Michael Rapaport? The hip-hop documentarian?
January 18, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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suede.bsky.social
This is positive masculinity
demomolos.bsky.social isla @demomolos.bsky.social · 23h
dudes rock
January 17, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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ladyemily.nebula.tv
Sharing this again in light of the story people were sharing around on here of a trans activist who was apparently sent a threatening letter from the FBI that no journalist was able to verify and when the letter was finally shown it was a clearly AI generated image that nobody would believe is real
AI Generated image of a supposed FBI letter that, according to the iPhone photos app, transcribes as: Desecalel Tor sara cright, The direrie & hens locrat paulian anglerotataled plaim alrmamil planlermojar iatal enaed- will ladolla ne the for ot ant pl ase dinbacated Far tille the ord till fu by Bandle o hm you a u alriod the sarall ao lis complimaool The Tara Knight krown by the auline aliBandle of Syy Ackgowlestsige resiyad le provid writhen cor mation of compliane of yous sally.
January 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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alinaisyou.bsky.social
There's a lot going on in the world, so I just want to take a moment right here and right now to make you all a promise:

I will never pay the check before it kisses the mahogany grain.
January 17, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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foldablehuman.bsky.social
This whole saga has been both infuriating and hilarious because it was simply never worth it: WestJet started re-configuring planes to add another row, but this is the thing: it's only one more row. Anyone without a middle manager brain slug puppeteer them can do the math.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
WestJet reversing move to install tight seating layout | CBC News
In the wake of a backlash sparked by a viral video, WestJet has cancelled a new seat configuration that squeezed an extra row on board many of its planes and left passengers with less legroom.
www.cbc.ca
January 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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augetoffmygold.bsky.social
Dunno if I ever gave 'The Simpsons' proper credit for what a wild thing it was to have Bart say this about Gen X
Bart responding to Lisa's explanation of a 'Schoolhouse Rock'-like cartoon as "one of those campy '70s throwbacks that appeals to Generation Xers" by insisting "We need another Vietnam to thin out their ranks a little."
January 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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suede.bsky.social
Hooray, a browser is finally asking the public about what they think (and actually allowing you to opt out, finally)

And its worth it to do the survey just to see the results 😆 its a small hope spot in a rough time
January 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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ladyemily.nebula.tv
Replayed Metroid Zero Mission last night and it made me realize the thing I like about 2D Metroids is how *fast* they are. The backtracking and exploring doesn’t feel as bad as it could because Samus moves quickly and any abilities you get make you faster. I want more Metroidvanias with that speed
January 17, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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littlekuriboh.bsky.social
love the last 20 episodes of Kamen Rider '71 where the next ep preview will sometimes have the upcoming monster of the week narrate "haha tune in next time when I kill kamen rider it's gonna be great" and sometimes it's Takeshi saying "hey guys the director wanted to say a few things so here he is"
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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filmbrainbmb.bsky.social
Hands up if you've deliberately travelled to another town or city just to see a movie.

Yep. Quite a few times. Including thanks to Netflix's own limited release model sometimes.
January 16, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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radiodeadair.com
"I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff."
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d
I am terrified that the end of the AI bubble will be magnitudes worse for the global economy than the dot com bubble, and for society at large. So many people have been so confidently wrong, and I'm not sure what happens when that becomes impossible to ignore.
www.wheresyoured.at/dot-com-bubble/
Depending on how right I am, I worry that the following will happen: NVIDIA will lose anywhere from 40% to 90% of its revenue in a relatively short amount of time, which will annihilate the value of the S&P 500. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will face massive, multi-billion dollar impairments within the next few years. Oracle will face potential bankruptcy or at least a severe, horrendous series of layoffs and restructuring efforts to try and right the ship after agreeing to $248 billion in lease obligations primarily to get the revenue from its $300 billion, 5-year-long deal with OpenAI, a company that is going to run out of money in the next year. Venture capital is going to take such a severe haircut from the AI bubble that it will effectively kill any chances of raising a round after Series B for many, many years. Those $178.5 billion in data center debt deals will be predominantly underwater, leading to massive losses for private equity and banks (leading to a chill in effectively all debt markets), and massive job losses across the many, many construction projects that have started as a result of the AI bubble. If OpenAI or Anthropic can manage to go public, every investor will lose out as they collapse under the weight of their bullshit assumptions. Every partner, every company relying on them, every infrastructure provider will be burned. I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff. The amount of bosses, influencers, movie stars, politicians and other individuals of note that have fallen behind generative AI and claimed again and again that it can do things that it can’t and perpetuated myths that will lead to massive societal harms both today and in the future have revealed themselves as fucking frauds. Large Language Models are a global gaslighting experiment, where inefficient and questionably-functional software can convince you that it works because you managed to manipulate its handles with the right prompts — explaining away its failures as you go, and getting increasingly agitated with those who don’t agree with you that you’re living in the future. This piece forced me to live in the past for hours and hours and hours, and all it taught me is that people are desperate to compare this era to another as a means of explaining away the bad habits and specious ideas of a tech industry run by fucking influencers and management consultants. By comparison, the Dot Com Bubble was sensible, built on good ideas executed by greedy people rushing to do things based on ideas they didn’t understand. The AI Bubble is happening in a remarkable era of digital information and connectivity that allows us to process and analyze details at scale and with speed, and everybody who inflated this era should — and by my fucking sword will be made to — experience inextricable, permanent shame for the horrors that will follow as a result. And believe me, even if I’m half right, things will likely be so much worse than when the dot com bubble burst. I don’t see a scenario where anything survives the collapse of CoreWeave, let alone the collapse of OpenAI. I don’t see a scenario where any more than a few AI startups survive, and if that happens, there won’t be any customers for those GPUs — not that anywhere near enough existed to fill even a tiny percentile of the demand that currently exists, or for the capacity we’ve already built. On some level, I hope I’m wrong. I just don’t know how anymore. Anyway, see you next week.
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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tonygoldmark.bsky.social
I know I'm a broken record about this but social media is specifically designed to make absolutely every last unimportant dipshit feel like the infallible center of the universe and it has broken everyone's brains.
politiburb.bsky.social Holly Jolly Burb @politiburb.bsky.social · 1d
I am going to fucking jump off a bridge
January 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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zhandlen.bsky.social
CHRISTINE. the car effects are good, Keith Gordon is well-cast, but it's flat and perfunctory; Carpenter's pragmatic approach robs the novel of the darkness that made it compelling, and he can't get the tragedy of it right either.
jessehawken.bsky.social Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d
What, in your opinion, is the weakest of John Carpenter’s run of heaters between 1976 and 1988? You won’t like my answer but what’s yours?
January 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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shadowtodd.bsky.social
people starting to be ashamed again and/or realizing that MAGA shit is going to be damage to the brand
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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suede.bsky.social
I'm doing what all the hip ADHD folks are doing and body doubling on stream to make sure I actually get work done... again! Watch me edit to see how the sausage is made and we'll play some Organ trail too!
youtube.com/live/FRejBsS...
Body Doubling - Editing (plus Organ Trail)
YouTube video by Suede Lives
youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
"There's a trend on Instagram where people post photos of themselves from 2016 but too bad I wasn't born yet then"
Jenna Maroney from 30 Rock
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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tonygoldmark.bsky.social
I swear to God if Trump nuked Minneapolis half this site would say the DEMOCRATS have blood on their hands for failing to stop him.
aaronvandorn.bsky.social Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2d
It baffles me that I wake up and see Trump and the GOP laying the foundation for a world-historic repudiation and people on this website spend fifteen hours a day arguing about Democratic messaging. I am as guilty of it as anyone, tbc, but it's truly phenomenal.
January 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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mortalwombat.info
Most people are saying it was probably a bruise but it could also be an ulcer like he got some stress indigestion
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
“A bruise is internal bleeding”

In case anyone was still taking CBS News(max) seriously
January 16, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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spectrum-pulse.ca
And it's live.

Dry Cleaning, "Secret Love", and the Cowardice of "Landfill Post-punk"

youtu.be/F2FQdZudgAg
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM