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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, this is literally the first time I've ever encountered this phrase. I know there are a lot of TV showrunners on this site -- have any of you ever heard of this before today?

Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 4h

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 21h

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 4h

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 21h

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 9h

“We want to host robust debates”

(immediately lists a long series of firm limits on the terms of said debates)

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 15h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22h

Pat Monahan, hair dyed pure jet black and dressed 20 years too young, addressing a stranger as "soul sister" and asking that question is the absolute most divorced-dad any pop musician has ever been.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Page's son going, "Please, Mister Mister lives in Florida. Call me Mister."

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

The correction was on a different story, about a different judge, and not the one whose house was set on fire. You can see it here:

x.com/Acyn/status/...

Acyn on X: "Watters forced to read a correction on a statement he made previously https://t.co/P4aOHnDKYf" / X

Watters forced to read a correction on a statement he made previously https://t.co/P4aOHnDKYf

x.com

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

FYI: If you saw this post yesterday making the rounds, it’s not true, and has since been quietly deleted. (Reposting it now only because it seems like a LOT of people believed it, or wanted to.)

A post claiming Jesse Watters had to apologize for smearing a judge whose house was then set on fire — it’s not true

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

The woman with the collectible cups who’s about to be evicted!

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

I still think about the guy in “Cinemania” who had looked up the phone numbers for the projection booths at every New York repertory theater so he could yell at them without leaving his seat.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

I got an email today asking if I want to be part of a class action suit over Film Forum supposedly overcharging patrons for online ticket fees, and filing a class action lawsuit over online ticket fees is the most “regular Film Forum patron” behavior I’ve ever seen in my life.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

I have family in Austin so fly there a fair amount, and TSA is always miserable there—haphazard at best, incredibly petty at worst. I never understood why until someone told me it’s a training airport for agents. You’re getting trainees who are both making mistakes, and scared of being too lenient.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

If we can put a man on the moon, then we should be able to put a Peaky Blinder on the moon.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

Unlike the “Fast & Furious” producers they have the good sense to never apologize for this.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 1d

A regrettable thing about being a parent in these times is that so many public figures’ names fit perfectly into “Baby Shark” and once you mentally hear it, even once, you can’t read them any other way.

Anyway. Bari Weiss.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2d

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a serious answer that I am incapable of saying without sounding like an old man shaking his fist, but I legitimately think the answer is video games and YouTube.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 2d

I'd be curious to know a trend line on this -- if it's always been the case, or if it's another legacy form of entertainment that's simply fallen by the wayside.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 2d

Rick Reilly is a real cherry on top here.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

It wasn’t until this very moment I realized Animal Farm totally works as a prequel to the Busy Busy World of Richard Scarry.

Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 3d

animal farm has a happy ending (bunch of pigs walking around on two legs wearing people clothes)

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

(Weirdly, I feel like this severe “I am too principled to ever be appeased” shtick is super-common on the left and not at all common on the right, which may be why they all flock to him and assume he must be smart.)

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t even know if he’s advocating for anything there. A man who’s built his brand around “no one can comprehend the horrors I foretell, or the dark deeds needed to counter them” is not going to switch to a business model of “everything is on the right track now, keep up the good work!”

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

I am not well-versed enough in Yarvin to know *exactly* what he means with the line about how, at most, they could do .05% of what needs to be done—and I’m sure the answer is grim!—but it does suggest the problem in letting a professional doomsayer be a party’s guiding light.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, I just saw his official photo for the first time and did not realize it featured him trying to do the Blue Steel.

Pete Hegseth’s official photo in which he’s squinting in a way that’s like “smizing” but if instead of smiling you’re trying to look tough, but in practice it mostly looks like he’s desperately holding in a fart

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