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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 3d

I guess then people say or imply things with the plays they choose to make? Or maybe that’s just a continuation of doing things.

But I do think this is a bit semantics - do you get my intent here even if my words aren’t exact?

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 4d

(I also think just a few years ago I wrote off plays as not saying anything, when what some of them were actually saying was “here is how to care for each other in the messiest of interpersonal circumstances”

and that can be a valuable lesson at anytime!)

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ASMR Guy That's Kinda Sticky @yodacat.bsky.social · 4d

Is this a thing people would like?

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 4d

Brecht wouldn’t be happy with me, but that’s fine. Being a full human being means living in paradox.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 4d

but right now I need this play as much as I need the plays about climate change, about organizing and labor, about war and genocide, about complicity and complacency.

I need both.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 4d

and look, candidly, I’m biased! I’m working on a fun play right now that takes place in a fantasy world where trans people can search for love and the audience knows everything will end up okay

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 4d

I am very suspicious of theatres and producing orgs that Only put forward plays that ignore the problems of our time!

but I’m not convinced producing or writing one fun play is equivalent to ignoring our world’s problems

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 4d

if you had asked me just five years ago if there was room for fun, silly, rompish plays that don’t “Say Anything,” I probably would’ve said no but I’ve really come around on this

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 5d

I will recommend Peking Opera Blues to anyone who will listen

Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 5d

my picks for what to watch this weekend, selected from the Criterion Channel's amazing Hong Kong Classics collection. most are also streaming elsewhere, if you are not a Criterion subscriber (but if there was ever a month to be one...) pvguide.ghost.io/weekend-watc...

Weekend Watchlist 10/3: Hong Kong Classics

Here's what to watch this weekend

pvguide.ghost.io

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6d

Memorizing this

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 7d

very excited to have this out there! was a blast talking to Jason about this movie

Sports Movies That Don't Suck @sportsmoviespod.bsky.social · 7d

Episode 1 is live, talking I, Tonya with @jasonkirk.fyi! Listen on most major podcast platforms, or on Patreon, where you can become a member, support our work, and access exclusive content www.patreon.com/posts/i-tony...

I, Tonya with Jason Kirk -- Season 1, episode 1 | Sports Movies That Don't Suck

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 11d

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 13d

happy to share a project I've been working on with @austeng.bsky.social for the past few months -- Sports Movies That Don't Suck, a podcast about sports movies that don't suck! more info to come soon

Sports Movies That Don't Suck @sportsmoviespod.bsky.social · 13d

Coming soon: Sports Movies That Don't Suck, a podcast about sports movies that don't suck, from @austeng.bsky.social and @petevolk.bsky.social.

Here's our season 1 lineup! More info soon.

Teaser for Season 1 of Sports Movies That Don't Suck, featuring Season 1 guests Hector Diaz, Brian Grubb, Jason Kirk, Carson Lund, WIllow Catelyn Maclay, Ryan Nanni, Marc Normandin, Joshua Rivera, Seth Rosenthal, David Roth, and Samit Sarkar; with Season 1 movies The Iron Claw, The Sandlot, I, Tonya, I Will Buy You, Bull Durham, Sudden Death, Happy Gilmore, Warrior, Space Jam, Eephus, and Slap Shot

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 16d

i will take care of all your dogs after the rapture dm me

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16d

#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526...

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 17d

i feel like when i don't have nipples anymore i will become a more enlightened being

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Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social · 19d

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

A Condition Took Away The Use Of My Hands. Silksong Helped Me Rehab Them - Aftermath

Last year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollar...

aftermath.site

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · Feb 15

I still exist!

A screenshot from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Utena, a pink-haired girl wearing shorts and a school uniform blazer with epaulets, lays on the ground, almost broken. Her fist is pounded against the ground, the arm ready to lift her back up. The captions say “I still exist!”

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 21d

NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22d

You might think it should be a non-controversial belief among Democrats that "DC should be able to self-govern.

But 31 House Democrats just voted to give Trump and Congressional Republicans full control over DC's sentencing laws.

Shameful, heinous behavior from Vichy Democrats

Jake Auchincloss (MA-04) Josh Harder (CA-09) Josh Riley (NY-19 )
Herb Conaway (NJ-03) Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Pat Ryan (NY-18)
Lou Correa (CA-46) Bill Keating (MA-09) Kim Schrier (WA-08)
Jim Costa (CA-21) Susie Lee (NV-03) Darren Soto (FL-09)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Stephen Lynch (MA-08) Greg Stanton (AZ-04)
Sharice Davids (KS-03) John Mannion (NY-22) Norma Torres (CA-35)
Don Davis (NC-01) David Min (CA-47) Derek Tran (CA-45)
Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) Eugene Vindman (VA-07)
Jared Golden (ME-02) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Chris Pappas (NH-01)
Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 23d

anyways I understand this is still an important conversation irt cis women, absolutely, and also I'm tired about "gender parity" as a concept when we aren't also having in depth convos about the amount of trans playwrights who exist vs how many are getting produced

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 23d

forgive me if i'm bitter that we're focusing so much on cis women when this new round of the gender parity conversation started because people misgendered two nonbinary people on sight

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 23d

AT: the new-play results nationwide... are very close to [gender] parity after all

the nationwide new play results: 51% cis men, 44% cis women, 5% nonbinary, trans, or Two-Spirit people

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