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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden

@tristanzelden.bsky.social

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Author of The Huntress and the Trickster and Unfold (coming Dec 15) | Former entertainment journalist looking for a new career | Tattoo enthusiast, metalhead, gamer | [email protected] | https://linktr.ee/tristanzelden (He/Him)

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · Nov 17

Quick intro for new followers:

I'm a former journalist seeking work (hit me up. I am interested in any comm work around entertainment/art). I am also the author of the urban fantasy novel The Huntress and the Trickster and working on some horror.

Where else I am: linktr.ee/tristanzelden

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21h

Like we really need to internalize that the response to fascism is to reject any equivalence between violent, supremacist, or exceptionalist ideologies & other ideologies that are defensive, communal, or constructive. Even when the former masquerade as the latter. You just have to reject that.

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 19h

This was really good. I am not as high on it as most people seem, but still a really good movie. Not nearly as gnarly as people made it out to be, but there was a scene or two that were certainly gross as hell lol

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21h

I get it but I really dislike the "the political climate is tense" phrasing the same way I don't like the "Gaza war" phrasing - we're foregoing that one side is people who want to live and the other side is people who have more power and both the means and intent to destroy and harm.

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 20h

Honored to be named alongside these amazing folks on Variety’s Horror Impact Report 🖤 variety.com/lists/horror...

Horror Impact Report: From Ryan Coogler to Lisa Dreyer to Osgood Perkins, Variety Stakes Out the Top in Genre Films and TV

Horror Impact Report: From Ryan Coogler to Lisa Dreyer to Zach Creeger, Variety Stakes Out the Top in Genre Films and TV.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

The Washington Post is using bothsidesism to justify everything Trump is doing.

From yesterday on political purges in the military. They compared it to covid vaccine policies.

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A screenshot of a paragraph from an article with white text on a black background. The text discusses Hegseth’s actions since taking office, stating that he has challenged traditional norms by saying as recently as last week that generals and admirals should resign if they don’t support the Trump administration’s policies. It compares this to the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, which led to the dismissal of thousands of troops.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 23h

It always amuses me how few people seem to grasp that food assistance programs and international food aid are in fact agricultural subsidy, not charity.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.

Tweet from Amy Klobuchar that reads:
“27 million pounds of chicken
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.”
Below the text is an image showing trucks on a highway with a banner labeled “CANCELED” and a caption: “Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.” The source line reads: “From projects.propublica.org.”

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

When you say this, what I hear is "3D TVs and NFTs are here to stay"

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 1d

In one week, people will be getting their hands on (digital) copies of my new book. In about a week people will be reading ARCs of Unfold. Surreal, exciting, and anxiety-inducing lol

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 1d

basically this. your favorite small art house studio uses AI and it helped make expedition 33, which everyone seems to be willing to give a pass. clearly its not a hard line for some people especially if it wins game of the year awards

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Kimberly @crazysexyghoul.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone I respected, especially creatives, posts one of those fad horror AI portraits, I die a LOT inside.

I’m very close to not alive at this point.

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Tristan Beaver Brain Zelden @tristanzelden.bsky.social · 1d

As it should be 🤘

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

There’s an interview going around about AI, so before there are any questions, let me state unequivocally that BLACK PHONE 2 is 100% organic. AI was not used at any stage of the filmmaking from idea generation, research, look books, writing, onscreen images - anything. We’re old school and love it.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 2d

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

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Richard Newby @richardlnewby.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the latest issue of Fangoria where I chat with @dantrachtenberg.bsky.social
about Predator: Badlands, the future of the franchise, and what other species might make for suitable prey. Thanks, @philnobilejr.bsky.social @jasonkauz.bsky.social @mereborders.bsky.social ! #PredatorBadlands

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Stella Chung @parallaxstella.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when killing nazis and kkk members wasn't controversial

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

Our release for @peculiarityshop.bsky.social was a wild success. Half the items were gone by day one. I still have three weeks to Halloween and spooky stuff I'd love to move.

20% off.

LGBTQIA+ staffed and owned!

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HALLOWEEN 2025 PECULIARITY SHOP

General Halloween goodness fromThe Peculiarity Shop.

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jared Petty @pettycommajared.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really tired of making excuses for stupid people.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 3d

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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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