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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 55m

Someone in my league did this and they're not winning. Why would you outsource the fun stuff to a robot, and especially why would you outsource the fun stuff to a robot that sucks and won't even win?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 20h

I remember having to sleep with the lights on after my parents let me watch Poltergeist when I was, what, like 4? Then they let me watch Child’s Play when I was 6 and we had to throw My Kid Sister doll away, I was so traumatized. The 80s were wild, man.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2026 watch #134: In the Mouth of Madness. What if a '90s hack horror writer were a god who could open a Lovecraftian portal to hell in your mind? You know, for fun? Goddamn, man, I love John Carpenter.

Sam Neill smiling as he mind slips away in In the Mouth of Madness

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's likely an animated Disney film (Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio were in particularly high VHS rotation), but my weird dad showed his weird kid showed his weird kid Monty Python and the Holy Grail at a formative age and it became a hyperixation, so it might also be that.

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Monty Python And The Holy Grail

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2026 watch #133: BlackBerry. I fear I may have developed a debilitating crush on Matt Johnson in the past month, because what fucking business does a movie about the rise and fall of the BlackBerry phone have being this good.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2026 watch #132: Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass. At one point I thought, “Surely, this must be almost over,” and I sneaked a look at the time and we were only 15 minutes in. This movie made time move so slowly I genuinely believed it had been 90 minutes.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Executions were paused in Arizona after the 2014 lethal injection of Joseph Wood, which resulted in him violently convulsing and gasping for air for 2 hours. When executions returned in 2022, the first two men killed by lethal injection also experienced complications with the IV...

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This should finally and at last show state-sanctioned murder for the farce that it is, shooting a woman up with phenobarbital, failing to kill her because they don’t know what they’re doing, and nursing her back to health or try it again because they don’t have a “protocol.” Fucking shameful.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2026 watch #131: Toy Story 5. I slept on Pixar’s latest because I was so disappointed by Toy Story 4, so imagine my surprise to discover there’s some juice left in the tank. This film has some thoughtful, moving things to say about children, screens, and the nature of play.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

100% there’s no shared sense of civic space or duty and the thing is I can’t even blame people for feeling that way

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guy behind me in a restaurant is sitting by himself talking on speaker phone at full volume for the past 20 minutes and death is too good

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2026 watch #130: Resident Evil (2026). Holy shit, they did it, they made a good Resident Evil movie, and they did it by creating a protagonist who responds to the scenario the way I play the video game: poorly and with lots of screaming.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/09/2026

tom cruise should make a movie about the women in his life who either have been missing for nearly twenty years or who had to enact elaborate schemes to escape their relationship with him. that would probably bring back Cinema or whatever

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2026 watch #129: Local Hero. Show this to every ghoul trying to build a data center in your neighborhood right now. Boom, problem solved.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.

Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

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Steve @yinzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friday

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

whats a movie less than 60% on rotten tomatoes that you consider to be a perfect movie? like not a bit, genuinely perfect film. Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette with an inexplicable 58% tomatometer rating

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2026 watch #128: Predators. Christ, what were any of us thinking? The aughts were an absolutely lawless era of reality TV programming, as captured in this documentary about the production of To Catch a Predator. This and Primetime work nicely together as companion pieces investigating its morality.

Chris Hansen in the documentary Predators

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Haven’t seen it yet (will try soon), but Primetime is very darkly funny and focuses more on a decoy actor than Chris Hansen

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2026 watch #127: Primetime. “You see how this looks, right?” It’s not just a question for the would-be pedos caught in Chris Hansen’s sting operations orchestrated for ratings, but a question the film asks of its subject - and of those of us entertained by his show. Fucking chilling, man.

Robert Pattinson’s unwavering gaze in Primetime

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is no movie I want to see less right now

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My editor and lifelong best friend Zach and his family are going through a challenging time right now, navigating their youngest child through some intense medical issues. Please share this link and help if you are able to. Hug your loved ones tight! www.gofundme.com/f/team-arlo-...

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've been trying for 12 years to write about my mother and Huntington's Disease in a substantial way and haven't yet succeeded precisely because of that feeling. It means you're doing it right, and you will do right by him. It's the opposite of criminal to produce meaning out of horror

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s both no money to pay anyone in entertainment and enough money to pay Seth Rogan to be Launchpad McQuack

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

2026 watch #126. Just a couple hours of Nicole Kidman caressing a pussy and never taking the hint.

Nicole Kidman caressing a cat in Practical Magic 2

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Same, and I was surprised I hadn't seen this! This is also how I discovered a 4K restoration of Raise the Red Lantern is coming out later this year.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

2026 watch #125: Red Sorghum. First time seeing Zhang Yimou's debut film and big surprise, it's visually stunning, saturated with heart-stopping washes of red. The film is warm and funny until the Second Sino-Japanese War hits the rural village with violence so cruel I gasped.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

2026 watch #124: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. This silly bullshit based on a Canadian web series inexplicably joins the ranks of Mulholland Drive and Robert Altman's 3 Women as movies I immediately rewatched upon finishing.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I fear we were too hard on the CD Cenobite. A beautiful creature who really embodied the pain/pleasure of being a dedicated lover of physical media.

Promotional photo of the CD cenobite from Hellraiser 3.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"mom said i could break all the pots in this village"

Baby Link from the Ocarina of Time looking unrepentant

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I want to go back to the year 2000 and tell myself that pirating media and selling weed will be done by giant corporations in the future just so I can see the look on 15-year-old-me's face.

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Touchscreen kiosks, self-checkout machines and QR-code menus were only here to help.” No, they were only here to cut employees and turn all of us into unpaid labor and it’s rightfully driving us mad.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2026 watch #123: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Just me sitting alone on my couch for an hour and 40 minutes muttering “How the fuck did they make this?” to no one until suddenly I’m crying about the magic of having a best friend. Glorious.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Republican Project for literally my entire life has been to warn us that the Federal Government was Too Powerful and Overreaching and would Strip Our Freedoms and now they have gotten into lockstep behind this loon who's like "I might fuck around and ban muffins"

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

2026 watch #122: Groundswell. If The Tree of Life were a corporate sizzle reel scored by Coldplay.

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