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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Deeply saddened to share that my phone has seen its last Jeremy Day text. Happy Memorial Jeremy Day. I hope yours is as full of 1.9 stars as this dental practice I’ve never been to.

Screenshot of the Yelp review page for Saint Mona Family Dental (1.9 stars!!!), which shows the location as permanently closed.

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Same answer if the prompt had been “What is the movie that inspired you to fly to Vienna just to visit a sewer?”

Still image of a dramatically backlit Orson Welles in a brick-lined sewer tunnel.

A modern photo of Vienna’s large sewer tunnel.

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mere minutes away from this being a private 10pm screening of THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hayao Miyazaki: (wearily smoking cigarette) Nobody noticed all the clues I hid in my cartoons. Nobody deciphered the secret map to Miyazaki’s Gold

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First rule of Los Angeles; If your route gives you the option of walking through Urban Light, you MUST walk through Urban Light.

Twilight view of Chris Burden’s installation Urban Light, featuring gridded rows of illuminated streetlights .

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Beauty still exists if we but choose to look.

Player info for current New Orleans Saints cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry.

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.

Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 14/09/2026

None of this covers the real real reason. Twenty years ago, gigs were cheap promotional tools to sell expensive records. Now most people listen to music via streaming and don't buy it, records are free promotional tools for expensive gig tickets.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 11/09/2026

Solvable but requires a studio to not be frozen by analysis paralysis. 1) 20 episodes per greenlight. 2) Greenlight a new season based on gut belief in it, not based on waiting until numbers come in. This was TV for decades. Movies you can wait around for numbers, TV you can't. They're different.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trump in 2024: My plan will cut energy prices in half and get gasoline below $2/gallon

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The messaging is so weird, that the federal government has enough money to just issue every American $5,000 today if the president wants to, BUT ALSO, no, he doesn't want to right now (only if the GOP wins).

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rewatched GAME NIGHT with the family last night. What an absolute gem of comic directing. The flashy bits are fun of course, but look at the space they give Jesse Plemons in the edit for this moment:

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Game Night | Games With Gary | ClipZone: Comedy Callbacks

YouTube video by ClipZone: Comedy Callbacks

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Anyway, Brian Eno said it best:

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"

Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026

This is just brazenly Islamaphobic propaganda. This is what Bari Weiss has turned CBS into.

Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) post from CBS News (@CBSNews) dated August 31, 2026. The text reads: "As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack." Below the post text is an embedded link card from cbsnews.com featuring a photo of Abdul El-Sayed speaking into a microphone at a podium, wearing a dark suit jacket over a black shirt, with campaign signs reading "FOR US SENATE" in the background.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm sorry, you release The Flash (2023) to the public, where all of God's children can see it, and you've forfeited the right to ever say a movie is unreleasable and should be vaulted for the tax write off.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Homeland Security 7
@DHSgov
X.com
Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If the ballroom gets built, the next President should just start knocking down the Supreme Court building one day. Throw up some cubicles in the ballroom and tell them they can work out of there until a new one is built.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It would be fun if Democrats commissioned an architect to come up with a proposal to modify the ballroom to scale it down and turn it back into useful office space. Release renderings and cost analysis. Just act like they will ignore the red tape and just do in 2029, like Trump did to build it.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

You ever think about how there were dudes that probably saw loads of combat in WWII and then 20-odd years later were playing henchmen on BATMAN

Two middle-age dudes playing henchman on Batman

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If a baby hands you a toy telephone to answer, that's a sign of great respect in their culture.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Going back to work next week after a 4 month hiatus, so this week’s #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread is on THE ECONOMIC REALITIES OF BEING A TV WRITER. The short of it is, if your goal is to make a lot of money, do anything else besides trying to be a writer. 🧵1

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

When I was a baby animation writer in 2004, I got hired to write a pitch bible and pilot script for a Kingdom Hearts series. OBVIOUSLY I had to do research, so I took an advance on the payment to buy my first new console since the NES. Thanks for financing my PS2, Disney!

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Meredith Borders @mereborders.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Vast of Night is fantastic and I wish I’d thought to tell you that before it was disappeared by Amazon.

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Dropout @dropout.tv · 04/08/2026

Let Sam explain how Dropout got The Don Hertzfeldt Collection... 🍌 @donhertzfeldtfilms.bsky.social

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trying to imagine what the last month of my mom's life would've been like if she too had had an army of sycophants fueling her downward spiral with dementia

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Bookmarking for animation reference. Sublime collapse.

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Possibly the most perfectly Tubi movie on Tubi (complimentary).

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Conservative online commentators attack major event movies because they’re cultural remoras trying to attach themselves to something people actually care about in order to feast on scraps of attention. Whatever “point” they’re making is not the actual point.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners?

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/10/2025

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

SAM NEILL

GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR

If you were to commit a murder,

how would you do it?

It's got to be big! No slipping

something into someones drink, that's just

pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a

stain on the road. There's probably a couple

of people I'd put under a steamroller,

but I won't say who they are, otherwise

when they see a steamroller coming

their way they'll be on full alert. And

steamrollers don't go very fast...

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13/07/2026

This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr

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Brandon Sawyer @brandonsawyer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Swiss coach looks like the law-abiding middle child in a comedy with Mads Mikkelsen and Taika Waititi as bank-robbing brothers.

Photo of Switzerland’s football coach wagging a no-no finger.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.

24 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky (no “e” over here) with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/06/2026

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

But the tender sheen over the event quickly dissipated last month when a hodgepodge of musicians booked for live performances backed out at the last minute, saying they were not informed that the Freedom 250 festivities would have a political tilt. Several states also announced they would not participate. In the eleventh hour, the president declared he would headline the fair himself: He was introduced at a rally Wednesday night by transportation secretary Sean Duffy, who started by eschewing the "libtards that canceled on us." When Trump finally took the stage, he lauded America as the "hottest" nation in the world. "Nobody's laughing at us anymore," said the man filling in for Milli Vanilli.

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