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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Would carve out an addendum for Nick Cave. Not everyone can pull it off.

Nick Cave in the 1980s. A white man in his 20s with a huge mane of hair and black eyeliner stands half facing the camera, wearing a long sleeve grey shirt with huge collar and black pants.

Black and white photo of Nick Cave in the 1980s. A white man in his 20s with slicked back hair, sits facing camera wearing a.grey suit and vest and black shirt with two buttons open. He is holding a cigarette and a glass of whiskey.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Don't mess with forensic accountants!

Still photo from The Untouchables. Charles Martin Smith, a middle aged average size white guy, wearing huge glasses and dressed in a grey hat and grey trenchcoat, wields a shotgun

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Be careful flirting with mantises!

Cartoon. A woman rips a man's head off during sex and prepares to eat it. The caption reads "my ultimate fave sex position tbh"

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So everyone walks around with a bottle of Olde E?

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe everyone in the film will be drunk on malt liquor?

Photo of a 40-oz glass bottle of Olde English malt liquor, a piss-colored and piss-flavored alcoholic beverage.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lesson: never piss off the accountant. They will go feral

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I took as a parable; that underneath our differences lie deep commonalities that, if we could focus on, would lead to a better world. Wouldn't be the first time they did something like that:

Two aliens from Star Trek (the old show) stand on the bridge of the enterprise, dressed in matching grey shirts. They are both black on one side of their face and white on the other.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I present... Jeff Goldblum in Buckaroo Bonsai!

A tall white man in red cowboy outfit, holding up his big grey cowboy hat, wearing woolly chaps, standing next to a boom box atop two fake leather suitcases

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The "graphic design is my passion" people have gotten even worse - now they're not even bothering to learn good design

Poster with text "Graphic Design is my Passion" with each set of words in a different font, with different effects, that all clash with each other

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

How the GOP actually values children:

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Finished Amitav Ghosh's amazing "River of Smoke," the second book in his Ibis Trilogy, a set of historical novels set just before/during the Opium War. The book is an amazing slow burn - full of details and observations of daily life in 1838/39 Canton. Melancholy,

Softcover book of Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke, featuring bold type on blue "smoky" background, with gold and red trim at the top and bottom. The book sits on a grey shelf in the foreground of my room. In the background stand several out of focus bookshelves and behind them a window letting in the afternoon light. At the far right edge of frame in the midground is the edge of my desk, with papers and a metal paper sorter on the end nearest the camera.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

IIRC, Dan O'Bannon and John Carpenter referenced that film in various interviews. They wrote & directed (respectively) Dark Star, which has a suspiciously similar subplot to Alien. OBannon wrote the script for Alien.

Photo still from the scifi film Dark Star. An alien shaped like a large red beachball with yellow spots and two claws, sits in a grey corridor

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is probably why we got "Day of the Dolphin" but not "Day of the Cat"

Poster for 1973 film Day of the Dolphin. Painted depiction of the main character, a ruddy middle aged white diver in a black scuba top, running with a flashlight. To his right is a dolphin, to his left is a white woman in a blue crop top and jeans with papers in her hand. A 1970s reel to reel tape deck, an exploding boat, and a man holding a pair of binoculars are in the background. The title and director are at bottom left in blue lettering

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Why oh why have I waited so long to discover Lost Girl, when I was so so happy about KillJoys? Anyway, what a fun show!

Poster for the TV series Lost Girl. A young white woman with black hair and magic blue eyes stands turned 3/4 to camera. The other cast members are arrayed around her in the background.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don't know if this fits exactly, but Marvin Minsky - a real scientist as opposed to a hack - was studying common sense and emotion as part of his AI research. Published some general reader books on the topic.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Last week's reading: Herbert Simon's "The Sciences of the Artificial," 3rd edition. A well-put together book arguing for a systematic study of human-created work. I've been hearing about Simon for a long time - his influence is broad (psychology, comp sci, economics, poly sci, design).

Cover of Herbert Simon's "The Sciences of the Artificial." Black shiny book cover with a photo of a dark brown triangle made from sticks, sitting on dirt. The book sits on a grey table with a set of bookshelves out of focus in the background

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think so. The other side embraced being called "deplorable" a long time ago, and revel in whatever evil terrible shit the GOP or their thugs do. If the Dead Zone was made today, this would've ensured he was elected:

Still from The Dead Zone. A candidate for senator, wearing a grey business suit, holds up a toddler as a shield against an assassin off camera. In the background, the toddler's mother (wearing a white dress) looks on very upset. Behind her is a campaign poster of the candidate in a hard hat in front of an American flag.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah but what happened to Ice Cube and Chris Tucker? Were they not available for the sequel so they just cast these two and hoped no one would notice?

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"western civilization" yeah okay... No.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What's better than one head? Two heads!

Poster for The Thing With Two Heads. Ab bearded Black man, carrying a gun and dressed in a suit jacket, is sharing his body with the transplanted head of an older white man (who's also a bigot).

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So we should all blame System of a Down for everything?

Album cover of System of a Down's Toxicity album. The words "System of a Down" are in white lettering styled like the Hollywood sign, standing on a version of the Hollywood hills that's brown and barren burned of all vegetation. The album title is in the bottom right in red letters that are dripping like wet paint

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Matthew Modining the shields could lead to further flights of fancy

Still from the film "Birdy." Two teenagers in outfits covered in bird feathers lay on the ground. One of them, with a ridiculous red hair (Nicholas Cage) holds the other one (Matthew Modine) in his arms.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Don't forget this travesty: Marlon Brando in "Teahouse of the August Moon."

Actor Marlon Brando, a young white man, made up in yellowface to play a Japanese villager in straw hat from the film "Teahouse of the August Moon"

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This week's read is the wildest book I've picked up in a while: Dengue Boy, by Michel Nieva. The main character is a giant mutant human-mosquito hybrid living in 2273 in a post climate change slum in Argentina, which is now mostly a chain of islands thanks to sea level rise. Then it gets weird.

The book "Dengue Boy" by Michel Nieva stands on a grey table in the foreground. In the background out of focus are several light wood bookshelves full of books. The book cover has the title in dark yellow/green. A green giant mosquito with red pants flies in front of a black background with stylized depictions of the sun, stars and planets.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tim Curry has entered the chat. "Am I a joke to you?"

Full shot of Tim Curry standing frame right in full Satan/demon makeup
Red skin, huge black horns. Bare chested, holding a staff, with a large black cape billowing behind him
Standing in front of a cloudy reddish/brown nackground

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Everyone is grieving - rightfully so - over losing Sam Neill. But please pour one out for Wai Ching Ho, wonderful Hong Kong actress who did it all - stage, film, tv - and also passed away this weekend. Go watch Greg Pak's "Robot Stories" to see some of her work.

Photo of an older Chinese woman looking up and to the right, wearing a black collared shirt, with tightly bound hair. An office building or apartment building sits behind some trees and a front garden in the background, out of focus.

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ChaoticSequence @chaoticsequence.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think the writers couldn't figure him out at first, but there were some solid episodes with him, and he definitely grew on me as the show went on. The actor is good