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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 5h

Andromeda Strain. I was eleven; it was the televised premiere.

Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 5h

If you liked Don’t Look Now (1973) or In Bruges (2008) or just like folk horror, you’ll probably like Starve Acre (2023).

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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 10h

her: did you know makeup expires? me: *spits mine out* WHAT

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 11h

socialist realist cat

a very dramatic pose form a slender tabby cat. her body is oriented to the left of the photo, but her face is right up close to the camera and she is looking to the right of the photo, with a hopeful look in her eyes and her white whiskers gleaming in the light

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 12h

I believe it was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey who said, if you want to know which side you're on, look at which way the police are facing.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 15h

Ongoing thread; Gail is still typing.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

You're totally right about Duvall, of course. Kubrick and Hitchcock treated their actors like cattle. Especially the women. Just ask Tipi Hedren.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

YES! SO GOOD! The impossible architecture of the Overlook Hotel fascinates me. Have you seen the documentary Room 237? It's bonkers! (I believe it's streaming on Netflix.)

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

Central Jokelahoma outside daytime temps just dropped from the high 90s to the high 60s/low 70s and I am damned-well wearing my lightest merino v-necks. Since I'm sleeping with my windows all open, the house temperature gets pretty cool overnight.

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Bennie Redmile @bennieredmile.bsky.social · 18h

My v necks queue automatically, like paratroopers in a D-day gooney bird. “Wait for the GREEN light!” I scream, but every year some jump early and end up discarded on a park bench.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

People remember how graphic and gory Silence of the Lambs was, but if you go back and watch it, all of the violence is off-screen. Your imagination fills in the blanks.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

Tobe Hooper deliberately kept the gore off-screen hoping to get a PG rating (instead of R). The film is violent and gruesome, but not especially gory. *NARRATOR* The film did not get a PG rating.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 20h

10yo asked what i did at the festival and i said oh it's a book festival, so i just talked about my books, and he said "yikes" under his breath

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 17h

Until our intern Gavin completes the blood tests, please assume all enclosures contain The Thing. Thank you for your patience.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I shared this sentiment on Instagram and a man—a former fraternity brother—obliquely threatened me and my family from what he thought was a private account. It wasn’t. I called him directly on his cell phone this morning. Panic, apologies, excuses, hung up. Don’t bring piss to a shit fight.

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Davoid (extra screams) @davoid.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

Sylvia Plath's ghost [sitting bolt upright]: Did I leave the oven on?

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

I did put off watching Nomadland until last week, when Netflix announced it would be leaving the platform. It's okay that I waited, but I'm also glad I got to see it finally.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

Still haven't seen, but there's still time: Titanic Gladiator (either of them) Ben Hur Cleopatra Gone With the Wind Top Gun (either of them) A Few Good Men Kramer vs. Kramer … and so many others!

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 16h

I'm 65, and I just watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time last night. And that's okay! I now have a better understanding of the origin of many important slasher/horror tropes, but not having that perspective never hurt my enjoyment of later films.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026

Ah yes, my nemesis, the fractal broccoli!

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Putting a bottle or can of pop in the freezer to cool it quickly and assuming you'll pull it out before it explodes is known as 'the devil's fizzy wager.'

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

October 3rd. Brak’s Tales of Suspense!!!

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 03/10/2026

I've mentioned this here before, but I cannot emphasize enough HOW GREAT THAT SANDWICH WAS. Like if Citizen Kane and The Godfather had a baby and that baby was a sandwich, this was that sandwich. Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth. Horowitz & Rubenstein. Leontyne Price and Maria Callas.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 03/10/2026

Best reuben I ever had was at a sandwich shop at Chicago Midway Airport (MDW). That place has since closed, but I've been told they have locations in Chicago. I still dream of that sandwich.

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos." Hegseth's vision for the military always sounds like an old gay personals ad written by a fussy Bloomingdale's necktie salesman named Bryce.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 03/10/2026

SOMEONE BUY ME A PLANE TICKET TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Get in loser, we're going the way of all flesh

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is like when I recorded the demo programme from my mum’s Yamaha keyboard onto cassette

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melissa @melissaks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why is Home Depot selling a Mumford and Sons skeleton

A skeleton with a full beard and glasses, wearing a plaid shirt and tan apron, stirring a craft cocktail

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 03/10/2026

IDGAF, but I'd watch Daisy Ridley read the phone book,* so bring it on.** *KIDS: It's an ancient technology. Look it up. **Still waiting for her to play The Duchess in Belinda Blinked: The Musical.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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John "Johnnyd2" Dolan @johnnyd2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

no posting like Catposting! Bartleys a good zoomie boi!

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 03/10/2026

Putting aside the moral implications of torture, it doesn’t produce reliable testimony or reliable intelligence. But we shouldn’t do it, mainly, because it is WRONG.

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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Uh, okay.

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Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 02/10/2026

No, but in two hours I’ll be full of martini.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The university held an “AI support” session for instructors today and it is not too surprising to see those old lower-case c conservative dynamics shaping up. First, just about everyone who attended was maxed out in their opposition. The job of the admins seemed mostly to be to absorb the anger.

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 02/10/2026

Grave of the Fireflies would like a word.

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All Cattes Are Best Cattes @picklesofthecanoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI IS THE FUTURE BAYBEEEEEE

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This 'Brady Bunch' reboot sucks

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