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Chuckell

@chuckell.bsky.social
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makes books, reads different books

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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 6h
Safe . . . for whom, exactly?
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 11h
Worth maybe noting that someone working nine to five is probably a hell of a lot less than citizens deserve of their senators. But what do I know about it, I don't even get a senator because I live in the nation's capital.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 11h
In the meantime you gotta know a lot of these dudes enjoy going on big-game hunting expeditions.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 13h
Problem is the bullets are just going to bounce off ol' Non here
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 15h
I would like to see I Play Rocky but it's M. Night Shyamalan getting The Sixth Sense made
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 17h
The only thing I remember about the first movie is a Quidditch match that felt like it lasted almost ten hours.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is awful but also what's up with that podracer in the foreground
Screen cap of Guardian article about a Houthi attack on the Riyadh airport with a pic that has a weird-lookin airplane-tow-er thing in the forgetting
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Planning to force my kids to watch Die Hards 1-3 so they can properly contextualize a Halloween viewing of The Sixth Sense.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, "I'm a checked-out dad who'd rather not bother interacting with my children" is not a concept that is hitting as different as he seems to believe it is.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Hits different" is kind of a weird phrase to choose when discussing varying parenting techniques.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Man, every episode of this most recent season of Slow Horses is even stupider than the last.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They made him cry, poor lil guy
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Let me just film myself taking up this rather recently-installed flooring stuff, why would you look at what's underneath--golly I had no idea
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
First Spear Centurion Lucius Vorenus
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Made the life-affirming decision to simply block anyone who posts to commemorate a famous person's birthday with the phrase "X number of candles today for . . ."
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don't coincidentally read this book last week, is my advice to you.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, all these crappy movies sure have won a bunch of Oscars.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Foley artists back then had it easy. "Snik. Snik snak." Done!
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
She is leading by example. It's her words she's not leading by.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah! Wikipedia says I got this one wrong.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I gotta think the secret surprise cameo in a You Can See Everything is Emma Stone
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Weird book. Not funny at all. But still fairly recognizable as a Richard Russo novel.
Cover image of Under the Falls by Richard Russo
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's me thinking this was a Max Headroom costume.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe you, like me, chose not to see The Breadwinner--the Nate Bargatze movie--in the theater because it looked painfully retrograde, but if you, like me, have an 8-year-old in the house you might see it on tv now and you, like me, will realize that it's even worse than you imagined.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I always forget that the Slow Horses tv show is much dumber than I expect it to be.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
By comparison, maybe
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm quite aware that nobody does any proofreading in academic publishing anymore, but I guess they've given up on it in trade circles as well?
Passage from Richard Russo novel Under the Falls, published by Knopf, using the word "grizzly" where "grisly" is meant.Passage from Biological War: A Scenario by About Jacobsen, published by Dutton, where the suggestion is made that Pandora's Box was something Pandora was trapped in rather than a box owned by Pandora.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No, @t-mobile.bsky.social, I don't want anything to do with fucking Starlink.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anybody who waves their hands around that much while talking is trying to run a scam on you.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Huh, he sucks as bad as he ever did as far as I can tell.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is no easy road.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seems like the takeaway is that committing extreme violence gently is kind of hard to pull off.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, this is true. AI music now incorporates such parameters as "beats" and "rhythms" and clearly there is nothing more one could ask for.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love nextdoor.
Local lunatic claims that AI only produces accurate information and won't guide people to some "fade or pseudo-science" only "pseudo" is spelled like "judo."
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah up until now the NFL has been such a sterling outfit.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I laughed at this! The first time I saw it posted by someone else.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's how I rolled
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you're thinking of reading The Ministry of Time read this instead.
Cover image of Retro, a novel by Jessica M. Goldstein
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This implies the existence of mid-period Beatlemania and mature Beatlemania and so not only is patiently untrue but also shows a misunderstanding of what "mania" means.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean it can't have helped his acting career that David Ellison is so ugly, in such an unsettling way. Like not the interesting kind of ugly that can lead to a long career as a character actor but ugly in the way that makes it look like his lips are two slugs fucking.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Avengers: Doomsday releases in a couple of months, and I've never seen my 15-year-old more excited about getting advance tickets for a movie. Sorry--those two statements are unrelated. The movie he's pumped to see tomorrow night is Primetime. I feel like I've done a good job.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I remember watching The Office, amazed, wondering "Man, how did this guy get so good at playing an utter insufferable jerkwad?" Later--oh, I see, a lifetime of practice.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why does this building look like a big shark? Shouldn't that have been reserved for the Spielberg Museum?
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I haven't been too worried about the threat from AI but Donald Trump just claimed that it's a hoax and now I'm terrified
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Always happy to see the Crosset Man in Scotland and he deserved better than getting murdered before the opening credits of the first episode!
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And perhaps for longer than 12 hours.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you haven't canceled your subscription to The Washington Post yet DO IT NOW.
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Chuckell @chuckell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's one less thing to worry about
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