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Jason Gendler

@gendler.bsky.social
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PhD in film and television. Link to my popular writing (recaps, reviews, criticism): jasongendler.blogspot.com

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
His style, on fleek
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you know who ended Mad Men absolutely on top?
Roger Sterling in Paris with Marie Calvet in the Mad Men finale
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Luke Braun @lukebraunnfl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
rams lead the league in jerseys that look like you misclicked with the paint bucket
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
nytimes.com
Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
deadline.com
Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Relegated?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All else aside, these people telling others that the work they’ve done for years, work about which they clearly know absolutely nothing, can be “augmented” by their little plagiarism machines, is so arrogant I can barely stand it.
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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's like a sprinkler. Mesmerizing!
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Great oral history of The Onion's 9/11 issue. I still keenly remember some of my favorite headlines from that issue, which the writers all talk about here. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
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An Oral History of The Onion’s 9/11 Issue
Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Would be fun to see something like this in football too.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'll never know... unless you tell me.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A) He's Common. He came out of the womb with it. B) He made it out of the corpses of the writers who died trying to make this dystopia plausible. C) Class difference in the Silo is a product of the lower floors housing the cows, thus they all smell like fertilizer/methane. D) All of the above.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most hilariously extreme "me circa 1999" post I've ever seen. Kudos @pftompkins.bsky.social, I feel seen. Now pardon me as I play as Jaws and go dance my way through a blossoming rocket launcher explosion.
Paul F. Tompkins makes a bunch of on-point jokes about the N64 Goldeneye game.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is a really good thread. Often this conversation — pro or anti-AI — sees students and faculty as its only characters. What choices should these characters make? Are they cheating? Falling behind? Resisting? Giving in? But it's the institutions they're in that are setting the values.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"The Browns built the world’s most bizarre hate triangle. A truly unholy trinity. The Browns hate both their quarterback and their fans. The quarterback hates both the Browns and their fans. Browns fans hate both their team and their quarterback."
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/08/2026
The problem is that the vast majority of American universities are putting the full onus of AI policy onto individual instructors—sure, we can write “no AI” on a syllabus, but then we have to become the AI police (& judges), which hurts relationships with students & pulls us away from instruction
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Time for you to go work in the engine room or whatever. Or you can be like me and Rashida Jones and peace out early.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I warned you!
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Great thread. Particularly choice (although not the main point): "People like Natalie Harp are why the second Trump term has been a total and complete disaster. He's a senile midwit who has surrounded himself with lickspittle extremists because no one else can stand working for him."
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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026
Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
welcome to the field of dreams, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for gambling. brought to you by fanduel
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 13/08/2026
I really wanted to address this take by @mtsw.bsky.social and they have fairly closed it off, but I am going to use a screenshot because I think this is a really good topic to discuss and as someone for whom this is my entire job and has been for over a decade now I actually agree and disagree... 🧵
everyone  — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.

> Counterpoint - I like using the Internet to read articles and the ad blocker is the thing which makes that possible.

> Would the writers and publishers be better off if I didn't visit their website?

i mean if they are financially supported by advertising and you are a free-rider who views their content without seeing any advertisements, yes they are almost tautologically better off if you never visit their website
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How about a supply of better writing too?
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.
nbcnews.com
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
He makes up for his loudmouthiness with his spicy hot takes.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@ronbertzero.bsky.social this one has a special reference to you, per our conversation the other night.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I've finally gotten around to publishing a few thoughts on Nolan's #TheOdyssey, which I liked, particularly his emphasis on Odysseus's guilty conscience (hardly unique for a Nolan protagonist, but put to interesting effect here). Check it out here: jasongendler.blogspot.com/2026/08/for-...
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Jason Watches Television
For many viewers, The Odyssey is likely a familiar story. After all, Christopher Nolan’s latest great film is adapted from a nearly 3,000-ye...
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Attention all #anime fans: I've written an article on the creative use of superpowers in the series MY HERO ACADEMIA, published in the journal Imagining the Impossible. This one is open access, so you can read it for free! Check it out here: tidsskrift.dk/imaginingthe...
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Creative Use of Superhero Powers in My Hero Academia | Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I also compare it with some other battle shōnen anime, and discuss some of the possible reasons for the conventions of the genre in general. Here's the link again: tidsskrift.dk/imaginingthe...
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Creative Use of Superhero Powers in My Hero Academia | Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I argue that the creativity of the characters' superpowers is one of the series' primary appeals, as evidenced by its deployment of superpower constraints and limitations, pausing, character dispositions, diagrams, and the incorporation of superpowers into character development and plot progression.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Attention all #anime fans: I've written an article on the creative use of superpowers in the series MY HERO ACADEMIA, published in the journal Imagining the Impossible. This one is open access, so you can read it for free! Check it out here: tidsskrift.dk/imaginingthe...
tidsskrift.dk
Creative Use of Superhero Powers in My Hero Academia | Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'm glad to have partially inspired this post.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I wrote about why Netflix is a bad TV friend.
slate.com
Watching TV Used to Feel Like Hanging With Your Friends. Then Something Happened That Changed Everything.
Something disturbing is happening to the streaming giant’s ratings. It has only itself to blame.
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Interesting and insightful interpretation Sinon's inclusion - and Elliot Page's casting - in Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, one that turns the character into a trans allegory.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
fascinating story from one of the best movie data guys about one of the best movie data guys stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...
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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. According to the Financial Times, Eggers told the staff:

“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Jimmy McNulty: 'The Fuck Did I Do?' from The Wire
ALT: Jimmy McNulty: 'The Fuck Did I Do?' from The Wire
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish
Mamdani going “Eyyy”Mamdani going “nu?”
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My condolences @sudeepla.bsky.social. Museums are now battlefields?
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hell yeah.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
An enormous loss. The English translator for countless Asian cinema masterpieces, if you’ve seen a Wong Kar-wai movie with English subtitles you know his work. Will never forget he once drafted a few of us to subversively help rescue Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer from Harvey Weinstein. Rest in peace 🙏.
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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
IT'S UP! An article about the rain-soaked disaster that was July 4th in Washington DC this year, including all the videos I couldn't upload of the sad and angry crowds, plus details that didn['t make the thread. Please check it out if you would like to!
firewalledmedia.com
The Wet And Wild Freedom Day Catastrophe
There Is No Joy In Mudville, Not Even For The Right
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Jason Gendler @gendler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Essential thread on the travesty that was Trump's perversion of the 250th celebration.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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