Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4hAlso: the cruelty inflicted on the unhoused is a barometer of the state violence we're willing to tolerate. 237088
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonVampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 4hThe thing about the "AI will put your face in movies and games" is that there's this occasional trend where you can buy a book with your kid's name inserted for the protagonist This is something grandparents buy for small children This is what tech bros are calling the future of art 2314
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 4hWay too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there. 181082214
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3h#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245... 717763
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4hI’m finishing up a book about how the Civil Rights Division built itself up from nothing in the 1960s and it looks like that’s going to be something we have to do again soon 451524343
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 22hSeated for NAZA. There are two counter protesters outside handing out flyers with the film’s title and a QR code making it look like it’s related to the film. Classy. Imagine waking up to ratfuck a documentary. 2131
Reposted by Brandon D. Wilsonmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026this execution by firing squad is brought to you by crypto dot com 341488197
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia 59 years ago today. 010
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Troy Davis should be celebrating his 58th birthday today. 073
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sir Steve McQueen turns 57 today. boxd.it/zwlsKboxd.itSir Steve McQueen RankedA list of 12 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Lovers Rock (2020), Hunger (2008), Mangrove (2020), Occupied City (2023) and Uprising (2021). 050
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Guillermo Del Toro turns 62 today. boxd.it/PB72Wboxd.itGuillermo Del Toro RankedA list of 13 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Frankenstein (2025), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Devil's Backbone (2001), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) and Nightmare Alley (2021). 081
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026John Lennon was born on this day in 1940 and Sean Ono Lennon turns 51 today. youtu.be/xLy2SaSQAtA?...youtu.beINSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON). (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - Lennon/Ono with The Plastic Ono BandYouTube video by johnlennon 020
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonSteve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well, yeah. They're being hunted like the goddamn X Men. 0186
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026lemme go out on a limb and guess that viewing a live murder will not require age verification.cnn.comPete Hegseth vows to make first firing squad execution in decades ‘public’ | CNN PoliticsUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.” 16367102
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonTom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Guillermo Del Toro is 62. Here he is on the Weinsteins: 211826
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonSteven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I didn't realize Target was somehow involved in this until reading this statement. We really need to boycott that company out of existence. 04723
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Do you find me daft? What you are saying is 099 shit 182
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonAnil Dash @anildash.com · 09/10/2026NYC is on track to have its lowest rate of shootings EVER, and the thing that is going to ruin that is the presence of ICE. If the police commissioner cannot pick the side of New Yorkers, she obviously has to be fired. The numbers do not lie. 7617133
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonMichael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026(Others have gotten close, but only Ossoff is fully doing what people really want in this moment. Not a fan of pres handicapping this early but I've lowkey thought for a while that it'll be him.) 071
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/10/2026Klan ass federal government 331161
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reminder: I am moderating a Q&A with the great Charles Burnett tomorrow at the Aero Theater after a screening of the newly restored MY BROTHER’S WEDDING. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...americancinematheque.comMY BROTHER'S WEDDING - American Cinematheque 1208
Reposted by Brandon D. Wilsonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth 3127686687
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonMichael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The level of violence the US is about to go through for at least the next 4-5 months 031
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonGary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity. 511513398
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I wrote a little review for Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’ latest doc. 051
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s also Louise Archambault Greaves’ birthday. She’d have turned 94 today. Libras stay marrying each other. 000
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 808206104609
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026John Schlesinger’s MARATHON MAN turns 50 today.static.klipy.comMarathon Man: Is It Safe?ALT: Marathon Man: Is It Safe? 130
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And of course, Greaves made SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE, one of the most amazing films of the last 100 years. youtu.be/_7EHDIQLi-U?...youtu.beSymbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Trailer CCA)YouTube video by CCA Manager 162
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonDr Kate Thagrinus 🏴 @katelaity.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026Local indie theatre and every film poster is some dude. 111
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebHnyti.msAnne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan. 16421115
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’ll be writing my review of OUATIH today. Extraordinary film. 150
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Before you see ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, which is a towering and thrilling work of non-fiction, check out this Greaves documentary from 1968, narrated by Ossie Davis, about the Black middle class. They make a great double feature. youtu.be/nHcusYwUofg?...youtu.beInside the Negro Middle Class (1968)YouTube video by Blacker The Berry 164
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026William Greaves was born 100 years ago today. 1147
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He was special. Knew more than he knew.static.klipy.comDavid Lynch SmokingALT: David Lynch Smoking 020
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Shoutout to the fucking Dodgers for slithering to the White House to give Baron Harkonnen, who now can’t stop talking about our city being nuked, a goddamned World Series ring. Just repugnant. 284
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start. 572376531
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating. 302446618
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff. 25952423
Reposted by Brandon D. WilsonJezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026FKA Twigs Is Finally Free From ’Unlawful’ NDA With Shia LaBeoufjezebel.comFKA Twigs Is Finally Free From ’Unlawful’ NDA With Shia LaBeouf“Twigs stood up for something larger than herself, all female survivors of sexual abuse,” her lawyer said. 0268