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Jake Cole

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Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jakepcole

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 7h
New & Notable: The Ohio group evoke the bluesy psychedelia of Spacemen 3 on their epic latest release, which stretches out over two LPs.
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I Lost My Way For Centuries, by The Drin
23 track album
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 7h
I think Imamura at his best is able to strike a strange balance between a visceral immersion in all the animalistic behavior and a detached, magnifying glass analysis of same, but this was all the latter. Still very good but I prefer pretty much everything he made over the next 10-15 years over it
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve had this convo so many times with friends. I have never wanted kids but I do wonder on behalf of others how anyone can raise a child in this poisoned atmosphere. What used to be the basic markers of intellectual toddler development (sharing, delayed gratification) are outright demonized
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 15h
YLT and Opeth, our greatest autumn bands
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22h
In fairness to Russia, when they complain to states, countries don't pull out of supporting counterdisinformation conferences, so maybe "after Russia" isn't 100% accurate.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 22h
James Cameron in the Marvel office writing S.W.O.R.D. on a whiteboard before adding $ to the end
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was talking about this with a coworker yesterday that as infuriating as Dems’ “we’re just a little guy, we’re not allowed to do government” routine is it has some basis in fact. But Trump can’t bring himself to say “we never had the votes to impeach” so he pretends he declared it not so
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Black hole sun, won’t you come
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There 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.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Keitel has issued a statement about his involvement youtu.be/jV6XDoZ9_8I?...
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'Jesus Christ' Scene | Bad Lieutenant
YouTube video by The Dollar Theater
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well I genuinely forgot that movie exists despite seeing it so I guess it’s a step up. I didn’t care for/about Molly’s Game either so by default this is my pick for his best directorial effort so far
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This came up in a convo with @hannahstrong.co.uk so I couldn’t have talked about it with plagiarizing her but the timeline crunch in this is abhorrent bc he needs Jan 6 to be the focal point of everything
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is better than Chicago 7 bc that film is deeply evil but it’s got all the same flaws of Sorkin working without a serious person in the room.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One day we’re gonna get a 10-ep podcast about how every “exclusive” sperm bank was supplied chiefly by Gary Busey.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We gave up every female guest of Craig Ferguson openly making fuck-me eyes at him in favor of watching celebs read Google autocompletes about them while eating chicken
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Digger: At the exact and I do mean exact moment I was about to get up and walked out, it swerved into something that made for the first AGI to engage me. 100% of the comedy fails but for once Iñárritu is making it all about the look in a way that is conducive to the film and not a conflict with it
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Okay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal".
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh hell yeah he’s making his own Main
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What do you mean? Lisa mattresses and LegalZoom advertised on podcasts and they are now among our most successful conglomerates
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 05/10/2026
RESEARCHER: Koko, you cannot eat RHOSLC's Lisa Barlow's child KOKO:
email sub: Lisa Barlow Baby Gorgeous Meal
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He lived long enough for a whole second wind of grifting, the only comeuppance for which were Vic Berger’s video edits youtu.be/rOH37W0jPpA?...
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Vic Berger Presents Jim Bakker's Buckets
YouTube video by Vic Berger
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“It’s over for the Talarico campaign” is so funny, good job to the media mavens who boosted this guy bsky.app/profile/metr...
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tbh it’s a good bit of character work to suggest Jesus is so at peace He wouldn’t round up to 6’
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those early Hawkwind albums are a trip bc everyone is playing dosed-to-the-gills psychonaut space rock except for Lemmy who for all intents and purposes is already in Motörhead. The net result sounds like voyaging to Alpha Centauri on a Harley. It’s basically what Lobo hears in his head all day.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thinking about how my very first day in j-school the intro prof said “if you’re here to make a difference, leave now and go be a teacher”
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Your very first stop should be Space Ritual, a record that belongs in the top 5 of any best live albums list. It’s basically a greatest hits of the Lemmy years with the energy and acid ticked up to 11.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those early Hawkwind albums are a trip bc everyone is playing dosed-to-the-gills psychonaut space rock except for Lemmy who for all intents and purposes is already in Motörhead. The net result sounds like voyaging to Alpha Centauri on a Harley. It’s basically what Lobo hears in his head all day.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One thing keeping me going right now is seeing who is waiting in the wings thinking they can take over for Trump. Vance seems to know his goose is cooked and is just getting his last public racism in while he can, *Hegseth* thinks he might have a shot, and now this fucking dipshit??
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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/10/2026
Of course, a Shane Black script helmed by Tony Scott as he was just entering his prime is first and foremost a work of popcorn entertainment, writes @jakecole.bsky.social. THE LAST BOY SCOUT is available on 10/13 on Arrow 4K UHD Blu-ray. shorturl.at/rJASn
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When asked for comment, Father Gascoigne, a small business owner in Yharnam said, “the sweet blood, it must flow better”
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hate him but this is just smart politics. At every diner and barbershop people are saying “how thick is the president’s blood?”
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thought of like six changes to this within seconds of making it
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A cool thing about America rn is that if you catch some kind of stomach bug it’s a toss up whether a virus is going around or you just ate anything other than a sealed Twinkie. Anyway, I feel great.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Jordan Lint chapter of Rusty Brown made me cry, Chris Ware is something else.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coogan gives an all-time performance in this. Walking a tightrope where he shows you what a twat Wilson was but never pushes it into satire while also never running the other way and giving you easy pathos. Of course a dirtbag with contradictory principles is a totem of punk.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
24 Hour Party People still goes so hard. A beautiful and hilarious anti-biopic about a man who fucked up his way into a specific kind of success that lost him money the more he scored but who also incubated a few decades worth of Britain’s best music.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Wesley Osam @mwosam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Humble Bundle site has had a lot of SFF novel bundles lately, and the latest is a Gene Wolfe bundle put together by Tor:
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Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books
Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
michael mcdonald after seeing the paternity test results
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s a v good point. Beyoncé has the common courtesy to spend her off seasons doing Scrooge McDuck dives into a pool of cash whereas Taylor has a dead man’s switch trigger to put out some new tedium every time her Google alerts dip below a certain number
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Beyonce I think still wins bc up until her s/t she was the repository of the most bad-faith writing imaginable and then all those people abruptly did the Akira skid and reversed to the opposite pole the moment it and then Lemonade hit
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Mr. President, what will it take to de-escalate with Iran?” Pattern rug beautiful rug Trump “Sir, your critics say you’ve overstepped your constitutional authority” Pig reporter
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is basically impossible to overstate Venom’s importance to the second and third waves of heavy metal. RIP www.loudersound.com/news/venom-f...
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Venom frontman Conrad 'Cronos' Lant dead at 63
No cause of death for the black metal innovator has been given
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Same vibe youtu.be/7ynZYlQ8bpA?...
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Michael And Maeby Sing "Afternoon Delight" - Arrested Development
YouTube video by Arrested Development
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He’s old enough to know what’s right but young enough not to choose it
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s also a reflection of the truly grotesque irony that he was the modern male SFF author most supported by women. Just about every one of my woman friends owns (or owned) Sandman/American Gods/Coraline. A friend I’ve known since we were 4 moved to Germany and took her signed Absolutes with her
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh I don’t doubt that at all. Even anecdotally I know far more people whose only owned comic is Sandman than, say, Watchmen.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the details that burned into my brain from that exposé was some of the DC writers of the time mentioning he would bring women who were not his wife to the office and have them sit in his lap and I was screaming “and this NEVER came out?!”
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