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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When the dust settles, it’ll be Dune, with Sinners and Oppenheimer as close seconds. These are the only movies I can mention offhand and see half of my students even register as familiar to them. (Barbie and EEAAO will be remembered more as flashes in the pan).

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Incredibly random thought, but has Terry Crews ever been the leading role of a movie?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

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The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Much has been made of the performances in Marty Supreme, particularly Chalamet (incendiary) and A’zion (starmaking). But goddamn, Abel Ferrara (yes, the director) is astounding in his small role. Terrifying, and yet quite emotional.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It’s wild to recognize that in her genes resides the greatest synthesis of 20th century artistic genius.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Most recently, Sinners blew me away. All-time: Interstellar in IMAX, LOTR as a child, and strangely, the part in Revenge of the Sith where Yoda bodies two praetorian guards with a flick of the wrist. Crowd absolutely lost it.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

On top of the affordability of blu-ray players ($60ish), if you have a PS4 or a PS5 (with a disk drive) congrats, you already have one!

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I think it’s so funny to write, direct, produce, and star in a movie where you just so happen to sleep with both Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Absolutely love Paolini, the way she plays. She pushed Swiatek. My two favorite players right now.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A great way to understand billionaires is: they’d rather spend much more in donations and kickbacks to an extorting President than they’d ever spend in taxes just to make sure that poor and working class people starve.

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Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales revenues to the U.S. government, FT reports

The arrangement comes as President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to reverberate through the global economy.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

In the last few days, we learned that there are minutes erased from Epstein’s prison footage, there’s an unidentified and unaccounted for figure in the footage, the FBI redacted all mention of Trump in the EFs, and Ghislaine is being sent to a low-security prison…DEMOCRATS SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Saw someone out in the wild at a trendy LA hangout spot and, as I was passing them, accidentally glanced at their laptop. It was open to ChatGPT with the prompt: “what questions should I ask *celebrity name*” and it dawned on me. This is an actual fucking reporter.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I think cheating is bad. I think a society that seeks out retribution and public disgrace of people they don’t know for the sake of clout is worse.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Anisimova played a hell of a tournament to get here, including a win over the #1 in the world, where she looked brilliant. Today wasn’t her day. She’ll be back.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I feel like Javier Bardem just always understands the assignment. Scariest villain of all time? Got it. Comedic friend/acolyte with a shit ton of pathos? Yep. Absolutely broken, confused, depraved entity? Let’s do it.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Watching Casablanca on the 4th of July, 2025 really hits, even more than it already does as simply one of the greatest movies ever made.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If you’re not rich, Trump and complicit Republicans (almost all of them) just raised your taxes and took away healthcare from people you love so that they could give billionaires tax cuts and ICE more money than the entire Marine Corps to kidnap your and your neighbors without due process.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Social media trivializes even the most heinous political info. The fact that you read “Kilmar Abrego Garcia tortured” and then see a photo of your friend at the beach just dampens any effect the word TORTURE should have. And yet, it’s the only way most people find out anything anymore.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is my big “wait, what?” with the MSM. You would think they wanted Trump to win to juice ratings, but they’re not even sensationalizing the things that would actually get them viewers. Doing everything in their power to maintain and codify their own obsolescence.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

28 Years Later really missed the boat by not playing Green Day’s “Saint Jimmy” at cut to black.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

That’s two films in as many weeks that lure you in with the promise of a great and very popular actor, only to use them for like five minutes of the movie.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

For a while, it was a popular belief that decorum masked the insidious acts of evil people, but now that public decorum is gone, it looks like it actually constrained them from doing even greater evil.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If you watch Collateral (2004) and Miami Vice (2006) back-to-back, you’ve essentially listened to half an Audioslave album (epic!!). I wonder, are there other directors who use the same musical artist in multiple films? (In needle drops, not composers)

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Does anyone remember a Medium post that made the rounds a few years ago that connected the dots on the data-driven simplification of NBA shots-taken spots, simplified corporate logos, and modern political unrest?

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The way you all gleefully spoiled not just the *who* of a certain show based on a video game, but the *how.* No respect for other people’s experience either here or with the films/tv shows they watch.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The same people that believe “men should be men” also believe we should send in the marines because of a few thrown bottles.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you believe that the Marines should be sent in because somebody threw a few bottles, then there should be Marines at almost every high school football game.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is a psychotic escalation to what has amounted to incredibly tame spontaneous protests by any standard. Show me a single act of significant violence done by a protestor.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

ICE waged war on L.A. residents, kidnapping the very people most actively complying with the law. Then, Sheriffs tear-gassed the people protesting these unlawful encroachments. And now, Trump is sending in the National Guard and Hegseth is threatening to send in *The Marines.* Who’s the threat here?

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If they were going after criminals, the last place they would be showing up is at courthouses for people who are actively obeying the law by going there!

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Spike Lee is at the tennis match, because of course he is. #tennis #frenchopen

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

“I knew he was a pedophile the whole time we were working together and still let my five-year-old son be around him” is quite a statement.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Lois Boisson just came back from an injury two months ago. Ranked no. 361 coming into the French Open, she goes on to semifinal, beating two Top 10 players impressively, then having to play the no. 2 the very next day. She and the entirety of France should feel nothing but proud. #tennis #FrenchOpen

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Gauff is playing great right now. Very tough hill to climb for Boisson, no matter how many tools she has (and she has many). #tennis #frenchopen

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

What a legendary run for Lois Boisson!! Seeded no. 361 coming into the tournament, and now she’s in the semifinals with the three best players in the world. #tennis #frenchopen

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A law restricting the sale of guns saved a lot of lives yesterday.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The guilt that follows throwing something in the trash and hearing a *thud*

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I don’t know why CNN continues its gambit to moderately pester Trump (rather than forcefully go after him) when they’ve lost almost 20% of their audience in one year. Maybe time to shake up your strategy?

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Decided to throw on CNN for the hell of it. Laura Coates is good, but they have a *serious* guest problem. Kevin O’Leary is terrible, and the rest are just not interesting or insightful in any way.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

George Lakoff’s assessment of Republicans essentially searching for a shitty and demanding father must go down as god-tier political foresight, no?

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

You guys remember Clubhouse? Lmao.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I never really watch NBA games; is the refereeing usually this bad?

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If abiding by the law would kill your industry, then your industry is crime and you are the mafia.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Yep. Be pugnacious. Call shit out. A lot of libs have stopped doing so bc people on the right have a meltdown at any pushback, and libs don’t want to lose friends. Fuck that. “Are you that soft that you blow up over simple pushback? Bc you can’t give a single response? Weak.”

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Whole thread is great, but this is a super important point. Democratic voters again and again said they wanted the most “experienced” candidate. In my view, that was incredibly flawed reasoning, but it wasn’t a conspiracy.

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Personal Top 5 Hitchcock Films 1. The Birds 2. Rear Window 3. To Catch a Thief 4. The 39 Steps 5. North by Northwest

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James @jamesmccarron.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Two things can be true: the Harris campaign was actually pretty well run *and* Harris was a bad candidate for no external reasons, but simply because she does not have the gravitational charisma every modern Presidential campaign winner has had (except Bush Sr., but look at his opponent).

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