John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I know they were gimmicks, but I loved the side-mirror shot and the wide shot of the “safe house.” 110
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Can we talk about how good the camerawork on this week’s Slow Horses was? 230
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This didn’t make the story, but apparently Twin’s twin brother is also nicknamed Twin. 130
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you want to read a story about a Crips member named Twin who’s accused of killing his gang’s leader, Stacks, to avenge the death of his best friend, Duke, then I’m happy to provide. www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/07/b...nydailynews.comBrooklyn Crips member goes on trial for revenge murder of his gang’s leaderA Brooklyn Crips member executed his gang’s leader to avenge the death of his best friend, and end a budding civil war brewing in the group, prosecutors said at the admitted gangbanger’s federal murde... 110
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I remember back in college, we had a Dungeon Master whose entire campaign was, "You walk down a corridor. There are ogres! You walk down another corridor. More ogres!" Everyone left after the first session. Space Corridor would have been his dream game. kotaku.com/unity-spark-...kotaku.comUnity Spark Promises To Let You Vibe Code Your 'Dream Game' In The Most Embarrassing Video ImaginableGet ready for the vision that is Space Corridor 140
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Porn goes in, porn comes out. It’s the Unifying Porn Theory of Artificial— I mean Super Intelligence. 1270
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think that was the episode starring the dismembered top half of Sydney Sweeney. They banned it because it was too edgy and cerebral. 000
Reposted by John AnneseThe Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan 7676241086
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One of the things I loved about this movie was how well DePalma used the “action on-screen contradicts the narration” trick. Back then, it was too complicated for mainstream movie audiences. Now that trick is old hat. 010
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Very glad the Lanterns finale ended with John Lantern finally saying his catchphrase, “You just got lanterned, chump!” Can’t wait to see what he does in Season 2. 050
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hey baby want to see my Joker Lego portrait no wait why are you calling 911 with your weird phantom fingers 043
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not really. Season 1 and 3 were solid, IMO. Season 2 was fun but had some truly atrocious dialogue writing in the flashbacks. Season 4 I didn’t love, didn’t hate. If you’re not on board after the first season, it’ll probably never click for you. 100
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Kotlikoff later clarified that student athletes would be allowed to complete an alternative assignment that involved drawing an animal of their choice. theonion.com/cornell-vows...theonion.comCornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The FutureITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri... 1100
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026$96K tuition and fees + NYC rent. I would never get out of that hole. 010
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026As someone who paid around $26K for tuition in 1999-2000, these numbers will always seem unreal. I can understand why they’d spike a $120K program for working journalists who may be making half or even a third of that annually. Not sure if that factored into the decision, but still… 230
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Move over Destiny — there’s a new forever-game in town. 010
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The New York Times Top 100 Shows as measured on the Reacher scale. 020
Reposted by John AnneseChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Tennessean: Christa Pike still alive after administered drugs, attorneys say www.tennessean.com/story/news/c... 23408102
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New today: An ex-NYPD cop has pleaded guilty to posing as an ICE official and threatening to deport a woman who rebuffed him romantically. "ICE will come get you and your family and you will always live poor. Matter of fact I will make the phone call myself." www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/30/e...nydailynews.comJilted ex-NYPD cop admits posing as ICE agent, threatening woman with deportationAtickul Islam, 30, threw away his police career and possibly his freedom with text messages he sent, threatening to call ICE on the woman, then pretending he was the agency’s New York field office dir... 64629
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New from me today: Joseph LaBarbera, 33, alleges in a federal discrimination lawsuit his supervisors at the NYC Department of Transportation hazed him over his bowel condition while his co-workers called him cruel nicknames like “Diaper Boy” and “Shitty Pants.” www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/29/i...nydailynews.comIn discrimination lawsuit, NYC DOT worker claims bosses mocked bowel condition; was called namesJoseph LaBarbera, 33, alleges his supervisors at the city Department of Transportation hazed him while his co-workers called him cruel nicknames like “Diaper Boy” and “S—ty pants.” 041
Reposted by John Annese🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault. 291502310
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I had to move from Staten Island some years back, and the options were “You Get What You Paid For Brothers Moving” and “Stand-Up Guys Who Won’t Break Your Stuff We Swear It.” 050
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You are Casper Darling, and the three-hole punch is giving you good vibes from across the room. Do you: a) Wink seductively b) Walk up to it and say hey c) Break out your best Object of Power pick-up line d) Ignore it and talk to the copier e) REDACTED f) Sing a rock ballad 220
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why is he wearing a tiara? Is there a lore reason? 4560
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With special guest star Dr. Muscular Christian “Chris” O’Keen 010
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh god I just realized the opening scene in Toy Story 5 is a riff on the opening scene in Lost. 020
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BING BING DING We’ve discovered a new Object of Power. It’s just, the projection is off the charts, it’s so exciting. The song is a complete mystery. No one has heard it, but once you have, the resonance takes over and you’re forced to discuss it until your mind rots completely. I can’t wait until 030
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 27/09/2026New from the me today: Inmates at the MDC Brooklyn federal jail were locked in their smoke-filled cells for several minutes, maybe as long as a half hour, after an inmate lit toilet paper on fire near a vent. Defense lawyers tell me the emergency buttons failed. www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/27/m...nydailynews.comMDC Brooklyn inmates trapped in smoke-filled cells after emergency buttons failA toilet paper fire sent smoke pouring into a locked-down unit at MDC Brooklyn federal jail, panicking inmates who had to wait for someone to notice their plight because their cell emergency buttons w... 022
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Warriors of the Wind (!) and if you were lucky, Riding Bean. 010
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is an extraordinary editorial, and as a Cornell Daily Sun alum, I’m heartened and proud to see its excellence and independence continues. 042
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Cornell Daily Sun is fully independent of the school. Always has been. I’m a proud alum. The office, owned by the Sun, is off-campus. 2232
Reposted by John AnneseCol. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 25/09/2026In their opening song the Warner Siblings state they have “Pay of Play Contracts.” However they are all canonically below the age of majority, meaning those contracts are open to disaffirmation at any time by the siblings unless approved by the California Superior Court. In this paper I will… 715020
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A bunch of us saw that as a group in our freshman college dorm and the two women in the group couldn’t stop laughing when the guy chops off his junk with a meat cleaver to replace it with demon junk. 210
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When I was a teen, the only anime you could find was a handful of Streamline Pictures tapes, and maybe two of the eight Bubblegum Crisis tapes, on a sad shelf at Blockbuster labeled “Japanimation.” Now McDonald’s has a SpongeBob/One Piece crossover happy meal. 150
Reposted by John AnnesePhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Democratic lieutenant governor resigns after a report accused him of sexual harassment and ethics lapses. 1842495
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You can also watch all 50 full episodes of Survivor 000
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026PROBST: Welcome to the Open Era, where anything is possible! Heres’s Mr. Beast. MR. BEAST: Hi, guys. It’s an hon—urk! Probst takes out his rice-stabbing knife, plunges it into Mr. Beast’s gut. PROBST: That’s how you do it on Survivor! Wanna know what you’re playing for? Fried chicken and waffles! 000
John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New from me today: The son of a hero firefighter who died on 9/11 says in a lawsuit the NYC’s archaic age restrictions kept him from following in dad’s footsteps — because a last-minute delay to the FDNY test meant he turned 29 before he could apply for the job. www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/23/s...nydailynews.comSon of FDNY hero who died on 9/11 sues city after age cutoff keeps him from following dad’s footstepsSkyler Mercado is the son of Steve Mercado, a firefighter with Engine Co. 40 on Manhattan’s West Side, who died along with 342 other members of the FDNY in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Cente... 021