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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ooh I had this one. For a while it became "STILL JUST" 35¢... ahhh what value

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sandra Benes! underrated Burmese radio-nerd baddie 😍

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh sure Bob Oppenheimer got a whole movie about his thing, but this poor pioneer lingers in obscurity

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

what a shame, Nolfi is a good writer, and Kinberg is the hackiest hack who ever hacked

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh brother they're gonna play the Luuke card, aren't they...! 😃 (a new, handsome 18-yr old boy hero appears... straight outta the cloning tanks)

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wait a second, they rigged all that shaky-ass contrivance to connect Rey to the Skywalker name, and now they're ditching her to a secondary role in the so-called "Skywalker Saga"?? All the other Skywalkers are dead! 🤣🤣

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(but Main Mission rules, Command Center drools)

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ahhh, I had the Alpha Technical Manual (a looseleaf binder - hey, books are expensive!) which I think had like a one-sentence note to the effect that "Main Mission was destroyed by a meteor strike, so it was relocated underground" ... as a kid I bought it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wonder sometimes if those wookiepedia editors just sneak crazy stuff in there to see if anybody notices. I would

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

whaaaaaaat??? amazing(ly weird detail)

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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2001: The Martin Balsam Cut

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Leia's red elf-booties are .... a thing I didn't remember from this

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

perfect day to sit back and really appreciate your flamingo collection

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Gerry Anderson! A dry run for "UFO," kind of? A deeply ridiculous movie, but great models, as always 🚀

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the original Ninth Jedi short is such a banger

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm struggling even to finish the first ep! What happened?? is it made by completely different people? It's ugly too... It looks like 70s Hanna-Barbera + 2005 digital

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Inside Man and God" is a hell of a title for something or other

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Love this one! Some fantastic designs and gleeful corn. "Let's get the director of Battles Without Honor or Humanity to direct us a Star War!!"

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/08/2026

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

good model work too, for its time & budget...

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

oh man I'm happy you saw Ikarie XB1! that movie is really special. One of my all-time favorite space voyage movies. Such a strange tone, the Lem of it all ...

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I felt this awful secondhand embarrassment for him, because I genuinely had no idea who he was (and clearly I was supposed to)

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I genuinely burst out laughing when the trailer cut into a deadly-serious duel of the wills between ..... "uh, these guys"

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A New World Of Andrew Todds And Monsters @andrewtodd.co.nz · 13/07/2026

You don't get to use the term "national treasure" much in New Zealand - there's just objectively not many of us around - but Sam Neill was kind of the Platonic ideal of that term.

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A New World Of Andrew Todds And Monsters @andrewtodd.co.nz · 13/07/2026

Live your life in such a way that some kid who you said some encouraging words to one day cries when you die

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

RIP Tony Rayns, one of the few English-language critics who genuinely knew what they were talking about (most of the time) when it came to East Asian cinema, especially Hong Kong's.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Jesus, Ezra Klein has achieved his final form: Maureen Dowd

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

among his other talents, he's a good comedian!

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"sorry, I thought you were making a move. I thought he was making a move! Pies for everybody"

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Tim 🎃wens @attimowens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This was the best they could do for our 250th birthday.

A temporary structure on the Mall meant to resemble Pharoah's planned arch. Instead it looks like lowest-bid Temu Minecraft. Three goons in body armor swelter at its wrinkly-vinyl base.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"I'm a relative of my father."

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Name a film with a title that is a full sentence

"Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feeling so sad"

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

are these people insane?! anyway, besides being mad cute, she's a great actress - she was incredible in the Aussie comedy "Upright", as a mere teenager

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

he's up on the stage in Oslo and the crowd is murmuring "that's him, that's the guy who made the Mark IX Hawk"

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

reading the Making of Space:1999 I just assumed that he and nick allder were gonna win, like, the Nobel Prize or something

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/06/2026

On Space: 1999's Eagle: Brian Johnson: "It's a well known fact that anything mechanical that captures people's eye, I think anyway, like Concorde or devices like that, are very insect like. And so to make this really believable, I made this insect like as well. Not that I wanted to..."🔽

Brian Johnson and Sylvia Anderson stand on a dark studio set holding miniature Eagle models of three different sizes, with a large prop moon visible in the background.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

As a kid there were two special effects dudes I knew by name: John dykstra and this badass. He's going to heaven for the Eagle alone, but Space:1999 was full of incredible spaceships and FX on a weekly basis. RIP King 👑🚀

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JIMBO-SOLAR @jimbo-solar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Some extremely sad news today folks. Multi OSCAR and award winning VFX legend, Brian Johnson has died. Stingray, Thunderbirds, 2001, Alien, Star Wars and so much more. I met him quite a few times, shared a show table and dinner once or twice. An absolute influence to many. RIP Brian. So long.

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

😂 talk about choosing what to focus on! ... "oh yeah and I guess there's these people in it too"

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

in the interest of full disclosure, Rhys did make me laugh in the LSD trip episode

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Matt Johnson @mmmjohnson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I feel the same way, thank you! He doesn't have the comedic juice to carry it, and they hung the whole show on that character, it's not really an ensemble. Half the eps so far have been just him! You need a real powerhouse if it's a one-dude comedy. (like Root, maybe?)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

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