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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 6h

Latest version: boxd.it/SOFdC

Screenshot of Letterboxd list by DrCrushHer:

Favorite First Time Watches of 2026

1) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
2) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
3) Mikey and Nicky
4) Maddie’s Secret
5) Shampoo
6) Society
7) The Company of Wolves
8) Psycho II
9) She's The He
10) Hundreds of Beavers

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great interview, I especially appreciate Sarah Kendzior pointing out that enshittification is just a shakedown

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I get why Google destroyed their search but why on earth did Yelp and Door Dash follow suit? When I get shown half a dozen restaurants that don’t actually serve the food I’m looking for, I just eat something I have at home! It’s lose-lose!

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know I’m in the minority here but I’ve never liked Ben Affleck outside of his Kevin Smith movies, and even then he acted like a complete ass in the special features they shot for the Chasing Amy laserdisc

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dragnet (1987) is a dumb big budget movie where the two leads — Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks — rap over the credits and I just found out that they ALSO MADE A MUSIC VIDEO youtu.be/pT_QRKfv8H4?...

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Dragnet Music Video City of Crime

YouTube video by Blade R

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Genuinely baffling that Rhinestone (1984) isn’t available to legally stream anywhere. It stars two massive names, plus Sly doing straight comedy while singing a song Dolly Parton wrote for him is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen: youtu.be/RY1AgH22wj4?...

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Rhinestone - Drinkenstein

YouTube video by Cinephobe Movie Clips

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is like when Trump & co went after John Bolton and Milo Yiannopoulos — it’s about sending a message. “Keep your mouth shut, fall in line, or see what happens” I hate all these fuckers, but why and how they’re penalized matters www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Appeals court allows Pentagon to label Anthropic a national security risk

The government retains wide latitude to use the supply-chain risk label.

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just realized that AI CEOs “warning” that their tech could kill us all is not meaningfully different from William Castle (horror filmmaker and gimmick master) offering his audience members insurance policies in case they died of fright youtu.be/_RFvsrQ0kWw?...

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Macabre (1958) Death of fright insurance policy trailer

YouTube video by Captain hard times

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absolutely delighted to see one of my Letterboxd reviews get highlighted for being so popular! Of course, it helps when the movie only has 33 views total lol boxd.it/grbR7H

Amityverse: Infinity

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DrCrushHer: 2 stars and a heart

10 micro-budget horror and horror-comedy shorts - a real mixed bag! I truly hated the silent film one (it's an overly long ripoff of one joke from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) but I absolutely adored the musical one. The rest fell somewhere in between, including the short I was in (Amityville Toothache)

Very glad Amityverse: Infinity is finally on Tubi for all to...

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was true when Newsom threw trans people and unhoused people under the bus, and it's true now -- GAVIN NEWSOM IS A VICHY DEMOCRAT WHO WOULD SELL YOU OUT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER AND HE'D DO IT WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care

California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026

This is a real tweet. They're so cooked.

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@conqy.bsky.social They actually posted another one and it looks like it was designed by teenage boys in the ‘90s

X post from Dept of War CTO:

Americanism, not effective altruism.

The United States will continue to be AI DOMINANT

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’d asked me who Ed Sheeran was a month ago I would’ve said “I know the name but…” and shrugged. Now I can’t read these headlines about him and not laugh, thank you

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/09/2026

If you’re in California, call @robbonta.bsky.social and yell at him. 916-445-9555

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also please check your MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine status. Most adults don’t need a booster, but some do and it doesn’t hurt to ask your doctor!

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

YUP. Many dismiss the current wave of interest in VHS tapes and other physical media as nostalgia, but that’s only part of it. People are fucking sick of this shit

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is the eye-rolling “Gen Z thinks Millennials should retire” nonsense just ragebait or an active attempt to sow division between the two poorest generations so we don’t band together against those exploiting all of us?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

there's almost always some level of work politics based on 'go to this event, hang out with these people if you want to get ahead' and it's never great but it's how social dynamics work that gets a whole lot worse when the event you need to attend is a sex party

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Important thread, especially for my fellow cis people. Trans rights are NOT NEGOTIABLE and we need to make that clear to our cis friends, elected officials, and anyone else who needs to fix their hearts or die

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you @edzitron.com for asking the AI “whistleblower” about his relationship to the rationalist movement — which is basically QAnon for tech dorks who believe AI will become a god — instead of all the journalists taking his fear-mongering at face value

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Grifters push the “AI is literally becoming the Terminator!!” lie to scare regular people - that way they can trick them into supporting “AI regulations” that were designed to enrich the biggest players in the AI industry bylinetimes.com/2026/09/15/b...

Anthropic's plan to sell shares on the stock market could put the company's value at $2 trillion or more.
Sustaining such expectations becomes harder if competitors can offer capable alternatives at much lower prices.
Proposed regulations would have the effect of allowing Western companies to coordinate development while holding back a source of cheaper competition.
Jack Clark's proposed 'kill switch, verified by a third party such as METR, could also burden smaller competitors while strengthening industry insiders' influence over oversight.
"I firmly believe that independent evaluation is worth having," said Daanish Masood. "My concern is how the rules are written. A safety regime can reduce real risks while favouring the largest labs if its costs and requirements are disproportionate. The rules should track the actual risks, not make size and proximity to government the price of participation in the industry."

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I honestly think one of the reasons AI companies support the “Terminator isn’t scifi anymore!!” lie is because they’ve learned an important lesson from Trump — always use scandal to distract from crime (i.e. hacking, criminal negligence, selling dangerous products and services, etc)

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you’re confused or scared by all the “AI is getting too smart it will kill us all!!” stories, I highly recommend these two articles: - www.wired.com/story/one-of... (here’s the archived version: archive.is/DMknL) - www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

politico.com

The little-known AI group that got $660 million

Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BREAKINGNEWZ first look at Mitch McConnell returning to work

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Excellent article and thread It genuinely seems like the AI industry is indulging in the “AI will kill all humans!!” fear-mongering nonsense because, if everyone believes they can’t control it, Anthropic and co can avoid legal culpability for the very real damage their tech is already causing

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So I knew that medical conditions often aren’t taken seriously when they don’t primarily affect white cis men, but it seems like they also get told to suck it up in some surprising cases? Like for sleep apnea, which affects 2-3x more men than women, the CPAP machine is the go-to even though…

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Figured it was time to update this list

Screencap of DrCrushHer’s Letterboxd list “Favorite First Time Watches of 2026”

1) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
2) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
3) Mikey and Nicky
4) Maddie’s Secret
5) Shampoo
6) Society
7) Psycho II
8) Hundreds of Beavers

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The “unity” America experienced after 9/11 can be summed up in the second half of this Frasier clip (watch the first half for context)

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Worth remembering that Trump, a lifelong New Yorker, was interviewed on 9/11 and the first thing he did was brag about how he now owned the tallest building in the City youtu.be/aPvemZHnd0s?...

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Donald Trump on 9 /11 bragging that his building is now tallest in NYC

YouTube video by Mike Lux

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Decided to check out The Curse and I’m loving it so far — wild to see such a pitch black comedy do such a fantastic job of skewering wealthy white liberals So far my only complaint is the misinformation in episode 2 (they imply that abortion makes it harder to conceive later, which isn’t true!)

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great thread, reminds me of when Sarah Kendzior said Trump aping the authoritarian leaders of ex-Soviet states won’t get the same reaction from Americans as former Soviets. Not cuz we’re better (we’re not) but for them it was a return to the recent past, while for us it’s new and we are NOT fans

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Charlie Kirk died a year ago and so many people lied about him that I had to write about the dork: mst3katie.substack.com/p/star-wreck...

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Star Wreck III: The Search for Kirk

Truth about fascist Charlie Kirk even harder to find than tiny face

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THIS. I’ll always remember the Muslim girl I used to see in my college mailroom switching from a hijab to a baseball cap after 9/11

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yup! This stinks of rationalist nonsense

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The arrest of Milo is hilarious but I think it was meant to send a message to all the former Trump cheerleaders who might *also* be thinking of publishing evidence that would incriminate him or his cohort, as Milo did to Jan 6th architect Ali Alexander in 2023: archive.is/15L6Y

Yiannopoulos started releasing video interviews and other evidence meant to prove that Alexander sexually propositioned both adult men in their 20s and at least two teenagers. Yiannopoulos, whose own career as a far-right pundit imploded in 2017 after remarks he had made downplaying the seriousness of pedophilia surfaced, claims he has more damaging videos to release about Alexander and Fuentes.

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And to be clear, ICE should be abolished and its members identified and brought to stand trial. That doesn't take away from the simple rule of "play fascist games, win fascist prizes"

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

life comes at you fast

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Back in the ‘90s there was a show called Duckman, an adult cartoon about a crass, hapless duck detective voiced by Jason Alexander, and one of its best villains was King Chicken — voiced by Tim Curry His voice acting in this is one of my all time favorites: youtu.be/0YBp3e1CbKY?...

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Duckman - Duckman confronts King Chicken

YouTube video by Sloshii

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Whoever came up with the idea to interrupt hold music every 15-20 seconds with a recording that says “thank you for waiting please continue to hold” deserves to step on a Lego every day

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The loss of Tim Curry is hitting me hard. RIP

Tim Curry playing the Butler in Clue (1985)

Tim Curry as King Chicken in the TV show Duckman

Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Tim Curry doing the voice of Taurus Bulba in Duck Tales

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the reasons I have no patience for “good” billionaires like Warren Buffett and Tom Steyer is because Dolly Parton could have easily been a billionaire too but instead she bought books for millions of kids, paid for college tuition for every Dollywood employee, etc fortune.com/article/doll...

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Dolly Parton’s philanthropy inspiration was her father who couldn't read or write: 'I saw how crippling that could be' | Fortune

Dolly Parton used her $450 million net worth to do good.

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Sara Baker @sarabaker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know all y’all loved Dolly, but I don’t think I can fully express how important she was to us here in East Tennessee. She will always be an icon for showing us how to embrace our better selves & be good to each other, representing our region with pride & grace, and modeling relentless generosity.

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