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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Too early to be whining about it (S3 will premiere 2027), but I can't wait for the next season of Severance! come on already.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Binged four seasons of Barry over the weekend, and oh my, what a show! an instant favorite and some of the best television I've seen in the past decade. I can't get it off my mind. A masterclass in writing. Cinematography and directing in S4 was next level. I wish I watched it sooner.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“It is a serious thing Just to be alive On this fresh morning In the broken world.” - Mary Oliver, Invitation

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/11/2025

“In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, this rectangle is mine.” Zadie Smith shares the blueprint she uses to write impersonal essays. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wen976

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The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith

In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

So have people agreed on an alternative to #coverfly? #scriptsky

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/07/2025

Same-sex relationships have existed since time immemorial. What’s newly visible is the notion that engaging in them might be an exclusive preference and defining quality.

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How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity

A timely exhibition dissects the emergence of modern ideas about gender and sexuality—and the backlash against them.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

In a pop interview with Nicholas Hoult for Letterboxd, he mentioned how brilliant the storyboarding was for No Country for Old Men & how it was great to see how the Coens prepared. Anyone has the storyboards for the film and can share them? I’m so curious! #filmsky #writing #directing

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’m always amazed at how similar Pakistanis and Egyptians are — down to the humor, even. Two sprouts from the same seed.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

In this week’s Directed By Women Viewing Guide: two new docs, a queer dramedy, a coming-of-(old)-age drama, one of Netflix’s best films on the big screen, a screening series at MoMA, Il Cinema Ritrovato, a doc on PBS, a pair of teen sex comedies, and a Palestinian short film.

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For the sake of our present we have to forget our past.

Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

One of the unrivaled masterpieces of non-linear storytelling — the visuals (all practical, no CGI) still stunning two decades later.

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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 01/07/2024

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

*chef’s kiss* should follow more music journalists here

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

How To Be a Writer, #111: Open laptop Look into the void Scream into the void Consider that maybe the void also sometimes feels this way about you Ask the void if it takes milk Choose a nice mug for the void And maybe a chocolate biscuit Lose yourself in the void Tea

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Anyone have the screenplay for Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda) translated into English, or even in Japanese? I can try and get it translated. For educational purposes.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/05/2025

Tony Notarberardino’s photographs document the residents of the Chelsea Hotel—a cross-section of sex workers, performers, celebrities, vagrants, and club kids.

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These People Used to Live Here?

Before the Chelsea Hotel got swanky, a long-term resident captured the louche building—and its iconic guests—with a black-and-white-film camera.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

“Identity is not discovered, it is decided. You do not stumble into greatness, you declare it.”

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 06/05/2025

Character Before Clues: The Noir Detective's Code At the heart of noir is a central tension: the world is corrupt, maybe even irredeemable—but the protagonist refuses to be. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/n... #writingcommunity #amwritingmystery #mystery #noir #amwriting #booksky

An illustration of a man in an alley casting a long shadow

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Ryan of the 365 Movies Hates A.I. @rme33.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Sinners is proving there’s an audience for movies made for grown ups. It’s not Soderbergh’s fault that the studio threw Black Bag out there with no marketing in winter to die.

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This is high art

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I love love love "The Studio" and loved meeting Seth Rogen and some of his castmates for a power lunch at Michael's. “Except for a few coke-fuelled years in the eighties and nineties, it’s always been an industry that’s in existential crisis,” Rogen said. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Seth Rogen Has Some Notes

Over a power lunch with some of his castmates from “The Studio,” the actor considers the job description of a studio head: must love movies but be willing to ruin them.

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WIRED @wired.com · 07/04/2025

“I went to places I wish I hadn’t gone to.” Jack Thorne, who cowrote the hit Netflix show about a 13-year-old accused of murder, told WIRED he understands how easily kids can get lured into incel ideology.

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‘Adolescence’ Creator ‘Went Very, Very Deep’ in the Manosphere. Its Appeal Scared Him

Jack Thorne, who cowrote the hit Netflix show about a 13-year-old accused of murder, told WIRED he understands how easily kids can get lured into incel ideology.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Another pod rec is Tiny Huge Decision — the story of Mohsin, a gay Muslim man from a devout family, and Dalia, his best friend who may agree to carry his and his husband’s baby. How far would you go to support a friend? The pod follows them as they grapple wirh this question. pod.link/1700270152

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Tiny Huge Decisions

We all want our friends to be happy ... but how far would you go to help? Tiny Huge Decisions follows two best friends, Mohsin and Dalia, as they make a possibly relationship altering choice – will sh...

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Late to the party but Impact Winter on Audible is chef’s kiss.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“Not everything is a lesson, Ryan. Sometimes you just fail.”

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/03/2025

Candy Clark’s Polaroid closeups of familiar faces—Steven Spielberg, Carrie Fisher, Jeff Bridges, among others—evoke a looser, more freewheeling time in show business. See a selection of her photographs.

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An Ingénue’s Intimate Snapshots of the New Hollywood

Candy Clark’s Polaroid closeups of familiar faces—Steven Spielberg, Carrie Fisher, Jeff Bridges—evoke a looser, more freewheeling time in show business.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Beautifully shot, a real story spanning over a decade, told with a lot of sensitivity www.imdb.com/title/tt1231... Surprised it's not more known, and doesn't have a higher rating. If you're in the US, you should be able to watch it on Apple TV and Prime. #documentary #ballet

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Lift (2022) ⭐ 7.8 | Documentary

1h 27m | PG-13

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 28/03/2025

“Adolescence” on Netflix. What a gut punch. Everyone is so good, and that kid is amazing. Thrilling storytelling.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Has anyone floated the theory that Ricken could be an Eagen — the illegitimate child of Cobel and Jame? (Would explain why C. was living close to R & Devon, keeping an eye. Would also explain how she knew that Eagen’s past lovers - victims? - used the birthing resort clandestinely). #severance

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 20/03/2025

"Until now, most people have had no window into the contents of this library..." unless they navigate their web browser to the extremely easy to find LibGen website. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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Jason Dearen @jasondearen.com · 20/03/2025

My book Kill Shot was apparently used to train Meta AI. This isn’t a surprise but raises so many questions. Anyone know if there’s anything to do / being done about this? Curious what authors can do Thanks @pakinamamer.bsky.social for the heads up

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Lucky only three of my Nature articles are in the database, used to train AI. Still, I didn’t authorize that.

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I actually know lots of people who don’t gossip, and I try to surround myself with more people like that. I’m guilty of it sometimes and we can all get carried away if we’re curious. I think we need to curb the habit not defend it (to be fair I’m saying this based on the headline and excerpt alone)

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Pakinam Amer @pakinamamer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Also, is there a(n indie) filmmakers & screenwriters starter pack that I can follow here? #writing #writesky #film #cinema #TV

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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

AI is not intelligent. AI is a system for filling in blanks with statistically likely next words. It can be decent at creating text that matches common templates -- code, summaries, extracting text from forms. But don't expect it to actually KNOW things. And you always need to check its work.

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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Stephen Graham's #Adolescence might be the most dizzying TV feat of the year. Here's how its creators pulled off those astonishing one-shots, the aerial lift and more. Read more: www.empireonline.com/tv/features/...

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