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Adam Daniel

@realtopekapeople.com
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Writer / Director / Producer. Lecturer in Communication/Film @ WSU. Horror scholar. ‘Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms’ from EUP. He/Him.

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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 29/08/2026
Three days left on our crowd fundraiser for Second Date, my debut feature film, shooting in Sydney this October. Every donation helps us make a better version of the film! artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 30/07/2026
So happy I was able to write and publish a few words in memory of one of my favourite artists. Rest in power, Glen. You will be forever missed. theconversation.com/glen-hansard...
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Glen Hansard: a tireless, warm-hearted troubadour whose music brought people together
The Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at 56.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 23/07/2026
Hey! I’m currently raising funds for Second Date, my independent micro-budget dark comedy/horror film through the Australian Cultural Fund. It’s the story of a woman who is tricked into a first date with her incel stalker, only to find herself trapped in a supernatural Groundhog Day-esque time loop.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is rather good www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
By the way, if you're curious how the horror community feels watching these movies clean up at the box office: we're fucking elated. In horror, rising tides raises all boats. We're all rooting for each other. After the lean box office of last fall, this spring has been refreshing and exciting.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 28/05/2026
More of my nerding out over creepypastas, found footage and liminal aesthetics in horror: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Why this photo has been terrifying the internet for years
Forget about slashers and body horror — the next evolution of fright stems from an fluorescent-lit room.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 26/05/2026
Wrote a new piece for @theconversation.com on Kane Parsons and the history of The Backrooms. Can’t wait to see this tonight, love the series so very intrigued on where he takes it. theconversation.com/the-backroom...
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The Backrooms: how a teenager’s creepy YouTube series became the year’s most anticipated horror
The Backrooms horror legend began as an anonymous 4chan post in 2019. Now it’s an A24 film by director Kane Parsons – just 20 years old.
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Marsh Naylor @marshnaylor.net · 16/05/2026
#academicsky #philsky #edusky
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 06/05/2026
A Moment will play this year’s St Kilda Film Festival. Honoured to be part of the Dark Matters program.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Trump's petrowars threaten to unleash carbon shock therapy around the world - disorderly decarbonization and deindustrialisation. The answer, we argue w @benbraun.eurosky.social, is decarbonised sovereignty, a pathway for the Santa Marta coalition. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...
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Against Carbon Shock Therapy | Daniela Gabor & Benjamin Braun
The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 28/04/2026
Back on the Gold Coast for this year’s Screen Forever. Big thanks to Screen NSW for their support. Excited to see old friends and new. #screenforever
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 28/04/2026
Silhouette
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 11/04/2026
One of my fave recent viewings.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 08/04/2026
Damn 😞
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
*movie trailer guy voice*
new yorker headline: THIS EASTER, AN AMERICAN POPE CONFRONTS AN AMERICAN WAR
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 31/03/2026
Really loved this short poem, sharing it here so I can easily find it again. Discovered this one thanks to the brilliant Snail Mail's new album Ricochet (and its accompanying iconography). www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162602...
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The Two-headed Calf
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.   But tonight he is alive and in…
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 26/03/2026
Happy to see this one arrive in the mail today. I enjoyed analysing what does and doesn’t work in the early 2000s TCM remake and the legacy of the original Hooper classic. Thanks to @shanehw.bsky.social for the opportunity.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 24/03/2026
Left the other place 12+ months ago and don’t miss a thing. Wish more of my old follows took a principled stand against what Musk chooses the platform to support and stand for.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war. This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 20/03/2026
Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (who isn’t Indiana Jones)
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 16/03/2026
Enjoyed adding a contribution to this post celebrating my favourite film of last year One Battle After Another and its win for Best Casting: theconversation.com/from-flat-jo...
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From flat jokes, to politics, to red-carpet dazzle: 5 experts unpack the 2026 Oscars
Between the glitzy celebration of cinematic escapism, and constant reminders of our dark and complicated world, this year’s ceremony felt somewhat disjointed.
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/03/2026
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 13/03/2026
In solitude, my creative mind dances.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week. Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet." www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
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Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report
Since President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Iran last week, at least two top Trump administration officials have raced to purchase their own survival shelters designed to withstand an apoca...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 08/03/2026
Matt’s a great writer and this store is excellent.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 01/03/2026
Don’t even tell me about the redemptions unless they’re Shawshank.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Happy TWIN PEAKS day! For @seattletimes.com, I spoke to Dale Cooper himself Kyle MacLachlan about starting as an extra in THE CHANGELING, honing his craft while staying true to what he learned at UW, the legacy of David Lynch, and the upcoming A24 horror ALTAR 📽️ www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
A still of Kyle MacLachlan holding a recording device up to his mouth while driving a card with text on screen that reads Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24. Entering the town of Twin Peaks from the pilot of the show.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
4 panel comic 

Panel 1: 
Purple Guy in sweatshirt addresses the reader. He says, “Sure, Twitter has a Nazi problem. But I’m staying to fix it”

Panel 2:
Purple Guy has gone full on Sitting Backwards On A Chair Mode. The chair has the X logo on it. He is wearing sunglasses and blue jeans. He is talking to some Nazis. He says “Listen Fellas, did you know that being a Nazi…”

Panel 3:
Close up on Purple Guy lowering his sunglasses for maximum effect. He continues “Is BAD?”

Panel 4:
The Nazis look flabbergasted by this revelation. They all go “WHUAAA??”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/02/2026
bsky.app/profile/keta...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 07/02/2026
Excited to see this out into the world.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/01/2026
i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography
elon musk posts “Whites are a rapidly dying minority” while quote tweeting tucker carlson
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 27/01/2026
Had a great time screening my short film A Moment at Flickerfest last night in the company of some amazing Aussie short filmmakers. Flickerfest is such a great festival and I'm really proud to have screened three films in the program over the last four years.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti is a crossroads moment. If nothing major happens after this then America is heading towards a modern Nazi Germany. No exaggeration. Trump will shamelessly lie to enact the Insurrection Act.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Shields
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 22/01/2026
That song choice 😂
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
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Adam Daniel @realtopekapeople.com · 17/01/2026
Who could have predicted it (outside of most reasonable pundits)?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing.

@Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content
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