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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, was Life of a Showgirl really that bad or was it just Swift's time to get "taken down a peg or two"?

Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 8h

Everything is cyclical. Plus it's easy to get mad at a writer who has a recognizable cadence because then you can all pretend you can do it too.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 11h

Ken Russell will rise from the grave.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 12h

Watching the 4k restoration of The Devils only re-enforced what a puerile, narcissistic mess Digger is.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 13h

Let's just put a bullet in the head of sharksploitation, once and for all. The last statement on the issue is Dangerous Animals, which shows that all the myths about sharks stalking us are human constructs, and that we are the real menace here.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 13h

Lawrence is BJ Penn in this scenario, which make the Kardashian Diego Sanchez.

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Amelia Emberwing @thatwitchmia.bsky.social · 14h

I have now received two separate interview invites insisting that "detailed questions are submitted in advance." Because we're seeing such a shift with tenured people losing positions and green writers getting brought in at content farms, let me be clear: that is not how journalism works.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 14h

I just ignore those emails. They don't want coverage, I've got 50 pitches in my intray from people who can act like adults.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 14h

There's only a handful of tickets for Bruce Campbell special appearance and screening of his new adult movie (not that kind) in Austin this weekend. You won't want to miss this. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/chas...

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Chasing Blue Hairs: On the Road With Bruce Campbell, Ernie & Emma • The Austin Chronicle

The Evil Dead icon makes an adult movie (not that kind) for people that have really lived a life

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Patrick King @patrickkingart.com · 08/10/2026

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Ace Combat 8 - Rex - red F/A-18E Super Hornet silhouetted against the Wings of Theve emblem and seven FCU flag stars with Rex Joker 1, FCU Navy, 6th Carrier Air Wing

Ace Combat 8 - The Hope of a Nation - red F/A-18E Super Hornet silhouetted against a scorched FCU banner and Wings of Theve emblem

Ace Combat 8 - Rex - F/A-18E Super Hornet SIlhouette with the 6th Carrier Air Wing emblem, FCU roundel, and Wings of Theve emblem with Joker 1 "Rex"

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Naza, a documentary that made me cry several times, is not just a film about Gaza. It's a warning to us all about automating attrocity, made at great personal risk by true Israeli patriots. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...

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Naza Review: Cold Data, Cold Blood • The Austin Chronicle

Chilling documentary about the Israeli offensive in Gaza reveals how AI and surveillance culture has been used to normalize mass murder

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The reason every country stops doing public executions is because they inevitably cause support for the death penalty to crater.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not saying I wouldn't watch that ...

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Naza Review: Cold Data, Cold Blood • The Austin Chronicle

Chilling documentary about the Israeli offensive in Gaza reveals how AI and surveillance culture has been used to normalize mass murder

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The best Midwest Emo band that didn't come from the Midwest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HzP...

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In Remote Part / Scottish Fiction

YouTube video by Idlewild - Topic

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sometimes it's important to have those outside eyes, those not focused on one point, to see the bigger picture.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As she put it, they told her, "The accountants will look to see if the accounting processes have been followed. You don't care about that. You care if the numbers make sense."

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This isn't just journalism. A friend of mine worked as a forensic accountant. She was hired for the job from her physics postdoc studying magnetic fields. Not just hired. Headhunted. Why? Because she could find things the trained accountants couldn't.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They're trained to respond to instantaneous gamechangers that cannot be expected, and to give a feel of the on-the-ground situation. As the story is changing at scale, that's what you need. Not the reporter who knows how to handle a FOIA request. The one who knows how to follow a fly ball.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Case in point. An old news desk editor, an all-timer, told me the best reporters to have on the ground in a major catastrophe like a flood aren't news desk folks. It's the sports desk.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you're breaking expertise, what you're doing is coming in with fresh eyes and saying, "What even is this?" You look at a thing and you don't say, "This is normal," or, "this is how we've always done it." You ask, "Why does everyone think this is OK?" You respond with your own skills.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now, beat reporters are the best. They know a scene inside out, they can tell you when things are moving, they know the players. They're indispensible. But they can also have blind spots, related to proximity and perspective.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two, having someone who can do what I call breaking expertise is very, very important. This is when you have someone with a rock solid skill set come in and completely end run the beat reporters in that field.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First, Jeff Horwitz was a reporter who worked the capitol beat, and his specialty was examining decision-making processes, as in who was pushing what levers and why. That's how he uncovered Manafort pushing Russian interests. So that's just accurate.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've seen some criticisms of The Social Reckoning saying "it doesn't make any sense that the WSJ would use a capitol reporter to cover Facebook." Lemme explain why you're not just factually wrong, but an important lesson about breaking expertise.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

American indie kids of the aughts and tens really screwed up by not embracing Idlewild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtW3...

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Idlewild - A Ghost In The Arcade (Official Video) HD

YouTube video by Sam

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is their head of product development Luke from Modern Family?

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I started reading that and now it's next year.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You know, I first saw Paramore as opening act for a SXSW day party at Emo's indoors back in 2006, and it's good to see that Hayley's still cool AF.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We need to start a kickstarter for this mission asap.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Played the original Ravenloft back in the day. That module still gives me trauma.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, who is more likely to know that musical, a DC politics reporter or a Bay Area developer? Of all the issues one could have with that film, I don't really see that one.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Supporting would be smart as I don't see going up against Malkovich for Wild Horse Nine seems like a good idea. That rare combination of the sentimental choice also being the right one.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, god, a lyric that would make "we rhymed career, Korea, and insincere"-era Depeche Mode blush.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wasn't she always the Kidz Bop Aimee Mann?

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it wrong that I was reminded by that image of this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(n...

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Bear (novel) - Wikipedia

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This image, without comment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(n...

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Bear (novel) - Wikipedia

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I felt like I was on an island when everyone was raving about No Time to Die, which is a real contender for the worst Bond movie ever. Craig was a great Bond, but with only two out of five watchable movies.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jim Bakker and Jeffrey Archer, in one day? This week is setting a high bar fot itself.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Convicted criminal, plaigarist, perjurer, and unindicted co-conspirator in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I crossed paths with Paxton back when I was a legislative reporter and he was a state rep, and I can honestly say that I have never met another elected official so lacking in any basic decency or likability. Every other Republican I ever talked to loathed him, and that's his own party.

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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why does that poster shot feel like Paxton is going "Yoink"? What even is this?

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