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tbf to the Krusty burger Chalmers seemed to enjoy them. With another character I'd say we could chalk that up to mere courtesy, but it's not in Chalmers' nature to be generous to Skinner

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The end thinks it's subverting something, but overall it's just doing this yet again:

A Tumblr post by banderboucher: "Dude filmmaker: We wanted to cleverly critique the way women are brutalised then sidelined in films. To do this, we had the women in our film brutalised then sidelined. I think you'll find it incredible; I found it so good that at one point in the film you can hear me audibly groaning "ahhh, cinema" from behind the camera."

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isekai where no random school kids pop into the world. Just normal fantasy proceedings thank you

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The season moves on. You put the car up on Craigslist. A nice man who seems unlikely to haggle suddenly insists on inspecting the car in person “On account of all those Biberty issues” he says, “Nothing gets that out of the upholstery ”

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I like that perspective, but if I was Coyote I would not be eager to buy ACME canned hams

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it’s also suggested by the existence of the Ralph and Sam cartoons, which are nearly the same premise with the added joke of them being dispassionate clockpunchers. Like ok, if these two are doing it for a paycheck, why are Coyote and the Roadrunner doing it?

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

GBBO completely robbed me of the idea that watching a bunch of scripted British TV over the years has given me any understanding of their day-to-day lives. E.g. the sheer number of times they say "millionaire's shortbread" in an average season, a term I’ve never heard spoken outside the tent

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

51 years, what a run! Feels like one of the longer running foods you’ve posted

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lobbying too! I dunno what it feels like to have people come to you and say “We’ve identified you as someone who can make a critical difference on an issue of huge importance.” But I’m guessing by the time you agree to champion the issue you probably think it’s at least a bit important

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

a key reason why rape culture persists is because men do not fear reprisals from *other men*. they do not expect other men to care if they raped someone. they do not expect other men to treat them poorly. they believe that most men will doubt a victim's story and demand evidence.

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What are some examples of amazing lead performances in less than good movies? I finally got around to watching King of New York and it’s an amazing Christopher Walken performance, but the movie’s not too far from being a huge mess

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Widow’s Bay is interesting in this regard because I’d say just about every episode is trying a somewhat different ratio of comedy-to-horror. Some ratios were more successful than others, some I’ve just never even seen tried before. So, an uneven show, buti had a lot of fun watching it

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Howard on the local news just casually saying “videogamers” back in 1984, already more comfortable with the beat than many present-day reporters

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of directors like that too! This is such an American problem, we popularized the most collaborative artform this side of cathedral construction, but often struggle to recognize the talents of people involved unless they’re capable of doing 2 or 3 of the top jobs all by themself

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I ran into one of these near me! It was yelling at a guy in a parked car that, as far as I could tell, didn’t exist. The sound quality was so bad I wasn’t sure if it was AI in the moment, but something about the way it kept throwing out different descriptions made me very suspicious

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the streaming services are woefully underutilizing the expressive powers of the platforms they’ve built. Has Netflix done anything creative with the fact that everyone watches TV on computers now, besides a couple choose-your-own-adventure experiments 8 years ago?

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She’s stuck continuing to manage Roy’s feelings about being a public figure, decades after he first became famous

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great point about Keeley being so isolated from the team. Something that worked really well in previous seasons was Keeley working with individual players to find the right marketing opportunities for them. Would she even know how to do that with any of these players?

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yep, totally agree about Zelda btw. The show gave itself a very tough job establishing a new team in just 10 episodes, then decided to give a bunch of time to an off-the-field character with no clear direction who steals focus in Rebecca & Keeley scenes

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really good question given how the episode also framed the idea of overpaying for club shares as a villainous, explicitly emotionally driven action. Are we supposed to be admiring Rebecca as a “rational” business owner who’s sadly but firmly sticking to paying her team in gift baskets?

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This season of Slow Horses could really use some saucy Stan Lee style editorial pop-ups “See s4e6 for the last time Frank tried to kill River, it’s put a strain on their relationship natch. –Ed.”

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh that guy! He went on to be a regular on ER for many years. Played a heel there too, but played it very well

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Massive theft and environmental harms aside, if all this shortens the run of Widow’s Bay I will be very cross

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A nice small pleasure is reading in a park and hearing a lone single-engine plane puttering across the sky. Feels like I’m in Wii Sports Resort

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It fits well within the rest of the movie too. ST:TPM wants the audience to take their time contemplating big spectacle, it’s in that 2001 mold

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

5 seconds of reading about Beoga taught me that the founding members are from Northern Ireland specifically. Presumably they spent some formative time there during the 90s? So does Sheeran just not talk to the people in his life or ???

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the things I love about streaming era Trek is how adamant the producers have been that Lower Decks is not only canon, but in the same timeline as all the other shows. For me that opens up a really beautiful view on canon, one that points right at what you’re saying here

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

autonomy.substack.com

This Is Not A Love Song

Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Humor is also a pretty well documented response when a lot of children witness a death like that. There have been folklore studies of the jokes told by children who saw events like the Challenger explosion, or Budd Dwyer’s death, on TV

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also perfect for those very unhealthy situations where the boss will clearly be angry if an email isn’t acknowledged, but figuring out the response they want will take too much energy

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh, oh I feel this. I reacted so violently against those Outlook reacts when I first started working at a place that used them, but then I encountered the sort of boss that made me understand what they're for.

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Deck seems the least wrong by far. I can’t call that a balcony, it’s just far too big.

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I first learned about this through a random baseball fact: Chimpanzees, despite being much stronger than us, can’t throw a fastball. They top out at around 22 mph. Your average little leaguer throws twice as fast

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Seems like a good moment to share my take that Paul Schrader’s First Reformed is just a story of a religious leader spiritually and emotionally manipulating a bereaved congregant he wants to hook up with

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've noticed that when folks struggle with science literacy one of the mistakes they often make is skipping qualifiers like that, or at least massively underestimating how important those qualifiers are for understanding what's being discussed

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Need an option that lets me clarify that I pronounce it this way specifically because of Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 2

A screenshot of a question from a dialect quiz about how to pronounce “the word used for gawking at someone in a lustful way”. The selected choice reads: “oggle” (pronounced to rhyme with
“boggle”, but may still be spelled
ogle")

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 04/09/2026

Me, joining the WPBL fandom after watching a single half-inning of one game:

Abe Simpson: "If people don't support this thing, it might not make it!"

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I believe everybody outside of the US gets the free YouTube streaming games, it’s just us folks stuck in the US who have to buy the obscure ESPN package or VPN it

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Who else read this as a skinless normal horse instead of a red zebra for a second?

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The difference between hoping the players don’t notice how silly a mechanic is, and merrily insisting that they notice

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What a mess. That placeholder title font, that meager perfunctory drop shadow

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And kids are used to not understanding everything that’s going on, that’s the norm for them, not a frightening exception. And they’re often able to figure out far more than we would expect from context clues anyway

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I thought it was a solid 3/4. I’m glad we have it, there aren’t enough live-action animated films and it does that extremely well, but in terms of great Looney Tunes movies I think The Day the Earth Blew Up is much stronger and that just came out 2 years ago

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Apparition @silvertusk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The underwhelming performance of the Fantastic Beasts movies seems to have put Rowling off the idea of doing anything remotely new, and she’s still involved enough that nobody else has the space to take any risks

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