Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 2h“You always think you have more time…until you don’t.” That's not somebody talking about their recently deceased grandpa. It's a Roku customer. #NeverStream 000
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I've been checking the internet for this off and on for the last decade or so. When I was a little kid, this is what told me a movie was about to happen. youtube.com/watch?v=ZEK4TvY9l0Iyoutube.comLitchfield Theatres Policy TrailerYouTube video by brainwrapper 000
Reposted by Stephen BowieLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17977419
Reposted by Stephen BowieEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary. 28967321
Reposted by Stephen BowieChase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Like displaying heads on pikes 471412322
Reposted by Stephen BowieLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this 374445578
Reposted by Stephen BowieSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right” 6493481771
Reposted by Stephen BowieCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237821252
Reposted by Stephen BowieLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91950535
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I would only keep one of Emily's top 10 (you know which one). 100
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Of the shows on the list I've seen (including some I bailed on quickly because they stank), I would remove these entirely: Breaking Bad, Fleabag, Game of Thrones, Veep, Girls, Friday Night Lights, Survivor, Watchmen, Hacks, House of Cards, Stranger Things, Nathan For You, PEN15, Mare of Easttown, 110
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You could almost make a better list just out of the omissions. 101
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every time I see a video list what I think is: Would've been a lock for one of J. Hoberman's annual Village Voice top 10 lists in the 2000s. 000
Reposted by Stephen BowieJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others. 212251182
Reposted by Stephen BowieJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026- Social media brain rot where we've failed to see that we are human beings connected to other unique human beings and therefore, just because something doesn't reflect my experience, it doesn't mean it's wrong or "bad" or something you can't still read/watch/play, etc. 21771114
Reposted by Stephen BowiePrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat? 301964574
Reposted by Stephen Bowiearr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6146781036
Reposted by Stephen BowieProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/202612/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇 91266249
Reposted by Stephen BowieKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not. 7752671564
Reposted by Stephen BowieEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries......... 14455126
Reposted by Stephen BowiePatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man 8475781752
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Update: After two strong episodes back-to-back, I think I'm coming around on SEA HUNT. Years of work, down the drain. 100
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026To every sucker who switched from physical media to streaming: Go sit in the corner. 000
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Someday I will finish my magnum opus of television criticism, which is about why I love HIGHWAY PATROL and hate SEA HUNT. 001
Reposted by Stephen BowieI.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Mitch McConnell is the only vegetable *not* recalled this year 327050
Reposted by Stephen Bowieʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 16/09/2026BREAKING: L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran. 48311
Reposted by Stephen BowieChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music 244129872236
Reposted by Stephen BowiePrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026…This now means that all of Ed Sheeran's remaining opening acts — and his touring band — have just withdrawn from the tour: 23575161
Reposted by Stephen Bowierob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 15/09/2026imagine a divorce so bad it turns you into mickey rourke 241594122
Reposted by Stephen BowieBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable 382912354
Reposted by Stephen BowieBrian Peter Gluckman @bgluckman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Once again, I must point to the official statement from Toyota. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/a... 629756
Reposted by Stephen BowieSherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Thinking about when the Lincoln Enterprises Star Trek catalog defended a typo wherein they had printed "Long Live and Prosper" instead of "Live Long and Prosper" by saying that "Long Live and Prosper" was what Our Infallible Alpha Male Gene Roddenberry had intended all along and thus it was correct. 022
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Either I'm fully in old man mode or one of the better TV shows of last year was an ADAM-12 knockoff co-created by Dick Wolf's son and starring Donald Bellisario's daughter. 010
Reposted by Stephen Bowiethe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be." 3942221
Reposted by Stephen BowieDefector @defector.com · 11/09/2026Yes, the cast and crew of 'The Master of Disguise' did hold a moment of silence on set to reflect on 9/11. And yes, Carvey was in full turtle get-up. The impromptu ceremony just didn't actually happen on 9/11. defector.com/master-of-di...defector.comAt The Turtle Club In The Shadow Of 9/11 | Defector'The Master of Disguise' and its connection to the September 11th attacks have become the stuff of legend. 116950
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Until a chain of title is re-established, “Christine,” which had previously built an audience on Netflix, isn’t being licensed to streamers or cable. That means it’s getting harder and harder for people to see it." Why physical media, rental stores, libraries are (were) essential to home video. 011
Reposted by Stephen BowieFascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And just because I'm feeling petty, I want to say it is real grand that during ICE's most horrifically successful summer, No Kings has done absolutely nothing this entire time. No marches. No events. Nothing. All they have now is a landing page vaguely encouraging voting and a email sign up. 1327491
Reposted by Stephen Bowie💥Richard with an💥R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 03/09/2026My wife and I decided we didn't want to have children. We don't know how they'll take it, but we are telling them at dinner... 711562100
Reposted by Stephen BowieSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026When you understand the pervasiveness of anti-blackness, a lot of bewildering scenarios are simplified. 13884243
Reposted by Stephen BowieBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Rodney Dangerfield 2026: Take my AI girlfriend, please 1013020
Reposted by Stephen BowieKonner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Werner Herzog's scathing quote about Ai is what I needed this morning. 81040317
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Especially if augmented by renting physical media, an option that the streaming con took away entirely. 001
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I was today years old when I learned that the PEOPLE'S COURT theme is a library cue that turns up in old British and Australian TV episodes. 001