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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Actually, @washingtonpost.com, I'm hoping you'll reconsider the value of the necessary and import work your journalists did before you fired 300 of them.

Text from a message I received after cancelling my subscription: We hope you'll reconsider the value of the necessary and important work our journalists do to keep citizens informed. Absolutely nothing has changed about that. In fact, it's more important than ever.

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If anyone is wondering why there were no on-camera handshakes at the end of Friday's Jeopardy game, look at this picture and realize that Youssef is a *full head taller* than I am. The crew would not let us move until I was back on terra firma. 😆 Plenty of hugs and handshakes as we left the stage

Three Jeopardy contestants: Ron, Youssef and Margaret (me), behind their podiums. All appear to be approximately the same height. This is a result of trickery and stagecraft

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Hey, who's that on Jeopardy! tomorrow?

A woman on the Jeopardy stage with purple hair and a space themed dress standing behind a podium with "Margaret" written on it. (It's me. The answer is me.)

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I know I kept a whole thread in that other place about the Duolingo dystopia, but seriously, Duo, is everything okay over there?

A Duolingo end of lesson screen that shows Duo, a cartoon green owl screaming with his screaming pink brain (that has its own mouth and eyes) erupted out the top of his head like a mushroom cloud

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The remains of a black sesame crème brûlée #foodsky 🍣🍺&🍨

A spoon sits in a small white ramekin on a scalloped white stoneware saucer. In the ramekin are the remains of a few black sesame seeds and a collar of caramelized sugar. Not pictured: Previously consumed blueberries that were on the top of the dessert when it arrived

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

…to see Bad Boys: Ride or Die?

Yours truly, looking skeptical in front of the Bad Boys: Ride or Die poster

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Can’t wrap up #AMCmageddon without coming to this place. For magic. To laugh, to cry…

The craftsman-inspired facade of the AMC Porter Ranch 9 multiplex where the Nicole Kidman spot that I’m quoting was filmed

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Thelma is not only a goddamned delight of a movie, the screening was followed by a live Q&A with writer-director-editor Josh Margolin and star June Squibb

The Thelma movie poster projected on the screen in a half-darkened movie theater. In front of the screen are three lighter blobs that you will have to take on faith are the Q&A participants and moderator

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Final week of #AMCmageddon is going out with some bangers! I Saw the TV Glow last night followed by Thelma this afternoon

Your intrepid movie-goer once again, taking a selfie in front of the Thelma poster

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Turns out the answer to both questions in the previous post was “no.” But I Saw the TV Glow is lucky movie 13 tonight #AMCmageddon #homestretch

Your correspondant looking bemused in front of a poster advertising the AMC A-List program. The quest to simultaneously revive in person movie-going while destroying the exhibitors business model continues

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Three days, three movies, three multiplexes. #AMCmageddon film #12 is Firebrand!

Your intrepid masked movie-goer outside the AMC box office before a mall movie matinee

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Week 4 and #AMCmageddon continues! Film number 10 is Inside Out 2 in glorious IMAX!

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Checked late screening off the bingo list with movie #9, Run Lola Run. Thanks for coming out @lizlet.bsky.social! Only two more weeks and six films to go! #AMCmageddon

Selfie of Liz and I on a bench outside the theater. I am excited. She is surprised.

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Movie #8 was Babes! Thanks to friend Cecil who came out to celebrate the halfway point of #AMCmageddon

Cecil and I leaning into frame trying to take a photo in front of the Babes poster. It doesn’t quite work, but we’re having a good time

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Gonna admit I didn’t expect a Monday night to be this crowded. Hope there are previews! #AMCmageddon

Your correspondant in a very long line in front of the movie theater. I look skeptical

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

We interrupt our excessive movie-going to sign copies of Bookburners at the Nebula Conference bookshop! Get ‘em while they’re hot (or presumably at Vroman’s after this weekend).

Two stacks of the massive paperback version of Bookburners with “signed by the author” stickers. Bookburners tells the story of a Vatican black ops team fighting to keep magic from destroying the world. Like you do.

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

And with that, film #6, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is in the books! If I were doing this challenge like a rational person, I’d be halfway through, but no, we’ve got nine more films to go! #AMCmageddon

Your faithful correspondent in front of a one sheet poster for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Enlisted @katiemoest.bsky.social to join me for movie #5! Re-release of Spider-Man: No Way Home #AMCmageddon

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Back at the mall for film 4, take 2. Fingers crossed I make it past the previews this time! #AMCmageddon

Your humble narrator, looking skeptical in her car

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

Friday means it’s time to kick off #AMCmageddon week two with a movie at the mall! (Sight, movie 4 of 15)

Me, masked, in front of a mall movie theater

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Final observation: for a day that involved 6+ hours of movie-watching, my step count’s not too shabby

Closeup of my smart watch showing 6,236 steps at 11:34pm

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

After a dinner break, back in for Furiosa! Special thanks to my friends who came out to see it with me and to whoever at AMC Burbank managed to get the air conditioning working in time for the evening crowds. Movie 3 of 15. #AMCmageddon

Six people in front of a movie theater, all trying to fit into a selfie taken by someone with short arms. (That someone would be me.)

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

To kick #AMCmageddon off with a bang, I’ve scheduled a Memorial Day triple feature. Special thanks to my friend Christina who joined me for a 9am screening of The Fall Guy followed by lunch at Guisados. #teampurplehair #popcornbucketlist

Two women with different shades of purple hair smile for the camera at an outdoor dining terrace. We are happy because we just saw a good movie which was followed by delicious tacos

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

It’s a gray morning in Burbank, and #AMCmageddon begins… (The Fall Guy 1 out of 15)

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