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@stickbeast.bsky.social
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He/Him Film Nerd. Gamer/Streamer. Host of Retro Grade Podcast. Enjoyer of Fighting Games. Somewhere between Kylo Ren and Jon Snow, with a cat.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
NO, I don’t mean choosing to be child-free. NO, I don’t mean being uncomfortable / not knowing how to interact with kids. I mean calling children crotch goblins and sneering at parents and getting weird about small people who are experiencing the world for the first time. Just be normal about it.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
While we’re on the subject, I also think it’s weird freak behavior to be an adult who makes Hating Children For Merely Existing their entire personality.
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I hate this. When people die they live in our hearts and memories. Digitally resurrecting them to sell a movie is so dystopian and disruptive to the reality of mortality. We gotta get more anti ai
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Sixx - Working on Gobboween 2026 @sixxsketch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It's #portfolioday huh? I draw cute goblins!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If you can’t draw the line at genocide, then how can voters trust you to draw the line anywhere?
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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Is this the “golden age” economy we’ve heard so much about? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
No, arrest the murderer now. If he walks they will keep killing us.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight … Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.” - “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 17/12/2025
"Generative AI ... it sounds [like] crap. No matter how advanced it's getting, it still sounds not right ... anyone who made a shit ton off of a release that uses generative AI for voices ... You've got the money now, spread the wealth" www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate...
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Tarantino calling Paul Dano a weak actor is funny because Tarantino is consistently the worst actor in every movie he has ever been in and it’s not even close.
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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com · 20/11/2025
I'm not going to repost screenshots from Grok for the same reasons I don't use any LLMs even when they're outputting silly/ amusing synthetic text. (This image is great for so many purposes. I first saw it posted by @redeyedjedi.bsky.social so I am hoping that's the right credit for its source!)
Batman breaking a rifle in half from a 1986 comic. The rifle has a label "AI (even if you're making fun of it)" and Batman is saying "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 07/11/2025
Vince Gilligan had the 'Pluribus' credits include 'this show was made by humans' "I hate AI. AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" (via Variety)
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 25/10/2025
Guillermo del Toro says “I’d rather die” than use generative AI “My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features” (Source: www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...)
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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 24/10/2025
“one day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” that was Omar El Akkad’s tweet. 2 years later, i’m preparing to discuss this with the senior center’s book club. 📚
holding a hardcover copy of Omar El Akkad’s book ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Maybe I just do not respect it but I really do not care about the White House being torn down, does not seem like pressing news to me compared to anything else they’re up to
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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Please help if you can
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...
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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike
It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
10 movies to get to know me. I could have made this 25 movies and still feel like I left some of them out.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Strongly recommend the Adam Friedland Show episode with Ritchie Torres. Very revealing of the kinds of folks we have “representing” us. Adam really won me over when he was being so genuine and vulnerable. Moving to see his whole ironic veneer just erode to Torres’s lack of humanity.
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sairaspooks 🦇༉‧₊˚. @saiwa.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
we used to beat up nazis. what happened to that
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Everything update about this movie makes it easier and easier to completely avoid when it hits the theaters :/
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If your Mission Impossible ordered tierlist looks like this, don’t talk to me
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 26/04/2025
‘SINNERS’ is estimated to earn a phenomenal $42M domestically this weekend, a 10% drop • Would be the smallest box office drop for a major movie in modern history • Strong chance the film could earn more this weekend than last weekend Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 11/04/2025
🔗 www.businessinsider.com/andor-tony-g...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is real btw!
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The salute discourse is so pointless. Obviously it was a salute and obviously his fans won’t admit it because in spite of all the loser shit he does and says, they are still his fans! We used to punch Nazis. Now we make Jubilee videos with them.
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sairaspooks 🦇༉‧₊˚. @saiwa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
i feel like i’m not doing my best and idk how to do better and that really sucks
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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Every movie is a horror movie when you’re watching it with someone who keeps asking, ‘Wait, what’s going on? Who’s that? What just happened?
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
David Lynch’s passing has hit me hard. His work left a strong impact on me. He changed what I thought film was supposed to be. He made me see cinema as more than just entertainment, but an art form. Communication. A way to see our world by going someplace else. Someplace wonderful and strange. RIP
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I will never be able to vibe with the contingent that equate film quality with monetary success. I get the idealistic urge to want to attach an easy barometer but it’s such a bogus goal post. Movies have different costs, different audiences, different timelines at finding an audience. Let them live.
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I love #supervive
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“..or the military.” 🙃
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Latest episode of Retro Grade Podcast! We talk about one of the most influential films in modern horror cinema, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
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Austin @stickbeast.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
I peeked here. #streetfighter #fgc #sf6
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