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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 8h

It’s weird that “a very rich man goes to immense effort and expense to skirt the law, all so he can pretend he gave people art that they already own” is an accurate description of the AI boom and also “The Thomas Crown Affair”.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h

Folks, you really need to stop sharing that bullshit RadarOnline story claiming that Bari Weiss is "likely out" at CBS News. It's sourced to a single "industry insider" who merely speculates she could be in trouble, and it doesn't even include the quote that's in the headline.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22h

I was trying to figure out why the shifting dynamics in this clip felt so familiar and... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlGl...

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The Big Lebowski (1998) - Is This Your Homework, Larry? Scene | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Writing an angry letter to the Wallet Inspectors’ Guild trying to shame them for abandoning their high-minded pursuit of wallet safety.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favorite tiny detail in “Lanterns” is that having the Green Lantern’s ring is basically just as constantly frustrating as having an iPhone with a low charge and no adapter.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I buried the lead in this thread, because i'm in a finishing-a-book fugue state. I'm writing a book about Battlestar Galactica, my own personal Best Drama Ever. I turn it in this week. More edits in my future, but I can lay down my burden soon. I think the book's the best thing I've ever written 💚

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like Aaron Sorkin peaked when he wrote the ridiculous scene in "Malice" where Alec Baldwin declared himself to be God, and ever since, he's written worse and worse versions of it, to greater and greater levels of acclaim.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Total private construction is about $1.6 TRILLION per year. Total data center construction is about $50 BILLION. So data centers are ~3% of all construction. There's no real crowding out here. Comparing total spending change from such RADICALLY different baserates tells us almost nothing.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Posting “Should you play Ella Langley’s ‘Choosing Texas’ at full blast during a job interview?” and then disabling replies to see if this site just explodes.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

President’s going full Miette.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A very useful and simple assignment for any policymaker is to ask them to complete the forms and processes that they are requiring of other people bsky.app/profile/drew...

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The nice thing about making panzanella is realizing that your frequently-thwarted childhood desire to fill a bowl with croutons and dressing at the salad bar was actually Correct, and Fancy, and Italian, Actually.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is like a sequel to the @musicologyduck.bsky.social bus thread where the studio note was “raise the stakes”.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An independent five-person committee of respected industry experts will have to provide the signoff before I am allowed to pull this football away, Charlie Brown

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Look, if we're doing "Narnia voice actor discourse" then at least it's a chance to finally revisit this bear's line reading from "Prince Caspian".

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For Aslan

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just hope they preserve the part of the show everyone loves the most, “being told that something makes perfect sense if you saw one episode that aired in 1974.”

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My “Doctor Who” idea is that the Doctor is a frog and his companion is a bear and every week they put on a variety show with the help of a very special guest star.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Weird how Robert Kraft’s allegedly extensive history of advocacy for Palestinians somehow didn’t yield the name of a single organization he could identify as the recipient of his sudden donation.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's the least important thing any of us learned this week but I still can't believe Lukas Graham isn't the name of the guy, it's the name of the band.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 15/09/2026

rhea seehorn didn’t win for better call saul so vince gilligan was like, what if she was the only character, what now

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I dunno, man. Something feels different about Mitch McConnell.

The Muppets disguised as Muppet Man from “The Muppets”

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The “it’s not a bribe if it’s a wedding gift” line reminds me of one of my all-time favorite excuses, when Rep. Eric Massa, pressed by Glenn Beck on why he was tickling and wrestling with his male staffers, finally sputtered out, “It was my BIRTHDAY.”

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I like that the premise of this movie is, "this guy was absolutely certain that nobody could play this part but him, and he was right" but they've got a different guy playing the guy who was unique and irreplaceable.

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‘I Play Rocky’: Amazon MGM Releases First-Look Pic Of Anthony Ippolito As Sylvester Stallone

The photo features Anthony Ippolito as a young Sylvester Stallone in a film which follows the actor before he became a mega star.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

All else aside it’s a weird waste of time to burn a minute of TV just broadly describing a topic and promising you’re going to get around to covering it eventually.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"

Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 12/09/2026

I believe this is the most recent time this vital question was addressed definitively x.com/Joshstrangeh...

Chris
@csammis
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Dec 21, 2020
In Lisa The Vegetarian when Ralph says “Oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a Viking!”: I believed since the 90s that he was saying in a Ralphesque way that he’s really good at sleeping. Now I’m informed by ppl that he’s just saying he dreams about being a Viking. 🤷‍♂️ Thoughts??
Josh Weinstein
@Joshstrangehill
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Dec 21, 2020
Yes, again, it's the simplest answer - Ralph dreams of being a Viking.
Mike Scully
@scullymike
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Dec 21, 2020
I was in the room when it was pitched and laughed because I thought it meant he was great at sleeping
Josh Weinstein
@Joshstrangehill
Wow, ha, I guess that's also now canon! Do you remember who pitched it? Maybe they could say for sure. I think we may have been out of the room writing a script at the time so I have zero authority to weigh in on this, it's just my opinion. Maybe
@DavidMirkin
knows?
3:21 PM · Dec 21, 2020
Relevant

David Mirkin
@DaveMirkin
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Dec 21, 2020
Simple: Ralph dreams he's a Viking. Ralph was never written with the ability to understand a complex & obscure metaphor like saying he is a Viking at something, meaning he is great at it. If I knew Scully had misunderstood a joke like that, I would have fired him instantly.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh wow I went looking for the clip so I could explain it and stumbled on a Reddit post about the whole controversy. Basically there’s a “Simpsons” line where Ralph Wiggum says “oh boy! Sleep! That’s when I’m a Viking!” And…

$Reddit post headlined “the great Ralph Wiggum sleep Viking debate”: I apologize if this is posted every 7 days or something, but where do you all sit on the subject of Ralph Wiggum, Sleep Viking? Those not in the know, it’s basically this: Ralph’s famous line about “Yay sleep! That’s where I’m a Viking!” has somehow become a point of debate amongst some folks. There’s what feels like the obvious interpretation, which is that Ralph often dreams of being a Viking. Then there’s the other camp, who think Ralph is comparing how good he is at sleep to how good a Viking is at… being a Viking? I’ve truly never understood their point of view and often doubted their existence. Until today, when I met one. I was so stunned I had no time to pick his brain, so I must ask the sub: where do you fall in this great fandom fracturing debate?$

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Vulture @vulture.com · 04/09/2026

‘The secret to understanding and appreciating reality TV isn’t absorbing every scrap of related content,’ writes longtime Bachelor/ette recapper and ‘Reality TV For Snobs’ author Ali Barthwell. ‘It’s understanding and appreciating everything else.’

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To Love Reality TV, You Have to Care About More Than Reality TV

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was an MLM convention. Anyone whose Dad ever sold Amway knows what this was. The downlines have tapped out their networks and are dropping off, garages full of product they can’t move and broken homes waiting for them when they get back.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm making Studio 60 Illustrated. The whole series. I'll do the animated adaptation.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not that it’s not weird or cult-like, but… it’s also a tongue-in-cheek parody of Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” and some of the most “what the fuck” lines in it, like “deliver his own grandchild”, are directly from the original.

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So God Made a Farmer - Wikipedia

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

💥 September 18 💥 💥 2006 - 2026 💥

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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 09/09/2026

just today, texas democrats have: made an ad built around a "pronouns" joke, voiced their opposition to "biological males playing girls sports," and called the disabled governor "gov. hot wheels" in a press release

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Even when you know it's coming, the Democratic candidate tradition of the ill-advised post-Labor Day feint to to the right is fucking dispiriting, and this year is worse than most.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Instead of putting them in Arkham, he just quietly transfers supervillains to Metropolis.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How weird to discover there was a friend out of frame this whole time, and it was Elizabeth Holmes.

Nathan Fielder laughing with friends out of frame

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole to this tidbit about the “Problem Child” kid’s mom pulling the most inadvisable stage-parent move possible the day before it entered production.

After completion of Problem Child 2, Universal Pictures sued Oliver and Oliver's manager-mother Dianne Ponce for extorting his acting contract. Universal Pictures claimed the day before filming, Ponce threatened to remove her son from production unless his original payment of $80,000 be raised to $500,000. Universal agreed, but would be out of pocket $4 million if Oliver backed out.

A Superior Court jury ruled that the contract was unenforceable, with Universal Pictures having entered into it under duress, and that Ponce and Oliver were obliged to return the difference between the $250,000 Universal had thus far paid and the $80,000 originally negotiated.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Making this and “Primetime” the same year really feels like Lance Oppenheim is doing a “Top Chef” “served two ways” dish but instead of chicken or scallops, the protein is “the ethics of putting people on camera”.

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it's a joke

BREAKING: Rumors are swirling that Scott Bessent got into a physical fistfight with Kevin Hassett this morning over economic policy disagreements.

CORRECTION: Apologies, I was misinformed. It turns out the altercation was due to Hassett claiming that he looked more like a Muppet than Bessent.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The best part of this low-stakes, high-risk scheme is that it apparently didn’t work, he won his election anyway, and he’s now being pushed to withdraw. THE PERFECT CRIME.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Whenever I see the logo for the Hospital for Special Surgery I think about what a perfect acronym HSS would be for a Hospital for Special Snakes.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s not like he seems all that interested when he’s not behind closed doors, but man, some of the examples in here are *bleak* and the fact someone on staff is giving them to reporters is… notable.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Shithead ex-governor arrested in child-support case while working as extra in Christian film” may be the most “Righteous Gemstones”-coded story I’ve ever seen.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My kingdom for a “Sheep Detectives” spinoff short in which Christine Baranski plays the Winter Lamb’s utterly unrepentant mother.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wonder if the Smartmatic lawyers are suddenly getting a lot of calls from media reporters just to check in and see how things are going.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don't know if it has any bearing on why she left, or what she does next, but it's not a bad idea to revisit exactly what the Dominion trial revealed about the extent to which Maria Bartiromo chased down and embraced absolutely bonkers conspiracy theories.

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Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is front and center in Dominion's defamation suit

The host of 'Sunday Morning Futures' and morning host for Fox Business Network figures prominently in Dominion's claims that the network lied about election fraud.

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