I have, through a remarkable feat of reverse serendipity, scheduled and then canceled several colonoscopies due to losing health insurance every single time. My hope is to have one eventually, I guess?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h ago

The prep isn't as bad as it used to be -- pills, not the drink -- and you'll have one, uh, busy evening and then you go in and get the greatest nap of your life and then eat a glorious meal. Get yourself checked out.

I’ve used Duck Duck Go for years and it’s basically Google if Google did what it claims to do.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 19h ago

Recently started using Duck Duck Go and I have to say it’s nice to not have my search history stolen and funneled into social media sites and my email and every other website I visit

QTP with a gif of the last show/movie u watched

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Kevin Freeman@ksfphd.bsky.social · 20h ago

QTP with a gif of the last show/movie u watched

An absolutely superb actor who I would cast in anything I did if I did things.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2d ago

Samantha Morton says she hasn’t had any work since filming ‘THE ODYSSEY’. “I’ve got really good agents & a manager, but at the end of the day, I’m 49. I do believe I’m a good actor, [but] there are other good actors out there.” (Source: @joshuahorowitz.bsky.social)

I’ve spent some good hours watching things which I never would have had selected for me by an algorithm. Having someone else make a choice is good actually.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.

Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.

I’m really having some feelings about Marvel doing a Marvel Premiere with Warren Ellis’ work in it. I recognize he was never a Gaiman-caliber name but is as far as I am aware to date an unapologetic abuser. Seems kind of hard to justify sending money his way.

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

Let’s see…MIDNIGHT THOR. Not the God of Thunder, but Donald Blake, a man dying from a chronic disease, gifted with insane power by a silent god. What would YOU do if you were a god, with no one to pass judgement?

Anyhow: Marvel, call me! Or whoever! I can do this for anyone.

Anyway I think I could do a DAREDEVIL MIDNIGHT sight unseen. Make it a variation on Faust. Blind Matt Murdock makes a deal with who he thinks is a the devil to restore his sight. The deal is he jas to “retrieve souls” with the understanding that he can use his powers however he wants wants elsewise.

One of my absolute favorite films.

Coming Up On TCM@comingupontcm.bsky.social · 5d ago

#ComingUpOnTCM TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia Dir.: Orson Welles 7:00 PM PT A narcotics agent risks his wife's life to investigate a crooked cop. 1h 35m | Film Noir | TV-14 #TCM #TCMParty

If you could help spread the word, that would be great.

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 5d ago

10 years ago Ally Brueger, a student of mine, was murdered in broad daylight while she was out jogging. To this day there have been no arrests. But someone out there knows something. If you know anything that could bring some closure and peace to her parents, please contact Michigan State Police.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

This film is a four hander play of the sort which I spent years producing and this box office gives me hope for the world.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 5d ago

‘THE INVITE’ has passed $40M worldwide. Tracking to finish its run at $60M+ worldwide, 10X its production budget of $6M.

Anyhow, my novel draft is going spectacularly well, regardless of, you know…[gestures helplessly at the world in general]

Any album? Batman score by Danny Album. Album by a band? Out of the Garden and Into the Darkness by The Native Howl.

Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social

This week’s new comics, in the order I’ll be reading them!

As bad as my luck has been, at least I never fumbled making a new Blade movie with an Oscar-winning lead who was all in on the role. At least I can say that about my life.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 5d ago

Mahershala Ali says he will no longer star as Blade. He trained for a year to prepare for ‘Blade’ so he used the sword training for his next action film ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’. (Source: www.gq.com/story/mahers...)

This is perhaps my favorite thing that Trump has doubled down on: his ongoing war with basic math.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump claims he's cutting drug prices by 600 percent 🙃

Nobody does “these vibes are rancid and weird” like the 49ers

NFL Daily News@insidenflnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

BREAKING NEWS Rap: Deebo Samuel to sign a 1-year, up to $7M deal with the 49ers.

Government by absolute nincompoop could not possibly be going better

Asperas Bompar@asperasbompar.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wakanda tariffs going to get doubled now

It turns out I actually like revising and am, perhaps, good at it? Not sure what to make of this, but things are definitely better.

there literally are no good-faith concerns about trans girls participating in high school sports. it is children playing games with their friends, its about confidence and relationship-building. let kids play with their friends.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

The last part of the question is key. How do we return people to reality?

Lisa Needham@snipy.bsky.social · 6d ago

If someone cornered you at a cocktail party and said something like this, you wouldn't just try to get away from them. You'd bounce from the whole event because wtf. But elected Republicans get up every day and say unhinged stuff like this in Congress and I honestly do not know how to unfuck this.

"Modern vernacular fantasy ideas get read backwards into a text that is perceived as having originated them but which doesn’t really contain them" is such a good way to put that phenomenon, holy shit. I've always wanted to find the right way to articulate that point.

Yeah no, it's cool, just watching British mysteries and blowing up my own draft mystery a little bit. Just the first part. For art.

“The oat bran craze of the day” was a REAL THING, I swear! The 80s had a weird people being old before their time thing going on.

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · last wk.

Nabisco Wholesome n Hearty Oat Bran (1989-circa 1992): A line of hot cereal, riding the oat bran craze of the day. Available in stove top or instant, in varieties such as Original, Apple Cinnamon, and Honey