Album cover for a scary seeming band your older sibling listens to and then you finally play the album one day and it’s just ska
Dennis B. Hooper
@dennisbhooper.bsky.social
tall gay nerd. he/him. advanced degrees in height, gayness, nerdness. reality show editor, work seen on a&e, bravo, quibi. maker of goofy photoshops and questionable victorian detective satire. writing, etc: https://linktr.ee/dennisbhooper
Felt like a good time to reshare my 2023 ideas for Moomin Odyssey casting… What do you think? 🌊 Moomintroll as Telemachus Sniff as Eumaeus Snufkin as Eurylochus
Thank you to everyone for tolerating my bombastic/inflammatory thumbnails, by the way. It just seems to be the way of things in YT land
Dennis B. Hooper@dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 2d agoOur third video concerns the dad movie classic Crimson Tide, its production history, an (accidental) real life parallel, and a narratively smart decision to swap the typical personalities of a naval vessel’s CO and XO. As this week’s topic starts with C, next week’s will start with D. Any guesses?
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
couple months ago: let's show these assholes why americans are drowning in medical and other personal debt now: wait what we don't even have the weaponry now either
Our third video concerns the dad movie classic Crimson Tide, its production history, an (accidental) real life parallel, and a narratively smart decision to swap the typical personalities of a naval vessel’s CO and XO. As this week’s topic starts with C, next week’s will start with D. Any guesses?
A FEW THINGS ABOUT: Crimson Tide
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You know that the AGO has the largest collection of ship models in the world in its basement right?
Okay! Looks like we have more space. Reply with your favorite short story below if you’re interested in joining!
Dennis B. Hooper@dennisbhooper.bsky.social · last mo.Short Story Club filled up so much faster than I expected and I apologize to everyone else who wanted in, but I thought I’d do a thread of selected stories for anyone who wants to follow along. Our first selection on bsky was Ken Liu’s “Byzantine Empathy” www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/byza...
If you told someone watching Minority Report that Samantha Morton wouldn't be dining out for the rest of her career they'd think you were insane. They hate a middle-aged woman so much in that town.
Steven Santos@stevensantos.bsky.social · yesterdayThose who spent time complaining about other actors Christopher Nolan hired may also want to consider he's just casting actors he's seen and liked and who haven't been getting cast in major roles as much as they should be. The guy gave Tom Conti two important roles in his films. See also:
Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterdayIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
And yes, these videos are mostly an excuse to catalogue weird pieces of movie trivia I don’t otherwise have a place for
Dennis B. Hooper@dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 2d agoOur third video concerns the dad movie classic Crimson Tide, its production history, an (accidental) real life parallel, and a narratively smart decision to swap the typical personalities of a naval vessel’s CO and XO. As this week’s topic starts with C, next week’s will start with D. Any guesses?
The Children of Light, the graphic novel I translated, is coming out on August 18th, and is available for pre-order! So far it's been getting some very nice reviews, which I'm gonna put in this here thread
The Children of Light
An advanced alien race attempts to escape oblivion with the help of a world-sized spaceship, an omniscient supercomputer, and a mysterious group of godlike creatures in this astonishingly illustrated ...
bookshop.org
Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha
You and I paying increased prices due to tariffs then corporations getting the refund is “trickle up economics.” Trump has invented even worse economic policies than Reagan.
Tariff refunds split companies as consumers demand share of $166B
Some firms say they will share a portion of the rebate from the Supreme Court striking down Trump's tariffs earlier this year.
newsweek.com
And yes, these videos are mostly an excuse to catalogue weird pieces of movie trivia I don’t otherwise have a place for
Dennis B. Hooper@dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 2d agoOur third video concerns the dad movie classic Crimson Tide, its production history, an (accidental) real life parallel, and a narratively smart decision to swap the typical personalities of a naval vessel’s CO and XO. As this week’s topic starts with C, next week’s will start with D. Any guesses?
You city slickers could never pull off a look as iconic as this 1978 McDonald's cowboy hat and belt buckle combo...
things I need help with: • refilling medications • groceries • gas in car • dog food • car payment All my work is free and my links are in my bio and im also transgender and work really hard
"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."
Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
This was really fun, and I won’t pretend it isn’t 90% vibes, but I love that every time I’ve asked this question everyone’s had completely different answers and they’re all correct
My top 3 favorite Parts Unknown episodes #partsunknown #anthonybourdain
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Dennis B. Hooper@dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 5d agoGoing to try bashing out another youtube short about Parts Unknown and my three favorite episodes, curious to see if discussion-centric videos have more staying power in the algo. My favorites are Granada, Lyon, and Scotland, what are everyone else’s?
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
“Armed w/ precedents like Callais & Harvard, pro-colorblindness advocacy groups have filed a wide range of lawsuits challenging scholarships for minority youth, targeting groups that promote minority-owned businesses, & even trying to prevent universities from conducting surveys of Black students.”
How a fringe idea about race took over the Supreme Court
A brief history of “colorblindness,” the idea that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
vox.com
Periodic reminder that there is no such thing as a fiscal conservative. Because how comfortable or uncomfortable they are with a subsidy depends entirely on who gets the money. Texas receives $33 billion a year in oil subsidies. No fiscal conservative complains about that.
yes! one of the first things they teacher editors: "if the audience doesn't notice it, it's not a cheat"
everyone forgot this! doctors and nurses got sick and died because of this theft! bsky.app/profile/cras...
@crashcityrocker.bsky.social · 3d agoKushner literally stole PPE that my hospital system had bought and sent it to Florida. This is big reason why why Charlie Baker is no longer (directly) in politics. abcnews.com/amp/Health/e...