Martin O'Leary
@strangetea.bsky.social
London based filmmaker working on folk horror, weird shit, punk sci-fi satire and stuff that exudes a cosmic darkness. Progressive humane human. Obsessed with phantasmagoria, perpetually dreich. Sometimes a numpty, always the odd one out. He/him.
On the day my country implements a bathroom ban it means so much to be in a room full of awesome trans people, trans elders, and cool folks working on something amazing ❤️🩹✊ The fight goes on till we’re all free
I will never forgive J.J. Abrams for making an entire era of writers of all formats think that oblique vagueness equals smart, cerebral writing. Mystery boxing can only mask fundamentally bad plotting for so long, y'all.
So the official recommendation is for small businesses to replace male and female single lockable toilets with gender neutral single lockable toilets, thereby protecting women from the risk of being in a women's toilet on their own.
Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 9h agoEHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...
This is awful. Sympathy and solidarity to my trans and nonbinary friends. To those in Labour who think the matter is now closed, you have no idea how badly you've screwed up. This is your Section 28. And to everyone else, if you think you saw someone going into the "wrong" toilets, no you didn't.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 19h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
I’ve given up for the day. It was literally making me nauseous.
Martin O'Leary@strangetea.bsky.social · 6h agoA depressing reality: I am looking for work outside of the the film and TV industry for the first time since 2001. It would appear that every job expects people to act and talk like the most obnoxious contestant on The Apprentice. There’s simply no way I could ever “live for office procurement”.
There will always be people who are born wanting more. People drawn to seek out hidden or forbidden knowledge. They will find us no matter what the AI cultists do. We will be the thorn in their side, the itch they cannot scratch, the shadow that slips across the alley at night and makes them shiver.
We haven't lost. We hadn't lost in the Dark Ages when only the monastries and the madrassas kept the Antique flame burning, and there are more of us this time around.
I am sad and depressed but mostly ANGRY.
Martin O'Leary@strangetea.bsky.social · 7h agoIt would seem even the most basic video editing job now aggressively demands you have to be a gen AI user. Gen AI is destroying the planet and its use diminishes critical and mental facalties. In the case of children, recent research reveals that it stops their brains from developing properly.
Destroying the arts is also their goal. Art and culture provokes thought and ideas. That’s something the Epstein class does not want you to have. I can’t believe so many people cannot see this for what it is. We may have already lost but I’m fucked if I will ever comply with this evil.
This is a coup against the masses being carried out unopposed by the Epstein class, the one percenters, to reduce the workers of the world, to strip them of their intelligence and will. They want the peasantry back and they are the feudal overlords holding the whip.
It would seem even the most basic video editing job now aggressively demands you have to be a gen AI user. Gen AI is destroying the planet and its use diminishes critical and mental facalties. In the case of children, recent research reveals that it stops their brains from developing properly.
I wish others would be like Drew. Everyone else seems utterly convinced we are redundant and expired, that they can just say press the button that says AI and make all their problems go away. We’ve been replaced by enslopification generators and next to no one cares.
Drew McWeeny@drewmcweeny.com · 7h agoMad respect for post-production in general. @craigceravolo.bsky.social just worked a miracle on an upcoming HIP POCKET episode, and my entire creative career, I have been amazed at what a good post team can accomplish and transform and elevate.
A depressing reality: I am looking for work outside of the the film and TV industry for the first time since 2001. It would appear that every job expects people to act and talk like the most obnoxious contestant on The Apprentice. There’s simply no way I could ever “live for office procurement”.
Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps
And centrist Democrat Islamophobia too. Already seeing libs saying they’re not voting for him in Michigan, the very thing they accused Arab Americans of doing in 2024.
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 7h agoThe Republican Party has a new enemy in Michigan, and they really want you to know his name: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Apparently it’s unprofessional to have a murdered son
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 8h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
"lololololllllll! Old horror movies aren't scary to us, the audience of ninety years after they were made! So cringe!" Influencers were a mistake.
A Stephen Miller production, written by Ben Shapiro.
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 12h ago"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com
If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.
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There are girls who disappeared, who may be buried on that ranch, and this administration is blocking the investigation. And mass media is ignoring it. I'm a generally optimistic guy, but I have to say: We live in evil times. www.kcra.com/article/new-...
State of New Mexico sues Justice Department and Todd Blanche, saying they blocked its Epstein probe
The state of New Mexico has sued the Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, saying the federal government has blocked it from carrying out its own investigation into Jeffrey E...
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I wish others would be like Drew. Everyone else seems utterly convinced we are redundant and expired, that they can just say press the button that says AI and make all their problems go away. We’ve been replaced by enslopification generators and next to no one cares.
Drew McWeeny@drewmcweeny.com · 7h agoMad respect for post-production in general. @craigceravolo.bsky.social just worked a miracle on an upcoming HIP POCKET episode, and my entire creative career, I have been amazed at what a good post team can accomplish and transform and elevate.
It would seem even the most basic video editing job now aggressively demands you have to be a gen AI user. Gen AI is destroying the planet and its use diminishes critical and mental facalties. In the case of children, recent research reveals that it stops their brains from developing properly.
It’s said if you lick the incisors Dagon will give you a special gift.
M31🍁@m31author.bsky.social · 9h agoa dredging boat collected a set of dentures with an oyster attached to them from the Chesapeake Bay. The strange specimen was sent to the Smithsonian Institution, where it has remained since — but not without pushback from several toothless individuals claiming ownership of the dentures
Because we were all yearning for a rom-com where the meet cute was a John Carpenter font text crawl.