T. Darr
@yesquite.bsky.social
Screenwriter, editor, mediocre drummer, helicopter dog parent.
Absolutely Fabulous: Patsy & Edina's Door Exit
Alt: Absolutely Fabulous: Patsy & Edina's Door Exit
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Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 2mo ago"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.
Steely Dan: better than Talking Heads Bring your malice.
Der Geisterfresser@lighter.bsky.social · 2mo agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Hell yes. I’ve been saying this since 1992. New Order has given us a dozen absolute banger classics. My related hot take is… Joy Division was simply not good.
Der Geisterfresser@lighter.bsky.social · 2mo agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · 2mo agoPixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
Looking at the massive anti-competitive consolidation in the production, processing, distribution, and sale of food, and assuming that the federal government will continue to do nothing about it, you treat it as a market failure like Hayek would. Many cities already did this with electricity.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2mo agoPolitics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.
Great Moments in Cinematic Editing… The impossibly long tracking shot in Goodfellas. The bone-to-spaceship match cut in 2001. The 90-degree turn in Fury Road car chases. And now this.
rue@deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 3mo agoJim Cramer’s career longevity is a baffling mystery, like the placebo effect or the fairy circles of the Namib desert.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3mo agoWrote an 8000 word piece artfully framing ai data centers as the subprime mortgages of AI, only for Jim Cramer to outdo me by saying that he “likes data centers so much he wished he lived in one”
God I wish I could’ve taken him out for lunch or a beer. He might’ve been a prick, but he was right. And consider how long his career was. He encountered every species of Hollywood and publishing fuckery.
Aaron J. Waltke@goodaaron.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhether you agree with his (self-admittedly) cantankerous opinions, Harlan Ellison was truly a force to be reckoned with. I think about this interview often — especially when young writers ask me how to make a living as one.
So 1999, famously an extraordinarily great year for movies. An explosion of wild creativity right before Y2K. I declare this the official changeover from Gen X/Oregon Trail gen movies to millennial films. Pick anything you want, post-2000, but 99 is ours. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of American films of 1999 - Wikipedia
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Otto Burr@mikeall.bsky.social · 4mo agowhat is the definitive millennial movie
Prop comedy, crowd work, natural charisma, total confidence in the material. He could be a brilliant ornithologist, or a famous comic, or he might just lead the bird army through the gates of hell and defeat the forces of evil.
Kristi Yamaguccimane@wapplehouse.bsky.social · 4mo agoFew people ever find a niche passion that intersects with a niche talent and at an age when they’re unapologetic about both. Before the world says “you should be embarrassed.” He’s gonna end up being a world renowned ornithological researcher or educator.
One dog did this in two minutes. Original post
fun fact about the crushing weight of human history: the city of Ugarit was abandoned ~3000 years ago. previously to this, it was continually inhabited for >7000 years. and the people who settled it would have ALSO understood themselves as the inheritors to a history that is now totally lost to us
This is why socialists have to use a more expansive definition of “working class.” Everyone without independent wealth, who must sell their labor to survive, is one layoff, breakup, serious illness, burglary, house fire, rent hike, arrest, etc. from losing everything. That’s class unity.
Ectoplasma Ring@plasmaring.bsky.social · 5mo agoso like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
Fear not. The CEOs of all the airlines will go to Trump (offering tributes/benevolences/bribes, bending over to present their bare asses) and gently explain that this stupid fuck’s plan will halt ALL int’l flights throughout the US, cause global chaos, and bankrupt their companies.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis plan is actively *insane.* Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they'd just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.
Texas blues legend Rock Romano is also an abstract expressionist whose paintings shimmy off the canvas and ask us to dance. They breathe and celebrate. All those bright colors make me feel a bit hungry too. On display at Houston’s Redbud Arts Center in June. www.redbudartscenter.com/rock-romano
Neuroscientists say that people who enjoy extreme wealth and influence for many years are so incapable of grasping the quotidian experiences of normal people (empathy is too abstract) that they functionally have brain damage. That’s why Cuban thinks his maid buys his artisanal cheeses at a bodega.
Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis will make some folks mad :). The best way for these grocery stores to work is if they use AI to get an edge over private grocery stores. AI is the one way for the state government to out perform private enterprises.
He gets one American flag patch for each testicle. Sorry, ladies. No balls, no flair.
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 5mo agoThe longer you look at this, the worse it gets
Yeah, Idris Elba and James Purefoy were my potential favorite Bonds, but time has its way with us all. (Still think Elba could nail it and he deserves better than that goofy H/jack show.)
Micah@rincewind.run · 5mo agodeeply annoyed that Idris Elba is too old at this point, he’ll always be the one that got away for Bond for me Dev Patel is an interesting idea but I kinda hope Gold picks someone we don’t really know and they kill it, she’s pretty good at that
Fellow screenwriters take note. Particularly if you’re into writing period biopics. This amazing story deserves the cinematic treatment. #scriptsky #filmsky #screenwriting
This Many Years Ago@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 5mo ago164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️
Every zeptosecond of my reality should be a bespoke experience during which I get to lift my leg and piss all over the work of the few people whose souls are still capable of creating, not just consuming. Strap a feed bag to my face and load it with algorithmically customized entertainment slurry.
Don Bones @donbones.bsky.social · 5mo agoI dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want?
QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
Hannibal Lecter's Chilling Smile
ALT: Hannibal Lecter's Chilling Smile
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Dave Mueller@dave-mueller.bsky.social · 5mo agoQRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
a man in a cowboy hat is sitting in a chair and says " i mean the nature of you "
ALT: a man in a cowboy hat is sitting in a chair and says " i mean the nature of you "
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Joshferatu Scare@joshscherr.bsky.social · 6mo agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
two women are sitting in a theater watching a movie and one is wearing a pink shirt that says " i love you " on it
Alt: A gif from the David Lynch movie Mulholland Drive, which Baudrillard wrote about when unpacking the concept of hyperreality. Two panicked women sit in a theater.
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Nicky 2@nickyflowers.com · 6mo agoFINE okay i get it. i will read Baudrillard
This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs
Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans
Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle...
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