rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER out now. prev: THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN
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Feels almost weird that, ten plus years after its run, the biggest star to come out of Orange is the New Black is definitely Danielle Brooks. Like, that’s absolutely what should have happened, and in a timeline as fucked up as this one, that feels like a glitch
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."
I have looked this up before (I love the Oscars specifically for their mistakes) and still I was like "I mean, Sideways, surely a nomination at least?" I almost woulda guessed Big Fat Liar or something over Cinderella Man. And Tucci, like, not even Conclave???? Spotlight?????
Paul Giamatti's only nomination being for Cinderella Man was also in this category but then The Holdovers came along and ruined that
The fact that John C Reilly's only Oscar nomination is for Chicago feels like an analogue for the fact that Stanley Tucci's only nomination is for The Lovely Bones, even though Chicago is like 10x better than The Lovely Bones
John Chamberlain, Tomahawk Nolan, 1965 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136732
bluesky is a little pedantic and facebooky, but twitter is a nightmare to actually post upon. on twitter it's a 90% chance any given post gets zero traction, first of all. but when it does, engagement is 40% nazis, 40% LLMs, and 20% people with master's degrees in reading everything in bad faith
okay THE STUDIO is absolutely terrific, i feel like reviews undersold it
RFK Jr today sounded like Elvis in July 1977, if Elvis had a hideous voice
Blue shells don’t hit you if you’re pure of heart
Blue shells don’t hit you if you’re pure of heart
She is a smart lady also! Just normal cat smart
A view into 1997: my husband was allowed to wear South Park shirts, but not ones in which Kenny McCormick is being killed
Writing a book will drive you about 60% mad and then the remaining 40% will go when it's actually published
I still love it but I definitely can't blame you
Yup, I used to walk to elementary school, and I still live in walking distance of that same school. Which is now closed. And if I have a kid, I will *have* to drive them, pretty much. Kansas is doing great for families, really terrific stuff.
She is a normal level of cat-smart, especially compared to one of our other cats - Frank, who is SO beautiful and SO gross and SO nice and SO stupid. He's a real character.
My husband is convinced that one of our cats is the smartest cat we’ve ever had. She’s not, she’s just very pretty. Wondering what this says about our marriage.
that's why they make it so hard to peel. can't just have all that for free
CONFIRMED: Trump is pro-axe-murderer newrepublic.com/post/198272/...
WHACK JOB mentioned. Thank you Mr. President.
Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2011 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137394
Is Trump ok right now? Idk. Its impossible to know. There's not enough publicly available information. I don't really think it's fair to blame people for speculating, even if wrong, when we're being denied basic info about the situation that we would expect from every other President in history.
Less than two weeks away! Come by the Replay to hear some rad music and words.
How the Trump Death Fantasies Reveal a Democratic Party That Refuses to Face Its Own Flaws, by Some Very Serious Guy at The Atlantic, coming sometime this week, I imagine.
but these are not ai hallucination weird. it doesn't understand how to catch just the edge of someone's body part like a camera can. it doesn't understand light and how a screen can distort a reflection. and the golf photos in the framed art are way too detailed and consistent.
it's also yellow toned. and there are other weird things - there's a distorted reflection from a screen on the art. and there's someone just out of frame who is probably having a terrible weekend, hope she's getting PAID.
that mirror is a stanley kubrick movie. the bevel creates a visual illusion, warping the rails. it seems like we should be able to see the art behind her. but spatially it makes sense! it's angled to show what's above her, and her reflection is very consistent with her appearance. this is not ai!
for sure. this is the best they could do. i'm pretty sure he's alive but seriously incapacitated. i wonder if this is a space at walter reed
i'm very confident that this is not ai generated. the pattern on the carpet, the people behind him, the details of the art, the buttons, the bannisters, the celling, the water bottle by the chair - it's absolutely not AI. his face has been edited but the rest of it, AI can't generate that. and yet
we are going to be looking at this incredibly fascinating photo for decades. his face is absolutely edited but otherwise i am sure this is real and recent. he is falling apart before our eyes. this is not what he looked like a week ago, let alone a year ago. problem is, it still looks fake
cannot get over these people in the background of the proof of life photo. oh he is heavily fucking delayed
A dozen people have come and gone in the parking lot, and I know he is agonizing over pasta options the whole time
My husband loves spending too long in the grocery store. Genuinely very charming.
great day to have not gotten around to starting a substack yet. another win for the procrastination economy
The best part of having a fastidious husband with a nut allergy is that I can double-dip on Nutella
(To be clear, I do not want AI features and would like to avoid them if possible. I'm just not sure if it's a situation like with screens in cars where you basically can't opt out.)
I am shopping for a new tv. Should I be concerned about AI features, or are they just annoying gizmos I can turn off?
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(i'm kidding it's him..... but the GRIMACE he ain't well)
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Can’t wait to see Vance attempt a sense of gravitas
It’ll be funny if republicans try to lecture us for being insensitive. Who was it that irretrievably coarsened the national discourse? Huh bitch????? Huh?????
I mean I assume it’s not happening but any day could be The Day
Go to bed now and miss it or get no sleep and be overtired for the best day in years
Grand Vizier Chat (secret) must be popping off right now.
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
PERFECT, why are we giving these ideas away
There's no way lookalikes haven't been explored if he's in a coma or something, right? They'd have to be weighing their options like "Gary gets the thumbs up just right, but he can't do the YMCA dance. then Ronnie looks great in the hat, perfect lurching posture, but his ankles are way too thin"
even if it's not today, i really needed this
Trump has not been seen in several days and people are running with it, including me lol
So smart of them to wait til Friday before a holiday weekend to drop the news. Like a celebrity divorce in 2003. Exactly the level of dignity with which such an event should be treated
finding AI bullshit on a BOOK FESTIVAL WEBSITE honey what are you DOING
I find myself thinking of Tanacharison a lot
The KS GOP are a bunch of ghouls. Good for the Waubunsee County Sheriff.
Purge Ocean
Amy Adams's daughter goes to college in a couple years and also the industry fucking sucks right now. She's just making some money, she'll be back when they pay her actual money to be in actual movies again
serious l i t e r a l Nazi shit
After all these years of spy shows about incredibly sophisticated and secretive spies who assimilate so well to society that they can't be noticed, and then the literally orange president of the united states is just like "Yeah I tell Russia whatever"
Posted to Reddit by the photographer www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWe...
These divas
one trichotillomaniac knows another, so i could tell travis kelce was nervous as fuck when he was literally pulling his hair out on that episode of new heights where he was apparently about to propose
My doctor’s appointment is in a week, not two and a half weeks. So I have to start acting right TODAY. Or tomorrow, maybe, I have plans today.
Finally got my library card and look what was waiting for me on the shelf, @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social!!!
We're also announcing our November pick now: Whack Job by local author Rachel McCarthy James! @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social #lfk #booksky ravenbookstore.com/book/9781250...
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Oh I loved that movie!
ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?
see.... you're more mature than me lol
all last year i was like "i know i didn't publish a book this year but i should have gotten that"
Jason is that rarest of Taylor Swift fans..... he's been a fan of the music since her debut but does not give a shit about The Narrative. Me, I love The Narrative and this is a landmark day in The Narrative.
Made a joke to my husband that I'm a Swiftie cicada..... most of the time I'm just a casual fan but once every 2-5 years I re-emerge and scream at Jason about her for four weeks straight. This cycle was recently triggered when I watched the whole New Heights episode a couple weeks ago. Good timing.
*their resumes
AND you went to KU. Dye your hair red and no one will know.
And then when that works, open a minimum of 12 more wedding venue variants. You can hire minor figures from the Taylorverse to officiate. She can give Abigail a cushy job for life.
Listen, if I were Taylor Swift, I would get married on one of her many properties and then turn that property into a wedding venue.
Jack Antonoff: and I guess that's how we sorta landed on the bedroom pop feel of Midnights Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]
I hope Andy Reid gets put at a table with the Haim sisters
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This is why I stay off TikTok
If a 23yo is going to tell me that they are so much smarter than everyone around them - something they’ve known to be true since they were eight - and for that reason, we should make them President of the United States? They’re gonna have to give me something fresher than “this is IDIOCRACY, man!”
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early buffy especially though, there's just a lot of axes
ok the s2 episode where there's a spell where everyone is in love with him actually has a lot of axes, which occasions Buffy to say "axe murder", so that's one point in his favor 🪓
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learned today that widespread panic - the southern rock jam band beloved by my husband - recorded a really lovely anti-trump song, which is a pleasant surprise. the guitar solo around 7m is especially great www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL75...
I work with first year college students. Today I had them go around and introduce themselves, and as many of them mentioned books and reading as a hobby as they did video games. There's hope!
🪓 SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE dropping next week! @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social dives deep into the Lizzie Borden case, separating fact from fiction in this legendary axe murder mystery. What really happened in Fall River, 1892? Early access: patreon.com/historyrage Or: Apple subs #TrueCrime #LizzieBorden
Oh, you don't think there will be historians in the future, so my skeet is moot? You think the human race will be wiped out in your lifetime? You think you're a special widdle baby who gets to witness The Final Actual End Of The World? Your mom must have worked hard on knitting you that doomerism
I’m chair of my department, we’ve been directed to integrate “career competencies” more explicitly into our courses, my motto is going to be “don’t let AI deskill you, we can teach you to write”
sometimes i'll remember a random troll reply in my mentions, so i'll go look up their more recent posts and it's like "well.... didn't kms today so that's a win" to zero engagement. man. we've really made a very bleak little internet here
One of my coworkers is clearly getting over a special interest in The Grinch
Or like, any of the cheesy makeup choice and obvious stunt doubles in Buffy! As long as they're actually interacting with a set I'm cool
Mind you he comes from a family of crackheads
