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Media archivist/librarian. Elder millennial. Exiled Californian. Avatar is Jennifer Connelly from Dark City. Banner is a bunch of vintage TV equipment. he/they/any/all

created September 18, 2023

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Could only imagine the level of z's

2/9/2025, 1:38:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Neil Pajamas (@agrippanothing.bsky.social) reposted

Ah man. Graham Greene was a staple of my youth, he was in everything. I loved him most in "Clear Cut". Kind of a small movie but it was important to me and others that were pissed about the logging industry's rampant destruction.

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2/9/2025, 1:34:18 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Shelly Miscavige and at least a few other people are still trapped in a portable trailer somewhere in big bear

2/9/2025, 12:36:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Ive been made to watch it at least 10 times and even took the kids to the theatrical sing along. It's a sickness. Blue dragon tiger and multi eyed bird innocent

2/9/2025, 12:35:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

A wellness bot account ruined this skeet. Evening ruined.

2/9/2025, 12:32:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Oh no my current follower count is the same as the most mediocre Sony 1st party developer for PS1 games

2/9/2025, 12:23:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

He saw the Connolly and Feinstein obits and wanted none of that heat

1/9/2025, 11:45:48 PM | 46 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Megan E. Zombi (@zombiscribe.bsky.social) reposted

A picture of animated Lydia from the Beetlejuice cartoon with the caption “the entire month of September is Halloween Eve”
1/9/2025, 4:54:01 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September

1/9/2025, 10:58:52 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture PBS News (@pbsnews.org) reposted

Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why? David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."

1/9/2025, 10:51:41 PM | 1045 170 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shelley Stamp (@shelleystamp.bsky.social) reposted

An absolute legend.

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1/9/2025, 10:53:36 PM | 60 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 6:55:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a smokescreen that disregards the deaths involved during the still under construction Death Star II. Whether it was armed and operational is besides the point

1/9/2025, 6:53:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Living in the future by going blind trying to read Howard Chaykin comics by staring into a crt

1/9/2025, 6:32:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

The bad news is I have a child on the autistic spectrum who experiences severe anxiety in public. The good news is that when stressed they say they're "getting nervoust" which sounds adorable coming from a four year old

1/9/2025, 5:12:32 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Way to be a party pooper

1/9/2025, 5:09:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Neal (@james3neal.bsky.social) reposted

"To me, as an academic librarian and professor of education, understanding AI is not just about knowing how to write prompts. It also involves understanding the infrastructure, the trade-offs, and the civic choices that surround AI." -Leo Lo HT @nic221.bsky.social theconversation.com/ai-has-a-hid...

1/9/2025, 5:01:26 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

It's pretty interesting that we haven't heard him authentically talk or communicate beyond a thumbs up. Truth posts don't count

1/9/2025, 5:02:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture poorly drawn cats (@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social) reposted

your month your poorly drawn cat in a hat

a doodle of a cat with a top hat and monocle
1/9/2025, 4:00:34 PM | 519 93 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah but think of the epitaph

1/9/2025, 2:33:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Technical appreciator (@whatahellofawaytodad.com) reposted

Been putting serious thought into giving up the smart watch. Seems more trouble than it's worth, and I have some stylish analog watches available to me

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1/9/2025, 1:24:22 PM | 33 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

He ain't gonna forget the extra sauce you ordered, you can be sure of that

1/9/2025, 1:32:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh boy is he

1/9/2025, 1:24:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gary's List

1/9/2025, 1:03:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Suddenly afraid that I'm going to have a primary care physician in my old age tell me that my humours are out of balance

1/9/2025, 12:28:00 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

That's just built in. It's like complaining about gravity

1/9/2025, 12:26:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Forgot Blank Check Special Features drops today so I had to clear my morning to watch Tank Girl

1/9/2025, 12:25:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture a werebrick (@bigblocks.bsky.social) reposted

to new arrivals: I wish you were not here. I hate you. 100% sincere and genuine. you belong in the comments section of your local NBC affiliate. from the bottom of my heart, fuck you.

1/9/2025, 11:44:50 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

I had a friend ask me if its a "good" movie and I had no idea how to answer that. It's cool looking but they almost killed Sarah Polley

1/9/2025, 12:23:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

I'm sure Warwick Davis needs the work but come on now

1/9/2025, 12:20:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

After sitting with it a couple days I gotta say it: The Monkey should've been the cultural smash that Longlegs was. A much better movie and really shows Perkins' strength as a visualist

1/9/2025, 12:16:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in days

1/9/2025, 3:06:40 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Money can be tight after Atticus wets his beak

1/9/2025, 2:54:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Eric Adams' alma mater:

1/9/2025, 2:53:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trent needs a new pair of designer black pants

1/9/2025, 2:49:04 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not listening to the Tom Cochran original? Allegations aside he is guilty of terrible taste

1/9/2025, 2:46:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Peak sick day cinema

1/9/2025, 2:40:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

I can report a good time was had. Some of the jokes are VERY 2008, like asides on TiVo and Myspace along with a touch more casual misogyny than I'd prefer but it's of the time. It did the job of making me miss the Late Late Show

1/9/2025, 1:58:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Down to my core

1/9/2025, 12:06:50 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

I must abide by my stated rule. Craig Ferguson will be my dinner companion this evening. Thanks!

1/9/2025, 12:02:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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First person to reply gets to decide what I watch from this stack of library dvds

Dvds of Police Squad the series, deathtrap, moonage daydream, Craig Ferguson stand up, fiddler on the roof, HUD, and the Darjeeling limited
31/8/2025, 11:59:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope his lover came to him

31/8/2025, 11:55:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Thinking about that time I saw a really buff dude blaring the song "Rush Rush" by Paula Abdul in a portable speaker outside of a Juice It Up

31/8/2025, 11:54:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

If it really exists then God help us all

31/8/2025, 10:34:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

They haven't made one for what I need yet.

31/8/2025, 10:13:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Tomorrow morning, ACME supermarkets are going to get a very confusing letter show up at their legal office

31/8/2025, 9:41:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

I like imagining the archivists and librarians who get to be the one to be like "hey check this out" in 2108

31/8/2025, 9:39:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Destiny Turns on the Radiohead

31/8/2025, 7:38:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sonja Drimmer (@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social) reposted

Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down

30/8/2025, 7:06:19 PM | 176 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Modern Helen of troy

31/8/2025, 7:25:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Just remember, a lot of our current situation is because her husband spectacularly fumbled their marriage

31/8/2025, 7:22:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted reply parent

"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up

31/8/2025, 1:26:33 PM | 2396 180 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 4:35:47 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture scorpiousting (@scorpiousting.bsky.social) reposted

Stopped everything to watch this amazing video once more

31/8/2025, 2:29:47 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm gonna be staring at this all night

Hands draped without grace or humanity
31/8/2025, 2:02:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

The cop has to point and smile like in a mentos commercial if you get a clean steal

31/8/2025, 2:00:53 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Who looks more awkward with their arms here, Wyle or Višnjić?

31/8/2025, 1:57:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Calling them stupid on a loop doesn’t win. Outsmarting them does.

31/8/2025, 1:50:32 AM | 85 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Id throw the young turks in there

31/8/2025, 1:46:10 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Modern day equivalent would be Minecraft Steve or Five Nights at Freddy's. My kids will survive with sonic and leonardo

31/8/2025, 1:44:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

10/10 would hang above my TV

31/8/2025, 1:39:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tiffany Babb (@explodingarrow.bsky.social) reposted

First attempt at gouache

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31/8/2025, 1:38:38 AM | 19 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Stipe (@michaelstipe.bsky.social) reposted

I can

I can
30/8/2025, 5:14:21 PM | 14023 3374 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Seeing dissonance face to face never stops being strange

30/8/2025, 6:08:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕍∃ (@vortexegg.com) reposted

“Everything that happens is a symbol to be interpreted because everything that happens is connected in a grand narrative” ass mass delusional culture

30/8/2025, 3:24:30 PM | 24 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

TV Carnage or any of the Everything is Terrible Compilations. I have made people on mushrooms watch this while I was their sober friend. Can't speak for them but I certainly had a good time watching them watch these

30/8/2025, 2:29:31 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Watching the Central Park five documentary for work and personal research. The timing is appropriate as we pine for the death of the mad king. Even when he's gone, the American sickness remains

30/8/2025, 2:09:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

An important reminder to get your flash mob dance moves ready. Consider this a drill

30/8/2025, 2:04:11 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember when we kept our intrusive thoughts to ourselves?

30/8/2025, 2:02:11 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

He's supposed to be out golfing today with people debating the semiotics of his pants colors and whether that means something. It's been a typical Saturday morning so far

30/8/2025, 1:57:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

People who should really know better are totally blind to the confirmation bias cottage industry. Garbage sites that aggregate words for SEO and will have something that will agree with you as long as you don't actually read it

30/8/2025, 1:07:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete Skerritt (@peteskerritt.com) reposted

One of the worst things that the internet has enabled is lazy research. People stop as soon as they find one thing— regardless of context/credibility— that supports their belief. “No, see, I’m right! This link says so!” And, half the time (at least), the link ultimately conflicts with that stance.

30/8/2025, 1:03:39 PM | 14 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Guilty as charged

30/8/2025, 4:40:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Kornbluh (@annakornbluh.bsky.social) reposted

love to be film faculty at a university whose tech office deems dvd-bluray obsolete +unilaterally removes all such equipment from classrooms with no notice to nor consult w instructors. def true that nothing worth teaching in film history is unavailable on streaming def they do this to bio labs

29/8/2025, 5:05:02 PM | 225 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

That is the appropriate face when reading something like that

29/8/2025, 6:02:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ (@magicariot.com) reposted

Due to the unending passage of linear time, we have arrived once more unto a day I am required to inform you of Today is Friday, in California

29/8/2025, 2:37:24 PM | 79 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Melville to Jung "how about you go fuck yourself?"

29/8/2025, 2:46:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

I honestly wonder if they really don't think anyone important actually listens to their podcasts

29/8/2025, 2:45:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The truth is that it isn't just one. You must treat your body like a child's chemistry set and dump whatever combination makes the party start

29/8/2025, 2:44:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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William Blake has been bested

29/8/2025, 1:34:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The promise of something resembling friendship?

29/8/2025, 12:12:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Knowing how Lynch felt about watching movies on phones, i wonder what his thoughts were on watching his movie on even worse quality devices. Like that has to be a blurry nightmare on those ancient displays, right?

29/8/2025, 10:56:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bethany Black (@bethanyblack.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I’m going to go outside and just smash some things with a hammer.

29/8/2025, 10:49:30 AM | 42 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

Having a good giggle at the idea of JD vance's stupid face on banners in DC and how quickly they would be defaced. Who would be able to resist?

29/8/2025, 12:57:36 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Comics in the Golden Age (@comicsinthega.bsky.social) reposted

Today's random Peanuts paperback.

28/8/2025, 11:26:04 PM | 192 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

So many forgotten memos lost in those and countless DAT tapes

28/8/2025, 11:45:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Get with the times old man

28/8/2025, 11:32:45 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Person (@papapishu.bsky.social) reposted

A Sega Naomi would fix all my problems.

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28/8/2025, 10:43:48 PM | 169 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Lifeforce is quite the movie to go into cold

28/8/2025, 8:38:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted

great article. We should start calling the movies Celluloidia again www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Then the movies column dropped out for a week; when it resumed it was both unsigned and gossipy, dripping with contempt for the censorious Hays, Sr.:
28/8/2025, 8:19:30 PM | 80 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Romy and Micheles High School Reunion Evil Dead 2 Back to the Future

28/8/2025, 6:53:32 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolute drivel. Fried zucchini fucking slaps

28/8/2025, 6:48:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's the real kicker. All this awful discourse around the presumed power of just the unfunniest dogshit jokes

28/8/2025, 6:13:33 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

There is definitely A LOT to unpack from that one skeet

28/8/2025, 5:51:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 4:59:47 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

Can we be really smug about it at the same time?

28/8/2025, 5:06:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social)

ruin a book by adding "tom clancy's" to the title tom clancy’s house of leaves

28/8/2025, 3:13:18 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture useless username (@uselessusername.bsky.social) reply parent

The insidious part is trying to deny her agency, even as a defense mechanism, does just as much damage in othering women. It shouldn't be treated as some rare thing or an anomaly. The vast majority of people have deeply incoherent politics, so why wouldn't she?

28/8/2025, 10:57:51 AM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Of all the souls I've encountered in my travels, his was the most... human" Hits me every time. Especially after a loss.

28/8/2025, 2:16:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕍∃ (@vortexegg.com) reposted

Anyone who is not working for the co-liberation of all people, while they may not see themselves as allies of fascism, they are not enemies of fascism

28/8/2025, 1:48:13 AM | 18 3 | View on Bluesky | view