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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 1h

“Raise A Pint To These AA+PI Craft Breweries”

"Lederhosen. Tyrolean hats. Dirndls. Keg tosses and Masskrugstemmen. Presumably, beards. These are counted among the tropes that come to mind each year during annual Oktoberfest celebrations, the world’s largest Volksfest, marrying a funfair atmosphere…

“Raise A Pint To These AA+PI Craft Breweries”

"Lederhosen. Tyrolean hats. Dirndls. Keg tosses and Masskrugstemmen. Presumably, beards. These are counted among the tropes that come to mind each year during annual Oktoberfest celebrations, the world’s largest Volksfest, marrying a funfair atmosphere to a beer hall brouhaha. Plenty of breweries in the United States, even the ones that don’t strictly identify with German heritage, tend to commemorate the occasion anyway, for the simple reason of “why not?” That’s as good of a reason as any to throw a party—as far as the average craft brewery is concerned.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 1h

“Saluting General, The Feline Hero Of Horror Cult Classic ‘Cat’s Eye’”

Cat mode, activated.

“Saluting General, The Feline Hero Of Horror Cult Classic ‘Cat’s Eye’”

Cat mode, activated.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 2h

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 2h

meeting people where they're at is better organizing than dunking for clout. mother jones and subcomondante marcos would smack you silly

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14h

Great 🧵; this is the main point. If the President can spend money on whatever he wants without congressionally mandated appropriations we don't have separation of powers, or even really a constitutional republic (at least under the terms of our constitution). We just don't.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

So just how bad is this? I got a text from an appropriator friend saying "The Republic has fallen. Pack it in."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17h

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 15h

BUGONIA: **. Bleh-gonia. I keep saying I’m throwing in the towel with this guy and his naval-gazing shtick, but I keep coming back to watch him work; I regret that decision more now than with any of his other movies.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 19h

EVIL DEAD 2
ONIBABA
A WOUNDED FAWN
CARNIVAL OF SOULS

Danny Bowes @dannybowes.bsky.social · 19h

The Innocents
The Night of the Living Dead
The Shining
Possession

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 20h

In 2025, the value of articles like these is, or should be, next to nil. You can find recommendations of films like NEAR DARK dating back over literal actual years and beyond; and if self-professed horror fans have not seen these movies yet, they’re never going to bother.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 22h

Who’s a good kitty? General, that’s who, defender of winsome kiddos, slayer of horrible soul-sucking wall trolls, conveniently placed obstacle for nefarious crime bosses in need of a good trip out of a window.

Pop Heist @popheist.com · 22h

Cinema is filled with heroic canines, but General, the feline lead of the Stephen King anthology 'Cat's Eye,' is the truest of horror heroes. Read the latest from @crumpandy.bsky.social for Heistoween

Saluting General, the Feline Hero of Horror Cult Classic 'Cat's Eye' - Pop Heist

Cinema is filled with heroic canines, but General, the feline lead of the Stephen King anthology 'Cat's Eye,' is the truest of horror heroes.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 22h

hell yeah

A Shadow Over KENsmouth (Ken Lowe) @illusiveken.bsky.social · 1d

If #GhostOfYotei makes you wanna watch samurai flicks that inspired it, check out the list I organized for @pastemagazine.bsky.social w/ @sinacolad.bsky.social @thesaintoftous.bsky.social @jimvorel.bsky.social & @crumpandy.bsky.social .

www.pastemagazine.com/movies/samur...

Lotta great ones!

The 50 Best Samurai Movies of All Time

Across eras, across types of weapons and armor, there remains the bushido code that compels us. Here are the 50 best samurai movies:

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 2d

oh fuck all the way off with this

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 2d

I would, however, take great joy in an outcome where Ben, Kari, and Indy get invited to next year's Academy Awards, because I dunno, guys: they deserve it.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 2d

it's impossible for me to think of the recent "FYC: Indy" campaign as anything other than a cutesy bit, though I'm not against it; it's just that, ignoring the definitional hoops the pooch has to jump through to make the cut, he had no idea that he was in a movie, as Ben and Kari mention here.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 13d

I did in fact e-meet GOOD BOY's Indy for a blink before he trotted off camera. He is a dog; he has better things to do. Humans don't, so Ben Leonberg and Kari Fischer and I had a good chat about Stephen King, John Carpenter, and animal companionship without him, for @thedailybeast.bsky.social.

Meet Indy the Dog, Star of the Buzzy Horror Movie ‘Good Boy’

The hottest star in cinema right now is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever named Indy—and we landed an interview.

www.thedailybeast.com

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

“This Is the Scariest Movie Shark of the Year”

"Da dum," but in an Australian accent.

“This Is the Scariest Movie Shark of the Year”

"Da dum," but in an Australian accent.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

5 Gems From IFFBoston ’25

Look, better six months late than never, guys.

5 Gems From IFFBoston ’25

Look, better six months late than never, guys.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

psa for my fellow guys who are dudes: women really like it when you express genuine interest in their wants and needs and preferences and pursuits and hobbies and such! it’s a big green flag! be curious! ask them about themselves! cmon cmon

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 3d

Also kind of telling that we’ve evolved from “men asking pick up artists for tips on getting women” to “men asking computers for tips on getting women” and continue to completely ignore asking women what they like

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have artwork?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 4d

he doesn’t even get the Dr. Manhattan quote right, either , which is either the saddest or scariest part

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

To drive the point home: BEAST OF WAR does this better than any movie since JAWS; and also does it *nearly* as well as JAWS, where open water shapeshifts suddenly into death with fins, a'la Bruce attacking Brody in the Orca's cabin as it sinks.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 6d

It's the way that one minute, there is water; and the next, there is a gaping maw jammed full of blades sharp enough to make CutCo look like they're selling butter knives. From nothing comes death. All you'll find in the ocean is teeth and hunger.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly? I want to see the two of them make another horror film again. That's all!

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

As in, you can pick up on the panic Ngo brings into the film as its author via its technical qualities, and which is then enhanced by Tran's performance. They dovetail like she's picking up his script and putting her own author's stamp on it.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

CONTROL FREAK: ***1/2. I rather liked this more on a revisit than my first go-round; the pacing remains asperous, but the elements that work exemplify what happens in a horror movie when a director and their lead's subconsciouses bleed together. The exercise gains overwhelming sensational effect.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 6d

It's the way that one minute, there is water; and the next, there is a gaping maw jammed full of blades sharp enough to make CutCo look like they're selling butter knives. From nothing comes death. All you'll find in the ocean is teeth and hunger.