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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 11h

rewatching Once. Nothing about it should work. Filmed on a potato with no lighting, looks like shit. Non-actors doing improvised dialogue filmed illegally in public spaces or at friends' houses. Basically no plot. And yet Once is nearly perfect, one of the best movies ever made

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 11h

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory (1991)
Episode 4 - Attack and Retreat on the Burning Sand
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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 12h

Four original Sondheim numbers. Add another one or two it would have been the top gross of the year. Ten and you’re talking Best Picture.

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 1d

Nap time in the sunny spot.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 15h

The room Hudson interrogated Lucas in was a conference room in that same building. Word is seaQuest was allowed to shoot on these locations for far below standard rate because Michael Eisner was trying to win favor with Spielberg for future productions.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 15h

Since recording, we looked up the UEO conference location that confused us. It was filmed in the central rotunda of the Team Disney building in Orlando, which is also a working sundial.

Aerial photograph of the Team Disney building in Orlando, FL looking down into the sundial atrium

Photograph of ground level within the Team Disney building in Orlando, FL, showing the gravel courtyard and 3rd floor observation catwalk

Photograph looking up from within the Team Disney building in Orlando, FL showing the sundial casting its shadow on the gradations on the wall meant for reading it.

Photograph of the exterior facade of the Team Disney Building in Orlando, FL

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 14h

2 lessons from the Peacemaker s2 finale:
- If you’re working for the carceral state, fuckin quit
- TV shows love to jump universes so they can bring Lochlyn Munro back from the dead.

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SnuggleBeast (Alaina) @snugglebeast.bsky.social · 15h

Mokey made a sign for all the runners today. It's pretty cute.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 18h

People who just ran 16 miles and still have 10 miles ahead of them are desperate for tissues.

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 21h

Got ourselves a spot on Jackson to cheer this year’s runners and hand out tissues, snacks, anti-chafe spray, etc.

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 21h

It’s too bad the original runner from the battle of marathon to the city of Athens wasn’t chip timed.

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 2d

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 22h

Remember when Christ went Gear 5 on the beast with seven horns? Peak.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 1d

I also got Pig cast on me but it’s not as funny as sad frog.

Screenshot of the iOS version of the Final Fantasy IV 3D Remake. Cecil the dark knight has been turned to a pig. He thinks to himself “Can this mountain truly wash away my bloodstained past?”

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 1d

Meet Captain Hudson, the man who will get the seaQuest crew in line whether they like it or not. Because underneath the science labs and dolphin tubes it’s the only gun big enough to save the UEO from itself. Welcome to 2032: rss.com/podcasts/wsk...

Brave New World | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

Season 1, episode 1: Brave New WorldWritten by Clifton CampbellDirected by Anson WilliamsIt's been ten years since seaQuest disappeared to fight the space war, and the oceans have changed. It's a new ...

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019."

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In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of the iOS version of the Final Fantasy IV 3D Remake. Cecil the dark knight has been turned to a frog. He thinks to himself “Can this mountain truly wash away my bloodstained past?”

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Real upset about the division series. With the Tigers eliminated it falls to me to give my dad a reason to live.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 1d

S/o to the time my roommates and I recovered an old subway billboard for Morning Glory, cut out the headshots, and kept Diane Keaton in our freezer for years.

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Ricky Manning @froonium.bsky.social · 1d

Happiest of birthdays to the incomparable @theclaudiablack.bsky.social, expert kicker of arse and improver of words!

Claudia Black, Ricky Manning, Virginia Hey, and Gigi Edgley (in Chiana makeup) in the Farscape production office, a frelling quarter of a century ago

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a guy on a bike that looked enough like Stephen King I wondered, but not enough like Stephen King to risk asking him.

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 1d

As mentioned in our episode, EPCOT recently brought back the demonstration of the diver in the tube: www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/...

Photos and Video - First Diver Lock-Out Chamber Show in Years Debuts at EPCOT's Seas Pavilion

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WSKRS @wskrs.bsky.social · 1d

The main concourse of Nexus colony was filmed EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion. Here’s some vintage photographs of “Sea Base Alpha”, as it was known to park guests during the time of filming:

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com. Curved, insulated walls and patterned ceilings sell the illusion of a pressurized, undersea facility.

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com. In a central vertical tank a scuba diver swims up above onlookers from a water lock entrance at floor level

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com. Interior of the “hydrolater” that brings guests into Sea Base Alpha. Featured in a shot of Alexander Bourne (Michael York) in seaQuest 2032 episode Brave New World

Photograph of Sea Base Alpha at EPCOT’s Living Seas pavilion, credit retrowdw.com.

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 1d

the most recent season of the x-files was what you'd call a mixed bag, which is still better than the bag of dog shit before it in 2016, but it does contain one of my favorite eps which has this bitter little conversation that i think about a whole fucking lot lately

m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ef...

X Files Dr They

YouTube video by Al Gritzmacher

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