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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 1d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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CreepyPasta Ben @pastaben.bsky.social · 7h

seen a recent increase in leftist anti-covid-prevention takes. all i’m gonna say is I know people who’ve got long covid, they’re not making that shit up, and they feel utterly abandoned and betrayed by society. if you don’t know someone like that, you will someday. be safe out there, pals!

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 11h

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Kyle Thomas @kylehemingway.com · 2d

Happy Anita Bryant Pie Day to all who celebrate.

Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com

YouTube video by NBCUniversal Archives

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 5d

I genuinely adore that review from the person who paid $1400 to see Waiting for Godot and at intermission was like “this is a waste of my time” and left

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 11d

I guess then people say or imply things with the plays they choose to make? Or maybe that’s just a continuation of doing things.

But I do think this is a bit semantics - do you get my intent here even if my words aren’t exact?

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 11d

(I also think just a few years ago I wrote off plays as not saying anything, when what some of them were actually saying was “here is how to care for each other in the messiest of interpersonal circumstances”

and that can be a valuable lesson at anytime!)

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Grandmaster B-Hud @yodacat.bsky.social · 11d

Is this a thing people would like?

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 11d

Brecht wouldn’t be happy with me, but that’s fine. Being a full human being means living in paradox.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 11d

but right now I need this play as much as I need the plays about climate change, about organizing and labor, about war and genocide, about complicity and complacency.

I need both.

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 11d

and look, candidly, I’m biased! I’m working on a fun play right now that takes place in a fantasy world where trans people can search for love and the audience knows everything will end up okay

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 11d

I am very suspicious of theatres and producing orgs that Only put forward plays that ignore the problems of our time!

but I’m not convinced producing or writing one fun play is equivalent to ignoring our world’s problems

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 11d

if you had asked me just five years ago if there was room for fun, silly, rompish plays that don’t “Say Anything,” I probably would’ve said no but I’ve really come around on this

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 13d

I will recommend Peking Opera Blues to anyone who will listen

Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 13d

my picks for what to watch this weekend, selected from the Criterion Channel's amazing Hong Kong Classics collection. most are also streaming elsewhere, if you are not a Criterion subscriber (but if there was ever a month to be one...) pvguide.ghost.io/weekend-watc...

Weekend Watchlist 10/3: Hong Kong Classics

Here's what to watch this weekend

pvguide.ghost.io

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14d

Memorizing this

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 15d

very excited to have this out there! was a blast talking to Jason about this movie

Sports Movies That Don't Suck @sportsmoviespod.bsky.social · 15d

Episode 1 is live, talking I, Tonya with @jasonkirk.fyi! Listen on most major podcast platforms, or on Patreon, where you can become a member, support our work, and access exclusive content www.patreon.com/posts/i-tony...

I, Tonya with Jason Kirk -- Season 1, episode 1 | Sports Movies That Don't Suck

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 19d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 19d

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 21d

happy to share a project I've been working on with @austeng.bsky.social for the past few months -- Sports Movies That Don't Suck, a podcast about sports movies that don't suck! more info to come soon

Sports Movies That Don't Suck @sportsmoviespod.bsky.social · 21d

Coming soon: Sports Movies That Don't Suck, a podcast about sports movies that don't suck, from @austeng.bsky.social and @petevolk.bsky.social.

Here's our season 1 lineup! More info soon.

Teaser for Season 1 of Sports Movies That Don't Suck, featuring Season 1 guests Hector Diaz, Brian Grubb, Jason Kirk, Carson Lund, WIllow Catelyn Maclay, Ryan Nanni, Marc Normandin, Joshua Rivera, Seth Rosenthal, David Roth, and Samit Sarkar; with Season 1 movies The Iron Claw, The Sandlot, I, Tonya, I Will Buy You, Bull Durham, Sudden Death, Happy Gilmore, Warrior, Space Jam, Eephus, and Slap Shot

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 24d

i will take care of all your dogs after the rapture dm me

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24d

#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526...

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · 25d

i feel like when i don't have nipples anymore i will become a more enlightened being

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Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social · 27d

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

A Condition Took Away The Use Of My Hands. Silksong Helped Me Rehab Them - Aftermath

Last year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollar...

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Tristan Willis @tristanbwillis.bsky.social · Feb 15

I still exist!

A screenshot from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Utena, a pink-haired girl wearing shorts and a school uniform blazer with epaulets, lays on the ground, almost broken. Her fist is pounded against the ground, the arm ready to lift her back up. The captions say “I still exist!”

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