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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 1d

Bas Rutten should option his origin story for a martial arts movie, Bully of Bullies

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So she had so much work with me, I never wanted to bother with her that I was bullied, because I’m pretty sure that if my dad would’ve known, I don’t think he would’ve said, “Take him off.” I believe he would’ve said, “Keep him on there, because this is good for him.” But that’s where everything came from, because then I realized, “Wait a minute, that was easy.” So now I went after the bullies, all these bullies. I literally made a list. I went to every single one of them, I had a — and other kids in school who got bullied, guess who took care of that problem? Now I was the bully, the bully guy. I took care of all the bullies, so. And that was it. My mom and dad, they took me off, what I said, from taekwondo. But then, when I was 20, I moved out of the house. Immediately, I started doing karate, not realizing it was not full contact. So then I started Thai boxing within six months, and then, within three months, I started competing in Thai boxing. And one thing led to another, and bada bing, bada boom, now I’m here, talking to you.

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 1d

Quote skeet this post with someone you wish was still alive

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Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social · 1d

RIP dear Diane

Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d

In the original Broadway cast of Hair, 1968 (photo by Richard Avedon)

B & W photo of Diane Keaton with the original cast of Hair. She has her hands to her face and a startled, somewhat bleary expression, as if she's emerging from a daze.

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Postlethwaite never gave a bad performance and elevated every movie he was in

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 1d

#Chicago restaurant and business owners: Please print, post, and share these door signs. Let Homan’s bounty hunters know they’re 𝘯𝘰𝘵 welcome to invade your establishment.

NOTE: You have the right to refuse service to anyone carrying a weapon or creating a threatening atmosphere for your patrons.

Printable door sign reading:

NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IMMIGRATION AGENTS

[STOP sign symbol]

NO ICE ENTRY

• Private Property - Entry Restricted by Law In this Business Without a Judicial Warrant Signed by a Judge

• This is a private business - You are not permitted to enter non-public areas.

• You may not search the premises or question employees without proper legal authorization.

• Any persons on this property have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

• An ICE administration warrant - Form I-200 or I-205 - does not authorize entry into private areas.

[Lower bar]

In compliance with The Constitution of the United States of America, 4th amendment and The Immigrant Worker Protection Act AB 450

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 1d

Bas Rutten should option his origin story for a martial arts movie, Bully of Bullies

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 1d

Isabella Rossellini's edutainment videos on the mating practices of insects and sundry invertebrates are little bursts of joy

Bee - Green Porno

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d

Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy

Inferno, Canto X: Many artists have attempted to illustrate Dante Alighieri's epic poem the Divine Comedy, but none have made such an indelible stamp on our collective imagination as the Frenchman ...

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 1d

My mom has loved Diane Keaton since Annie Hall, and the best Christmas gift I've ever given her was a copy of Keaton's memoir I had her sign and personalize at a reading event in DC. I had mom unwrap it while on the phone and can still hear her disbelieving "Are you serious??" RIP to a real one. 2/2

Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton was in "better" movies, but The First wives club came out when my parents were in the midst of a miserable divorce, and it became one of my mom's favorite movies. 1/2

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The First Wives Club - You Don't Own Me

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 2d

The most consistent narrative throughline of this film is Mark Kerr and Mark Coleman's relationship, and that's not an exaggeration

Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 2d

In our newest episode @benverschoor.bsky.social digs into the homoeroticism of The Smashing Machine.
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To consummate that love would be to destroy it

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 2d

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.

Street Fighter II 1994 Ending scene 4K

YouTube video by FilmClips

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 4d

New episode with @benverschoor.bsky.social is now live! We're talking Tooth Fairy, we're talking lip sync music scenes, we're talking about a non Sopranos film with a lot of Sopranos actors, we're talking about Dwayne taking the Oscar challenge 2k25!
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Mise en Screen: Episode 12: The Smashing Machine

The Smashing Machine is a 2025 film directed, written, produced, and edited by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr, Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, Ryan Bader as Mark Coleman, and Bas R...

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4d

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
@CRXSSF4DE
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 6d

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 5d

He had an omniscient player on hand to shoot him with a slingshot if he let his mind wander, *obviously*

わたしがExceed Gunblaze Vengeanceわけないじゃん、ムリムリ！（※ムリじゃなかった!?） @takamomchi.bsky.social · 10d

how has this author never gotten invasive thoughts about pac man the new adventures on the snes

W hat is a Final Fantasy?
It’s an odd question to
ask, but not uncommon
these days, likely
because there is no easy answer. Why
uniquely ask it of this franchise? After
all, for all its changes from 2D to 3D and
its many spinoffs, nobody really ever
seems to ask what a Mario game is.
Have you ever heard anyone ask what a
Pac-Man game is? Zelda has undergone

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 6d

My buddy Zelda has very strong opinions on this stuff. A reminder that her dad left explicit instructions that he did NOT want corporations to be able to do this to him and that means us too. The bare minimum here is to respect the wishes of those who said NO.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
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 puppeteering 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.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 9d

Gotta love PTA getting Leo to do his own meme in the context of armed revolutionaries

Leonardo DiCaprio, pointing. You know the one.

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 9d

As more people are seeing One Battle After Another be sure to listen in on @benverschoor.bsky.social and I's conversation about the film as well as two revolutionary themed films, one of which is a very funny one given the content of a specific OBAA scene.
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Mise en Screen: Episode 11: One Battle After Another

Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant hol...

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 11d

Is Godzilla 1998 worse than 9/11? Tune in to find out!

Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 11d

Our latest episode covers One Battle After Another with an extended non spoiler and full spoiler section, but first @benverschoor.bsky.social gets to relive one of the worst Roland Emmerich movies.
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Mise en Screen: Episode 11: One Battle After Another

Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant hol...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 11d

It me

Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 11d

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