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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 31m

Oh man.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 40m

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 59m

It will be the prelude to eating my ass

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 1h

Movie posters really suck now. No riz whatsoever. #rip

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 3h

It’s ok to strongly believe in literary excellence, and to read and love “canonized” works, it’s also very important that you read as much smut and trash as you can. Keeps you young

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 13h

There have always been long movies, but I feel like the pointed complaining about movie length these days prevails because
1) a lot of franchise movies do suck
2) now tv episodes are way too long, because streaming has no limits. Everybody is absorbing a bigger meal with nearly everything they watch

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 13h

A movie can be as long as it needs to be. If a television show is over an hour an episode it better be fuckin’ Columbo

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ACLU @aclu.org · 15h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 16h

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 21h

I mean just to give him some perspective. He could just coast on John Carpenter’s Vampires, Salvador, Scary Movie 2, Northfork, it didn’t have to be this way.

Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 21h

I replied to James Woods several times about his segment from Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye, “Quitter’s Inc.”
Usually when he said his trademark appalling stuff. Just to remind him of his nice work in one segment of a cable tv horror anthology staple.
It’s good that I’m not on that site anymore, I guess

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 1d

If you have any objections to joining a mass march/protest against this government that fall along those lines I’m going to assume you’re not an adult

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 1d

The dumbest people just never go away, huh

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

Oh honey what is you doing

Antitrust fetishist Matt Stoller picking a fight with Derek dieworkwear

Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 1d

They’re starting to speak of him in the past tense

Some Trump-humping weirdo posting about Trump:
“President Trump will go down in history as the most fiercely persecuted political figure, relentlessly pursued by vicious political attacks, slanderous media coverage, and shameless witch hunt lawsuits! Yet, through sheer grit and unyielding resolve, President Trump rose above it all and showed the world that he is the MOST consequential and transformative US President and World Leader EVER!!”

Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 2d

The People Under The Stairs (easily)
Followed by
The Serpent and The Rainbow
The Last House on the Left
The Hills Have Eyes
Deadly Friend
Swamp Thing

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

What do you think is Wes Craven’s best film that isn’t part of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or SCREAM franchises?

I feel like everyone will have a different answer and that’s really interesting to me.

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 2d

Listen, I have been cycling through the Siskel and Ebert run, sequentially, starting in the late 70s when they were on Chicago PBS, and what am I supposed to do when Allen’s movies are on the show and getting praised? Am I supposed to be mad at them?

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 2d

Like, it is meaningless to other people, full stop. Do what you want, either way. Besides, there was a time Before the bad thing happened, and if you want to know about the culture at that time, you’ll probably have to watch Manhattan and Annie Hall! Or don’t! It is all voluntary

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to honor Diane Keaton by watching Annie Hall, knock yourself out. You don’t have to make sure everyone knows you have Good Person points before you do it. Actually, you don’t even have to post about it? Pressing play on something is not a moral conundrum. You’re not *that* important

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll bet!!!!

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 3d

Not for nothing, but as far as “acclaimed” goes, Ebert dropped 4 bags of popcorn on the first one

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 3d

At a certain point you gotta stop acting like a movie had no footprint just because you hadn’t thought about it in a while

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure Tron did extremely well on VHS and cable.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 3d

This thumbnail is why we need a 4k upgrade for Salo

Jesse @eegah.bsky.social · 4d

No, sorry, you don’t get to talk like this unless you’re out there somewhere in the action. The costumed dancers are doing more than you until they’re not