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Darkest Timeline JDP

@jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social

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Writer of fictions and things / slayer of small literary journals and music mags / host of the Cinema Shame podcast / @007hertzrumble on the Twitter / creator of #Bond_age_ / collector of physical media / imbiber of coffee and bourbon

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 20

#civildisobedience

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 10h

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 10h

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 10h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

1. Bill Evans
2. Wu-Tang Clan
3. Toad the Wet Sprocket
4. The Cure
5. Talking Heads
6. Massive Attack
7. CHVRCHES
8. Arctic Monkeys

Close enough I guess.

Alan Cernobite @alancerny.bsky.social · 11h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

1 R.E.M.
2 John Williams
3. Nirvana
4 Lemonheads
5 Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü/Sugar)
6 Neutral Milk Hotel
7 Nine Inch Nails
8 Jason Isbell

John Carpenter's AJ MacReady @ajmacready.bsky.social · 12h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

1 The Beatles
2 AC/DC
3 Joe Satriani
4 Journey
5 Rush
6 Sarah McLachlan
7 Lamb Of God
8 ...and Tom Petty

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 14h

I prefer selective slasher skeptic.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 18h

Another PS5 controller bites the dust. I’ve never seen a less reliable piece of hardware in 40 years of gaming and I survived the scourge of beat-to-hell Intellivision controller slips.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 18h

If they’re not looking at Leto as a reason for its disappointing numbers, they’re more delusional than I thought. TRON is a niche IP. Putting a disliked actor with a track record of massive flops into a niche IP guarantees you’ve limited your audience to that niche. Just dumb on top of dumb.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Anna Falci.

Dellamorte Dellamore made me the Italian horror lunatic I am today. A real gateway drug.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing Brotherhood in the theater was almost certainly the first time I saw her. Irreparably altered after that experience. Kinda like when I saw Dellamorte Dellamore in the theater just because it was some Italian zombie movie. We learn things.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

good lord yes

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

One would think academic institutions — above all others — would fiercely protect their long-term reputations by sacrificing short-term gains. The capitulation has been disgusting.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

The more that step forward the less risky it should seem to the universities on this list. For every university that stands up, refuses to play ball, his perceived power shrinks. That said, I’m still fearful that my alma mater will get targeted in subsequent rounds of “let’s make a (bad) deal"

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 1d

It was such a pleasure to write the essay for Criterion's 4K+Blu Ray of CAPTAIN BLOOD, a movie I dearly love. And for friends who love commentaries, note that this has one from Curtiz biographer (and fount of knowledge) Alan K. Rode @thetallcinephile.bsky.social www.criterion.com/films/29013-...

The famed swordfight on the beach between Errol Flyn and Basil Rathbone in CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935)

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

1. This is a cool local business selling original designs.

2. Proceeds go to a good cause.

3. This makes me wonder if Abolish ICE will finally make a serious run in the city’s snowplow naming contest this year.

Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 6d

Preorder now! $8 per screenprinted shirt is going to the ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights)

www.harebraineddesign.com

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s why I like THIS one. Excellent choice. BUT THE SOCCER SCENE IS STILL DUMB.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

NONE OF THESE MOVIES WERE MADE IN EUROPE, ALLAN.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Listen, I like the movie — this is the best you can expect from me as you force me to watch slasher movies, none of which were made in Europe.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Right. A player can run down the center of the field straight into the camera, never pass and score goals. The defenders — all 10 of them — are barely entering frame.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Just watched the Drew Struzan documentary on Kanopy.

One of the best to ever do it was also one of the most humble. And I love the awe he inspired in legends like Lucas, Spielberg, and Del Toro.

Made in 2013, but very much a valedictory for both the man and his craft. Timely and touching. #FilmSky

A behind the scenes frame w/ George Lucas and Drew Struzan from Erik Sharkey's DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER (2013).

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhh. Then there’s no excuse for its awfulness. Got it.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

This “soccer” scene has to be among the worst ever captured on film — and that’s saying a lot considering how dumb Americans were (and continue to be) about the game in the 80’s.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

#NowWatching HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (1981) because @cinemashame.bsky.social and #Hooptober

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

The caffeine in coffee is generally 3x higher (perhaps more in a lighter roast) than a black tea, but I still assumed the tea would offset the headaches, maintain my focus — but I was pretty miserable. 😂

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

#EndtheMikePiazzaAd