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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3h

Costco cheese pizza is the best chain cheese pizza.

Price + amount of cheese + amount of food + flavor = top cheese pizza

The amount of cheese on one of those bad boys is crazy. It's like a quarter of an inch thick with cheese! No one does that much cheese even when it's a more expensive pizza!

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 13h

Oh but who is even going to a Chappell Roan concert? Mostly people under 45 and heavily weighted toward women (who vote more than men) and also it was a crowd of 40,000 people? But like who even is that?

Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 13h

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 13h

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

EXACTLY. $1B for a movie that is by many accounts almost unwatchable. And teens have ALWAYS loved horror. Why is horror doing so well right now? Because it's the one genre that hasn't left teens and 20 somethings behind.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

You have to be able to legally drink to even have strong memories of seeing the last TRON movie in a theater. ARES was a movie made for my generation and we don't need third spaces the way Gen Alpha and Gen Z do.

I don't know when Hollywood forgot about making movies for teenagers, but come on guys

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

There's so little for teens at the box office that Netflix released a movie that had been streaming for two months already and it still made $18M in just one weekend. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is a great example of doing it right in 2025.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

I want to make it perfectly clear I've got nothing against TRON: ARES. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

But what I want most is for the younger generations to love going to the movies, which means we need more movies for them. Not every movie needs to be for 50 year old white guys.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

Who knew that giant inflatable frog costumes were the perfect protest outfit because they can deflect pepper balls while also making anyone who gets mad at you look like a huge doofus?

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly it didn't occur to me until right now, so yes, I will now take credit for ALL of this.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

Who knew that giant inflatable frog costumes were the perfect protest outfit because they can deflect pepper balls while also making anyone who gets mad at you look like a huge doofus?

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for a deep hole I can climb into and just be in forever.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

Salt is on every table in every culture because salt is everywhere and makes stuff taste good.

Pepper is on western tables because we think it's fun to make your food look like it has little bitty dirt on it.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

Fastest buy I've ever buyed

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Jul 27

A huge artbook celebrating 20 years of LAIKA Studios is coming.
240 pages of artwork, photography, and interviews from Coraline to Wildwood.
Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know about Midnight Pulp! Very cool. Glad it has some free stuff in there.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

1. Tubi
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4. the other ones

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

I just finished Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War and I just kept feeling like "Oh so that's... Oh... OHHHhhh... oh okay... So then that happened because... OH!"

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

I'm mostly watching modern ones, but documentaries made at that time combined with modern ones is the best option because then you get to have the 20/20 hindsight as well as a big dose of people living through it at the time.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

This is me watching documentaries about Rodney King, history of the Cold War, some 2000's celebrity's life, just on and on.

As a kid and up through your early 20's, you often don't have the full context of what led to what led to what and getting it makes you feel equally enlightened and stupid.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

I highly recommend watching documentaries that are about time periods from when you were a kid because man, they are eye opening. Just all these things that you suddenly are like "Oh THAT'S what was going on... oh THAT's why that happened..." just over and over again.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

90% of this is because they have a section called "Italian Horror & Giallo" and the rest of Tubi is good because having this section proves they know what else you're gonna want.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

1. Tubi
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4. the other ones

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

turning up the volume on my phone cause I'm chewing too loud

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

Agree.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 4d

It's too annoying to be like "I saw a tweet, well it wasn't a tweet because it was on bluesky, so I saw a post that said..."

I'm gonna call these tweets. It's just easier. I'm not calling them skeets because I'm not 14 years old. I am too old for all of this.

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