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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 14h

Day 13 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Hollywood Back (made by or starring indigenous people) —CLEARCUT (1991) Graham Greene is magnificent in this Very Canadian horror movie.

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Ducky needs a hug 🦆 @justducky.bsky.social · 23h

A comparative breakdown of professional wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino and all around piece of shit Christopher Columbus

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 21h

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Morose Code (gothic) —THE OTHERS (2001). Beautiful and absolutely terrifying. Nicole Kidman genuinely seemed like she was losing her mind, probably because she was still married to Tom Cruise! (That would have killed on Leno 24 years ago)

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 1d

around two years ago i made the point that genAI technologies were a fascist project designed to undermine facts, truth and history and so here is some slop machine humiliating a hero of the american civil rights movement

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 2d

Day 11 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Dystopian Future—LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964). Like COVID, except with vampires, and Vincent Price as Dr. Fauci.

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 3d

But at least we got to see A-rod talk about how great this was for the city of Seattle 😳

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 3d

TIME FOR A FEW SMALL BEERS

a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

ALT: a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 3d

My son just texted this to me. He turns 24 in a week. Back in 2001, the doctors and nurses were watching the M’s playoff game while his poor mother was giving birth to him. Go Mariners!

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 3d

Day 10 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Estimation Decimation (nuke war)—MIRACLE MILE (1988). I…wasn’t prepared for how good this movie would be or how depressed it would make me 🥹

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 3d

Catching up with Day 7 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Holy Wednesday (Christploitation) —THE PROPHECY, starring Christopher Walken as a grumpy but lovable angel and Viggo Mortensen as Jared Leto.

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps the only time in history that a game based on a movie was better than the source material. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(v...

Tron (video game) - Wikipedia

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 4d

Day 9 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Master of Disaster, Irwin Allen—VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: The Mummy. Yes we cheated and watched the TV show. And yes, in this episode there is a killer mummy on the loose inside a nuclear submarine.

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 6d

Day 7 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Now That’s Brass—FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET (1971) Even lesser Argento can be fun if you add in some funky Morricone tunes and a guest spot by Bud Spencer, who looked like he walked onto the wrong soundstage and just decided to wing it.

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Alex Mayer @alexmayer34.bsky.social · 6d

Cal Raleigh and Babe Ruth are the only players in MLB history to hit *exactly* 60 home runs in a season. Both hit HR 6️⃣1️⃣ in the Postseason on October 7, in their final AB of a win in which their team scored 8 runs:

Ruth 10/7/1927
Cal 10/7/2025

#Postseason #TheMayerGWS 🔱

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 7d

Day 6 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Squeaky Reels—THE MONSTER (1925) A fun, kinda goofy, proto-Scooby Doo type romp with some cool ghouls and a rare comedic hero role for a guy who usually played uptight hotel managers.

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 7d

#NotAllTexasMegachurchPastorsOhWaitNeverMind

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 9d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 9d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 7d

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 8d

Day 5 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Shrieks and Squeals—THE TINGLER. “Don’t be embarrassed to scream—it may save your life!”

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 9d

Day 4 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Mythical creatures —THE RITUAL (2017). What if Deliverance took place in the Lost Woods of Hyrule?

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 10d

Oops! Forgot to post this last night. Day 3 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Simian Cinema —KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962). We watched the American cut, which was not great!

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 10d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 11d

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Venom (1982) movie review - Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel

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Paul Merrill @paulmerrill.bsky.social · 11d

Day 2 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Fangs For Watching—VENOM (no not that one) 1981, with an all star cast slumming it with a black mamba (no not that one).

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