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Tara Clarkson

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"She seems old-school internet and has her shit generally together." -Ninja Turtle Power Hour 🇨🇦

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · May 31

I don't know if there is a better. They all do such a good job in their own chosen themes.

TOS = morals
TNG = ethics
DS9 = consequences
VOY = duty

Sophie Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️ @mooncalfe1.bsky.social · May 29

Is Voyager better than Next Gen? 🤔

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

Pontypool deserves way more love than it gets!

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 12h

Love Kwaidan - so good.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

Quote with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10 for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Pontypool
Prince of Darkness
Invasion of The Bodysnatchers (1978)
The Blob (1988)

Sophie Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️ @mooncalfe1.bsky.social · 13h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

It's Alive
Dawn of the Dead
Alien
The Beyond

Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 13h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Scream
The Descent
The Babadook
Alien

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

The trees out here aren't weird, they just know more than us.

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 1d

Between this, cellular agriculture, and those guys who were hacking photosynethsis for better carbon capture, I wish this stuff was getting 1/100th the attention of chatbots.

LLMs are boring compared to the impact this stuff could have.

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

The Lizzie Bennett Diaries turned out to be a horrible foreshadowing, not of how we can *create* stories, but how we can consume their unholy shadows from a doomscrolling miasma.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

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

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

He's like the inverse of Jane Austen - equally difficult to parse their actual opinions out of their fiction, but one of them was shrouded in respectability and the other in (hopefully?) flippant shock value.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 9d

Logline for The Matrix.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 12d

Immediate visceral terror. 🔥👍

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 14d

I like the end bit. It's close to what I was thinking - you don't go Nazi if the most fundamental things you have to lose are things they can't take away.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 17d

This is pretty much how a dysfunctional group dynamic centered around a narcissist works. 🤷‍♀️

(The 'narcissist' in this case probably being white supremacist ideology - which will happily use whatever parts of the political spectrum it can get its tentacles into.)

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 20d

100% it's Full House - but I didn't notice until the second destination episode. 😂

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 21d

Just so! 💯

Andrew Leamon @aleams.bsky.social · 21d

You will learn more from your immediate peers than from the top names in your field. Why? They understand your place and your current challenges as well as you.

Lean on your peers/friends. And most importantly, let them lean on and learn from you.

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 22d

Chutzpah!

Daniel Kalban @dkalban.bsky.social · 22d

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Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 22d

Awesome!! Backed! 💕

Tara Clarkson @taraclarkson.bsky.social · 23d

I've been working on reading 'The Roman Revolution' by Ronald Symes for about five years. It's so good, but I don't think I've managed to get past page seventy-five yet. 😂