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Jesse Darland
@jessedarland.bsky.social
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ADHD. Writer of screenplays and otherwise. Advocate for an accessible & inclusive society. Pitching a holiday romcom & writing a fun time travel story! ✍

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm9675618/
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jessedarland.bsky.social
I think my robot vacuum is the exact same kind of neurodiverse as me, because no matter how many rooms I tell it to vacuum it always says “I estimate this will take 5 minutes to complete.” Same, RoboVac, same!
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
jessedarland.bsky.social
Such a great movie! And it always makes me smile to think that the writer & creator of the super serious Andor show got his Hollywood start with this one. Toe pick!
matineemode.bsky.social Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 9d
We need more sports rom-coms
Theatrical movie poster art for THE CUTTING EDGE (1992)
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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hplemke.bsky.social
i love when people use search engines in movies but i love when people use search engines in hallmark movies most of all
Screenshot from a Hallmark movie wherein a website called "The Search Engine" is displayed with a textbox reading "attractive missing woman New England"
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
jessedarland.bsky.social
*starting investor pitch deck*

Does everyone remember the episode of Black Mirror a few years back that ends with sad robot Domhnall Gleeson living alone in the attic? Well I was watching it with my mom one day and I realized…
cpaxton.bsky.social Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 15d
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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cheatlines.co
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
Gotham cop to Batman (on Halloween): "This must be your favorite night of the year, huh, pal?"
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
Rik Worth (@RikWorth) on twitter: "Actually, Frankenstein is the name of the scientist. The name of the monster is Creature_Final_FlNAL (this one!)(3)"
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Tasha Yar, Riker, and Data stand outside with some greenery in the background, a questionably perfect blue sky backdrop, and lots of fog. Yar and Riker have a defensive posture holding phaser pistols, Data is staring at his phone. (It's a tricorder). Closed caption reads, "Spooky " 👻
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
jessedarland.bsky.social
- Hellmouth Hot Wings
- So Dip We All
- Wing Space Nine
- The Left Wing of Hotness
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
jessedarland.bsky.social
My white knight solution here is the double man spread. You better believe that once our knees touch, buddy jerks that leg back.
milesklee.bsky.social Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · Oct 15
on my way to manspread in a middle seat on the plane ✈️
October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
jessedarland.bsky.social
Go Set a Watchman is a much better book than To Kill a Mockingbird in every way that matters!
rachelfeder.bsky.social Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · Oct 13
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!
pedsortho.bsky.social George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · Oct 13
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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grosdoriane.bsky.social
I fear I may have finally cracked the case.
October 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
jessedarland.bsky.social
Pamela’s Shining twins costume is sending me 🤣 #hauloutthehalloween
October 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
jessedarland.bsky.social
Ready for Ned-focused Haul Out spinoff #hauloutthehalloween
October 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
jessedarland.bsky.social
"Here's Why That's Is a Good Thing" made me laugh with joy! Changing the narrative from 'autism=bad' to something so much better and more life-affirming.
thinkingautism.com Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · Oct 10
Unfounded claims about an “autism epidemic” usually come from news or media outlets that are trying to sell stories, or from grievance parent-led orgs that focus more on eliminating autism than on supporting autistic people. At TPGA.

thinkingautismguide.com/2023/03/auti... #autism #neurodiversity
Autism Rates Are Now 1 in 36. Here's Why That Is a Good Thing.
The new 1 in 36 autism rate means the CDC is getting better at finding and diagnosing existing autism, not finding higher autism rates.
thinkingautismguide.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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longcovidsos.bsky.social
October is #DysautonomiaAwarenessMonth

For many with #LongCovid, dysautonomia means daily struggles with dizziness, palpitations, fatigue & more

We need research, support & compassion
Let’s #MakeNoiseForTurquoise this October

#POTS #Dysautonomia #invisibleillness
Turquoise background with overlapping blue circles. In the centre, a simple illustration of a person with turquoise hair. Text around the person reads: “Dysautonomia Awareness Month.” Circles highlight symptoms: gastrointestinal issues, PoTS, heart palpitations, fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness, cognitive issues, temperature dysregulation. Fainter circles in the background say and many many many more Long Covid SOS logo at the bottom left in white
October 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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biscuitkitten.bsky.social
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca
October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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gdubbstl.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
Salvador Dali could have watched Back to the Future
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Oct 7
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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shamjaff.bsky.social
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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avivapeltin.bsky.social
I don't know why this revelation only occurred to me yesterday after YEARS of querying, but I sent a script to a producer yesterday and ended it with: "When should I check in with you next?" And then I received an answer. So simple! Communication! Who knew! #ScriptSky
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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holycitysinner.com
An Armenian family moved to SC to live out the American dream. Then ICE arrested the father. www.postandcourier.com/news/local_s...
An Armenian family moved to SC to live out the American dream. Then ICE arrested the father.
An Armenian immigrant family in Charleston sought asylum. Now their father is being held in ICE detention in Folkston, Georgia after he was arrested by agents.
www.postandcourier.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM