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Stephen R. Smith
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Programmer & Writer. Owner @ http://Alignsoft.com. Writer & Curator @ http://365tomorrows.com; a new SciFi flash fiction story daily. Coffee & solar powered. He/Him

* I also love sarcasm
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
Cover art for The Game, with an artist’s drawing marionette suspended from the letters of the title against a black background. Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a successful banker who keeps mostly to himself. When his estranged brother Conrad (Sean Penn) returns on his birthday with an odd gift -- participation in a personalized, real-life game -- Nicholas reluctantly accepts. Initially harmless, the game grows increasingly personal, and Orton begins to fear for his life as he eludes agents from the mysterious game's organizers. With no one left to trust and his money gone, Orton must find answers for himself.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Sending all the positive vibes - may you be doing your best Nicole Kidman celebratory walk well before the holiday season! (You'll probably want to do it in warmer clothes!)
Nicole Kidman in a green skirt and floral(?) top walking towards the camera with her arms outstretched in an apparently celebratory way. This is a meme about her leaving her divorce lawyers office after divorcing Tom Cruise, and while it's been debunked (she clarified it's from a film, not from the divorce), it's still widely recognized as the "Hallelujah, I'm Divorced" walk.
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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They used to make real soundtracks for a movie.
Soundtrack cover (vinyl) for High Fidelity. Photo of the album jacket, a 3 x 3 grid of photos of John Cusack with the record sticking out. Honestly it's probably just a movie poster, not the soundtrack itself, but who knows - the images are virtually interchangeable.
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Well into Berlin Station season 2, and it's holding up. Ashley Judd joins this season. Solid so far! Great cast all around!
Title card for the series Berlin Station for season 2, showing the 6 main cast members above a yellow painted horizontal bar on which the words Berlin Station are printed in black. The silhouette of a man stands in the bottom of the I in Berlin.
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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A desk covered with 1" black pins with the letters JAFO on them in white block capitals. JAFO. Just Another Observer. The ‘F’ is flexible...
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Roy Batty from Blade Runner
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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post you from a different era
Late teens in cutoff surplus shorts, wool socks, infantry boots, and a t-shirt, feeling like I was cooler than school, posing, arms crossed in front of a 66 Vette and a rack of canoes at the outfitters. Either heading into or coming out of Algonquin Park on a 5 or 6 day canoe trip.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Anyone with experience with a Bosch dishwasher know what this is? It was rattling around the bottom of the dishwasher after the test run. My guess is it’s a shipping widget of some sort, but there’s no mention of it anywhere.
Cream plastic widget being held over the open door of a dishwasher. Cream plastic widget being held over the open door of a dishwasher.
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Introduce yourself with:

One Book 📚
One Movie 🎥
One Album 💿
One TV Show 📺
Cover for Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo DVD cover for The Final Cut version of Blade Runner Album Cover art for Roxy Music - Avalon Title card artwork for Twin Peaks
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The Beaches really brought the show tonight. Full on, flat out, no holds barred! The Valley opened and had an excellent set, including a cover of Kids by MGMT.
Stage of The Beaches concert, bathed in purple light with a multi tiered setup with the drummer high at the back and a large The Beaches sign on the wall behind.
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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What's the difference between between AI Glasses and my Sony DSR-450?
Photo of a Sony DSR-450 video camera, a 15 pound very discrete recording device. Trust me, nobody will notice that you're recording them with this subtle little surveillance machine! You can put gaffer tape over the recording light to be extra sneaky.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Buffalo Bill has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
Close up of Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs, standing in the doorway looking creepy as fuck.
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Cover art for Aliens, with Sigourney Weaver as Ripley carrying the young girl Newt and wielding a machine gun with a room full of alien eggs behind her.
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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It’s a shame it’s so damn cold, because this place has the perfect vibe at the moment.
Red neon sign that reads something along the lines of “A gin and tonic” in French on a wood sided wall at an outdoor patio with tables and chairs. Everything is lit red.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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A movie you’ve seen more than seven times.
Gaff stands in the rain, leaning on his cane, in a long coat and brimmed hat. A police spinner sits on the rooftop behind him, lights flashing. "You've done a man's job" he says to Deckard in this still from Blade Runner.
November 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Title card for An American Werewolf in London from the local revue theater.
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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People of Bluesky! Let’s get to know each other better. What is your all time favorite TV Show?

Fringe, though Twin Peaks and X-Files could easily be my answer if you asked me at another time.
Poster art for Fringe, an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. It premiered on Fox on September 9, 2008, and concluded on January 18, 2013, after five seasons comprising 100 episodes. An FBI agent, Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), a genius but dysfunctional scientist, Walter Bishop (John Noble), and his son with a troubled past, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), are all members of a newly formed Fringe Division in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the team uses fringe science to investigate a series of unexplained and often ghastly occurrences which are related to a parallel universe.
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Cover art for Massive Attack's album Protection
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Love this artwork!
Title card for An American Werewolf in London. The text is in the lower corner in a jagged font, and the show date in the other bottom corner. The background is dark red, and the eyes and upper skull of a werewolf is glaring out of the frame at us.
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
Poster for Wentworth: This reimagining of Australian drama `Prisoner: Cell Block H', `Wentworth Prison' showcases the struggle for inmates to survive in the violent environment of a contemporary women's prison.
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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The shop next door makes an excellent breakfast sandwich, you know - for those 2:30pm breakfasts.
Bacon and egg with pickled onion, cheese, and guacamole on a soft bun. On a plate. Now in my belly. Was good!
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Cover art for Sinners, the 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler.
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Cover art for To Live and Die in L.A., a 1985 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and co-written by William Friedkin.
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Xkcd stick figure comic with the following captions: PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH MEANS THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T ARREST YOU FOR WHAT YOU SAY. IF YOU'RE YELLED AT, BOYCOTTED, HAVE YOUR SHOW CANCELED, OR GET BANNED FROM AN INTERNET COMMUNITY, YOUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS ARENT BEING VIOLATED. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ANYONE ELSE HAS TO LISTEN TO YOUR BULLSHIT, OR HOST YOU WHILE YOU SHARE IT. THE 1ST AMENDMENT DOESN’T SHIELD YOU FROM CRITICISM OR CONSEQUENCES. IT'S JUST THAT THE PEOPLE LISTENING THINK YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE, AND THEY'RE SHOWING YOUTHE DOOR.
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM