The next edition of my newsletter drops at 6pm. It's got Watch Party details, hot takes about Christopher Nolan, and a Frenzy Sandwich. Sign up so you don't miss it: awsamweston.com/newsletter

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

They could have taken the money it took to implement AI slop and instead spent it on upgrading critical systems that still run on Windows 95. 🙃

The more unsolicited emails I get from composers and animators looking for work I'm not equipped to give, the more I understand why Hollywood decision-makers closely guard their contact information. Some people have no chill, and even 2-3 emails a day is enough to wear anyone down.

I had a blast this week, and only the cool cats will get to hear about it. (The cool cats are all subscribed to my newsletter, that's why. It drops this afternoon.) awsamweston.com/newsletter

I just picked up my badge! Can't wait to see you all on another round of @convergencecon.bsky.social panels!

Went out and bought a house. More details about it on Sunday's newsletter drop awsamweston.com/newsletter

Hi Minnesotan Bluesky: The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party. Join me: abetterdfl.org.

Here's an incredible election result that's being slept on: Duluth passed a first-in-the-state Tenants Right to Repair ordinance! TakeAction MN and its ascendant Duluth Tenants Union fought hard for this ballot question and won a huge victory for tenants rights in a market which really needs it

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I'm quoted in this article about Duluth Right to Repair! www.startribune.com/proposed-rig...

I’m starting a newsletter! This is a great way to cut through the algorithm, directly send you life and career updates, and highlight the fun things I enjoyed each week. Sign up so you don’t miss it: awsamweston.com/newsletter

I’m starting a newsletter! This is a great way to cut through the algorithm, directly send you life and career updates, and highlight the fun things I enjoyed each week. Sign up so you don’t miss it: awsamweston.com/newsletter

Oh hey, first time the Duluth News Tribune published a piece I wrote! www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/lett...

Hey all! Reminder that my debut feature film, Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry, is available in a bunch of places! An opportunistic jerk joins the quest of a delusional man who thinks he lives in a fantasy world. They team up and fight crime. It's awesome! Check it out battlemagefilms.com/gleahan

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Anyone with a whisper network probably doesn't deserve to be kept in a leadership position 🤔

We have a new video going live on our Patreon tonight at 6pm! Don't miss our Crypticon panel, "Walking the Line between Horror and Fantasy," featuring @awsamweston.com, Matt Rasmussen, and Kelly Lamphear-Dash! www.patreon.com/posts/141054...

Do I have any web developer friends? Got a nerdy little open source project that's looking for help. Hit me up!

Use whatever means neccessary to avoid having your identification data on the database of a faulty Tech company, they have shown to be impossible to be trusted. And perhaps use this incident to show your representation that OSA and Age verification style laws are a net bad.

MN DFL doing everything they can to ensure red minnesota in 2026 because they hate DSA so much. seems bad to me but what do i know

Only bad landlords oppose Duluth Right to Repair. Are you a bad landlord? No? Then get the hell on board.

Love the energy, Peggy, but right now Duluthians need you to refocus it away from campaigning for Senate and use it to yank Tim Walz away from the brink of a MASSIVE mistake in the form of "BlackRock buyout of Allete / MN Power"

We're one week out from Karaoke Night with the Jordon Johnson campaign! Have you signed up yet? www.facebook.com/events/78734...

Happy "Mean Alchemists" Day to all who celebrate

if this is true it’ll provide a good list of agents to avoid 🤷‍♀️

Autistic sarcasm is restating extremely obvious things, For The Bit, even though they know everyone already knows this thing.

How about healthcare for all, instead?

A statement from Tylenol

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Say it with me: we would not be seeing this authoritarian censorship takeover in the United States, had both parties, the media and elite institutions not already greased the path with the muzzling of speech on Palestine.

Duluth Right to Repair is a common-sense policy, and if we had had it from the start I wouldn’t have had to take my landlord to court over basic repairs. I urge all Duluthians to vote YES on Question 1 by November 4th! www.duluthrighttorepair.org

Reskeet for the day crowd.

I was proud to represent Sam and his brother in their effort to obtain repairs and beat a notice to vacate. I haven't seen it break through down here, but Duluth is in the middle of a ballot question fight over a first-in-the-state Right to Repair law, and this is a great example of why it's needed

NEW TODAY: With the help of @dansuitor.bsky.social, my brother and I just filed a settlement with the St. Louis County Court to end a lawsuit against our landlord, Bob Swanson. /🧵

Abbreviations like "WWW" are only abbreviations in text. Doesn't make sense to say the letters out loud when the longer thing is less syllables. I feel the same way about "DIY" — Pronouncing the letters is a messy of vowel sounds all in a row. It's easier to say "Do-It-Yourself."

Reminder that if you see people saying Charlie Kirk's assassin was a leftist: No he's not. He's using leftist phrases sarcastically as a dogwhistle for chronically online right-wingers who think Charlie Kirk was too moderate

Transphobia has no place anywhere, especially within the party that passed the first trans refuge law in the United States. Please sign the letter linked below to let State DFL leadership know that transphobia will not be tolerated within our party! docs.google.com/forms/d/1D9m...

In other news: BLANK is on Youtube once again! After a string of festivals and a months-long stint on Omeleto, my award-winning short is now live on my own channel. Starring Tova Weinberger, Nayib Felix, and Quentin Thomson. Check it out. #filmsky #scriptsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5_...

I never run out of reasons my state is so cool www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

For everyone upset about the TERF takeover of the DFL Feminist Caucus, just remember that Precinct Caucuses are February 3rd, 2026. Stay mad. Show up. Take your party back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u91i...

TERFs have no business running the DFL Feminist Caucus. Trans rights and respect for pronouns are ESSENTIAL to feminism!

My statement on tonight's DFL Feminist Caucus Annual Meeting. This statement is being emailed to the Feminist Caucus Chair, Alicia Gibson, and to the State DFL Chair, Richard Carlbom. This caucus should be ashamed of itself.

are you a trans person who has decided against participating in the DFL or attending DFL events due to fear of transphobia? if so please DM me your story or reply here!

This is unacceptable. Mocking pronouns is reactionary TERF behavior

@awsamweston.com wrote a script about this

I feel like I just completed a rite of passage: I'm using Adobe Premiere for the first time (for a gig) and had my first crash. This app is such dogshit. I wish more people would dump it.

Duluthians! Our next Monthly Filmmaker Meetup is in a couple weeks, on September 18th. With fall on the way, now's a great time to poke our heads back up and get familiar with who else is active in Duluth's filmmaker community! awsamweston.com/mfm

Angie Craig missed the 1st day of the MN State Fair because she was the opening act for Eric Trump at a GOP Crypto-fest. When she made it to the fair she decided to court GOP voters that hate her by bringing cookies to their booth. Wild campaign choices from someone who wants to replace Tina Smith!

I just will never understand why people want this. It’s so ironic to me that “live action” adaptations (that are typically bloated with gratuitous cgi) are sold as a more elevated or serious version just because they aren’t animated. They offer nothing new & always look considerably worse