I guarantee you this is true. youtu.be/kQ8YKlX13qM?... I was a #sexworker off & on for years, & the scariest experiences of my entire life were of being strangled for money for someone else’s sexual gratification. I’ve never felt closer to dying at someone else’s hands. Heartbreaking. #Epstein

This is a wild bit of #Medium ephemera… This creepy gay dude left comment “Hello, dear,” after comment I made about #ElonMusk, & I wrote him a very snarky comment about “did urine-drenched trigger you? Don’t bother it’s a coincidence, not a #kink,” & then now he’s banned 😱 I THINK I WAS RIGHT

Oh, before I forget, @thr.com senior editor @boryskit.bsky.social gets a shoutout in Bowie’s recent #TheMummy article. It doesn’t qualify him for the #ClosingThots Starter Pack, but if he follows us back & engages on one of our #moviereviews, totally in play 😎 blog.reelrank.net/brendan-fras...

This is so cool 🤩 youtu.be/FCmVDTDgQek?... I’m from #Houston, so I care. First, note, two #Black anchors. Love that! And this guy Eric, who featured in the #BadBunny #HalftimeShow, is adorable. He played some of the sugar cane. Really fun report, for anyone tracking the story. #SuperBowl #HTX

I don't normally watch Xs and Os of football plays made by true football nerds, but when I do, you can bet it's just because a team I hated got embarrassed in the Super Bowl.

Couldn’t find the cat

And that’s saying something 😆 #PamBondi

I’m so proud of Bowie. I generally thought of him as a pretty-shiftless #cat, & he is, but now he’s a shiftless #writer cat! He covers #movienews & the #entertainment industry for @reelrank.bsky.social, & regular #KCookandCatsCo readers may detect a hint of my humor. I raised him, after all 🥹

#PamBondi has guillotine-aspirant body-language 🤔 #MAGA #fascism #antifa #guillotinemindset

Every so often, I'm like, "I'm allegedly a #filmcritic, but I don't know if I've seen a movie in weeks," which ISN'T true (we've been working our way through #OscarsHomework, and we'll get back to #Hamnet today) but feels terrible, lol 😅 There's just a lot going on in the world, #film & otherwise

@mydfpod.bsky.social Cool! I just found these folks on @reelrank.bsky.social, and they're an awesome #film podcast with a cool conceit. Lots of cool people getting on #ReelRank! It's maybe the place to be? Here's their profile: user.reelrank.net/Meet%20Your%... That URL could use some work 🤔

Some folks are having an annoying, theatrical sotto voce convo in the background at my #sharedoffice, so I called out over my shoulder, in very full voice, "What the fuck are you people whispering about back there?!" & it immediately got quieter, which solved my problem 😆 #work #office #lol #PNW

@deadder.bsky.social has so many great cartoons:

Whoa... there's been some kind of horrible #MassShooting, apparently 1 of the worst in #Canada 's history? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... I haven't read a lot of details, but the numbers are horrific. 9 killed, 27 injured; gunman dead by own hand. Yesterday, it looks like? I hadn't heard. #guns #BC

Hm! Has a much more sinister ring to it these days, doesn’t it? Discovery Center? 🤔 Especially given what all we’re discovering about what #BillGates was up to with #JeffreyEpstein 😬 #Seattle #GatesFoundation #BillGates #EpsteinFiles

I surprised @komo4.bsky.social setting up a camera, and I said, “Who watches the watchmen, eh?” and asked if I could take a photo, and they didn’t think it was funny at all, but they were cool and said hey 😅 I guess they’re at work. That’s fair. #Seattle #SuperBowlParade #PNW #Seahawks

Yes, something is certainly going on here in #Seattle 🤔 #Seahawks #PNW #SuperBowlParade

Oh, wow! LOT of people already downtown in #Seattle for this #SuperBowlParade 🤩 #Seahawks

Hey, I’m #eavesdropping, and here’s a tip for anyone going out to #Seattle today to celebrate: Don’t offer to #photograph other peoples’ #children 😬 However well-meaning you are (or aren’t), you sound weird and bad, and I’m sure they’ve thought of photos. Don’t do it! #PNW #Seahawks #parenting

@bobbienickel.bsky.social Hey, New #Seattleite friend! 🤗 Everyone in the #PNW with me, go follow Bobbie, who seems super cool 😎 #Seattle

Some 6-7 year old boy on the bus from #Bellevue into #Seattle JUST found out he’s not going to school (which would have started an hour ago, #lol) today, and he is CHUFFED 😆 😮 eyes wide, mouth open, everything. His LITTLE sister is rolling her eyes. She’s known for hours 🤣 #Seahawks #PNW

There’s not a bus in the city that isn’t running fucked up right now 😑 #Seattle #publictranspo #kcmetro #soundtransit

#Dads get a lot of shit, and much of it rightly so (mine sucks), but in my experience, 100% of the time, it’s #Dad who says, “Hey, we’re all standing in the middle of the goddamned sidewalk. Let’s move out of the way for these people.” Fun watching the #families travel from #Bellevue to #Seattle 🤩

Ooh, y’all… #TheLeftIsRight just Featured my #BadBunny #HalftimeShow think-piece (we look at #TPUSA’s alt-show, too), & that put it in a new echelon of readership 😅 Thrilling! Btw, 12 users from #BlueSky have read. 12. I THOUGHT YOU PEOPLE WERE MY FRIENDS! 😭 medium.com/the-left-is-... #WriteSky

If I had a dollar for every time I held my tongue and didn’t ask, “Are you mad at me??” I wouldn’t have to work. And if I also had a dollar for every time I didn’t bite my tongue and actually DID ask, I’d be richer than Elon Musk 😅

Experiments conducted with A.I. system are producing fascinating results - we spoke exclusively with the people who are faking these results because they spent billions on a product nobody wants because it doesn‘t work.

The #ReelRank #Movie Collection Update was so exciting, I went for a screenshot, not realizing until afterward I’d been caught reading my own #writing 😅 Are y’all on @reelrank.bsky.social yet?? If so, I’m hurt, bc I don’t enough followers yet 😠 www.reelrank.net, a #platform for #movie lovers 🤩

A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.

All of my #GooglePhotos memories are titled stuff like “Cuddles & Purrs” or “Feline good” #lol 😅 #CatSky #cats #catperson

Oof, this is more depressing to read now than when it was posted 😬 #WaPo #news #Bezos

Idk why but I suddenly HAD to groove to this 🤘 music.youtube.com/watch?v=wD6j... It was, like, an emergency #songsky #MusicSky

@arcadeowl.bsky.social hey! Glad to know you! 🤓 One thing I’d say is that if you’re an aspiring #writer, then you’re a #writer. If you say you are, you are, as far as the cats and I are concerned 😤🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛🐈 #WriteSky #writing

I love nearly all of these folks, myself (in fact, I was scrolling through the #BlueSky search function to see who else loves #chadchad, and we're totally out here!) #YouTube #YouTubers

One of the VERY few people on #Medium this is true of, but @lilithhelstrom.bsky.social is without-exaggeration one of the best (and one of my favorite) #writers on #Medium She has 16K followers on there, but a girl (lady) could always use more 💁‍♀️ medium.com/@lilith.hels... #WriteSky #writing

OMG we just totally found one of our people!! 🤗🐈🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛ Y’all should totally follow @dfrauthor.bsky.social too 🤓

@writes-jo.bsky.social ooh sorry my phone just freaked out and it unfollowed and followed you like a dozen times 😬 I think it stayed on “follow” which was my intent. Sorry for the flurry of notis

The thing they always tell L1s is that, “a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich.” Not this sandwich 😤 #law #DoJ #lawschool

I just ran into my buddy Kai outside his/my place (we live close by), and he gave me a look: 🤨 I was, like, “… what??” Then Kai said, “Do you want an edible?” And, long story short, I am #high as FUCK right now 😵‍💫 #weed #legalweed #PNW #lol

I have a piece out I'm proud of & promoting (it's pinned, go read it), a piece I'm working on for @reelrank.bsky.social that'll be out tomorrow (go subscribe to #ReelRankNews on #Medium & watch for it), & the #OscarsHomework series I'm #writing for #Cinemania. Pretty pleased! ✍️ #WriteSky #writer

More of you guys should *bing* me more often when I get stuff right. I got a little dopamine rush from it 😵‍💫

RUH roh… I *really* like Margot Robbie (almost called her Margot Kidder; good god, I’m old) with the Whoville-style, mirrored inward-curls hairstyle 😵‍💫 That’s doing things to me 😅 I’m a big Robbie fan. Obviously, lol 😍 #FilmSky #MovieSky

#lol 😆 I just tagged @thr.com in something, and I was, like, “I’m always tagging and reading them. Why don’t they follow ME?” and I looked and, well, #THR follows 8 accounts; @bsky.app and 7 editors on staff. It’s gonna be TOUGH to make that list unless they hire me, I feel, & even then 😅 #news

From @thr.com Boy, it has real shades of #GhostCorps, doesn't it? That was #Sony slash #ColumbiaPictures, and this is #ParamountSkydance, but... very similar vibes, I'd argue 🤔 #FilmSky #MovieSky #TVSky #television #TMNT #Paramount

It's long been my contention that you should all know each other and be friends, because I have love for each and every one of you (which is why you get featured, and why you make this list), so in that spirit: @antifapatriot.bsky.social is the latest #ClosingThots addition 🤩 go.bsky.app/Xr1sLw

PSA: Like his bad #movies all you want, but know that Zack Snyder originally wanted to call his already-terribly-titled #film #BatmanvSuperman the inarguably-worse title of (I shit you not) “Knight of Night & Son of Sun” 😆 #DCStudios #Snyderverse #DC #comics #superheroes #FilmSky #MovieSky #lol

Get you someone who looks at you the way this lady looks at cheese 😤 #relationships

Sure, and I’m open to being Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s houseboy (or housegirl, I suppose 🏳️‍⚧️), but neither I nor #GhislaineMaxwell can unilaterally take or make great-for-us deals that haven’t been offered 😆 Don’t follow @forbes.com btw; they’re terrible 😑 #news #Epstein #EpsteimFiles #HouseOversight

Wow! 😭 I wanted to do #editor of #TheLeftIsRight, K.M. Lang a solid, so I went to read 1 of her pinned pieces (like all of our stuff, it’s non-paywalled & totally free), & it’s 1 of the most powerful & eloquent reflections on #motherhood I’ve ever read 🤩 medium.com/the-left-is-... #moms #women

I’ve said it before, it’s a bad sign when the #weratedogs guy feels compelled to do real, actual #journalism (which this totally is) 😬 We’re finding out who is up for a battle with #fascism, and people are surprising us, both for good and for ill. This is good, though, to be clear 🤓 #DogSky #Dogs

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."