Sorry to hear that Bluestockings is closing. www.bluestockings.com

Two of my favorite horror films I missed seeing in theaters are showing in NYC during October: Abel Ferrara's BODY SNATCHERS at Quad Cinema Michael Dougherty's TRICK 'R TREAT to AMC (via Fathom)

Brutal timing for that Baby Yoda: The Movie teaser to drop

You can also write the Nexstar/Sinclair affiliate directly, and/or the companies themselves if you want extra credit. Many have contact forms/info on their pages. Here's a script that should work either for an individual channel, or the company generally:

Friday night movie in Van Cortlandt Park under the stars: MEN IN BLACK (cc: @edsolomon.bsky.social + @vcpalliance.bsky.social)

Love this list - many overlaps with mine. Other fantasy/sci-fi that fits the brief imo: Ladyhawke Krull Young Sherlock Holmes Men In Black Reign of Fire

Stop sucking up to these guys in their mentions. You're grown ups and it's embarrassing. Your sweaty like & subscribe energy is the equivalent of sending racy mash notes to convicted felons in prison. Your pundit bros are never, ever going to sleep with you.

I get it - it's far cushier & easier to build parasocial relations retweeting Ezra Klein or David Brooks or Ross Douthat or Matty Yglesias or Ben Smith or Bedbug Stephens or Tom Nichols or Popehat and have their shitty takes pass for your own, than to meaningfully ally w/marginalized groups

Posting As Praxis folks of the Blue No Matter Whovian variety loooove "pundits as praxis"- swallowing whole anything white reasonable dudes say w/such confident truthiness they think it counts as activism - while marginalized people get clobbered doing the actual work bsky.app/profile/elmc...

You cannot "bargain" with fascists. I think that everyone should refuse to do this and also to stop supporting people who do this.

Pundits and punditry was a mistake

🚨 Programming alert: Galactic Cruise is now in beta on Board Game Arena 🚨

This is an Ezra Klein subskeet

A thing I've learned in my years as a journalist is that many, many journalists do not read the news They are assigned to interview someone evil, genuinely don't know any details about the evil deeds, and then feel good about the conversation, so they write, Hey, why's everyone so mad at this guy?

Voxxam's Raxor: we must operate under the premise that someone has kompromat on Ezra Klein, or that his big money op is to push takes that influence Polymarket, or that he's in early-to-moderate stages of a Naomi Wolf-esque, brain smoothing decline. It's the only way his takes make "sense"

My #LastFourWatched films: Naked Ambition (2023) Strange Brew (1983) Matchstick Men (2003) Zodiac (2007) #filmsky #letterboxd #LetterboxdFriday

If you're a white leftist who wants to be an organizer, the #1 way I know coalitions will fail is if you're snide to Black people online. Calling marginalized folks cowardly and stupid for trying to keep themselves safe while protesting? You don't have what it takes.

Flashback Friday to a vintage Halloween promo pic

Tonight's plans: movie then drinks at a burlesque show with friends 💖

It's rare to find Alien fans that unconditionally love all movies in the series. Because it's that rarity: a huge franchise that's an first & foremost an anthology series. So fr movie to movie they change radically in theme, tone, genre, style. They take big swings. Aka not "fan service" friendly.

Discovering that the "20 blindfolded Alien fans in front of a different section of the film/game/crossover/book/comic franchise elephant" metaphor has also applied to the FX series Alien: Earth

3/4 The lesson here is media businesses built on government permission are setting themselves up to have to have to fall in line in order to survive as a business. These are existential threats. We saw it with CBS (news division and Colbert) and now ABC.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Is there ANYTHING more pathetic than seeing someone who failed to become an athlete, a screenwriter, a comedian, a musician etc crow in to a camera that "the left brought this on themselves by offending us too much"?

I guess the aggrieved edgelord comics all lived on Alderaan

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

Do I know any 'Industry Professionals' that are available at PAX Unplugged Friday 6-730pm or Saturday 930-11pm that want to help 'do a thing'?

Is "Kickstarter backers getting pissy that a game they backed is made available to non-backers before they receive their copy" still a thing?

With apologies to Matt Bors and my nascent Canva skills

Why would you even need to RSVP for a protest anyway? Is it catered?

Never a bad time to rewatch SNEAKERS, and a reminder that the James Horner score featuring Branford Marsalis is a-m-a-z-i-n-g tidal.com/browse/album...

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I don't think Cal Raleigh will get to 62 (to tie) or 63 home runs to break the AL single-season record, but I'm rooting for him since he'd surpass/unseat (4) different Yankees if he manages to do it

I have so much unicorn ephemera as prizes for my game shows it's like if Nardwuar was our buyer

One of my superpowers is exceptional gift-hunting & gift-giving, so as host of @daretokaroke.bsky.social I can confidently say that our Prize Table is the gift shoppe of your wildest dreams

7 eps in and I just can't fathom Alien franchise fans lukewarm about or bouncing off ALIEN: EARTH, I just can't

I make and hand out show stickers for Game of Blanks + Dare to Karaoke, and people have heard of my shows far more times from seeing them stuck to signs on the street and in bar bathrooms than on Meta

My FB pages are ghost ships I only check when promoting NYC events I'm hosting. Not logging in every day it's clear to see how janky FB's become & how hostile it is to use. The dashboard is like a Hellraiser puzzle box. One glitch of many: msg notifications for mths now even though there are none

"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.

I'm soooo psyched for this! I especially like the double-sided game board with Schoolhouse Rock meets Parker Brothers "Bonkers" board game vibes

Why are so many huge journo accts deathly allergic to using Alt Text?

The most cursed podcast ever b/c they wouldn't even have to speak; their faces beam off an eternal shock, dumb meanness, & mean dumbness which tranmogrifies into aggrieved fascism that is audible to the listener

Good morning, what can you do if you live in NYC? You can commit to talking to your City Council member about our public libraries. Please sign up and we will get back to you re: what to do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Restarted my mthly Blacksky donation. When bsky floated this idea last year I was excited to help. I recall when I stopped being excited - when they died on Jesse Singal Hill & nuked trans accts. Like they're doing now. Bsky's been in a slow, shitty, unsafe moderation death spiral ever since.

Seeing the adverse effects when fascist snitches can sublet space in huge Team Followback accts who don't moderate their spaces.

For anyone (everyone) infuriated by how unintuitive getting your banner profile pics on bsky to align, here's a style guide I didn't see anywhere else. Thanks to @hinokodo who treated this as an escape room exercise (complimentary). 🙌

Our Dare to Karaoke game show launch was a smash! October 11 tix available NOW via Eventbrite for the same price as a Venti Pumpkin Spice Latte + cheaper than at the door! There are also 2-for-1 tickets for the 1st four tix purchases! www.eventbrite.com/e/dare-to-ka...

Does anyone know the exact dimensions/px ratio for a bsky banner image? Their cropping tool is garbage and is like throwing darts at standard banner images