Daniel Joslyn

SCIENTISTS PONDER LIFE’S PORPOISE

A still from The Darkest Hour (2017) featuring Gary Oldman in character as Winston Churchill.

Oscars Fortnight #17: The Darkest Hour (2017) In what feels like a parody of how Oscar voting often works, Gary Oldman won Best Actor for his impersonation of Winston Churchill under a ton of makeup in this movie. It follows the PM as he takes office and then has to deal with Dunkirk. #Filmsky 📽️

A still from Life of Pi (2012)

Oscars Fortnight #16: Life of Pi (2012) Billed as a big 3D epic, it's more of a philosophical tract about a boy is stranded after a shipwreck in the Pacific who has to share a life raft with a tiger named Richard Parker. Ang Lee won Best Director & does a lot of unique visual things here. #Filmsky 📽️

A still of stars James Dunn and Sally Ellers in Bad Girl (1931)

Oscars Fortnight #15: Bad Girl (1931) The great Frank Borzage, who had won the 1st Best Director Oscar, took a 2nd for this New York domestic drama in in which a couple gets married quickly and then has zero communication skills, causing all sorts of problems. All works out in the end. #Filmsky 📽️

A still with stars of Spotlight (2015), including Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Liev Schreiber.

Oscars Fortnight #14: Spotlight (2015) With this film I have now seen all 97 of the Oscar Best Picture winners to date. It is an ode to the process of journalism in a world that badly needs it, but beyond that is only so much of a movie. #Filmsky 📽️

mapquest 2d Waze is the 👮‍♂️ menacingsquirreluh e 2d Does Mapquest tell you when the police are ahead like Waze?

i'm sorry mapquest i wasn't familiar with your game

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

Harrison Ford Listens to His Movie Soundtracks During Sex

Harrison Ford Admits to Listening to His Own Movie Soundtracks During Sex bit.ly/4cKtrCe

Map of projected temperature anomalies next Thursday across the western U.S. from the ECMWF ensemble. The entire map is bright red and pink, indicative of extreme to record-breaking March warmth. Some location will be 25-30F degrees above average, with a few locations warming over 35F (!) above average.

All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

We wouldn’t be in this situation if the DraftKings app could show up at your grandparents house on occasion because your uncle wasn’t picking up the app’s phone calls.

One of the better quotes I’ve seen for a news article.

A still of stars Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones (in his fish monster makeup) in The Shape of Water (2017)

Oscars Fortnight #13: The Shape of Water (2017) A surprising fairy tale of a movie slash meditation on the other in American society that yes also includes tasteful shower sex with a fish monster. Won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Guillermo Del Toro. #Filmsky 📽️

There is a clerk or intern who had to read that proposed complaint and provide a summary to the judge. Because everyone has rights our system is bad at weeding out the people who maybe need to take a rights time out for a minute.

the only thing i did successfully today was exist

What about naturally occurring Big Penis? Is that safe? Getting a little, uhhh...nervous.

I wonder what they would tell someone who asked the what they thought the difference was between “cancelled” and “rendered impossible.” Does it have to do with whether they have to give refunds?

Sometimes shadows go the opposite direction I’m expecting them to over time and I’m like “does this mean we’re living in a simulation?” Is the reason I’ve never finished a book that I’m programmed not to? …I wish more of thoughts were actionable on my part and not just randomly firing anxiety.

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Me, with every new year I don't die of the plague: Eat shit, Hamnet Shakespeare

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A still of star Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Oscars Fortnight #12: Reversal of Fortune (1990) Jeremy Irons won the Best Actor Oscar for playing an upper class prick in Newport accused of putting his rich wife (Glenn Close) in a coma with insulin. The film follows his appeals and views the truth as unattainable. #Filmsky 📽️

A still from The Alabama Solution (2025)

Oscars Fortnight #11: The Alabama Solution (2025) A documentary about the abuses of the Alabama prison system and the quixotic (and so far unsuccessful) fight against them, consisting partly of footage from cell phones smuggled in to the actual prisoners. Nominated for Best Documentary. #Filmsky 📽️

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

“I misspoke… Completely misread the calculations.”

Manager Mark DeRosa confirms he did not know Team USA could still be eliminated during pool play

A still of stars Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Oscars Fortnight #10: Driving Miss Daisy (1989) A Best Picture choice (from the year of Do the Right Thing) that still makes people angry today, and beyond its weird racial politics I also found the main character played by Jessica Tandy genuinely awful to hang out with. #Filmsky 📽️

I just want to emphasize for casual baseball people not currently watching the WBC that Italy is currently beating the USA at 5-0 and whenever they hit a home run they put an Armani jacket on the guy, give him a shot of cappuccino, and then kiss each other on both cheeks. THIS IS NOT MADE UP.

A still from The Informer (1935), with star Victor McLaglen in center

Oscars Fortnight #9: The Informer (1935) What the DVD calls "one of the first art house films released by a major studio." English character actor Victor McLaglen won Best Actor for portraying an IRA member who informs on his comrades and becomes overwhelmed with guilt. #Filmsky 📽️

Oscars Fortnight #8: Elio (2025) This Pixar-ified take on a sci-fi premise has been the subject of a lot of not great behind the scenes stories, which perhaps is why as a movie I found it fine but not super memorable. It is up for Best Animated Feature at this week's Oscars. #Filmsky 📽️

Didn’t everybody in Edmund Burke’s time hang out in coffeehouses and put chocolate in it and stuff? I feel like he probably would have loved frappucinos.

I can't compete with this.

A still from Million Dollar Baby (2004) with stars Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Hilary Swank.

Oscars Fortnight #7: Million Dollar Baby (2004) Clint Eastwood's very gruff trainer takes on Hilary Swank's hard-headed boxer in this critical darling. I appear immune to its charms, and the last third is a depressing slog, but it won 4 Oscars including Best Picture. #Filmsky 📽️