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Hollywood writer whose stuff you may have seen: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1, Luke Cage. Malignant. M3GAN. The Nun 2. The Boulet Bros. Holiday of Horrors (with a directing credit!). It's a pleasure scaring the shit outta you.

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Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

11.03.2026 00:40 👍 7924 🔁 2022 💬 150 📌 47

If this passes and gas prices go down Trump will take credit and the American people, who are at best ill-informed and at worst a bunch of dumb fucks, will believe it. Dems are throwing away an opportunity to let Trump face consequences for once.

11.03.2026 00:49 👍 41 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0

Dems will never not shoot themselves in the dicks.

11.03.2026 00:47 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

10.03.2026 20:02 👍 4040 🔁 1244 💬 117 📌 229

A big fat "YES" to all of this.

And count me as a fellow "in medias res" hater.

10.03.2026 20:05 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly! Look at this shit. The Washington Post doesn't exist anymore. Bezos killed it. This is why we need to throw these pubs in the garbage and stop referencing them. They're not real anymore. You learn nothing and get fed shit.

10.03.2026 19:27 👍 292 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 0

Destroyer is a fun time with Conan but it's more of a kid's movie than the first.

10.03.2026 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Embargo seems to be up. Project Hail Mary is the crowd-pleasing, hope-giving, big A-list movie-movie we don’t get much anymore. Scope is massive and the humor is on point, keeping the dire stakes from being overwhelmingly bleak. I’d lie, cheat, steal, kill, and die for Rocky.

10.03.2026 18:47 👍 53 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2

Conan the Barbarian is one of my favorite movies, and probably my late father’s favotire film right next to Blade Runner. My dad loved the Conan series (books and films) always wanted to see King Conan on the big screen. Hoping this gets made so I can watch it for him.

10.03.2026 02:24 👍 49 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0

So now I know what idiotfluencers were talking about when they were saying "Boy Kibble" and it's just dirty rice?

Are they going to rediscover Hamburger Helper and noodle kaboodle from first principles next?

10.03.2026 01:44 👍 77 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
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Thank You, Joe Bob Briggs: Saying Goodbye To THE LAST DRIVE-IN The drive-in will never die, but Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl’s time with THE LAST DRIVE-IN on Shudder is coming to an end. We thank them for seven seasons worth of memories.

The drive-in will never die, but Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl’s time with THE LAST DRIVE-IN on Shudder is coming to an end. We thank them for seven seasons worth of memories.

09.03.2026 21:58 👍 106 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 3

We all know how this ends. Once bsky goes down I'll probably be done with social media.

09.03.2026 22:25 👍 46 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Ads and racist algorithms are coming.

09.03.2026 19:10 👍 103 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 1

That took a while (it's on Tubi, had to watch ads and I paused it to take lunch). Next up is The Wraith (1986), which I *think* is horror and I don't think I've seen this before.

09.03.2026 20:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After a brief hiatus I'm back on the horror train. Today's film is Dracula aka Horror of Dracula (1958). I think I've seen this film but it was when I was a kid at my grandparents house.

09.03.2026 18:01 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Map snapshot depicting the predicted relative anomalousness of surface temperatures from the ECMWF ensemble over the Western U.S. in about a week from now. A a huge region of bright orange and red colors (depicting extremely high warm temperature anomalies) is centered right in the middle of the map, and covers essentially the entire region.

Map snapshot depicting the predicted relative anomalousness of surface temperatures from the ECMWF ensemble over the Western U.S. in about a week from now. A a huge region of bright orange and red colors (depicting extremely high warm temperature anomalies) is centered right in the middle of the map, and covers essentially the entire region.

Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.

09.03.2026 16:09 👍 668 🔁 298 💬 30 📌 134

Exactly. Everyone knows Trump poisons everything he touches. I had hoped when we escaped his first term we dodged a bullet but then he was voted back in. He may very well take this country down with him this time.

09.03.2026 00:37 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

08.03.2026 01:48 👍 2155 🔁 532 💬 15 📌 3

“Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness” 💜

09.03.2026 00:19 👍 68 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

Per usual they are lying to their audience in order to protect Dear Leader. And they know their audience doesn’t care

09.03.2026 00:17 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ask me what i learned in college and i won’t recite academic knowledge — i’ll tell you “it taught me how to think critically”

08.03.2026 18:28 👍 684 🔁 69 💬 30 📌 5

Happy International Women's Day! 12 days til we premiere on Shudder, the countdown is ON 🚨🚨🚨

08.03.2026 18:36 👍 91 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0

Without Debra’s support, encouragement and guidance, I wouldn’t have become a producer. #DebraHill was one of my heroines, and I was blessed to have her as my mentor. I miss her so much.

08.03.2026 14:13 👍 197 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 1

ffs fuck off with this shit

08.03.2026 14:08 👍 55 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1

Now that Timothy Chalamet has brought opera into the national conversation, if you haven't been to one before, it's fun! The LA Opera is great because you can dress up, but also go casually if you want. Also you can get tickets around the $40-50 range.

08.03.2026 05:15 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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The first two pages of the Logan: Black, White & Blood story I wrote that comes out this Wednesday in issue #3. Can't wait until it hits certain corners of the internet...

08.03.2026 06:16 👍 61 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

When people got mad at that girl on Twitter for being happy she was having breakfast with her husband

08.03.2026 02:43 👍 114 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1

Whenever "engagement" or "going viral" became more important than shame.

08.03.2026 02:52 👍 66 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 👍 5947 🔁 3446 💬 285 📌 234

Fuckin hell that’s awful. So sorry, Matt.

08.03.2026 01:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0