Applescruff1981
@applescruff1981.bsky.social
Astros fan, book reader, movie lover, tv watcher, STAR WARS!, generally anxious person
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Someone actually told me they weren't watching the Super Bowl because Bad Bunny was playing and "Why can't they have a good ol' American band play instead. Well, he's from Puerto Rico which is American but also:
February 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Someone actually told me they weren't watching the Super Bowl because Bad Bunny was playing and "Why can't they have a good ol' American band play instead. Well, he's from Puerto Rico which is American but also:
For #RootRootRead book that takes place on an island, I read Siracusa by Delia Ephron. Well written and entertaining book in the genre of “rich white people problems.” Just a book about four awful people.
February 2, 2026 at 10:30 PM
For #RootRootRead book that takes place on an island, I read Siracusa by Delia Ephron. Well written and entertaining book in the genre of “rich white people problems.” Just a book about four awful people.
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Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
I took my lunch walk and came back to the news that Catherine O’Hara had passed, so I thought I would share one of my all-time favorite movie lines. She was a legend and ever-present figure in my childhood and I loved seeing her get her due respect as I grew up.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuq6...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuq6...
I will go Insane and Take You With Me
YouTube video by Jesus Barrera
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January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I took my lunch walk and came back to the news that Catherine O’Hara had passed, so I thought I would share one of my all-time favorite movie lines. She was a legend and ever-present figure in my childhood and I loved seeing her get her due respect as I grew up.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuq6...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuq6...
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Soon, all the films in close proximity to it will also be THE THING. Within the year, all films in the registry will be THE THING.
Welcome John Carpenter's THE THING to the National Film Registry! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/393134...
John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ Has Been Added to the National Film Registry
John Carpenter‘s The Thing has been selected by the Library of Congress as one of this year’s 25 films to join the National Film Registry due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to pre...
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January 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Soon, all the films in close proximity to it will also be THE THING. Within the year, all films in the registry will be THE THING.
Today was about as cold as it’s gonna get in Houston this year, so I engaged in my favorite coldest day of the year activity-watching The Thing
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Today was about as cold as it’s gonna get in Houston this year, so I engaged in my favorite coldest day of the year activity-watching The Thing
Was listening to The Rest is History’s podcast about Jack the Ripper and it finally made realize I do not give a fuck about Jack the Ripper. Just do not care.
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Was listening to The Rest is History’s podcast about Jack the Ripper and it finally made realize I do not give a fuck about Jack the Ripper. Just do not care.
Nobody loves anything/anyone the way British podcasters love Horatio Nelson.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Nobody loves anything/anyone the way British podcasters love Horatio Nelson.
A movie set where you’re from
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A movie set where you’re from
The wonderful NPR podcast Science Friday did a story on this recently
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The wonderful NPR podcast Science Friday did a story on this recently
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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Sir, the people
Must have their voices; neither will they bate
One jot of ceremony.
Must have their voices; neither will they bate
One jot of ceremony.
October 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Sir, the people
Must have their voices; neither will they bate
One jot of ceremony.
Must have their voices; neither will they bate
One jot of ceremony.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So I’ve started my offseason #RootRootRead journey. First up was book checked out from the library. The Outsider by @stephenking.bsky.social was another stop on my Holly Gibney journey. She is a character I have come to enjoy very much.
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
So I’ve started my offseason #RootRootRead journey. First up was book checked out from the library. The Outsider by @stephenking.bsky.social was another stop on my Holly Gibney journey. She is a character I have come to enjoy very much.
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Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos
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so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus
Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
opus.ing
October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
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whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
June 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
One time I forgot I had to write a 5 page paper on Richard III with less than 4 hours before class it was for started. Got an A. Another time my computer failed to save over half of a ten page paper for my film studies class. Turned it in with the paper still warm. Got an A.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
One time I forgot I had to write a 5 page paper on Richard III with less than 4 hours before class it was for started. Got an A. Another time my computer failed to save over half of a ten page paper for my film studies class. Turned it in with the paper still warm. Got an A.
It’s not often you get you favorite poem read by one of the greatest voices to ever exist. In honor of Halloween month, The Raven as read by James Earl Jones as interpreted by The Simpsons
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX...
The Simpsons - Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
YouTube video by Nika Gongadze
m.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s not often you get you favorite poem read by one of the greatest voices to ever exist. In honor of Halloween month, The Raven as read by James Earl Jones as interpreted by The Simpsons
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX...
I’ve been saying this for YEARS.
Pope Leo called first of all for respect for both sides, but he also pointed out the seeming contradiction in such debates. https://to.pbs.org/4nPjGpf
Someone against abortion but in favor of death penalty 'is not really pro-life,' Pope Leo says
Pope Leo XIV intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”
to.pbs.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I’ve been saying this for YEARS.
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Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.