Jack Rourke
@celluloiddrifter.bsky.social
Filmmaker. Cartoonist. Writer. Projectionalist. Occasional podcast host. Blue jean cowboy, Chuck Taylor gumshoe, raglan spaceman from Vegas.
UNIVERSE IN FLUX out now!
UNIVERSE IN FLUX out now!
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Jack Rourke
@celluloiddrifter.bsky.social
· Jun 18
UNIVERSE IN FLUX, a science-fiction anthology novel I’ve been working on with some terrific friends of mine, is dropping later this summer!
here’s a trailer for the interim youtu.be/gO1bZbcpRek?...
here’s a trailer for the interim youtu.be/gO1bZbcpRek?...
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Carlo Simi's costume sketches for Harmonica, Frank & Morton in Once Upon a Time in the West
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Carlo Simi's costume sketches for Harmonica, Frank & Morton in Once Upon a Time in the West
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Bari Weiss' first weeks at CBS News marked by all-out warfare against professional ethics standards in the newsroom, part of an effort to convert it from journalism into rank political propaganda.
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Bari Weiss' first weeks at CBS News marked by all-out warfare against professional ethics standards in the newsroom, part of an effort to convert it from journalism into rank political propaganda.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
#Noirvember top 4 for the year (some neo-noir, some classic)
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
#Noirvember top 4 for the year (some neo-noir, some classic)
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It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
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Vale Peter Watkins. A hugely important director, whose speculative docudramas, derided by some as the product of an overheated radical imagination, appear more frighteningly real as the years progress.
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Vale Peter Watkins. A hugely important director, whose speculative docudramas, derided by some as the product of an overheated radical imagination, appear more frighteningly real as the years progress.
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halloween is the best holiday because it’s the one that’s the most community focused. also because it’s the horniest
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
halloween is the best holiday because it’s the one that’s the most community focused. also because it’s the horniest
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I need some of you to let this entire family and all their associates to fade into the abyss.
It’s probably what’s stopping us from a global rest.
You can do this! Let’s start today.
It’s probably what’s stopping us from a global rest.
You can do this! Let’s start today.
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I need some of you to let this entire family and all their associates to fade into the abyss.
It’s probably what’s stopping us from a global rest.
You can do this! Let’s start today.
It’s probably what’s stopping us from a global rest.
You can do this! Let’s start today.
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I’m going to win, in the courtroom and on Election Day.
But I need your help to do it: katforillinois.com/legal
But I need your help to do it: katforillinois.com/legal
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I’m going to win, in the courtroom and on Election Day.
But I need your help to do it: katforillinois.com/legal
But I need your help to do it: katforillinois.com/legal
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online
The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.
www.filmbuffonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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What was your first horror movie?
CREEPSHOW (‘82)
No clue if I saw this or DAWN OF THE DEAD first. What I do know is (GREMLINS aside) I was a chickenshit about horror up until the age of 12 and “stylish fun” became my way in from there after seeing this.
CREEPSHOW (‘82)
No clue if I saw this or DAWN OF THE DEAD first. What I do know is (GREMLINS aside) I was a chickenshit about horror up until the age of 12 and “stylish fun” became my way in from there after seeing this.
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
What was your first horror movie?
CREEPSHOW (‘82)
No clue if I saw this or DAWN OF THE DEAD first. What I do know is (GREMLINS aside) I was a chickenshit about horror up until the age of 12 and “stylish fun” became my way in from there after seeing this.
CREEPSHOW (‘82)
No clue if I saw this or DAWN OF THE DEAD first. What I do know is (GREMLINS aside) I was a chickenshit about horror up until the age of 12 and “stylish fun” became my way in from there after seeing this.
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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
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Republicans are counting on 40+ years of Reaganism and prosperity-gospel propaganda to make sure Americans who can't afford food will blame themselves and not their govt. So far, generally, they've been right about that. We need to cure this country from Reaganism as quickly as possibly.
I really don't think they've thought the ramifications of letting snap run out if money
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Republicans are counting on 40+ years of Reaganism and prosperity-gospel propaganda to make sure Americans who can't afford food will blame themselves and not their govt. So far, generally, they've been right about that. We need to cure this country from Reaganism as quickly as possibly.
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It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity.
Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?
Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity.
Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?
Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?
Quote your art with fire on 🔥
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Quote your art with fire on 🔥
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This is something only civil society can try to stop. And they'll regret it if they don't
Voices people don't expect, actual power brokers need to come out and say: We see what this man is obviously doing, and fuck that. This is still America.
Voices people don't expect, actual power brokers need to come out and say: We see what this man is obviously doing, and fuck that. This is still America.
Sorry, but it *is* unnerving. I agree with @rieckhoff.bsky.social that this idea that the military is Trump's personal muscle, and should kill anyone he points at, should be among the biggest stories in America right now.
Hey Tom, saw you on MSNBC earlier today.
That conversation was a bit unnerving.
That conversation was a bit unnerving.
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This is something only civil society can try to stop. And they'll regret it if they don't
Voices people don't expect, actual power brokers need to come out and say: We see what this man is obviously doing, and fuck that. This is still America.
Voices people don't expect, actual power brokers need to come out and say: We see what this man is obviously doing, and fuck that. This is still America.
Met Joe Dante tonight at a Q&A screening for The ‘Burbs I was working. As chill and approachable as you’ve heard. Very cool night!
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Met Joe Dante tonight at a Q&A screening for The ‘Burbs I was working. As chill and approachable as you’ve heard. Very cool night!
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"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.
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Do you want Cronenberg World? Because this is how you get Cronenberg World. 🤷♂️
- Imagine a world where AI is ubiquitous and ever-growing. Over time, more and more content becomes AI-generated. And what happens when a majority of content is AI- as opposed to human-generated?
- Destructive feedback loops. Noise in the system. Infinite regressive spirals.
@matthewkressel.net
- Destructive feedback loops. Noise in the system. Infinite regressive spirals.
@matthewkressel.net
Model Collapse - Reactor
A government agent and his mentee are sent into a remote town on a mysterious and dangerous project...
reactormag.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Do you want Cronenberg World? Because this is how you get Cronenberg World. 🤷♂️
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New episode about apps and companies and robots and workers.
youtu.be/WJmu17hy_4U?...
youtu.be/WJmu17hy_4U?...
The High Cost of Convenience - SOME MORE NEWS
YouTube video by Some More News
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New episode about apps and companies and robots and workers.
youtu.be/WJmu17hy_4U?...
youtu.be/WJmu17hy_4U?...
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM