Daniel Carlson
@danielwcarlson.bsky.social
Lapsed film critic. Writer, reader, bearder. Seen at Crooked Marquee, Musings, Bright Wall Dark Room, Plex, several others. Sucker for ’90s country. Hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
I genuinely thought that PLURIBUS would have to settle for a small audience and critical plaudits like BETTER CALL SAUL, so I am happy to see it hitting so big. Also happy for Rhea Seehorn, who is so, so, so good on BCS—the beating and worried heart of the show—to be getting top-level recognition.
December 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I genuinely thought that PLURIBUS would have to settle for a small audience and critical plaudits like BETTER CALL SAUL, so I am happy to see it hitting so big. Also happy for Rhea Seehorn, who is so, so, so good on BCS—the beating and worried heart of the show—to be getting top-level recognition.
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Oh man how could I forget this one
December 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Oh man how could I forget this one
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Can we resolve in 2026 to stop sharing videos of people ranting directly at the camera while sitting in the front seats of their parked cars? I get that it can be cathartic to watch someone badly summarize a news story and then yell "WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE, PEOPLE?!" at the end, but it's not good.
December 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Can we resolve in 2026 to stop sharing videos of people ranting directly at the camera while sitting in the front seats of their parked cars? I get that it can be cathartic to watch someone badly summarize a news story and then yell "WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE, PEOPLE?!" at the end, but it's not good.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Theory: AI adoption is driven in large part by users’ years of growing frustration with the gradual destruction of web search (Google, within Amazon, etc.), which made them turn to what seemed to them to be a newly accurate web search tool that wasn’t overrun with ads or sponsored results
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Theory: AI adoption is driven in large part by users’ years of growing frustration with the gradual destruction of web search (Google, within Amazon, etc.), which made them turn to what seemed to them to be a newly accurate web search tool that wasn’t overrun with ads or sponsored results
So, ANACONDA is about two guys who want to make a movie called ANACONDA? Is the new ANACONDA’s ANACONDA meant to be a remake of ANACONDA? Or is ANACONDA instead a reboot in which ANACONDA never existed and these two guys wanna make an ANACONDA that’s all-new and has nothing to do with ANAC- [stroke]
ANACONDA - Final Trailer (HD)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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December 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
So, ANACONDA is about two guys who want to make a movie called ANACONDA? Is the new ANACONDA’s ANACONDA meant to be a remake of ANACONDA? Or is ANACONDA instead a reboot in which ANACONDA never existed and these two guys wanna make an ANACONDA that’s all-new and has nothing to do with ANAC- [stroke]
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He looks like a villain on NIP/TUCK
Touchdown Tom dressing like this with one glove makes him look like a hitman
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
He looks like a villain on NIP/TUCK
I want the children to know among them a joy like the one we knew watching this as it aired in 03-06
December 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I want the children to know among them a joy like the one we knew watching this as it aired in 03-06
There was enough pumpkin pie left to make 3 regular slices or 2 We Earned This portions; probably don’t even need to tell you which way I went
December 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There was enough pumpkin pie left to make 3 regular slices or 2 We Earned This portions; probably don’t even need to tell you which way I went
I have never seen an AVATAR movie. I do not get the appeal, and to be honest, the online enthusiasm feels forced
December 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I have never seen an AVATAR movie. I do not get the appeal, and to be honest, the online enthusiasm feels forced
Texts with Sis
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Texts with Sis
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Books, poems, film, etc. may require retraining a brain to slow down.
And it's important bc while scrolling social media pushes the happy button, it rarely provides actual happiness. It's like food with no nutrients; your brain ate a lot but it's still starving for things that scrolling can't give.
And it's important bc while scrolling social media pushes the happy button, it rarely provides actual happiness. It's like food with no nutrients; your brain ate a lot but it's still starving for things that scrolling can't give.
December 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Books, poems, film, etc. may require retraining a brain to slow down.
And it's important bc while scrolling social media pushes the happy button, it rarely provides actual happiness. It's like food with no nutrients; your brain ate a lot but it's still starving for things that scrolling can't give.
And it's important bc while scrolling social media pushes the happy button, it rarely provides actual happiness. It's like food with no nutrients; your brain ate a lot but it's still starving for things that scrolling can't give.
This is the face I make when I ask who on earth asked for a movie where Nic Cage plays John Madden in Mrs. Doubtfire leftovers
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is the face I make when I ask who on earth asked for a movie where Nic Cage plays John Madden in Mrs. Doubtfire leftovers
Retirement homes in 2045 are just gonna be old folks yelling “Dorothy Mantooth is a SAINT” while lining up their meds
December 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Retirement homes in 2045 are just gonna be old folks yelling “Dorothy Mantooth is a SAINT” while lining up their meds
PLURIBUS S1, a perfect season of televisual entertainment
December 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
PLURIBUS S1, a perfect season of televisual entertainment
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I now reflexively think of Stranger Things as protoslop, the antecedent to AI videos about nonexistent mall McDonaldlands. Judy lays out a timeline of how its relatively innocuous nostalgia bait devolved into content extrusion detached from anything that made anyone care — the slop funnel to a tee.
Stranger Things started out as a fun, clever, well-made little distraction from the hellscape of 2016. Then we all started living full-time in the Upside Down, a franchise-thirsty streamer stretched one season's worth of story into four, and—much like our brains—the show never recovered.
'Stranger Things' Was a Casualty of the Franchise Machine
How the nostalgic, well-made treat we couldn't help devouring amid the traumas of 2016 devolved into a content factory
time.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I now reflexively think of Stranger Things as protoslop, the antecedent to AI videos about nonexistent mall McDonaldlands. Judy lays out a timeline of how its relatively innocuous nostalgia bait devolved into content extrusion detached from anything that made anyone care — the slop funnel to a tee.
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Look what someone did to the new Avengers trailer dyyyyying www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr3hr2A6/
December 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Look what someone did to the new Avengers trailer dyyyyying www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr3hr2A6/
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Now watching the King's speech.
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Now watching the King's speech.
DRAW IT AGAIN
December 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
DRAW IT AGAIN
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When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
Unexpected @nocontextpornhub.bsky.social crossover
While everyone else's stockings are hung with care, Mom's is often the last to be filled — if it's filled at all. Why? https://cnn.it/4pQxErD
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Unexpected @nocontextpornhub.bsky.social crossover
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