Dorinda
@dorinda.bsky.social
Adapted by Craig Mazin! I'm seated already.
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Adapted by Craig Mazin! I'm seated already.
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This movie is really funny and a corker of a mystery, but it’s also really deeply felt and quite moving. And as I said on PCHH, you’re going to keep thinking, “Hmm, is this movie going to have a moment where Glenn Close utterly demolishes me?” Yes. Yes, it is.
We’re up! On NETFLIX! Please enjoy #WakeUpDeadMan at home or in theaters - we’re staying on 500 screens nationwide through next week. Theater finder link in my pinned post ☠️⏰🎄
December 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This movie is really funny and a corker of a mystery, but it’s also really deeply felt and quite moving. And as I said on PCHH, you’re going to keep thinking, “Hmm, is this movie going to have a moment where Glenn Close utterly demolishes me?” Yes. Yes, it is.
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Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
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once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
December 11, 2024 at 6:46 AM
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
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Another good reason to never use an AI avatar or AI art ever, no matter how cute, is that the more people become accustomed to that eerie aesthetic, the easier it is to slip the fakes through.
January 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Another good reason to never use an AI avatar or AI art ever, no matter how cute, is that the more people become accustomed to that eerie aesthetic, the easier it is to slip the fakes through.
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Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
December 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
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This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM
This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.
November 20, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.
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PSA: I am not on Facebook or threads; if someone is there saying they are me, it is a scam. I don’t ask people for money, I don’t sell any kind of access to any kind of publishing services. Ever, and will never.
November 20, 2024 at 9:09 PM
PSA: I am not on Facebook or threads; if someone is there saying they are me, it is a scam. I don’t ask people for money, I don’t sell any kind of access to any kind of publishing services. Ever, and will never.
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I still think about what you said in November 2020 about why doomscrolling is harmful: "I have come to the conclusion that as human beings, we are just not meant to poach in other people's anxiety all the time." www.npr.org/2020/11/18/9...
November 4, 2024 at 1:31 AM
I still think about what you said in November 2020 about why doomscrolling is harmful: "I have come to the conclusion that as human beings, we are just not meant to poach in other people's anxiety all the time." www.npr.org/2020/11/18/9...
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NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
The walkout, which began just after midnight Monday, could disrupt the New York Times’s election coverage.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2024 at 11:52 AM
NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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MERL is here!
October 17, 2024 at 10:08 PM
MERL is here!
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Hey if you use Firefox update it immediately, there's a zero day exploit
thehackernews.com/2024/10/mozi...
thehackernews.com/2024/10/mozi...
October 10, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Hey if you use Firefox update it immediately, there's a zero day exploit
thehackernews.com/2024/10/mozi...
thehackernews.com/2024/10/mozi...
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Visually *astounding*, and also the only movie of comparable profile where the child character actually sounds like a child (because the actor made up a lot of her own lines). writers (screen or otherwise), take note! this is how kids talk!
In a major coup, MUBI - the streaming service that is Criterion for people who think Criterion is too mainstream - has acquired & restored Tarsem's brilliant THE FALL, available today. A criminally underseen masterpiece, this movie has been hard to find for YEARS. Now it's out there. Fucking LOVE it
September 28, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Visually *astounding*, and also the only movie of comparable profile where the child character actually sounds like a child (because the actor made up a lot of her own lines). writers (screen or otherwise), take note! this is how kids talk!
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Mighty Big TV -- the site that became Television Without Pity -- launched 25 years ago today, if you can FUCKING BELIEVE IT. If you miss us: first of all thank you, we love you. Secondly, we're still talking about TV together, so check out our podcast Extra Hot Great! 😘 extrahotgreat.com
Extra Hot Great – This Week In TV Podcast
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September 22, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Mighty Big TV -- the site that became Television Without Pity -- launched 25 years ago today, if you can FUCKING BELIEVE IT. If you miss us: first of all thank you, we love you. Secondly, we're still talking about TV together, so check out our podcast Extra Hot Great! 😘 extrahotgreat.com
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When asked, “What is artificial intelligence?” Ted Chiang replied, “A poor choice of words in 1954.”
To this day I think that is the only good answer to that question that I have seen.
To this day I think that is the only good answer to that question that I have seen.
September 20, 2024 at 7:15 PM
When asked, “What is artificial intelligence?” Ted Chiang replied, “A poor choice of words in 1954.”
To this day I think that is the only good answer to that question that I have seen.
To this day I think that is the only good answer to that question that I have seen.
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Here is a cleansing photo of my dog, unsure of whether it’s an ears-up day or an ears-down day on the master schedule.
September 20, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Here is a cleansing photo of my dog, unsure of whether it’s an ears-up day or an ears-down day on the master schedule.
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I did not know how much I needed a Badly Drawn Horse today.
It's time for a Badly Drawn Horse from the Patent Files!
Here is a horse modeling a leather horse-net.
catalog.archives.gov/id/349252137
Here is a horse modeling a leather horse-net.
catalog.archives.gov/id/349252137
September 6, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I did not know how much I needed a Badly Drawn Horse today.
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absolutely the thread of the day
Hi everyone let's talk about the Carlisle 52 series of cups, in particular the Carlisle 5216, a topic about which I am extremely normal. In my estimation, a triumph of thoughtful industrial design and is probably my favorite ever mass produced object. 🧵
oh also i stole this from the brewery where we had lunch earlier
August 30, 2024 at 1:40 PM
absolutely the thread of the day
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If I had my way, the law would clarify over and over that if you use “AI” to generate text that you then share, you are just as liable for those words as if you simply said them yourself.
August 26, 2024 at 8:18 PM
If I had my way, the law would clarify over and over that if you use “AI” to generate text that you then share, you are just as liable for those words as if you simply said them yourself.
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Hey it’s my favorite painting of all time! It’s at the Musee d’Orsay, and is absolutely luminous in person
August 23, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Hey it’s my favorite painting of all time! It’s at the Musee d’Orsay, and is absolutely luminous in person
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There’s an old Irish term for someone who likes to stay home by the warmth and comfort of the fireplace (what we might today call a couch potato)... cailleach na luatha. I like to translate it (with some poetic licence) as “divine hag of the ashes”
August 23, 2024 at 2:20 PM
There’s an old Irish term for someone who likes to stay home by the warmth and comfort of the fireplace (what we might today call a couch potato)... cailleach na luatha. I like to translate it (with some poetic licence) as “divine hag of the ashes”
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US government is going to again make Covid tests available for free, starting in late September. Folks will be able to order 4 free tests from Covidtests.gov, ASPR's Dawn O'Connell says.
More later.
More later.
COVID-19 Testing
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August 23, 2024 at 3:15 PM
US government is going to again make Covid tests available for free, starting in late September. Folks will be able to order 4 free tests from Covidtests.gov, ASPR's Dawn O'Connell says.
More later.
More later.
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Tim Walz has read the entire run of Master and Commander and can entertainingly explain the Napoleonic wars wholly through football metaphors
Tim Walz owns two different DVDs of “The Hunt for Red October” as well as a well-thumbed paperback
During his downtime, Tim Walz periodically watches “Lincoln.”
August 22, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Tim Walz has read the entire run of Master and Commander and can entertainingly explain the Napoleonic wars wholly through football metaphors