Formal Plates
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I complain about movies
This Way Up has a big heart: Really funny and uplifting - and then it makes you wonder why your eyes are misty.
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
This Way Up (TV series) - Wikipedia
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November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This Way Up has a big heart: Really funny and uplifting - and then it makes you wonder why your eyes are misty.
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
Short episodes, fast-paced, lots of subverted expectations, Aisling Bea is amazing 🫶
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Wa...
Hello [Existential Dread] my only friend 🎵
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hello [Existential Dread] my only friend 🎵
Men reading in public are now considered so dangerous that the access to them must be restricted with a police tape.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Men reading in public are now considered so dangerous that the access to them must be restricted with a police tape.
Gordon Lightfoot - Song For A Winter's Night
YouTube video by Jan Hammer
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“We”? “We” have to?
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“We”? “We” have to?
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
Hey, sorry folks that my shutdown negotiations strategy sucks. It’s all on me. My bad.
“Pluribus” (S1E1) started really good!
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“Pluribus” (S1E1) started really good!
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
There’s a scene (mild spoiler) in which one of the characters loads a wounded person on a truck bed. The scene is given sufficient time to develop. Other script writers would probably shot it under 10 seconds.
The tone is both darkly funny and poignant
They’re literally making this into “Dylan Going Electric” affair- instead of what it really is (a big corporation going cheap and showing that saving a few bucks is paramount to everything else)
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
They’re literally making this into “Dylan Going Electric” affair- instead of what it really is (a big corporation going cheap and showing that saving a few bucks is paramount to everything else)
“The downsides of being public”?
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
Musk: Maybe SpaceX should become public company Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said that SpaceX "maybe at some point should" become a public company, "despite all the downsides of being public."
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“The downsides of being public”?
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
If I had just been given 1 trillion in compensation, I’d marry the “being public”!
I think that asking hey, how come we’re told by Party A that some things cannot be done because there are rules, people won’t budge, etc. and then you see Party B going through the same rules like a hot knife through the butter is a perfectly fair question
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I think that asking hey, how come we’re told by Party A that some things cannot be done because there are rules, people won’t budge, etc. and then you see Party B going through the same rules like a hot knife through the butter is a perfectly fair question
Fuck off
Netflix will roll out new modular ad formats globally by Q2 2026. $NFLX
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Fuck off
Hey, a fellow Bluesky funny person: If you keep disabling responses - even quote tweets-I’m going to unfollow you eventually.
There’s an unwritten compact that for you to have followers, you need to tolerate us making dad jokes, from time to time
I know you won’t lose sleep over this. Neither will I
There’s an unwritten compact that for you to have followers, you need to tolerate us making dad jokes, from time to time
I know you won’t lose sleep over this. Neither will I
November 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Hey, a fellow Bluesky funny person: If you keep disabling responses - even quote tweets-I’m going to unfollow you eventually.
There’s an unwritten compact that for you to have followers, you need to tolerate us making dad jokes, from time to time
I know you won’t lose sleep over this. Neither will I
There’s an unwritten compact that for you to have followers, you need to tolerate us making dad jokes, from time to time
I know you won’t lose sleep over this. Neither will I
A risky career move for her, but I say go for it!
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A risky career move for her, but I say go for it!
Reposted by Formal Plates
Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree
November 30, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable degree
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
I had high hopes for “Down Cemetery Road” (Emma Thompson), unfortunately the plot is a complete mess, bordering on bizarre.
There’s a good story to be made with the protagonist who becomes unhealthily obsessed with mysterious disappearances (The Lady Vanishes), but this is not it.
There’s a good story to be made with the protagonist who becomes unhealthily obsessed with mysterious disappearances (The Lady Vanishes), but this is not it.
October 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I had high hopes for “Down Cemetery Road” (Emma Thompson), unfortunately the plot is a complete mess, bordering on bizarre.
There’s a good story to be made with the protagonist who becomes unhealthily obsessed with mysterious disappearances (The Lady Vanishes), but this is not it.
There’s a good story to be made with the protagonist who becomes unhealthily obsessed with mysterious disappearances (The Lady Vanishes), but this is not it.
If you see this, post four female characters you love
October 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If you see this, post four female characters you love
From my recent interview with Isaac Chotiner
(Isaac carefully listening to my great replies, I’m feeling really good about it 🥰)
(Isaac carefully listening to my great replies, I’m feeling really good about it 🥰)
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
From my recent interview with Isaac Chotiner
(Isaac carefully listening to my great replies, I’m feeling really good about it 🥰)
(Isaac carefully listening to my great replies, I’m feeling really good about it 🥰)
Grok, ladies and gentlemen
October 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Grok, ladies and gentlemen
Do you have red wine?
Of course! Which beer would you like?
Of course! Which beer would you like?
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Do you have red wine?
Of course! Which beer would you like?
Of course! Which beer would you like?
“Hey, you piggies, you like your stupid computer games, don’t you?”
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“Hey, you piggies, you like your stupid computer games, don’t you?”
“Blueskyism” (being on and using the platform that actually works)
ELON MUSK: MY APOLOGIES FOR FRUSTRATIONS WITH THE 𝕏 ALGORITHM. WE ARE WORKING HARD TO FIX THE PROBLEM
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Blueskyism” (being on and using the platform that actually works)
Therapy also works pretty well, but go off
PERU PRIME MINISTER ALVAREZ ASKS CONGRESS FOR 90 DAYS OF LEGISLATIVE POWER TO PASS LAWS TO TACKLE INSECURITY
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Therapy also works pretty well, but go off