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Garry Planticus
@garyplant.bsky.social
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Regular person doing regular things. Certainly not into cosplaying the characters from The French Connection
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mister-fishy.bsky.social
Une chance sur un million, doc! Une chance sur un million
metro.co.uk/2026/02/01/m...
Man turns up at hospital with a WWI bomb stuck up his backside
Doctors removed a 16cm World War I shell from the man's anus.
metro.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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alistaircoleman.bsky.social
Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
BBC News headlines: Education School caterers 'confident' of meat Missing children data 'worrying'
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
it's unbelievable to me that someone could actually be a trillionaire. i think most of us have trouble internalizing how much money that truly is. let me put it in simple terms for you: a trillion dollars is three million dollars
February 5, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.

S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
The cast of SCTV
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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galaxykate.bsky.social
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
garyplant.bsky.social
My uncontroversial opinion is that having one American guest on UK task master each season would be much more fun than a whole US show with five American contestants.
avclub.com The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 20d
Taskmaster's creator and host, Alex Horne and Greg Davies, recently scored Jason Mantzoukas and Kumail Nanjiani as contestants on the British panel show hit. www.avclub.com/taskmaster-d...
The Taskmaster guys wishlist Conan O'Brien as their dream American contestant
The Taskmaster guys wishlist Conan O'Brien as their dream American contestant
www.avclub.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
wow ok the king's horses actually figured out how to put humpty dumpty together again an— oh come on, he's climbing right back up that wall. god damn it, what an asshole. you can tell the horses are furious with him
February 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
Sean Penn at the Golden Globes reminding me that he looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap
January 12, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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badhandbooks.bsky.social
After 20 years, I finally understand why George Lucas made it extremely obvious that Palpatine and Darth Sidious were the same person right from the start and made the Jedi soooo cartoonishly incompetent in stopping him. George, you were right. About everything. Fuck.
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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smilingnodding.bsky.social
*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great

*in reindeer chat*
BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess

DonnerTime: buncha dolphies?

VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject

The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh
December 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Slate Movie Club 2025 is underway, with an opening post from me on the challenge of coming up with a movie that best encapsulates this year. More posts coming up over the next two weeks from @bilgeebiri.bsky.social, @alisonwillmore.bsky.social & @justincchang.bsky.social.
slate.com/culture/2025...
The Movie of the Year Was Also a Surprise Blockbuster
The two best films of 2025 were also the two that best encapsulated it.
slate.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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stilgherrian.com
Mount Gambier continues to deliver. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Man who hired crane to attack another man's home gets home detention
A Mount Gambier man is sentenced after hiring a crane and partially destroying another man's home.
www.abc.net.au
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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mnateshyamalan.bsky.social
[first day as a shepherd]

boss: where are you going?

me: [pointing] star

boss: what? why

me: [shrugging] baby
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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matthewseiji.com
The meme of "my body is a machine that turns 'the passage of time' into 'not writing'." This is a joke about writing and how so much of writing is not writing— or at least, that's what I tell myself when I am avoiding writing, which is a big part of my actual job. I mean writing, not *not* writing. Bosses: do not look at this, especially if you are expecting something from me soon. Obviously, everything is going great. I am not procrastinating by making this meme. I am not deliberately wasting time in every possible way I can think of after already having made breakfast int he most laborious way possible, catching up on email and slack messages, engaging in some discord discourse, and checking every social media feed I have the misfortune to remain entangled with, and I fully intend on starting to write for real the moment I hit the button to send this tweet. Yes, I still call them tweets. It's an act of resistance at this point, calling them tweets. I remember there was some discussion of what to call them, and I have to say I did laugh about "skeets," since the act is comparable in some ways: it feels good in the moment, but results in something useless and gross just moments later... is this too much to get into here? I don't know if the wrongheadedly censorious people who run this platform even check descriptive alt text, come to think of it. Anyway, I should get back to writing, for real, which I will do now. That reminds me, did you catch the discourse the other day about dialogue choices in games? I don't have much to say, really, other than that creative works can be literally whatever you want them to be, so arguing about them isn't as productive as simply making the work you want to see in the world (and which I'll get back to doing in just a moment). If you want to see my approach to dialogue choices, why not play my visual novel, Eliza? If you've made it this far and haven't yet, I suggest you check it out. Okay, back to writing for real now. Definitely.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
this photo of our fun festive FT podcast Xmas quiz makes me laugh every time I see it
December 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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cait.bsky.social
whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · Dec 15
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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bitterscriptreader.bsky.social
This is a wild list and it doesn't even include SEINFELD
truggeri.bsky.social Tyler Ruggeri @truggeri.bsky.social · Dec 15
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:

City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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dhanendran.co.uk
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Learning from Stoppard By Mike Fitzgerald, June 13, 2016 Comparing two drafts of a script can be hugely instructive, revealing point-by-point how a writer went about improving the story. When I stumbled upon an earlier draft of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, I discovered a dazzling, glittering trove of lessons as nourishing as eternal life itself. Well, nearly so. Last Crusade was written by Jeffrey Boam, from a story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes. So say the opening credits. Boam’s final draft, dated March 1, 1988 (ten weeks before production) differs drastically from the published script which reflects the released version of the film. Differences come as no shock, but with Last Crusade they aren’t just a few deleted scenes and some line changes. Whole sections of the Boam draft were reimagined, major set pieces were added, and the pacing and tone were markedly transformed. Whoever made these changes possessed a profound grasp of story craft. Screenshot from https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-learning-from-stoppard/
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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martynpedler.com
Reviews said: “This is a quiet, deliberately somewhat uncomfortable, and engaging film, meant for rainy afternoons when you can leave the theatre and walk the streets and wonder.” Free on YouTube!
EXIT – Martyn Pedler
EXIT is an arthouse drama, written by Martyn Pedler and directed by Marek Polgar. A cult believes the city is a maze, and its members obsessively search for the lost exit.
martynpedler.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
garyplant.bsky.social
My first memory of him was watching Warholl’s Frankenstein as a teenager with a bunch of friends, expecting a straight forward horror. Unforgettably not that. What a career.
bloody-disgusting.com Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · Nov 24
Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.
Black and white photo of Udo Kier in a suit
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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maybejed.bsky.social
Achtung, Baby!
pulpcurry.bsky.social Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · Nov 20
For your #Noirvember pleasure, here are ten more international, ie, non-American, noirs that you might want to catch up with. Another past post from my Substack, it’s free to read at the link below.

andrewnette.substack.com/p/noirvember...
Noirvember update: why we still need to watch more international noir
It’s Noirvember again.
andrewnette.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
Martin Scorsese is 83.
I love Marty but he went way overboard de-ageing Pacino & DeNiro in some scenes of The Irishman.
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
garyplant.bsky.social
This is quite a compelling argument
zatapatique.bsky.social zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · Nov 13
You absolutely have to bribe your top quintile with goodies, because 1) it limits zero-sum brain disease spread 2) it creates a powerful constituency for a public services floor, & 3) the admin/cognitive load of means testing means they'll get theirs anyway, so you end up subsidising them regardless
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
garyplant.bsky.social
Epstein has been dead six years, so if the emails were not years old that would be pretty remarkable
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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thwphipps.bsky.social
My last word on the matter
a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM