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A collection of starter packs for film nerds 🧵

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Welcome twitter exiles! It can be confusing here at first (but sooo much better). First thing is to find some of your old pals! We put together a starter pack last month of film critics, writers, creators and obsessives to help you get started. Add it and then go from there :) go.bsky.app/CsvD994
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Hell, yeah ✊
Truck drivers and other drivers in Chicago are chasing ice.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Jesus, the death toll is climbing by the minute
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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At least 13 dead after fire engulfs residential tower blocks in Hong Kong
At least 13 dead after fire engulfs residential tower blocks in Hong Kong
Several people reportedly trapped inside burning towers as firefighters tackle huge blaze in Tai Po district
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's such an invasive, off-putting plan. Just toll the roads.
Main thoughts in the per mile charging plan.
1) How's it supposed to work without massive surveillance?
2) My next car won't be an EV
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Oh no, the thing that everyone said would happen happened

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Omg lololololol
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
AI defeated by Tim Allen's jugs
I tested a machine learning model designed to detect NSFW content. It marked this image as unsafe, because of Tim Allen's breasts (marked in blue) and my hand-penis (marked in green)
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Logoff = Death

(Will Stancil, probably. Laudatory)
I think Stancil drives people particularly crazy because he breaks the way they expect social media to work. Like the way it's supposed to work is "you say something I don't like, I post a pithy dunk, my followers laugh, and you log off." But Will doesn't log off. He will never log off.
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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‘If the Communist party is digging up ancestor’s graves, go dig up Xi Jinping’s ancestral tombs first’.
Protests erupt in China’s Guizhou province over cremation mandate
Villagers demonstrate against drive for alternative funeral practices instead of burial to preserve land resources
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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can't shake the feeling that whoever leaked the witikoff call (and I don't know who it is, don't ask me) had two goals:

-to show the bad faith at work
-to flex that european intelligence is paying close attention, shall we say
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The anti-vaccine movement is a death cult
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Justin Smith: Hey Ben, Issac Chotiner just called me and said he wanted to interview me after a conversation he just had with you

Ben Smith: 😅🏃‍♂️💨
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Well, one of them is gonna hit something at least
Russia's Black Sea coast under drone attack. Air defense fires in all directions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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He helped the families of dying children. Spent all night with them even once the child was taken to the morgue. A former colleague tells us on the record that Ayman Soliman is the reason certain poor families who lost their babies at the hospital didn’t have…

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
July 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is on TUBI? 😯
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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i regret to inform you i have seen olivia nuzzi naked in an abstract way. bsky.app/profile/anam...
I regret to inform you there is more Olivia Newzzi: the print VF will feature a nude portrait by artist Isabelle Brourman that is also destined for Art Basel Miami Beach. Notably, its inclusion appears be a surprise to VF staff. VF looking worse and worse here. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I knew about the buzz but now I really wanna watch this
I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/trai...
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Thailand being #1 makes sense but it's still nice to be confirmed by real data. But Even Singapore, South Korea and Turkey are higher than US and UK is fucking depressing.
the Ipsos Pride survey is genuinely an awesome product, but jesus the difference in the UK/US on trans issues is nuts
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Truly a man of many talents
i have no pie ranking — i like all pie — but i will say that my sweet potato pie once won an award
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The news at 02:52:43 is: Hong Kong: Young activists suffer in silence, Five years after a Beijing-imposed national security law reshaped Hong Kong, two young ex-prisoners discover a freedom defined by an unsettling silence.#news
Hong Kong: Young activists suffer in silence
Five years after a Beijing-imposed national security law reshaped Hong Kong, two young ex-prisoners discover a freedom defined by an unsettling silence.
www.dw.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I don't have children or student loans, and I bought a house with money left to me when my mother died, and I never leave those three things out of the "how did you transition into freelancing full time" conversation because otherwise it is WILDLY disingenuous to talk about how writing pays my bills
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.

The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM