Benjamin Franklinstein
@mitchellg657.bsky.social
A great thread about how to create a fight sequence that works as action and to move the plot.
A good thing about AI slop like the Cruise/Pitt fight thing is that it highlights just how repetitive and soulless MANY movie fight scenes are. They might as WELL be slop.
Some top-of-my-head things to keep in mind to make your fights human:
- Incorporate the environment (cont) 1/
Some top-of-my-head things to keep in mind to make your fights human:
- Incorporate the environment (cont) 1/
February 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
A great thread about how to create a fight sequence that works as action and to move the plot.
They're actually going to be buying electricity from coal plants, not retrofitting ships or, as I'd like to see, planes to run on anthracite.
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says reut.rs/46vkQiO
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.
reut.rs
February 11, 2026 at 5:13 AM
They're actually going to be buying electricity from coal plants, not retrofitting ships or, as I'd like to see, planes to run on anthracite.
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A specter is haunting the USA —
TRUMP: We can grow at 15 percent. I think more than that!
KUDLOW: Well, 15 is a big number sir
TRUMP: But Larry, you can do it. We used to grow at 15 percent because we had spirit. Today we have a lot of communism
KUDLOW: Well, 15 is a big number sir
TRUMP: But Larry, you can do it. We used to grow at 15 percent because we had spirit. Today we have a lot of communism
February 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
A specter is haunting the USA —
I can point to one error in that first sentence.
February 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I can point to one error in that first sentence.
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
youtu.be/GLUUNJL5ZYw?... It would mark the beginning of their end and our work.
February 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
youtu.be/GLUUNJL5ZYw?... It would mark the beginning of their end and our work.
Meanwhile, the MAGA Halftime Show was delayed when they couldn't get the SSgt Barry Sadler hologram to work
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Meanwhile, the MAGA Halftime Show was delayed when they couldn't get the SSgt Barry Sadler hologram to work
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
June 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
This sounds like a dare.
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 8, 2026 at 3:42 AM
This sounds like a dare.
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It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.
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They’re called “Takes” because they take possession of your soul, like the demons of old.
October 16, 2023 at 9:16 PM
They’re called “Takes” because they take possession of your soul, like the demons of old.
I'm urging people who are trying to build and keep movements together to read Set the Night on Fire by Jon Weiner and Mike Davis. It's a history of the various civil rights movements and actions in 1960s LA and the ways the LAPD used internal divisions to suppress them. From @versobooks.bsky.social
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
The full story: lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
By Izzy Ramirez
February 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'm urging people who are trying to build and keep movements together to read Set the Night on Fire by Jon Weiner and Mike Davis. It's a history of the various civil rights movements and actions in 1960s LA and the ways the LAPD used internal divisions to suppress them. From @versobooks.bsky.social
I guess I was having one of those nights last night where it seemed like a great idea to order a copy of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit for next day delivery. I should check the batteries in the carbon monoxide detector.
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I guess I was having one of those nights last night where it seemed like a great idea to order a copy of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit for next day delivery. I should check the batteries in the carbon monoxide detector.
I just finished listening to the latest episode of @scaresshapedus.bsky.social with guest @alexwoodroe.com , EiC of Tenebrous Press. @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social has put together the best horror writing podcast in the biz. Nobody's doing exactly what he's doing. Check it out.
February 7, 2026 at 2:17 AM
I just finished listening to the latest episode of @scaresshapedus.bsky.social with guest @alexwoodroe.com , EiC of Tenebrous Press. @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social has put together the best horror writing podcast in the biz. Nobody's doing exactly what he's doing. Check it out.
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gosh it's surprising that WAPO's hard pivot to lazy extraction class apologia isn't a bigger money maker
In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.
New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
NYC’s small landlords say they won’t survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:52 AM
gosh it's surprising that WAPO's hard pivot to lazy extraction class apologia isn't a bigger money maker
Just had about 60 high schoolers march past my office, holding signs and chanting "ICE out of Santa Ana." Good kids.
It might not always look like it, but we're going to win.
It might not always look like it, but we're going to win.
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Just had about 60 high schoolers march past my office, holding signs and chanting "ICE out of Santa Ana." Good kids.
It might not always look like it, but we're going to win.
It might not always look like it, but we're going to win.
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The Epstein files have made it so clear that the struggles against misogyny, racism, and plutocracy are linked struggles against a small, largely identifiable group of people.
Globalization led to the collapse of the middle. Now tech is promising to do the same to the upper middle
If the wealthy proletarianize and casualize everyone else, what's left for ordinary people but a fierce desire to overturn the status quo EVERYWHERE?
If the wealthy proletarianize and casualize everyone else, what's left for ordinary people but a fierce desire to overturn the status quo EVERYWHERE?
February 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
The Epstein files have made it so clear that the struggles against misogyny, racism, and plutocracy are linked struggles against a small, largely identifiable group of people.
Can you show me on the picture of material conditions where what you feel in your heart is?
this is of course correct and indicative of the protestant (in its basest sense) capture of the American imagination.
where true religion is only about interiority and therefore never questionable, and therefore true politics are about internal intentions which can never be known.
where true religion is only about interiority and therefore never questionable, and therefore true politics are about internal intentions which can never be known.
I think one thing white people tie ourselves in knots over about racism is what someone “feels in their heart” or whatever. And that just … doesn’t really matter? It’s the behavior that matters.
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Can you show me on the picture of material conditions where what you feel in your heart is?
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FINISH HIM
LFG
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
(1/2 🧵)
(1/2 🧵)
February 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
FINISH HIM
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Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017
Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
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NEW: A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files.
404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.
404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.
This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts
EpsteIN—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
NEW: A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files.
404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.
404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.