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Ben "Jammin'" Verschoor
@benverschoor.bsky.social
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Professional Dilettante. Pretends to release things under Pyrexia Productions. Co-host of the Mise en Screen podcast. Writes film and other media criticism at
http://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io
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Post a famous bathroom scene
Nicolas Cage in his underwear and a long-sleeved shirt with a tiger head on the chest, screaming bloody murder in a hypnotically orange bathroom in Mandy
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Text from the opening of Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail: "We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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What's the opposite of a problematic fave? Someone who you know sucks and then you learn something that just vindicates your antipathy toward them anew? That's Deepak Chopra, woo grifter extraordinaire and close friend of Epstein
An email between Jeffrey epstein and Deepak Chopra, who is making plans to Skype with him and says he will take up Epstein's offer to visit his island or Santa Fe ranch.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Not sure any of us want to know the backstory on this.
Email from Soon Yi Previn to Jeffrey Epstein, subject: Funny dog video of a dog gnawing at Donald Trump's hair.
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Selfie of a man in a gimp suit giving a thumbs up
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Scene from the V for Vendetta comic where fascist dictator Adam Susan asks his computer Fate if it loves him, with "Fate" replaced by "Grok" and "Please give me a sign" with "Please give me a Like"
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This looks sick, but also I feel like the John Wick sequels, especially 2, already are 'what if gun-katta was visual art'
In a stark, sleek museum, a silhouetted John Wick takes aim while several goons lay dead at his feet. Behind him are a row of Greco-Roman sculptures ateither side, and between them Perseus Slaying Medusa.
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Saw-ligarchy: governance by a series of 'would you rather'-style dismemberments, while being moralized about how you deserve your suffering by a puppet that looks like Ayn Rand
Left: the puppet used by Jigsaw in the Saw horror films. Right: Ayn Rand.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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My whole life and name have been leading up to this
Benjamin for Sure
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Having now seen what he looks like, I want Greg Bovino to be tailed by protesters yelling "Hail Saint Nick" and singing Christmas carols
Immigration ghoul Greg Bovino Steven Lockjaw from One Battle After Another
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Apropos of Cheney's death, this @anamariecox.bsky.social blog post has been burned into my memory for nearly two decades.

"If he had feelings, I'm sure they'd be hurt by this."

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18 percent approval. Wow. Just… wow. If he had feelings, I’m sure they’d be hurt by this. UPDATE: I used to joke that Cheney was so disliked he was actually less popular than torture. I have been making this joke for so long, I actually had forgotten the numbers. (My memory being Libby-like in the first place.) Turns out saying that Dick Cheney is less popular than torture is like saying slugs are less popular than ice cream. Well, like a gross flavor of ice cream. I could only find a 2004 poll handy, but it says sixty-three percent of Americans say torture should never be used, leaving a tantalizing 37 percent who apparently are okay with it. Cheney wishes for 37 percent! UPDATE: Commenter “space” makes an excellent point: “In fairness to torture, it might be more popular if Cheney wasn’t dragging down its poll numbers.”
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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You may think three tech companies paying each other to stay afloat is just robbing Peter to pay Paul, but
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Oh my god
For now, money is still pouring into the AI industry. But there’s also something circular about these investments. To wit: OpenAI has agreed to pay $300 billion to Oracle for new computing capacity, Oracle is paying Nvidia tens of billions of dollars for chips to install in one of OpenAI’s data centers, and Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys Nvidia chips. Attempts to illustrate these circular investments have produced a series of byzantine charts that one software engineer referred to on X as “the technocapital hyperobject at the end of time.” The consensus seems to be that although this is legal, it likely cannot go on forever.
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Pete Postlethwaite never gave a bad performance and elevated every movie he was in
Alien³ William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Inception The Town
October 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Quote skeet this post with someone you wish was still alive
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Bas Rutten should option his origin story for a martial arts movie, Bully of Bullies

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So she had so much work with me, I never wanted to bother with her that I was bullied, because I’m pretty sure that if my dad would’ve known, I don’t think he would’ve said, “Take him off.” I believe he would’ve said, “Keep him on there, because this is good for him.” But that’s where everything came from, because then I realized, “Wait a minute, that was easy.” So now I went after the bullies, all these bullies. I literally made a list. I went to every single one of them, I had a — and other kids in school who got bullied, guess who took care of that problem? Now I was the bully, the bully guy. I took care of all the bullies, so. And that was it. My mom and dad, they took me off, what I said, from taekwondo. But then, when I was 20, I moved out of the house. Immediately, I started doing karate, not realizing it was not full contact. So then I started Thai boxing within six months, and then, within three months, I started competing in Thai boxing. And one thing led to another, and bada bing, bada boom, now I’m here, talking to you.
October 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Gotta love PTA getting Leo to do his own meme in the context of armed revolutionaries
Leonardo DiCaprio, pointing. You know the one.
October 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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President Evil
Melania Trump, her eyes obscured by a dark wide-brimmed hat Mr. X in the remake of Resident Evil 2, wearing a dark brimmed hat A Church Doctor in Bloodborne, wearing a wide-brimmed hat Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil 8, wearing a dark, very wide-brimmed hat
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Lebron does already have one of the all time greatest tweets ever under his belt tho
U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!
September 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Wonder if they're the same outfit that was pumping out ads for right-wing T-shirts displayed by Simone Biles and Keanu Reeves that were suddenly everywhere after election day 2024
September 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I love these sometimes goofy character headshots ripped off of famous people and wish the Subsistence port of MG2 had retained them instead if adding new Yoji Shinkawa character art. Really helps with the whole 'interactive movie' vibe it's going for

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September 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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MGS retconned an "I am your father" dialogue to the ending of this to support its whole clone premise, but what's even more interesting is how MG2 retcons much of the first game. It would basically become Kojima's MO for giving himself creative freedom on sequels.
With these retcons the game establishes an important precedent. Hideo Kojima would become famously ambivalent about continuously returning to the series, squaring this by revising the backstory as needed to suit his current thematic and narrative interests, and assuming there would be no sequel. The Metal Gear Solid series now is infamous for its convoluted lore resulting from later retcons, yet the revisionist approach is already present in this very first follow-up. Here the changes serve the game's fatalistic mood, embodied in the heel turn of former FOXHOUND legend Gray Fox.
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Evergreen tweet
Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."
September 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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I appreciate cinematography so much more than I used to. Probably just a function of getting older and learning, but it bums me out to think of how much I was missing when I watched something in my teens and twenties and only cared about the story as communicated by dialogue.

Meanwhile...
A dingy space populated by heroin addicts shuffling about like ghosts. Among them, at center, bathed in shadow, a young man in a collared shirt strides toward the camera. He wears a pair of sunglasses, which in the darkness makes his face a void but for a reflected light in either lens, unblinking and unchanging
August 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM