Olivia
@oliviab.bsky.social
olivianerys on Twitter. Mostly film, TV, and dunking on tech bros (she/her)
Saturn Ascending
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Saturn Ascending
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The Aubrey-Maturin Saga (18 movies)
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Aubrey-Maturin Saga (18 movies)
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I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
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Turns out, 6 months was optimistic
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Turns out, 6 months was optimistic
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We don't get a lot of good news these days so you've got to appreciate it when it comes. This is a big deal!
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We don't get a lot of good news these days so you've got to appreciate it when it comes. This is a big deal!
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they’re targeting weeaboos
Trump announces 100% tariff on movies made outside of the US https://cnn.it/4gManmU
September 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
they’re targeting weeaboos
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As Charles Grodin responded to all the griping about ISHTAR’s budget, “Why should the public be concerned what the budget of a movie is? Coca-Cola financed the movie. It's not as if Coca-Cola was going to give that money to the people of America rather than spend it.”
People are whining that One Battle After Another cost too much money and will have a soft opening but whatever because a) it’s not your money they spent b) movies have a life beyond the opening weekend c) I expect strong legs for this one because everyone loves it
September 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
As Charles Grodin responded to all the griping about ISHTAR’s budget, “Why should the public be concerned what the budget of a movie is? Coca-Cola financed the movie. It's not as if Coca-Cola was going to give that money to the people of America rather than spend it.”
Will the Britcard get me 5% off Pizza Express? It sounds like it should get me 5% off Pizza Express
September 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Will the Britcard get me 5% off Pizza Express? It sounds like it should get me 5% off Pizza Express
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It speaks volumes about how unmoored Labour has become from the people who actually voted for it in 2024 (i.e. people in work) that the line on digital ID cards is just an obvious lie to anyone who has changed jobs in the past decade!
September 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It speaks volumes about how unmoored Labour has become from the people who actually voted for it in 2024 (i.e. people in work) that the line on digital ID cards is just an obvious lie to anyone who has changed jobs in the past decade!
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Unfortunately when you follow UK politics closely, you realise that around 80% of Westminster believe this kind of thing is very smart, and moreover, true.
I know very little about UK politics but I know enough to know there is zero chance Starmer is actually this stupid.
September 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Unfortunately when you follow UK politics closely, you realise that around 80% of Westminster believe this kind of thing is very smart, and moreover, true.
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Paranormal Activity is a movie about how even demons don't like being filmed without their consent.
Might fuck around and watch all the Paranormal Activities.
September 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Paranormal Activity is a movie about how even demons don't like being filmed without their consent.
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I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day
Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.
Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social
“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”
on.ft.com/3VxxCaR
Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social
“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”
on.ft.com/3VxxCaR
September 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day
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I say this all the time: anti-stratfordian theories are based entirely on the idea that a great author has to be born upper class.
It's kind of funny the theory that Shakespeare didn't exist accepts that a man named William Shakespeare did exist and was an actor and was well known as the author of his plays and sonnets and the theory is that he didn't actually write them but everyone still said he did
September 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I say this all the time: anti-stratfordian theories are based entirely on the idea that a great author has to be born upper class.
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we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content
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trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
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One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"
Imagine having such an incredible impact on American cinema while at the same time being one of history's greatest foxes, RIP Robert Redford
September 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Imagine having such an incredible impact on American cinema while at the same time being one of history's greatest foxes, RIP Robert Redford
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i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked
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aw man, RIP
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
aw man, RIP
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
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One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.
When Charlie Kirk, who put together lists of professors he didn't like so people could target & harass them, used the phrase "free speech", he used it in the same way creationists use "teach the controversy." For Kirk, it was just another way to bludgeon the left and also to promote his propaganda.
September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.
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“I’m an eleven, but continue.”
June 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“I’m an eleven, but continue.”
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I think the thing I resent most about Starmer, aside from his politics, general demeanor, lack of competence, grating voice and fact that he looks photoshopped into every picture with him in it, is just that he refuses to do his fucking job at every turn.
September 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I think the thing I resent most about Starmer, aside from his politics, general demeanor, lack of competence, grating voice and fact that he looks photoshopped into every picture with him in it, is just that he refuses to do his fucking job at every turn.