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Call me Yanni 🐧🌈🎬🖖🍫
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Filmmaker (He/Him)🪩Immigrant 🇬🇷➡️🇺🇸 My films play with the nature of reality: Questioning it, toying with it & molding it in unexpected ways 👉 https://youtube.com/yanniszafeiriou 👈 I have a thing for penguins, but it’s strictly platonic❤️ www.yanzaf.com
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Had a wonderful screening of “Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story” at the LA Queer Film Fest! Getting people to come see our work in person is always a joy, especially so on a cold, rainy Sunday! So eternally grateful to all who were able to make it tonight! We love you 🥰 #NamasDei 🙏
The words NAMAS DEI in white, surrounded by swirling colorful lights.
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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HELLO UNIVERSE!

We are GAGGED to announce that “NAMAS DEI: THE TUCKER J. JAMES STORY” will have its LOS ANGELES PREMIERE at the amazing “LA QUEER FILM FEST”. Only a few features were selected and we are amongst the lucky chosen ones. #NamasDei 🙏 #blessed ❤️

Tix: filmfreeway.com/LAQUEERFILMF...
At the top of the image there are the laurels and title of LA Queer Film Fest Official Selection. In the middle of the image is a still photo from the film where two male actors are in close up, looking at each other and smiling in close proximity. Text at the bottom of the image: Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story, Los Angeles Premiere, Sunday, November 16th, @6:30pm Let Live Theatre
October 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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We won 😃❤️

🥇The DIRECTOR’S CHOICE “recognizing outstanding work that demonstrated exceptional storytelling, artistic vision, or cultural significance”.

🥇The AUDIENCE FAVORITE “for films that resonated strongly with viewers for their creativity, authenticity, and emotional impact”.

#NamasDei 🙏
Actors Josh Allen Goldman and Noelle Messier in the roles of Tucker J. James and Erin McMichaels (from the movie Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story) are shown in two production stills, smiling, high-fiving and generally celebrating. In the middle, two laurels from the Cinema Diverse Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival showcase two awards that the movie won: The Director’s Choice and The Audience Favorite.
October 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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*gasp*
A film still from the film “Carnival of Souls”. A blond woman driving a car sees her reflection in the window but also the reflection of a scary man. She gasps.
October 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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“Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story” has been officially released into the wild ❤️
Two guys wearing matching shirts stand smiling in front of the Palm Springs Cultural Centre during Cinema Diverse. They hold a foam board poster of the same artwork that’s on their shirts.
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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It was this abomination:
No. I will not describe this text. Consider it an act of charity.
September 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Live. Laugh. Face Mask.
A man in a dark room wears a spooky moisturizing face mask.
July 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The last meme you saved is your psychic advice.
A meme that reads: After being caught eating sugarcane, a baby elephant tried to hide behind a light pole. Two photos of a baby elephant hiding behind a light pole. Then, underneath those photos, another comment by someone that reads: “what baby elephant? I don’t see anything?!”
July 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.
A baby opossum grins.
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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I ❤️ LA
A few palm trees against a cloudy sky, and the sun poking through the haze.
June 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Me too, mop. Me too 😑
A mop propped up against a wall
June 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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When lifting weights, always use the exact size which is directly proportional to your absolute desire to lift weights in the first place. Follow me for more fitness tips 💪
A tiny, silver weight-looking thing is being held between a thumb and a finger, in a room by the window.
April 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Day-O
Hazy skyline of DTLA (downtown Los Angeles) Hazy skyline of DTLA (downtown Los Angeles) Hazy skyline of DTLA (downtown Los Angeles) Hazy skyline of DTLA (downtown Los Angeles)
February 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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You may also eat the cake during your other lives as well. Follow me for more mental health advice ✌️
An orange/red card on a store shelf that reads “You only live once, eat the cake.”
January 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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🦇
A sleek, black cat on a table, looking into the camera lens, with a very stern look! Right next to its face, the following words appear: “I AM VENGEANCE. I AM THE NIGHT. I AM BATMAN.”
December 19, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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Vikings Valhalla is making a weird tonal shift. #vikings #goldengirls
A still image from the TV show Vikings:Valhalla where the queen of Norway says the words “Saint Olaf”.
December 1, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Don’t know why but I just remembered the first video game that ever gave me nightmares as a kid. It was on #ATARI and it was called #BERZERK

I think those fucking killer robots definitely affected how I *still* see and relate to the world through all kinds of computer/smartphone screens 😬 — 🔫🤖
Screen-grab from the ATARI game console “Berzerk”. Berzerk is a video game designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. The game involves a Humanoid Intruder who has to escape maze-like rooms that are littered with robots that slowly move towards and shoot at the Humanoid. The player can shoot at the robots to try and escape the room. Along with the robots, a smiley face known as Evil Otto appears to hunt down the player within each room. Photo shows blue walls and the humanoid shooting lasers at one of the 4 yellow robots that are chasing him.
November 19, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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#FilmSky describe your #DebutFeatureFilm using only 2 posters
Poster for the HBO comedy series “The Comeback” (starring Lisa Kudrow). “The Comeback” tells the story of a B-list sitcom star so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality television show called, appropriately enough, `The Comeback'. Cameras follow Valerie Cherish's every move as she angles to keep her head above the Hollywood fray, even as she's woefully out of touch with modern show business. And in the madness that is network television, there is nothing braver than a 40-year-old ingenue who's not quite ready to give up the spotlight. In the poster, Lisa Kudrow’s smiling face is peeking through a red curtain. Poster for the TV show “Web Therapy”. Lisa Kudrow stars in this part-scripted, part-improvised comedy series about a self-professed psychotherapist with little patience for her patients. Dr. Fiona Wallice, who has no discernible training, doesn't believe in the traditional 50-minute sessions most therapists have with their patients. She prefers to meet with her clients in weekly three-minute sessions, through an online webcam. Even in the short sessions, Wallice spends more time feigning boredom and interrupting than listening to the patient's issues. A large number of well-known actors, including Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, alan Cumming, Victor Garber, David Schwimmer, Courtney Cox, Jane Lynch and many others guest star on the show as Wallice's patients, family etc. In the poster an exasperated Lisa Kudrow holds her palms upwards wearing a blue jacket.
November 17, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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#ScriptSky describe your current #WIP using only 2 posters
Movie poster from “This is where I leave you” (starring Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Adam Driver, Corey Stoll). This Is Where I Leave You tells the story of four grown siblings who are forced to return to their childhood home after their father's death and live under the same roof for seven days, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes, and might-have-beens. Movie poster from “The Vigil (starring Dave Davis). “The Vigil”follows a young man who is tasked with keeping vigil over a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community, only to be targeted by a malevolent spirit known as a “Mazzik”.
November 17, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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What does it say about me that my first ever childhood superhero impersonation was Captain Chaos? ❤️
A jolly man (actor Dom DeLuise ) with a mustache in an orange jacket and a mask that says “chaos”, in a whimsical pose (from the 1981 movie “The Cannonball Run”)
November 16, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Tangerine Hollywood Moon 🌙
Tangerine slice looking moon in dark Hollywood skyline
October 9, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #113,315! 😬
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #113,315, Call me Yanni 🐧 ‪@penguinyz.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 9, 2023"
September 28, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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I knew I recognized JD from somewhere. I’m just surprised he had a legit acting role, in a uniform no less.
Still from the movie Airplane! Leslie Nielsen (as Dr. Rumack) in the centre of the airplane cockpit, Robert Hays (as Ted Striker) in the pilot seat on the right, and on the left, the amazing blow-up auto-pilot in his fancy blue uniform.
July 26, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it." - Dr. Richard Beeman, Professor of History.
There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it." The brevity of that response should not cause us to under-value its essential meaning: democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health.
July 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Really? I think the Cybertruck looks kinda nice! 😬
A rusty, old, yellow construction vehicle that looks eerily like a tesla cybertruck.
May 20, 2024 at 6:35 AM