Paul Alvarado-Dykstra
@robogeek.bsky.social
Producer/Writer/Consultant; Co-Founder, Fantastic Fest; co-host, Multiplex Overthruster @mpotpod.bsky.social; Chair, Vacation® Leisure Council; former asst., GdT; 🇨🇱🇳🇱🤖
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Trump plans to cut housing grants, in a move that could put 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of returning to the streets starting in January.
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump plans to cut housing grants, in a move that could put 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of returning to the streets starting in January.
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so proud of this podcast - miss the blockbusters of yore? want to know why your mom and dad are the way they are? tired of manufactured 80's nostalgia and ready for the real thing? join me, @robogeek.bsky.social, and the inevitable @producerbrad.bsky.social as we revisit the movies that made us!
MISS THE 80S? WE ARE HERE TO HELP! it's MULTIPLEX OVERTHRUSTER! revisiting the classics of summer blockbuster cinema - join @robogeek.bsky.social, @okbjgm.bsky.social, and the job-like @producerbrad.bsky.social as they take you back on a journey through the summer moves that made us who we are!
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
so proud of this podcast - miss the blockbusters of yore? want to know why your mom and dad are the way they are? tired of manufactured 80's nostalgia and ready for the real thing? join me, @robogeek.bsky.social, and the inevitable @producerbrad.bsky.social as we revisit the movies that made us!
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
He did it.
Chasing a dream is a perilous enterprise. To see @realgdt.bsky.social’s so gloriously made manifest at such long last is extraordinary. A staggering achievement exquisitely crafted & ingeniously constructed w. spellbinding virtuosity. Magnificent.
See it on the big screen while you can.
Chasing a dream is a perilous enterprise. To see @realgdt.bsky.social’s so gloriously made manifest at such long last is extraordinary. A staggering achievement exquisitely crafted & ingeniously constructed w. spellbinding virtuosity. Magnificent.
See it on the big screen while you can.
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
He did it.
Chasing a dream is a perilous enterprise. To see @realgdt.bsky.social’s so gloriously made manifest at such long last is extraordinary. A staggering achievement exquisitely crafted & ingeniously constructed w. spellbinding virtuosity. Magnificent.
See it on the big screen while you can.
Chasing a dream is a perilous enterprise. To see @realgdt.bsky.social’s so gloriously made manifest at such long last is extraordinary. A staggering achievement exquisitely crafted & ingeniously constructed w. spellbinding virtuosity. Magnificent.
See it on the big screen while you can.
This is one of my favorite interviews with @realgdt.bsky.social ever — a must-listen!
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is one of my favorite interviews with @realgdt.bsky.social ever — a must-listen!
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WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
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I’m running for governor.
For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare.
But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again.
Join us: ginafortexas.com
For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare.
But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again.
Join us: ginafortexas.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I’m running for governor.
For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare.
But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again.
Join us: ginafortexas.com
For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare.
But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again.
Join us: ginafortexas.com
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SEE. THIS. PLAY.
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
Apprehension: A Play by L.B. Deyo
A psychological thriller set in a world where reality shifts and truth is shrouded in deceit. Playing at Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, Oct 9-Nov 1, 2024.
apprehensionplay.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
SEE. THIS. PLAY.
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
SEE. THIS. PLAY.
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
Apprehension: A Play by L.B. Deyo
A psychological thriller set in a world where reality shifts and truth is shrouded in deceit. Playing at Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, Oct 9-Nov 1, 2024.
apprehensionplay.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
SEE. THIS. PLAY.
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
APPREHENSION is a spellbinding new psychological thriller perfect for spooky season with surreal twists, destabilizing paranoia, twisted laughs, and great performances. You do not want to miss it!
8pm Thu.-Sat. until Nov. 1 at Hyde Park Theatre
Tickets:
apprehensionplay.com
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Remake of Children of Men but it’s about a non-white family from another country trying to get home safely from a vacation to Florida’s Disney World
September 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Remake of Children of Men but it’s about a non-white family from another country trying to get home safely from a vacation to Florida’s Disney World
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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"school shooting industry"
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"school shooting industry"
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
@gruber.foo @andru.bsky.social
As much as I want them to call it the iPhold (right???), I think they’ll go iPhonePad (says what it is, and fun to say) with an ad campaign about the iPhone & iPad hooking up and this is their offspring.
- Sent from my iPhone 13 mini (still clinging to 65% battery!)
As much as I want them to call it the iPhold (right???), I think they’ll go iPhonePad (says what it is, and fun to say) with an ad campaign about the iPhone & iPad hooking up and this is their offspring.
- Sent from my iPhone 13 mini (still clinging to 65% battery!)
September 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
@gruber.foo @andru.bsky.social
As much as I want them to call it the iPhold (right???), I think they’ll go iPhonePad (says what it is, and fun to say) with an ad campaign about the iPhone & iPad hooking up and this is their offspring.
- Sent from my iPhone 13 mini (still clinging to 65% battery!)
As much as I want them to call it the iPhold (right???), I think they’ll go iPhonePad (says what it is, and fun to say) with an ad campaign about the iPhone & iPad hooking up and this is their offspring.
- Sent from my iPhone 13 mini (still clinging to 65% battery!)
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We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
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If everyone simply acknowledged that the emperor has no clothes, we could all just point and laugh instead of pretending his unconstitutional executive orders have actual power
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
August 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If everyone simply acknowledged that the emperor has no clothes, we could all just point and laugh instead of pretending his unconstitutional executive orders have actual power
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Essential Labor Day reading ⬇️
Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers he would fight for them, write Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens. But ahead of Labor Day weekend, it is worth summarizing how extensive his assault on labor has been in his first months in office.
Trump's War on Workers
Buried beneath the bluster is a systematic assault on labor.
www.thenation.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Essential Labor Day reading ⬇️
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Book Recommendation: Want to time travel back to the summer of '82? This book covers the journeys of 8 genre movies to the screen. Highly, highly recommend!
And if that's not enough, check out the "Multiplex Overthruster" podcast with @okbjgm.bsky.social & @robogeek.bsky.social for tons more! 💛 🎬
And if that's not enough, check out the "Multiplex Overthruster" podcast with @okbjgm.bsky.social & @robogeek.bsky.social for tons more! 💛 🎬
August 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Book Recommendation: Want to time travel back to the summer of '82? This book covers the journeys of 8 genre movies to the screen. Highly, highly recommend!
And if that's not enough, check out the "Multiplex Overthruster" podcast with @okbjgm.bsky.social & @robogeek.bsky.social for tons more! 💛 🎬
And if that's not enough, check out the "Multiplex Overthruster" podcast with @okbjgm.bsky.social & @robogeek.bsky.social for tons more! 💛 🎬
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August 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
August 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
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This is what we mean when we say America will not progress until the *systems* of white supremacy are dismantled and discarded.
The same fascist policies that targeted Japanese Americans are now targeting Latino Americans, in literally the same locations and with the same denial of due process.
The same fascist policies that targeted Japanese Americans are now targeting Latino Americans, in literally the same locations and with the same denial of due process.
August 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is what we mean when we say America will not progress until the *systems* of white supremacy are dismantled and discarded.
The same fascist policies that targeted Japanese Americans are now targeting Latino Americans, in literally the same locations and with the same denial of due process.
The same fascist policies that targeted Japanese Americans are now targeting Latino Americans, in literally the same locations and with the same denial of due process.
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There have been some very scathing dissents over the years, but I can't think of one where the accusation is so bluntly made that the majority is a bunch of partisan hacks who are politically subservient to a president.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There have been some very scathing dissents over the years, but I can't think of one where the accusation is so bluntly made that the majority is a bunch of partisan hacks who are politically subservient to a president.
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Prominent Fox hosts -- including Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs -- privately sought to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to newly unredacted documents in Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox, per the WSJ. www.wsj.com/business/med...
Smartmatic Case Documents Show Some Fox News Hosts’ Drive to Help Trump
Prominent Fox hosts privately sought to help President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to newly unredacted documents in a lawsuit against Fox.
www.wsj.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Prominent Fox hosts -- including Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs -- privately sought to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to newly unredacted documents in Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox, per the WSJ. www.wsj.com/business/med...