Sean Mannion
@unclesean.bsky.social
Indie filmmaker, indie podcaster, 1/2 of 4MileCircus. Batman & Robin is more than cinema, it is transcendent experience.
My Feature: Meme
My Podcast: The Celluloid Mirror
Find it all at http://4milecircus.com
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My Podcast: The Celluloid Mirror
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Sean Mannion
@unclesean.bsky.social
· Mar 24
Spent the first two weeks of March in County Kerry, Ireland. This week I’ll be sharing my story of getting lost up a mountain and in a bog on my email newsletter and as a post for free members on mine and @nicolewitte.bsky.social’s Patreon. Good time to join one or both.
If you’ll be at the Cucalorus film festival on 11/22 you should see Snakeskin Jacket a remix of my personal favorite Lynch film, Wild at Heart.
cucalorus.eventive.org/films/snakes...
cucalorus.eventive.org/films/snakes...
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you’ll be at the Cucalorus film festival on 11/22 you should see Snakeskin Jacket a remix of my personal favorite Lynch film, Wild at Heart.
cucalorus.eventive.org/films/snakes...
cucalorus.eventive.org/films/snakes...
Do you have a short science fiction screenplay? Well, I’m judging the IndieBoom short screenplay contest for sci-fi shorts. Submissions open tomorrow and close December 19th. Submit. I’ll read your thing. Maybe you’ll win.
filmfreeway.com/IndieBoom
filmfreeway.com/IndieBoom
IndieBoom
IndieBoom is platform for screenplay competitions based in Brooklyn, NY and produced by the award-winning nonprofit Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (aobff.org)...
filmfreeway.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Do you have a short science fiction screenplay? Well, I’m judging the IndieBoom short screenplay contest for sci-fi shorts. Submissions open tomorrow and close December 19th. Submit. I’ll read your thing. Maybe you’ll win.
filmfreeway.com/IndieBoom
filmfreeway.com/IndieBoom
The way this tortured mess of a sentence manages to encapsulate so many of the problems in this country from the housing crisis to the healthcare crisis to the sexual exploitation of minors to the powerful being free of accountability and major news orgs desperate to protect them is impressive.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The way this tortured mess of a sentence manages to encapsulate so many of the problems in this country from the housing crisis to the healthcare crisis to the sexual exploitation of minors to the powerful being free of accountability and major news orgs desperate to protect them is impressive.
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
E.T.
Name a horror film with a small monster/killer.
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
E.T.
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If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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hey Philly, please get your coffee at Wawa or Dunkin'.
Unionized Starbucks baristas announced a strike on Thursday, including workers in Philadelphia, amid stalled negotiations between the workers’ union and the company.
Starbucks workers, including some in Philly, to join Red Cup Day strike
The union has been negotiating with Starbucks for years on a first collective bargaining agreement.
www.inquirer.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
hey Philly, please get your coffee at Wawa or Dunkin'.
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Here's FIRE bragging about how the court adopted their arguments on how bullies have a constitutional right to bully trans children.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Here's FIRE bragging about how the court adopted their arguments on how bullies have a constitutional right to bully trans children.
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
This is a really excellent example of what is wrong with how our education system “works” (among other systems). So much is driven more by poorly informed opinion, “that’s just how we do it,” or sunk cost fallacy than research. It’s hurting kids.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This is a really excellent example of what is wrong with how our education system “works” (among other systems). So much is driven more by poorly informed opinion, “that’s just how we do it,” or sunk cost fallacy than research. It’s hurting kids.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Tech industry: "We replaced all your toilets with this new technology -- it's a bucket and a firehose!"
"But this is so much worse and incredibly more wasteful."
Tech industry: "You can't stop progress. Also, check out our stock price!"
"But this is so much worse and incredibly more wasteful."
Tech industry: "You can't stop progress. Also, check out our stock price!"
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Tech industry: "We replaced all your toilets with this new technology -- it's a bucket and a firehose!"
"But this is so much worse and incredibly more wasteful."
Tech industry: "You can't stop progress. Also, check out our stock price!"
"But this is so much worse and incredibly more wasteful."
Tech industry: "You can't stop progress. Also, check out our stock price!"
Agreed. “James Bond is a code name” is an idea I thought was good when I was 13. The character is a story vehicle, vague enough to plug into whatever spy thriller concept you need but specific enough to bring a set of tropes that give the films a continuity of a kind.
Also: “James Bond is a code name” is a lazy and “continuity-first” retcon patch job that just doesn’t hold water. James Bond is James Bond, the son of Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix Bond, and has been one character for 70+ years. Just tell a good story between the titles. It’s not a soap opera.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Agreed. “James Bond is a code name” is an idea I thought was good when I was 13. The character is a story vehicle, vague enough to plug into whatever spy thriller concept you need but specific enough to bring a set of tropes that give the films a continuity of a kind.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
Democrats only held their ground on the shutdown to win last week’s elections. They were always going to cave.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Democrats only held their ground on the shutdown to win last week’s elections. They were always going to cave.
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The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans
A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...
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Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years.
Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.
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Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign.
It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.
It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign.
It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.
It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.
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The major opposing candidates called him a jihadist and Democratic leadership didn't make a peep about it!
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The major opposing candidates called him a jihadist and Democratic leadership didn't make a peep about it!
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Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers.
They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.
Follow the money.
They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.
Follow the money.
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers.
They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.
Follow the money.
They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.
Follow the money.
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Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
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Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”