Sean Mannion
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Sean Mannion
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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
If I don’t have them, how will I feed my new worm farm?
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Yeah. I get why it’s done but it’s also frustrating especially in these instances where it cuts off the resolution of a storyline.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This also got me thinking about how when I was a kid there was pervasive joking about the “Hooked on Phonics” commercials (which were really silly) and I wonder how much some school officials or teachers are rejecting phonics because of a bad commercial from 30 years ago.
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A related thing that comes to my mind from when I was in school was Myers Briggs. MBTI is a fucking Buzzfeed Quiz. There’s little support for it and yet I remember it being something that came up many times and kids taking onto themselves the identities it assigned (which is very fucked up).
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If we want a system that will actually help kids learn fundamental skills, skills that when people are empowered by them improve our society and culture, we need to discourage holding to systems and promoting tools/ideas that demonstrably faulty.
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reposted by Sean Mannion
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
Much as I enjoyed Secret Wars I was frustrated with the way it cut short some book like this that I was enjoying and that didn’t seem to get a proper resolution. The Magneto book at the time also comes to mind.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
That some are complaining that the conclusion of the last Craig Bond film makes it hard for them to make another one speaks more to a lack of creativity of the moment (in studios/large media companies anyway)
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Every era of Bond was reflective of the times, that’s one of the things that’s useful about him.
Connery is peak Cold War
Moore is 60s aftermath
Dalton is 80s sociopath
Brosnan is 90s’ 60s Nostalgia Undermining Progress
Craig is 00s-10s Half-Assed Deconstructionism
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Is that not how everyone pictures them?
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is a vital concern. This is what the fans need. And DC needs to give it to us.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM