The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen
@zhandlen.bsky.social
Writer, actor, weirdo
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Autism is not a disease, you fucks.
This is beautiful in its simplicity and decency.
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is beautiful in its simplicity and decency.
I wonder how much it bugs Bill Hader that he slightly fumbled the amazing “i roll with a crew of problematic bachelor” line. That clip gets posted a -lot-
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I wonder how much it bugs Bill Hader that he slightly fumbled the amazing “i roll with a crew of problematic bachelor” line. That clip gets posted a -lot-
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Temporarily back to promote the upcoming Duckstream 12/12, 12/13, 12/14, 48 total hours, starting at 6PM PST on that friday. Website to come.
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Temporarily back to promote the upcoming Duckstream 12/12, 12/13, 12/14, 48 total hours, starting at 6PM PST on that friday. Website to come.
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
Also, new season of Real Lich Hours starts November 30th for patrons, with awesome new art from @drewweing.bsky.social
The boss has fallen in love again.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The boss has fallen in love again.
this abominable piece of human garbage. this vile nullity. this murderous fifty pounds of manure in a ten pound bag of skin.
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly upda...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
this abominable piece of human garbage. this vile nullity. this murderous fifty pounds of manure in a ten pound bag of skin.
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Promoting stuff, uh, probably goes better when I remember to actually link the piece! www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
Baby Steps is one of the best single-player multiplayer games ever made
Baby Steps is one of the best single-player multiplayer games ever made
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Promoting stuff, uh, probably goes better when I remember to actually link the piece! www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
as someone who enjoyed Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy with some pretty serious reservations about the third book, is the Book of Dust worth a look?
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
as someone who enjoyed Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy with some pretty serious reservations about the third book, is the Book of Dust worth a look?
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Here is something we could do: what if we stopped being fucking weird about autism
We can laugh about how stupid this is, but at the end of the day, a not-insignificant number of parents will believe the CDC and refuse to vaccinate. And some of their children will die because of it.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Here is something we could do: what if we stopped being fucking weird about autism
kinda impressed he spelled "seditious" right
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
kinda impressed he spelled "seditious" right
Nixonland. It’s like a James Elroy novel where the main character is “American voters.”
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nixonland. It’s like a James Elroy novel where the main character is “American voters.”
oh hey, i wrote this! ...like a decade ago. dear god.
50 years ago, Miloš Forman and a stacked cast adapted One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest into an Oscar-sweeping smash. From the archives, we compare the film and its novel source:
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In source and adaptation, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest looks for hope in madness
The book and movie of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest work together well, balancing rich inner lives and with off-putting details.
www.avclub.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
oh hey, i wrote this! ...like a decade ago. dear god.
...so it kills the genre? because, like--that's the thing about shooting zombies in the head. it kills them. (i _think_ they're going for a pun on "shot in the arm," but you can't do that when the "pun" already means something else.)
Daisy Ridley’s New Zombie Movie Gives the Genre a Shot in the Head
Daisy Ridley’s New Zombie Movie Gives the Genre a Shot in the Head
The 'Star Wars' actress stars in 'We Bury the Dead,' which is coming to theaters on January 2, 2026.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
...so it kills the genre? because, like--that's the thing about shooting zombies in the head. it kills them. (i _think_ they're going for a pun on "shot in the arm," but you can't do that when the "pun" already means something else.)
have run out of anxiety meds, now in the fun place of checking every new emotion to see if it has knives buried in it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
have run out of anxiety meds, now in the fun place of checking every new emotion to see if it has knives buried in it.
still chuckling about that SNL sketch where Sydney Sweeney gets lots of tips at a Hooters restaurant. what -will- they think of next?
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
still chuckling about that SNL sketch where Sydney Sweeney gets lots of tips at a Hooters restaurant. what -will- they think of next?
I am not-great finance-wise, but the fact that I’ve managed to support Defector (and @thereveal.bsky.social!) as long as I have makes me happy.
important stuff in Defector's annual report, out today defector.com/defector-ann...
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I am not-great finance-wise, but the fact that I’ve managed to support Defector (and @thereveal.bsky.social!) as long as I have makes me happy.
It’s a double boost—you get people thinking “oh, that’s easy” and chiming in, and you get people dunking on how bad the movie choice is. Engagement City!
I don't understand "name a movie with [actor] that's not [X]" posts.
I get they're engagement bait, but why exclude a movie? Just to see what other movies are named? But no one who posts like that cares about responses except just getting them.
I get they're engagement bait, but why exclude a movie? Just to see what other movies are named? But no one who posts like that cares about responses except just getting them.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It’s a double boost—you get people thinking “oh, that’s easy” and chiming in, and you get people dunking on how bad the movie choice is. Engagement City!
I wonder if the key character trait for the protagonist in a Vince Gilligan show is stubbornness? in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, it’s a sin, but I’m wondering if that’s the case with Pluribus. (Carol is stubborn, but I’m not convinced that’s a bad thing yet.)
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I wonder if the key character trait for the protagonist in a Vince Gilligan show is stubbornness? in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, it’s a sin, but I’m wondering if that’s the case with Pluribus. (Carol is stubborn, but I’m not convinced that’s a bad thing yet.)
unsurprised to hear that splitting a musical with a notoriously shaky second act into two movies hasn't gone well.
second act problems are kind of fascinating, though! Wicked's is basically "everything that matters happens in Act 1, and now we just need to explain Dorothy."
second act problems are kind of fascinating, though! Wicked's is basically "everything that matters happens in Act 1, and now we just need to explain Dorothy."
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
unsurprised to hear that splitting a musical with a notoriously shaky second act into two movies hasn't gone well.
second act problems are kind of fascinating, though! Wicked's is basically "everything that matters happens in Act 1, and now we just need to explain Dorothy."
second act problems are kind of fascinating, though! Wicked's is basically "everything that matters happens in Act 1, and now we just need to explain Dorothy."
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"It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap." www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...
We Are Not Amused
The Olivia Nuzzi Return is a Disgrace
www.unpopularfront.news
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap." www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...
yeah, i heard back from the head office, and--well, it's not good. if we want to turn these numbers around, we need to start talking about actual good writing and smart people, thanks.
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
yeah, i heard back from the head office, and--well, it's not good. if we want to turn these numbers around, we need to start talking about actual good writing and smart people, thanks.
why do people keep posting links to the worst writing in the world and why do I keep clicking on those fucking links.
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
why do people keep posting links to the worst writing in the world and why do I keep clicking on those fucking links.
i'm sure Del Toro's Frankenstein is well done, but i'm just not interested in a version of that story where the doctor is the villain and the monster is the hero. it's more interesting to me as a tragedy when they're both fucked up and kind of sympathetic at the same time.
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
i'm sure Del Toro's Frankenstein is well done, but i'm just not interested in a version of that story where the doctor is the villain and the monster is the hero. it's more interesting to me as a tragedy when they're both fucked up and kind of sympathetic at the same time.
I still don’t like Network. But I’m very into a Criterion of The Man Who Wasn’t There.
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I still don’t like Network. But I’m very into a Criterion of The Man Who Wasn’t There.
haven't watched all of the new Pluribus episode yet, in part because the cold (heh) open kind of devastated me. having someone who loves you enough to put up with your grumpiness and complaining, who pushes you a little but still respects who you are--and then to lose that person... damn, man.
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
haven't watched all of the new Pluribus episode yet, in part because the cold (heh) open kind of devastated me. having someone who loves you enough to put up with your grumpiness and complaining, who pushes you a little but still respects who you are--and then to lose that person... damn, man.
I get that the lore can be a bit much, but I gotta say, I love how the Wick movies take the ‘80s action genre and turn it into what is basically an extremely straight-faced and sincere live action game of Calvinball.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I get that the lore can be a bit much, but I gotta say, I love how the Wick movies take the ‘80s action genre and turn it into what is basically an extremely straight-faced and sincere live action game of Calvinball.