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johndowgin.bsky.social
Screenwriter (AFF Finalist/Nicholl Top 50), Audio Drama Co-creator (Mission: Rejected!), Published Playwright. Jersey boy. Fourth coolest in my house.
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There's not a single shot in 'The Natural'' that couldn't have been a Norman Rockwell painting

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I absolutely cannot wait for July 11, when some start posting that a character created by Jewish refugees whose families sent them to America from their exploding homelands, who was given dark hair, semitic features, *and* Hitler's preferred name for his Aryan ubermensch, has become woke

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'Better Man' has no business working in the first place, let alone being legitimately great, but here we are and now we all have to deal with it

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to see the Dodgers haven't entirely lost their Brooklyn

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NEW: The Los Angeles Dodgers say they have denied entry to ICE agents who arrived at the stadium and "requested permission to access the parking lots."

submitted 8 days ago • 326 comments

When you find out someone who once royally pissed you off is semi-involved in the project you're working on so you go through your socials to check that you never vented about it

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

submitted 10 days ago • 166 comments

I haven't done the research but I'm willing to bet Nicole Scherzinger is the first person to win a Tony award after having one of her bands' songs included in a Weird Al polka

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AG Pat Bondi assures an anxious nation that no Teslas were hurt in the assassinations.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

We just showed our oldest 'The Natural' ', and I must say.... I question the quality of the electrical work done on the grandstand lights at Knights Field. (The movie is still glorious and one of the most beautifully filmed of all time)

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"Bluesky is dead" Meanwhile on Bluesky:

submitted 15 days ago • 350 comments

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

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"A whistleblower last year also urged Boeing to ground all 787 Dreamliners worldwide, in Washington hearings. Boeing rejected the claims by the former engineer and said it was fully confident in the plane." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Just a heads up, the scammers are working hard to get money from you. If you get a call from any law enforcement agency saying you have a warrant for any reason its false. This wouldn't ever happen, you would get something in the mail or a deputy at the door. Don't fall for it. I

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

When the exec's notes appear to have come out of ChatGPT, but they're complimentary

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One of the best things about Andor, and it's probably Beau Willimon's influence, is how smart it is about how hard it is to get leftist organizations speaking the same language, let alone on the same page

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"It doesn't make me want to eat paint," is the highest compliment I'll ever give my own writing

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The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

submitted 22 days ago • 429 comments

No two of the stormtroopers that we've seen pictured since January are wearing the same type of "uniform" It's all mix and match We're gonna find out that these guys are all deputized thugs

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Live footage of the New York Knicks

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There are things I miss about Twitter, like the thrill of posting something mildly clever and getting 6 likes and one death threat.

submitted 25 days ago • 98 comments

So glad I'm not on Doctor Who Twitter tonight

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 28 days ago • 1298 comments

In other news, Robert DeNiro urges Lorraine Bracco to keep walking down that alley

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I know the world is in chaos and I know I'm late to this party in general but the first episode of 'Pokerface' is a perfect pilot

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Protip: when your college student is home and you're planning on making a particular dinner do not assume you have ANYTHING in your refrigerator. Don't even assume you have a refrigerator.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Did we not… already solve rockets? Like I know taking a government job and doing it worse is the brand, but why?

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Too many of my white friends are still doing risk analysis, still weighing the costs of expressing their new revelations, still concerned about what they will lose by speaking out. The reality is, the risks and consequences of silence are far greater. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/white-frie...

submitted 31 days ago • 90 comments

When a coworker at your new job is named Burke

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Me when I manage to write the most basic SQL query and it works

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy once removed

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

When you're finishing your morning run and you're feeling really good and then your music app suddenly shuffles to Barber's Adagio for Strings

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

submitted 40 days ago • 73 comments

Severe cuts to the National Weather Service led to the Jackson NWS going without a full-time overnight forecasters. Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result. DOGE is killing Americans. It needs to be stopped. Science needs protection. MAGA needs a cage

submitted 41 days ago • 69 comments

The passing of the great Joe Don Baker is an excellent reason to revisit what is, for my money, one the ten most beautifully filmed movies in the history of cinema: Barry Levinson's 'The Natural', cinematography by Caleb Deschanel

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SCOOP: Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only 2 claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents I obtained. The policy has slowed down payments, though. Retirement claim processing is down 25%

submitted 43 days ago • 58 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled courts must assess the full context of a police encounter when determining what constitutes excessive force — not just the moments right before the lethal force. Over 1,300 people were killed by police last year. This ruling will help hold the police accountable.

submitted 43 days ago • 151 comments

I was afraid The Blues Brothers hadn't aged well but it's two hours of fucking with cops, rich people, Nazis, and rednecks, 10/10 no notes

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As a teacher, I can’t accept gifts worth more than $50 in case I were to treat that student more favorably as a result. We should hold the same standards for our President.

submitted 47 days ago • 51 comments

If it annoys you that the president is accepting airplanes from potentates, sign up for mass peaceful protest on June 14 Qatar may have a monarch but we don’t thirdact.org/act/no-kings...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/b...

submitted 49 days ago • 21 comments

I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.

submitted 49 days ago • 138 comments