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jowrotethis.bsky.social
Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
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Went to a local ICE protest today. (It was also about *everything* including Iran.) If you’re feeling helpless/hopeless, I really encourage getting out into your community and making connections. It doesn’t solve *anything* but it helps on a personal level and that matters.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

A movie that dares to ask “why settle for one way when you can have it all?”

As someone who LOVES 28 Days Later I was not remotely prepared for how disgusting 28 Years Later is. The number of spinal columns you’re expecting? Double it.

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Because a lot of you have asked. MATERIALISTS — too many movies in that movie. I was rooting for it!

No one wants to admit they’re watching GINNY & GEORGIA but everyone wants to talk to me about GINNY & GEORGIA.

HOUSE OF R Summer Slate just dropped. Join us for rewatches and anniversaries and new blockbusters AND OH YEAH MALLORY IS GOING TO WATCH BUFFY.

My Maya Pei babes 💚💚💚💚💚 bsky.app/profile/gams...

Nothing prepared me for how good Working Girl was. God bless @jowrotethis.bsky.social , @billsimmons.bsky.social @theringer.com.web.brid.gy for convincing me to watch. A rom-com made before the genre’s modern cliches were set, 3 incredible performances (Griffith, Ford, Weaver) & horrific hair.

Oh hey do you care about SEXY QUEER VAMPIRES? And also feminine rage? Guess what me tooooo! I’ll be moderating here on Friday and you should join us. app.gopassage.com/events/27011

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

I AM TELLING YOU. www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-i...

Back to back podcasts we’re pretty proud of this week. youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

Five months clean on all Target purchases. Three months clean on all Amazon purchases. Many other ways I fail and fumble under capitalism but those are two choices I’ve made.

US media every single day

I don’t understand the constant conversations I’m having with people who agree AI is highly dangerous but then they just toss up their hands and say “oh well it’s inevitable…it’s happening…it’s too late now.” That’s just…rolling over? I don’t get it.

“I agree with Nick.” Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again? Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.

Josh. O. Connor. Heist. Movie. (*Alana but that’s okay I love a typo)

Andor has seriously (I’m not kidding) changed the way I’m living my life under this administration.

You have to be more capable than that...but not too capable.

Double Bleak-ture for movie club this month.

Nooorrmm. :/

Delighted to say that @jowrotethis.bsky.social and I are back on our bullshit covering Poker Face, a wonderful show that can be whatever it wants to be: open.spotify.com/episode/6dOE...

Two things I know for certain. Trans rights are human rights. What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

Tonight’s exquisite episode of #TheLastOfUs is solace for the loss of #Andor.

Gah “incompetent at your job” nightmares.

FYI I have a filter on podcast emails for the phrase “I asked ChatGPT.” I’m not interested. Have a great weekend!

Diego y Gael being in my two favorite shows of the last decade means a lot to me personally. #Andor #StationEleven

Mon Mothma had this footage buried so no one would ever know she wore…this.

To Luthen. Gorn. Nemik. Taramyn. Cinta. The Ghormans. Ferrix. Maarva. The Dhanis. Aldhani. (And Kino Loy. And Brasso. And Lonni Jung. And yeah even you Syril Karn.) We toast the end of #Andor. open.spotify.com/episode/1bus...

This week my therapist said “capitalism wants you to believe you have to buy joy, when the truth is you have access to it inside of you from birth.” WOULD AI SAY THAT?

People talking to ChatGPT instead of a therapist is the most dystopian shit I’ve ever heard. And to be CLEAR. A lot of the blame for that rests on our fucked up healthcare system but also GAH.

Stone and sky.

"You support refugees fleeing from from war and yet you oppose refugees fleeing from a threat that doesn't exist, hmm."