Sonya Ballantyne

Hey @lecinenerd.bsky.social! Wake up! New U2 ep dropped and it's good?

I was walking out of SDCC one year with my friend and this really handsome man in the loudest neon pants I had ever seen. He held the door open for us and walked with us for a bit. Someone yelled "JOHN!" and I realized it was Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who

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A reference? To U2's POP?! Their DISOWNED album?! in 2026?

Ooh, they get a really wonderful mention on The Pitt!

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

People be saying Jimmy Crystal in Bone Temple is more evil than West in the original 28 Days Later. Dude, West was tricking people into coming to him for help. Christopher Eccleston is one of my fave actors but I hate him so much as West.

tweet by @jaboukie (with FBI verified handle and profile pic) 2020-01-20: Just because we killed MLK doesn't mean we can't miss him

remembering two legends today

'No such thing as a better colonizer': Inuit emphatically reject U.S. takeover of Greenland | CBC News Inuit advocacy groups, as well as Greenlanders who live in Canada, are emphatically opposed to American designs on their homeland. And, they say, they're tired of being used as geopolitical chess piec...

Can’t argue with that logic! #YanquiStayHome

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Being Native means your elders will often drop such insane lore like an older lady telling me a family member of mine may have killed his married lover by accident.

The Welcome to Derry people made something amazing. That season was just brilliant.

Can I just say that the new Bluey game (the quest for the golden pen) is ADORABLE. It is like Baby's First Legend of Zelda.

Their impression of James Stewart always makes me laugh. I ended up watching It's a Wonderful Life because of their episode (which I had never seen except for scenes in like Christmas Vacation etc)

My fave podcast did an episode on Rear Window. I watched it recently for the first time and loved it! But all I could think about was the Simpsons, "THAT SINISTER LOOKING KID IS COMING TO GET ME!"

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Me explaining The Dark Tower mythos to friends who are watching Welcome to Derry

When the AI bubble finally bursts, I'm going to raise my editing and writing rates to triple digits per hour out of pure spite. Coulda hired me before, but you wanted to be a water-poisoning plagiarist instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not to sound like an evil Canadian but that cheese has always been disgusting.

Creator Bless the crew and cast of Heated Rivalry for giving me ammunition with producers now for why Canadian content doesn't have to be America Jr.

And while this is true, I like how they speak to the patients in the way real ER doctors do: while in the process of doing their jobs. A real doctor uses that opportunity for compassionate care. You always remember the doctors who go the extra mile for you.

I really love seeing real life professions react to how they're portrayed on screen. As a screenwriter, there's some stuff you leave out for the sake of the story. I saw a doctor saying something like real ER doctors don't talk that long with patients like they do on the PITT.

you continue to be one of the coolest people I know!

And they're like, "OBVIOUSLY NOT THAT SCENE" and I'm like, "no no! No backtracking! You said Fully!

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Loving that post I just saw of a user asking why they haven't "fully adapted King's It" and everyone was like

Media literacy is dead: what do you mean all of the welcome to derry's audience is like "What's in the box"

THEY SHOW YOU.

I'm not watching Euphoria but I've seen a lot of clips on Tiktok and it boggles the mind that the actress who plays Maddie is not a bigger thing. I mean I know why her Jeans costar is being pushed to the moon but Alexa Demie is really talented.

That episode taught me a valuable lesson: whenever I ask myself "is this too much?" the answer will always be "NO. MORE"

That image of the Native Warrior seeing It as a White Priest with a demonic baby Jesus on this week's episode of Welcome to Derry both triggered the hell out of me but also pissed me off because I cannot believe I didn't think of it first.

I didn't anticipate being this old so please excuse me if I enjoy a bit of my life I never dreamed would exist.

What's the big deal? This is my pregame for ceremony

Weesageechak Begins to Dance – 38th edition — Native Earth Performing Arts Weesageechak Begins to Dance is a two-week festival showcasing new works and works-in-development by Indigenous artists across Turtle Island and beyond.

If you're in Toronto at the end of this month, come and check out my spoken word performance of "How Bono Saved my Life (Three Times)" at the Weesageechak Begins to Dance festival or new and in-progress works. nativeearth.ca/shows/all-sh...

The intro of Max singing Powerline just captured what a teen's actual dream would be to impress a girl. Plus I always cackle at the little girl being velcro'd to the portrait pedestal by Pete.