candice roberts

television scholars: come join us at the Popular Culture Association, one of the most fun conferences

deadline to submit an abstract to the TV area (or one of the 90+ others, if you must): nov 30

see you in atlanta in the spring!
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a kind of obsolete vernacular. wildcat...

the amount of "news" bots churning out fake headlines grows exponentially every day on this site

it should actually be illegal to create inaccurate posts about the phillies

keep harrison bader's name out your trash AI mouth

@workingfamilies.org wolf packs are everywhere (or start one!)

@lgbtqvictoryfund.bsky.social supports equality coalitions

@emilyslist.bsky.social elects pro-choice candidates

ruraldemocracyinitiative.org mobilizes progressive rural causes

you can @runforsomething.net or help a motivated friend

if you're upset, angry with federal government, i see you. i invite you to spend a few mins off this site today, connect w/ a group already taking action to change things. find a local political org near you. apply for a community board. join a city committee. DM me if you need ideas; happy to chat

it is. hilarious, horrifying, perfectly cast. i liked reservation dogs and love this one so i will follow sterlin harjo to whatever he does next (which i hope is a season 2)

‘The Lowdown’: FX’s Brilliant Neo-Noir Designed For The 21st Century Costume designer, Alyssa Blair, and production designer, Brandon Tonner-Connolly, on how successful storytelling depends on collaborative cooperation.

a cool article about television design and sense of place (in this case, tulsa) in the year's best TV show you're probably not watching— the lowdown
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"Politics is no longer something that is done to us; it is something that WE DO." - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

right? when TLC said "no scrubs" everybody knew immediately what they meant. and yet "no kings" is unclear?

(and also somebody write that parody please... 🎶a king is a guy who thinks he's fly/also known as a fascist🎶)

i generally keep my depraved f1 interests off this account, but i'll just say– give charles leclerc even a halfway decent car and nobody on the grid, save verstappen, holds a candle to him

perfectly timed:
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once again asking people to not quote-post m*ga and fascists, including videos of their irl nonsense. they love knowing they have provoked you. don't engage. don't reply. don't repost— even to critique. stop the spread.

i'm predictable, but richard linklater has got my goddamn number. blue moon is a sad, beautiful movie i'll watch a dozen times. and happy to report that ethan hawke is just as generous and cool as you hope— as good in person as he is onscreen
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love weighing the bones of the women i date

i dreamed i was the host of a "what's my line"-esque game show where humans pretend to be cyborgs and a panel of cyborgs had to guess which ones were really human

after the hunt clearly endeavors to make the audience uncomfortable; viewing it as a professor adds a unique layer of discomfort. julia roberts is so damn good, and DP malik sayeed's incredible work is the most boundary-pushing thing about the whole film

"I loved every second of the regular season... [this team has] made a World Series, an NLCS, won the NL East two years in a row. That's a successful franchise. That's winning. That's giving yourself a chance. I hope they do it again next year. I hope they do it again forever."

go phils

The dumbing down of America, one banned book at a time A majority of Americans are against book bans. That won't stop a well funded, fear-fueled movement.

"As an autocratic dystopia continues to take shape, it’s difficult not to wonder how far this will go. Will libraries become the new speakeasies?" - @andizeisler.bsky.social
#BannedBooksWeek
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go phils. go birds

so busy with other work that i haven't seen as many festival films as i normally would but popped in for members' trivia last night. @filmlinc.bsky.social folks put on great events. (and also accidentally ended up at an A24 buyout at one of my local bars)

love NYFF season on the west side

came here to say this. great folks, the baileys. think about 'em all the time

phils/mets is way closer than phils/nats. it's ~100 miles, probably just a bit farther than brewers cubs

AI worth a pre-order

grays are blah, confirmed. i miss the red jersey getaway fits

coupled with the fact that, thanks to the commodifying arm of higher education, students are increasingly incentivized to be product and not process-oriented, making it more difficult than ever to impress upon them the value of substantive feedback

hard not to see ryder cup fans as a timely US metaphor— rich white dudes, emboldened by richer white dudes in power, making a spectacle of bad behavior. pro golf, like any global franchise, is impure all around but still easier to root for team EUR and rory to tell those douches to shut the fuck up

'One Battle After Another' wants a revolution Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Teyana Taylor star in Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller about the unfulfilled promises of protest and rebellion.

PTA's one battle after another has big "my partner is a Black woman" energy... multiple interpretations. sex + sexuality purposefully unsettle the audience, and harris describes some of the nuance here. ultimately agree that he makes a damn good (long, worth it) movie
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Trump’s claim Tylenol and autism are linked is wrong, Drexel scientist says Drexel University scientist Brian Lee found no link between a mother taking Tylenol and her child developing autism in a large-scale study published last year in the medical journal JAMA.

Let's keep advocating for evidence-based policy, rather than policy-based "evidence"...
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thiiiis. i say this to my students all the time. aside from academic, ethical, environmental concerns (all relevant)— their brains are already better at most of the things they are trying to do with LLMs

i live right by one of the "hotspots" mentioned and feel so validated