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Brandon D. Wilson

@geniusbastard.bsky.social

Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.

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GOOL PERAN LOWEN! Happy St Piran’s Day!

“Britain is divided in four parts; whereof the one is inhabited of Englishmen, the other of Scots, the third of Welshmen and the fourth of Cornish people”.

Polydore Vergil - historian to Henry VIII

05.03.2026 06:52 — 👍 13    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
BREAKING: Iranian artists TRICKED
US-Israeli joint forces with "paintings on the ground."
Experts believe that the recently contracted OpenAl-driven weapon technologies have
"wasted millions of dollars" worth of missiles.

BREAKING: Iranian artists TRICKED US-Israeli joint forces with "paintings on the ground." Experts believe that the recently contracted OpenAl-driven weapon technologies have "wasted millions of dollars" worth of missiles.

Art really scored one against AI here.

05.03.2026 06:25 — 👍 538    🔁 132    💬 11    📌 22
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Man Charged With Murder Appears to Win Primary for County Sheriff
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A ★★★½ review of Pillion (2025) And the moral of the story is communication and aftercare matter, even if you’re insanely hot.

boxd.it/doONVZ

05.03.2026 05:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seated for Pillion.

05.03.2026 03:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Literally everyone who uses the internet is exposed to the “usefulness” of AI through Google searches, email summaries, random stuff people share, or other product integrations. At any moment those of us who are skeptical about it could be convinced. And yet this has not helped AI’s case.

05.03.2026 00:14 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A note on "No Other Choice" (2025): One of the main actors in the film has been trying for comeback despite being accused of sexual crime a few years ago. He is pretty much like a fly in ointment in that film, by the way.

05.03.2026 02:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Los Gatos mother convicted in alcohol-fueled teen party case involving sexual assaults Shannon O’Connor was charged with 63 combined felony and misdemeanor counts related to boozy pandemic-era house parties.

she's going to prison longer than anyone in the epstein files.....

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“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.”

Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.

boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

04.03.2026 19:08 — 👍 5889    🔁 1065    💬 52    📌 82
The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent.

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

The authority that Trump has asserted in taking America to war against Iran is, like many of his other power grabs, an expression of the very tyranny the Framers were seeking to prevent. “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young congressman named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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New glasses.

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Donald Trump really shooting up the ranks in the "history's greatest monster" competition

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Los Olvidados: The New Batch

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Beau Travail: The Next Day

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Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

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Stalker: Into the Stalker-Verse

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Trump is once again fighting wokeness this afternoon

04.03.2026 20:55 — 👍 1854    🔁 377    💬 127    📌 36
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From the whatisit community on Reddit: What are these floaties in my water? Explore this post and more from the whatisit community

apparently, there’s a water company call boon that uses AI to monitor production and quality control, and someone posted in reddit asking about what appears to be floaters in their boon water bottle.

it’s fiber glass 😳

www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s...

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The official teaser for ‘LANTERNS’ has been released.

Premiering this August on HBO and HBO Max.

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An overriding feeling is the mindlessness of all this

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Ever since Trump began running for president in 2015, it was obvious he was BS'ing--that he did not & would not do the necessary homework to actually understand the issues and make genuinely informed decisions. This war with Iran is the deadly consequence of his ignorance, laziness and narcissism.

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someone forgot to inform Bobby K what America runs on

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A Conversation with Noah Segan, Rian Johnson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany (THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK) Noah Segan is a fourth-generation New Yorker who has been a part of the independent and genre film community for nearly two decades. Early in his career, filmmaker Rian Johnson cast Segan in the Sunda...

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up distro rights to Noah Segan's #Sundance drama THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK. Jack Schenker spoke with Segan, Rian Johnson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito & Tatiana Maslany about the film...
www.hammertonail.com/interviews/o...

04.03.2026 18:27 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

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I actually want to fight because why the fuck are you letting convicted abusers whitewash their reputation with college students

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L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Haile Gerima turns 80 today.

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Happy Holi, y’all.

04.03.2026 16:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think it's super that the GOP has dispatched its dullest and dimmest senators, like Mullin and Tuberville, to make the unintelligible case for an unpopular unplanned war. Go get 'em, boys.

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The level of hate and fury that courses through my veins when these people say “warfighters” would scare Emperor Palpatine.

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Absolutely convinced this is first person running a war who uses ChatGPT to write his speeches.

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