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day two of #RoadmapConference26! another great pitch today and workshop to boot! i love hearing other writers' pitches - so many amazing ideas out there!

pitching through a cold this weekend for #RoadmapConference26 😂 my first pitch went well, i think, all things considered!

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Whenever I see people trashing a film by a female director or writer - one of pitifully few we get to make - I think about statistics like this.

Ten men nominated and not one woman. Did all women writers, combined, even get to write ten studio scripts, total, for 2026? #scriptsky

I was an OIympic-track archer in high school

I was an OIympic-track archer in high school

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

I actually think I would be fine getting interviewed by Isaac Chotiner. If anything we’d probably become friends afterwards

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Honestly it feels like we've been in varying shades of "emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting" for the better part of the last decade

YES PLEASE

i’m so excited for peace in the Middle East. we’re only one war away.

The Letterboxd 2026 Oscars® Ballot is now available to download. 🏆

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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

holy shit I love when we rediscover lost media!!!!!

blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

can’t believe I have to go back to New York

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

get weirder 🫵

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

A still satellite image of the blizzard of 2026 in the Northeast United States. This image contains the GeoColor product from the GOES-19 weather satellite from the evening of 2026-02-23.

A view we will not soon forget.

The Blizzard of 2026.

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

reminder that if you haven’t seen Station Eleven on HBO yet, it’s time to watch so you experience the profound privilege of having Danielle Deadwyler break your heart into a million tiny pieces and then hand it back to you like a gift

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

washington post headline saying "the power of AI transfixed wall st and washington. recent research suggests it may be a mirage" as if these idiots just crawled out of a cave

oh word???? no shit????? for real????????

SAM ALTMAN: What no one understands is that no one at the beach can stop you from scooping up as many shells as you want. An endless well of seashells for the taking. INTERVIEWER: Mhm. ALTMAN: Look I have a bunch in my pocket right here. INTERVIEWER: Wow that's incredible. And they're all already crushed up too.

ALTMAN: Yes well I crushed them. They didn't start crushed. I took them home and then I crushed them. INTERVIEWER: Mhm. Mhm. ALTMAN: You can eat them. I eat them everyday. That's why I crush them. Here have a taste. INTERVIEWER: Wow these are great. It feels like eating teeth. ALTMAN: Right? Human teeth. Isn't it incredible? I died in 2023.

Extremely revealing details in this interview

Text on image: NYC, we've declared a local state of emergency ahead of this blizzard. Here's what that means for you: Roads closed at 9pm — streets, highways, and bridges closed to all vehicles (cars, trucks, scooters, e-bikes) through 12pm Monday. Essential and emergency trips only.   No school Monday: snow day, not remote.   Warming centers: open citywide. Parking: alternate side suspended Monday.   Up to date info: Text NYC to 692-692 for live alerts | nyc.gov/BeReady for prep tips Stay safe, New York.

thank you so much :)

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