Justin Nickels
Love my wife, my dog, and movies. Herzog’s Rogue Film School '16 alum. On 3 starship plaques, danced around a Borg Queen, and served fish and chips to Picard. Former politico, PR specialist, & film fest programmer. www.JustinNickels.net
- So glad I muted all the possible terms that could spoil today’s Starfleet Academy. I loved that episode.
- Today's crypto crash made me want to rewatch the director's cut of Blackhat after listening to @ohmpods.bsky.social's episode about the movie yesterday.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsMan Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him theonion.com/man-who-lost-everyt…
- Reposted by Justin Nickelshappy thursday to ya
- Reposted by Justin NickelsThe average cost to mine a single Bitcoin is now over $90,000. The price of Bitcoin has collapsed to $67,000. Everyone mining Bitcoin at the moment is losing a fortune.
- Pokémon Go to the Polls!
- In The Cards is such a good DS9 episode. I don’t see it mentioned much, but it should be more often.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsWow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
- Reposted by Justin NickelsThere's a fantastic doc short called "Armed Only With a Camera" about the life and death of Brent Renaud, the first Western journalist killed by Russia in Ukraine. I interviewed the film's director Craig Renaud, Brent's brother, for @onthemedia.bsky.social: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
- Nobody told me Night of the Juggler is reverse High and Low.
- @onthemedia.bsky.social episode about Armed Only With a Camera podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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- Reposted by Justin NickelsThis is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
- An IMAX release of The Trouble with Tribbles/Trials and Tribble-ations would bring a lot of joy to the world. If only someone had the courage.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsGodzilla vs Hedorah (1971) #godzilla
- Some brief thoughts on the Little Rock Film Festival and Brent and Craig Renaud. www.instagram.com/p/DUKotS1ASg...
- Reposted by Justin NickelsThis isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
- Call me crazy, but I think Threshold is actually a lot of fun.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsDetective, Hole.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsArmed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025) 37min. Un golpe. Duro. Narra de manera expedita la vida y muerte del periodista gráfico Brent Renaud. Alguien a quien yo no conocía, pero al parecer tenía mucha influencia en el periodismo de impacto estadounidense.
- I wonder when A24 is going to make this animated movie. sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/c...
- Reposted by Justin NickelsHere's a much more interesting type of ice (lower case) to read about. New findings on the thickness of the ice shell on Jupiter's moon Europa. (Spoiler alert: 15-18 miles) www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-j...
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- Reposted by Justin NickelsJudging by the size of these chicken fingers, that chicken had to be somewhere between 7' to 10' tall.
- Reposted by Justin Nickels[whispering to Miller] He'll throw you to the wolves. You'll never get a pardon. It's now or never! [slithering over to Trump] He plots against you sire! Throwing him in the dungeon will send a message to the others!
- Reposted by Justin NickelsAs seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him
- Reposted by Justin NickelsIf you’re able, please support this verified GoFundMe for Alex Pretti’s family. And if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing it far and wide matters just as much. It’s at $300K and counting.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsTarget Center dunkers wear “ICE OUT” t-shirts
- Reposted by Justin NickelsFrom Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
- Reposted by Justin NickelsA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsI remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsAFGE is the American Federation of Government Employees. Local 3669 represents professional employees in the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. Alex Pretti was a union man.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Justin NickelsJournalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
- Armed Only with a Camera is incredible humanist work from some of our greatest verite directors, who are forced to move out of the form into something more deeply personal due to the tragedy that is central to the film. When you see a film like this it’s easy to think...
- there is something disjointed about it, but the structure of this is actually a feature and not a bug. Brent’s death was a war crime and absolutely unjust. The other deaths you see are also inherently unjust and we owe it to journalists to show us the realities of the world...
- in which we are all forced to endure either at home or across the globe. War, natural disasters, criminal violence are by their very nature disjointed and confusing, these things happen so fast, you could be forgiven for thinking it doesn’t make sense. Brent and Craig both always work from...
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View full threadYou can find out a lot about Brent Renaud's life and work here: brentrenaudfoundation.org
- Reposted by Justin Nickelscan you imagine being the federal agent assigned to bluesky, just getting scolded by deep space nine experts while all your buddies get like challenge coins
- Reposted by Justin NickelsI hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsMemory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsAlex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
- Reposted by Justin NickelsLet’s be clear what happened. A registered nurse who is a federal employee was filming, armed goons pushed someone near him and he attempted to help them up. He then got pepper sprayed, tackled, disarmed, and THEN many seconds later was executed on the street.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsHe was a nurse.
- The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Justin NickelsICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsTo repeat: Abolish ICE.
- Reposted by Justin Nickelsthese are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw
- Reposted by Justin Nickels"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position
- These state sponsored murders have to stop.
- Reposted by Justin NickelsFilm about American journalist killed in Irpin among Oscar nominees. #news #uazmi #war #ukraine #russia The documentary Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, about an American journalist who was killed in March 2022 while covering Russia...
- Reposted by Justin NickelsIt would be a fitting tribute for Brent Renaud if this documentary won an Academy Award. I'll never forget meeting and visiting with Brent and Craig at the Little Rock Film Festival. Cherished memories
- Just realized if I turned Free Solo on right now I'll finish it just in time to watch the Netflix live climb
- well they postponed it
- Reposted by Justin NickelsEsta es de un colombiano, Juan Arredondo, nominado a oscar en mejor corto documental!!
- Reposted by Justin NickelsDocumentary about Little Rock journalist Brent Renaud nominated for Academy Award #arkansas
- This is really cool
- We're finishing up the rollout of Version 0j of the #PUNCH data, and several very cool science papers are in progress. Here's a very cool result on #Comet #Lemmon and the #solarwind! 🔭☀️🛰️🧪
- Reposted by Justin NickelsSuch welcome news. Armed Only With a Camera, the film about the late Brent Renaud, the first American journalist killed while covering the war in Ukraine, is nominated for an Oscar. An extraordinary film about an extraordinary filmmaker.
- I keep thinking about this timelapse from the last Little Rock Film Festival today. We had a short film in the program about the Miami based artist Aholsniffsglue and he did a huge mural for our offices as part of a reception. Brent Renaud is there taking photos of the event youtu.be/ESy93qX9Y9w?...
- Reposted by Justin NickelsHappy news. Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud is nominated for a best documentary Oscar. Brent was the first American journalist killed in Ukraine. It was one of my favorites from last year. It’s available on HBOMAX.
- Brent and Craig Renaud are masters of cinéma vérité filmmaking through an extremely empathetic and humanist lens. This film is a masterwork, but something that people may not be talking about is how the tragedy central to this film inherently forces a change in the form of their filmmaking.
- You can watch the film easily at this link if you have HBOMax: www.hbomax.com/movies/armed...
- You can watch the film easily at this link if you have HBOMax: www.hbomax.com/movies/armed...
- Reposted by Justin NickelsThe 2026 Academy Award nominations arrived this morning, and a film about Brent Renaud, the Arkansas documentarian who was killed in March 2022 while reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, made the cut.
- Nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the Academy Awards.
- @indiewire.com on the film: “absolutely essential viewing” www.indiewire.com/features/pod...
- Reposted by Justin NickelsI’m so proud of Craig and Brent Renaud and Juan Arredondo for their Oscar nomination for best documentary short. I hate what led to this happening, but they deserve this nomination. Watch it if you can.
