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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 5d

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · 6d

This is simultaneously the most stressful and the most heartening thing I have watched in a long time.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 8d

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 22d

The Disney parodies… holy shit

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 22d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · 22d

CSM. MSC. SMC.

A low angle close up of Sterling Hayden playing Jack D Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, smoking a cigar

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · 26d

Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman

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VOTING > PROTESTING @reesetheone.bsky.social · 28d

Mic drop.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 29d

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · Sep 9

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Sep 9

RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.

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Andrew Bellware @drewsky.app · Sep 8

Countdown to Trump supporters using that drawing as their new logo and fetish and waving it proudly at rallies.

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 28

My cousin who's a vet tells me they call this a "foster fail"

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reasonable

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ooh! There's a "woo-woo factor"! Nice

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Aug 26

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Without proof, and without much plausibility, Ábrego has been alleged by the Trump administration to be the author of various crimes and malfeasances. They admit that deporting him was a mistake, but also want us to believe that he is the sort of person who should be deported – a human trafficker, in one fantasy; a gang leader, in another. That there is no proof for these allegations is beside the point: the point is that the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itself, claiming the ability to decide what is true and what is false, and to reclassify every migrant – and in particular every Latino male – as a criminally dangerous threat that must be eliminated.

Ábrego, then, must be guilty because the Trump administration arrested him, and because they can do no wrong. He must be guilty because he is a migrant, and innocence and immigration are mutually exclusive. He must be guilty, too, because his case made them do something that they did not want to do: admit a mistake, face public pressure, reverse an action, and – worst of all – show weakness. And he must be guilty because he has become a symbol of all the immigrants they plan to deport, all the Americans whose rights they plan to trample on, all the past and future victims of their program.

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 25

In this little speech full of clearly untrue statements, perhaps the most unbelievable is the notion that Trump can have "friends".

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 25

Trump: "Beverly Hills, I have friends, they leave their trunk open for their car bc they know they're going to be vandalized. They don't want trunk ripped off in order for them to steal what's in their bag. They leave doors open so when they go in to steal the radio, they don't rip off the door"

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 20

A pleasure :)

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 20

I get what you're saying, but I think about it differently. Sure, the technology makes different kinds of movies possible (try making Jurassic Park in 1932), but that has nothing to do with the quality of the movies. The magic of connecting with a story didn't get easier to create, you know?

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 20

Not necessarily! Would Raging Bull have been better in color? Would Barry Lyndon have been better if faster film stock were available? I don't think an artist's vision and graphical fidelity have a lot to do with each other most of the time. Art lies elsewhere.

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Anthony Litton @ajlitton.bsky.social · Aug 20

I don't think so. Technically the images get sharper etc., but at the end of the day it's all art. Even the most formulaic Marvel movie is made by people working to turn imagination into light. And art is inherently risky! It works or it doesn't, and that hit rate is not technology dependent.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 18

1999’s The Limey is an under-appreciated classic. RIP.

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Andrés Diplotti @diplotti.com · Aug 16

A.I. is popular because it gives you the experience of being a boss: you get to give annoyingly specific instructions about how to do something you don't actually know how to do yourself, and then claim credit for the end result.

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America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · Jul 29

Hey look, it’s our long-overdue punishment for referring to simple state machines that compile into a kilobyte of code as “artificial intelligence”

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Jul 10

Claremonsters so desperately want to be Eurofash example 591748

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Jul 10

It’s evil but also so funny that JD Vance was like “you can’t be an American unless your family was around before 1851, the year my great-great-great-great grandfather hopped a ship and fled Ulster the night before the British were due to hang him the next day for fucking a pig.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 29

Trump keeps holding up dictators and strongmen as his model, keeps saying how much he hates our democracy, keeps bad mouthing America and its core values and his cult claps along like seals and calls it “patriotism”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 29

Trump: "In China, you know how long it takes? One day. It's called President Xi. 'Boom. It's okay.' Over here we're gonna have almost the same thing. We're getting fast approvals."

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