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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 5h

Dementia Donnie might get mad if they do that though.

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🦇 Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 6h

Keep me running, running scared

youtu.be/HkMn_n5KzCc?...

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (2017 Remaster)

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 6h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 6h

I did not realize until yesterday that Lee Pace is playing the lead assassin, and !!!

Edgar Wright @edgarwright.bsky.social · 7h

Survive 30 days while the world hunts you down. Check out the New Poster for The #RunningManMovie – Only in theatres November 14 @runningmanmovie.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think I saw Snake Eyes. I saw one of the GI Joe movies and noped out after that. She was almost all I liked about The Babysitter though, and yeah, the Scream 6 cameo was great. Who wouldn’t want to get killed in a Scream opener?

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 6h

I’d probably trade in Eenie Meanie for Guns Akimbo there, because I think it’s the role that covers the most ground emotionally. She’s great in Guns Akimbo though too.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 6h

I can see that. Ready or Not was the one for me. Her charisma and the quality of her performance in that was one of those great surprises that you get once in a while as a movie fan.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 7h

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 8h

Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...

Guillermo Del Toro, Netflix, Gobelins Team On Stop-Motion Studio

The new Paris studio shares a stop-motion spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and honors Mark Gustafson’s legacy.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 7h

After seeing the two movies for 30 something years, I’m watching this Aliens doc and just realizing how similar Ripley and Reese are. In both films they’re the characters who know the enemy and know what they’re actually up against, while everyone else is unable to deal, basically.

Derp.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 7h

Alt-text added.

The image is divided into two sections. The top section shows a woman with dark hair, looking intently ahead. She is indoors, with a blurred and colorful background. The bottom section focuses on a man with light skin, who is looking downwards and slightly to the side, appearing contemplative. The lighting is dim and atmospheric, suggesting a serious or intimate setting.

Alt-text:

A split image of a woman and a man engaged in a serious conversation.

Transcribed Text:

Top section: "There's only one thing can blind a man as smart as you, Tommy."

Bottom section: "Love."

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 7h

I thought this was a blast.

Jed Shaffer @streetsajed.bsky.social · 7h

"Samara Weaving going John Wick on silent, post-apocalyptic cultists in the forest" is either going to hook you or repel you. It hooked me, once I learned to appreciate it for what it is. #Letterboxd #FilmSky #MovieSky

A ★★★★½ review of Azrael (2024)

Modern silent movies are a tricky sell. Since spoken dialogue has been the standard in movies for almost a century now, silent movies now feel like a gimmick. A movie that chooses not to have dialogue...

boxd.it

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 7h

Feels important to have seen both Zack Polanski speaking so bluntly and positively on trans rights and then to see this. Shameful how rare this is from supposedly progressive politicians.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 7h

One of the best to ever do it.

Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 7h

"If it sounds like #writing, I rewrite it." – Elmore Leonard, born 100 years ago on today's date

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 8h

That’s true. The masks are the best since the original.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

hi consumer-facing “A.i.” is a tool for racist, fascist propaganda - ban it from you lives!

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 9h

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Rotoduster 2.0 edition @duplavortex92.bsky.social · 13h

The People Under the Stairs: Only Wes Craven could get something like this greenlit and then pull it off. A deranged. manic gem of a movie.

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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 11h

It doesn't mean you're cool if someone found a horror movie scary and you didn't. It's because horror is individual. For a big chunk of the animal kingdom, the most horrifying thing imaginable is this

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Beans, Frightening Bleeble 🫀🎃 @flawlessangel.bsky.social · 11h

idk why the youtube algo fed me this but i can't describe how scary & weird it is being a woman knowing these freaks are doing presentations on how to understand & conquer us like. we are just people. have you tried being fucking normal. i will never get used to society being like this

a man stood in front of a whiteboard that is just covered in loads of text because he's solved the 'woman' conspiracy he looks like a meme

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 16h

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 9h

This is a terrific point. Public schools exist for students, not their parents.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 9h

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.

Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 21h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 9h

At one point in my life, I somehow ended up with like five or six lawyers in my close personal circle, so I have some basic idea how unheard of this is. I’m glad they’re speaking up.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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