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MrNelson007, Defender of Skara Brae @mrnelson007.bsky.social · 6h

His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the president. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h

the president is constantly talking about dying because his heart is so powerful that he will never die, and the fact that others will fascinates him

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 8h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 14h

Grandpa: I sent your grandma 57 handwritten love letters from the western front and she finally agreed to marry me when I returned from the war

Me: the computer told me to say "I had a good time last night" to this girl but it didn't work for some reason

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 21h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 3d

if you're not familiar, this is a perfect way to dig into Jean Rollin - in that sweet spot between arthouse and grindhouse, beautiful, surreal, sexy, and strange.

Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 3d

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch FASCINATION (1979) in our Scary Sexy: 6 Films by Jean Rollin collection!

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 9h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 9h

It's a shame Orwell is so often reduced to 1984 and Animal Farm, which are so commonly abused to have become worthless cliches, when his non-fiction is so interesting and still relevant today. His obsession with language and politics is particularly interesting to think about now

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

Fascinating, the right wing leader of the World Jewish Congress attempted to convince Israel to release Marwan Barghouti and Israel refused

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13h

⛓️‍💥 New: World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder – heir to the Estée Lauder empire – offered to travel to Egypt last week to lobby for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti as part of the upcoming hostage deal, Times of Israel reports. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 10h

Me after paying off an undercover hitman:

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 14h

I once contemplated writing a TV drama series about Crowley's battle with WB Yeats over the ownership of the O.T.O. and despite my dislike of Crowley my research made me find him more likeable (up to a point) than Yeats, which is saying something.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

CDC scientists purged so no-one contradicts these clowns

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 15h

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 14h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 14h

Now watching(Teruo Ishii’s Horrors of Malformed Men)

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2d

tweet by alex nichols (@lowenaffchen):

"Bari Weiss has two kinds of stories:
1. I drove 6 hours to a women's liberal arts college to spend a week eating pussy and there were too many posters about Kwanzaa in the dorms
2. Here is an email someone sent me"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 14h

And while it’s a bit less atmospheric than the typical Rollin the pathos of the story and the performance of Françoise Blanchard as the vampire girl more than makes up for it.

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 14h

…on the vampire genre since George Romero’s Martin.

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 14h

The vampire girl developing deepening remorse and horror as she recovers at what she must do to keep living while her living best friend becomes a vicious serial killer feeding her victims to keep her formerly deceased best friend ’alive’ is one of the most interesting takes…

Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 17h

Now watching

Poster for Jean Rollin’s The Living Dead Girl

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 17h

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 17h

I love Tsui Hark but I haven’t seen that one, it looks like you must be right

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 17h

The zombie vs shark underwater fight scene is one of the greatest things ever put on film. Pure cinema.

Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 20h

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 18h

I think that was this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_...

Zombie Island Massacre - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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