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Brian Walter

@bdwlecteur.bsky.social

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Reedie '88. I don't take naps; they take me. https://www.filminquiry.com/author/brian-walter/

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 9d

My latest for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas: an entry on Donald Harington’s 1975 novel, THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ARKANSAS OZARKS. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/the-...

Cover of Donald Harington’s 1975 novel The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks.

Novelist Donald Harington’s hand-drawn family tree for the Ingledews, the first European American settlers in his fictional Ozark town, Stay More.

Author Donald Harington standing next to an oversized reproduction of the cover of his 1975 novel, The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks.

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 9h

People think that furloughing/shortchanging police and military personnel makes them disloyal, but in reality it makes them demand bribes from civilians during spurious enforcement actions

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The US dollar is having its worst year in decades:

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 21h

1912 short film of puppies being cute. Stencil colored!

youtu.be/U_pEY-dq_VQ

Famille de jeunes chiens

YouTube video by Eye Filmmuseum

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure if you can see this as the edges are black cotton and very matte but bottom afghan square was completed on a normal day, top was completed on a super high stress day. Stress square is about a centimeter smaller due to tight tension!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Like Bari Weiss being stuffed by a billionaire atop CBS to lie to normies, this is billionaires stuffing rightwing ideas into AI systems to lie to normies.

The whole fascist takeover of the US is built atop an information war.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 1d

With thanks to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, in particular.

The Last American Center that Cannot Hold

My first real Substack post is a brief video tribute to two favorite writers.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

reply with a selfie/pet pic and i’ll surprise you with an edit.

if you’d like a header for your page reply with some things you like, colors, things you vibe with, etc.

xo. tips appreciated but not required: linktr.ee/riotgrlerin

@riotgrlerin | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

@philokelly.bsky.social

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 1d

driving a truck thru a crowd is attempted murder with a deadly weapon, the bar is in hell
www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/u...

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1d

Our nonprofit’s journalism is created by Mississippians, for Mississippians. Our defining goal is to continue to bring the kind of deeply reported, beautifully written, people-first journalism that inspires solutions inside our home state.

We center people over power. It’s non-negotiable:

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

"Don't you ... forget about tree."

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

Why will AI never take my job? Because it tagged this GIF "a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree ."

a man in a trench coat is walking on a field next to a tree .

Alt: Judd Nelson raising a fist in triumph as he crosses the football field in the closing shot of The Breakfast Club.

media.tenor.com

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 1d

"Lower me, Mr. Starbuck; lower, lower,—quick, quicker!"

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I will wreak that hate upon him.

Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 1d

One of many critical (and often counterintuitive) insights from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's latest Q & A. Highest recommendation!

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 2d

"That's a pretty big risk for a Science Officer. It's not exactly out of the manual, is it?" 👾♥️

Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 2d

Sigourney Weaver was born October 8, 1949 in NYC.

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Aridyn @aridyn.bsky.social · 2d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

a group of people are dancing and one of them is wearing a dant sweatshirt

ALT: a group of people are dancing and one of them is wearing a dant sweatshirt

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 2d

Critical Response Strategies continues staffing Florida's state-run ICE detention facilities.

A screenshot from Indeed.com for jobs with Critical Response Strategies (1-star rating). Positions include Detention Site Leader, Detention Camp Manager, Detention Audit Manager, Detention Compliance, with pay ranging from $3,180 to $4,240/week on a temporary, full-time, contract basis.

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 3d

Free her!

Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 3d

Tyesha Long’s attorneys are appealing the decision. capitalbnews.org/tyesha-long-...

She Got 27 Years for Killing Her Abuser. Judge Rules Oklahoma’s Survivors Act Won’t Free Her.

A judge will submit a written decision in Tyesha Long’s hearing next month.

capitalbnews.org

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3d

This one is called “AI companies exploiting artists for profit”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 4d

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4d

Officials also feign shock to avoid accountability. If they pretend they just learned about something bad, they can claim they weren't responsible for doing something about it. That's why the destruction of media has been a boon for them: people lost access to records of who knew what and when.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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