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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 32m

Tried to start rewatch of THE CROW after 30 years or something last night. Man, Alex Proyas puts some work into making it seem like playing "Big Empty" in your car is threatening.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats have this idea that you can carve out razor-thin positions on the ideological spectrum and that will come through to voters. No!

The right is going to call you pro-trans if you oppose bathroom bills. The left is going to call you anti-trans if you say trans women are men.

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 1h

Trying to make a place where everyone can post will yield a place where only psychopaths want to post (or read.)

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 41m

Most of the most obnoxious Internet tendencies were already there on USEnet, but smoothing the whole thing over for normies certainly grew them into a behemoth.

Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 50m

My most common, must be annoying to the author, reviews are "I agree with this and it would have been a good article."

Not sure the extent I realized this from @ifbookspod.bsky.social, but it's huge. I realize because of the economics of it.

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 2h

favorite goodreads phenomena, in no particular order

-this short story collection wasn’t a novel 2/5
-this horror story had a scary thing in it 2/5
-can we admit [classic] just isn’t very good 2/5
-book that only exists in one person’s collection [no rating]
-author rating their own book 5/5

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Boo McScreamy @drewmcweeny.com · 23h

JFC we are so cooked unless we utterly excise all of this from our country.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance is a piece of shit

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 1d

I'll admit that, because of the picture, my brain went to The Raft as what the joke was about, and I had to read the title again. It was, on one level more satisfying for being more difficult than it should have been.

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David @scarolinascorpio.bsky.social · 3d

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with Doug on this one. The AIRPORT copy is pretty watchable, but the action half just isn't. It's always my problem whenever I try to join the Cannon fan brigade. They're a big part of why I stopped watching action movies in the '80s. Their politics are awful AND their action SUCKS.

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Yassassin @diabolical.bsky.social · 1d

Entire US economy is built on Gabbo speculation markets so the news is just an endless stream of this shit.

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 1d

A review of The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994)

I watched this with the first DVD set of these movies 15 or 20 years ago and was disappointed with the whole set. I watched these second set much later and quite liked them, so I've been wondering how...

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 1d

A review of The Shrouds (2024)

As with other things that split audiences, I'm kind of in the middle here. The tech stuff never manages to become as intriguing as it should have, particularly because it's couched in the Tech Bro wor...

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 1d

A review of Decoder (1984)

Dave Ball RIP

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 1d

A review of The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

Cute. Maybe I wish I thought something deeper, but I don't. It was cute

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 1d

A review of Thieves Like Us (1974)

Apparently this movie is something resembling underrated? I'd explain this as Altman's sensibilities being out of style, but people seem compare it unfavorably to other Altman movies. I'm not saying i...

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t even think it’s conspiratorial thinking to say that a lot of centrist democratic think tanks receive a tremendous amount of funding from right wing billionaires to disseminate the idea that democrats should be republican lite.

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 2d

When it gets stuck in my brain, I always think "Oh, oleo", like it's an ode to margarine.

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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, folks! You could win 2 tickets to Game 4 of the Series AND help out the great folks at the Hollywood Food Coalition!

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Dodgers vs. Blue Jays: Win 2 Tickets to World Series' 4th Game while Feeding L.A.!

+ Personalized Copy of Molly Knight's The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers' Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse

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Megan E. Human (free Link) @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 3d

Fun fact- The tradition of "turkey pardoning" can be traced back to a reporter asking a question about pardons in the wake of Iran-Contra and a Reagan person making a joke about it. Bush the first was his VP and went on to start the turkey pardon thing

He was not only not impeached we celebrate it

T2T @tradesman2trader.bsky.social · 3d

If Ronald Reagan would have done even a small portion of the illegal shit, Donald Trump has done - he would’ve been impeached

If he would’ve even spoken the same shit he would’ve been impeached

If he would’ve slept with a porn star, he would’ve been impeached

If he would’ve quoted Hitler over

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 4d

sundays are for spock

spock walking through enterprise corridor with the hellraiser graffiti of i am in hell help me on a wall.

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 4d

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood "Summer Wine" on The Ed Sullivan Show

YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show

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Neil Sarver @bleedingtree.bsky.social · 6d

Critics and audiences weren't wrong about the album, but the title track on Groover's Paradise is a banger and should be remembered better.

Groover's Paradise

YouTube video by Doug Sahm - Topic

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4d

Saying Star Trek fandom is mostly male is like saying Doctor Who fandom is mostly straight or Thomas the Tank Engine is famously beloved of neurotypicals or only cis people own a blahaj.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 4d

The Star Trek thing (see previous RTs) pisses me off not just bc it's obviously wrong but bc it's based on a deep misunderstanding of Trek, the least macho SFF franchise in which everyone abandons greed and aggression in favor of problem solving while wearing bright primary colors

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

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