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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 4h

I went to Muir Woods in the redwood forest, near where they filmed some of the Endor stuff, 20 years later as an adult and still felt the thrill. No exaggeration, I can trace a lifelong love of going out to the movies to that one scene.

caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 4h

I was five when that came out, and obsessed with Star Wars (having watched the other two a million times on tape), and I still remember going to see it in the theater and that scene, right near the beginning, being the coolest thing I had ever seen in my life.

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 4h

I also want to give a personal shout out to the (not exactly car but speeder bike) chase scene on Endor in Return of the Jedi. Sentimental favorite.

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 4h

I don't have FB, but will throw a vote behind Fury Road here if that's ok.

caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 2d

Today the air is CRISP, I went FORAGING for PAWPAWS, I was able to wear LAYERS, including LEGGINGS and FLANNEL and a SWEATER, FALL is finally ON.

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, sorry! I mostly lurk. Just opened up my dms! Didn't even realize they were closed.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 5d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 4d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5d

The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 5d

"We'd have a recession if it wasn't for all the AI spending" actually means "We are in a recession which is partially obfuscated *from statistics* (and nobody else) by rich people playing silly buggers with large transactions between each other".

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 5d

"Greed will always destroy good work, because money and art have drastically different priorities." Whether you like this album or not, @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social is dead on with this argument.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

that said, if you need a comment about this shit, my contact info is in my bio.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

area dort unaware of the fact that the founders didn't *want* soldiers in the streets

I never thought I’d live to see the day when some Americans would recoil at the sight of Soldiers guarding them.

All seemed to be well when the National Guard was in bareknuckle brawls during GWOT though.

Do you know how weird it was for us on active duty seeing them there? With us? Fighting?

I always wondered how we got to that point. Where the Guard of a state was fighting off ambushes in some foreign land.

Now they get to guard their own neighbors. Their own countrymen.

But those same Americans would shed a tear seeing those Guardsmen come home in caskets from a war nobody cared about.

Further proof that for some Americans and the media, they only love Soldiers when they’re dead.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe it's just me, but this seems...bad. Catastrophically bad.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 7d

And my God, the VistaVision print of One Battle After Another at the Coolidge is spectacular. One of only four theaters in the world showing that projection format and it looks absolutely incredible.

caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 7d

Excited for that, and for Frankenstein, and Hedda, and Hamnet, and Dust Bunny, and The Bride. These two I have already seen though are both just at such a high level, having something to say, working on several levels at once, beautifully executed, original, and damned entertaining to boot.

caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 8d

Look, everything is basically one nightmare after another, but we got Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another in the same year, and that's pretty fucking great. Thank God for art.

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